; “a { Castlegar News March 7, 1990 Most Businesses Developers say Briefly Like an Article About their Company. PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (CP) — Developers of a proposed pulp mill in northwestern Saskatchewan insist the facility will release no effluent within two years of start-up, but many at a public meeting Tuesday night were not convinced. Every Business Gets the Opportunity in Our Annual Business and Industrial Review. About 100 people met to discuss the environmental impact of the proposed Millar Western mill at Meadow Lake and many questioned broad claims made by company president-Mac Millar. Millar described his existing mill at Whitecourt, Alta., as ‘‘the cleanest pulp mill in the world. If you care for the environment, you will share our enthusiasm for this project.’” But Roy Fosseneuve of Cum- berland House said information provided by Millar is not understan- dable. ‘‘Maybe I could support your proposal if I truly undesat®od what was happening, but right sow 1 can’t.” Residents of Cumberland House in northeastern Saskatchewan are con- cerned the Meadow Lake mill will af- fect the Beaver River as they feel a Prince Albert mill owned by Weyerhaeuser has affected the North If You Would Like Your Business Represented, Call Castlégar News ‘iver. The Prince Albert operation is a bleach kraft pulp mill, which uses chlorine bleaching agents to whiten products. Waste water from the mill is discharged imo the North Saskat- Cities By The Canadian Press While two communities in Ontario and Quebec passed sympathy motions to support municipalities that have declared one did 365-5210 For More Information. 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Now | enjoy iy life, and | enjoy being me." 7 <# / Sask. pulp mill will be clean Millar said the Meadow Lake mill would not emit sulphur, which gives -the distinct “‘rotten egg"’ smell some Prince Albert residents have called the “*sweet smell of success.’” The Meadow Lake proposal, pat- terned after the Whitecourt. mill, would produce pulp from aspen and bleach it with hydrogen peroxide. No potentially toxic dioxins are formed from this process, Millar said. He promised the mill would produce no effluent after two years, with all waste water recycled back through the plant. Several speakers said the Meadow Lake site, about 400 kilometres nor- thwest of Saskatoon, is ‘‘environmen- tally sensitive."” They suggested it should instead be built farther south, near North Battleford, where waste produced during the two year startup period could be discharged into the North Saskatchewan River. The public meeting was part of a series called by the provincial En- vironment Department. As the Yacoub guilty on two charges OTTAWA (CP) — Charles Yacoub, the Lebanese-born Mon- trealer ‘tin despair’ over his war-torn homeland, was found guilty Tuesday of forcible detention and use of a weapon to commit an offen- ce after the armed hijacking of a bus to Parliament Hill last April. But after 17-hours of deliberation a Supreme Court of Ontario jury acquitted him of the more serious charges of hostage-taking, in- timidation of Parliament and aggravated assault. Hostage-taking carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Both the Crown and the defence indicated they will launch appeals. Women feel barred, Carney says OTTAWA (CP) — Women are quitting the federal public service faster than men because they are frustrated over barriers to promotion, former Treasury Board president Pat Carney said. She told a Canadian Club luncheon that a new study has found “women at all levels overwhelmingly believe that they hit a glass ceiling in the federal service. Men don’t. “Women strongly believe that they have to be better qualified than men to get promoted. Men disagree."” Women have 43 per cent of all public service jobs, but accounted for 56 per cent of the 9,467 resignations in 1988. There are about 12,000 people in the public service. Carney said interviews showed women leave,not for better-paying jobs but because of management attitudes, sexual stereotyping and family responsibilities. Ottawa hopeful on Nicaragua OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian government is optimistic there will be a peaceful transition of power in Nicaragua, despite threats that @ war may break out if U.S.-backed rebels are not demobilized, a senior said. considers new pulp mill proposals, a virtual moratorium has been declared on development in Alberta after the Provincial government Friday accep- ted a recommendation to delay the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries’ Project at Athabasca, pending further environmental studies. differ on language issue Council -voted 11-3 in favor of op- posing the English-only movement, after 16 presentations by local residents and concerned language groups who support bilingualism. Ald. Mary Fleming, one of two councillors who proposed the motion, told council that rejecting unilingualism would send a positive message to French Canadians. “Surely. the message we want to send is that everyone is welcome in Kingston,”’ she said. Similarly, in suburban Outremont, near Montreal, council countered last month’s English-only resolutions by the Northern Ontario communities of Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay with a promise to continue minority language services. Outremont, home for many of the French Canadian power elite where about one-quarter of 23,080 citizens are non-francophones, passed a resolution similar to one in Northern Ontario’s Elliot Lake to continue of- fering French language services that are “‘appropriate and necessary.”’ These include bilingual property and water tax bills and service in both French and English. Meanwhile, Ontario Premier David Peterson praised city councillors in Niagara Falls, Ont., who he said showed ‘‘heroic leadership’’ Monday by rejecting 9-3 an English-only resolution in the face of a hostile crowd. But, in Southern Ontario’s Zorra Township, councillors rejected 8-2 a resolution Tuesday to rescind a two- year-old bylaw declaring itself English only. Zorra, which adopted the resolution in January, 1988, was one of the first in Ontario to make the move. Canada believes there’s a strong commitment to reconciliation among both the Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, Louise Frechette told the Commons external affairs committee. “Despite the obvious difficulties, we are confident that com- promises will be found allowing for the transfer of power,” said Frechette, who is the assistant deputy minister for Latin America and the Carribean in the External Affairs Department. She said Canada believes a compromise can be reached, despite strong statements out of Nicaragua that might put that in doubt. Violeta Chamorra led the 14-party coalition that makes up the National Opposition Union — known as UNO — to a stunning victory over Sandinista President Daniel Ortega in elections late last month. Ortega warned Monday that ‘‘national war’’ may result if UNO tries to replace the army established by his Sandinist National Liberation Front with the Contras or members of late dictator Anastasio Somoza’s National Guard. Decision on turbans promised OTTAWA (CP) — The newly appointed solicitor general says he wants to decide quickly on whether Sikh recruits should be allowed to wear turbans in the RCMP. Pierre Cadieux said the controversy was among the urgent issues on which he was briefed in his first week on the job as minister responsible for the federal police force. The Federation of Sikh Societies of Canada had expressed fears that the issue would be put on hold again when Cadieux replaced Pierre Blais in a cabinet shuffle on Feb. 23. Blais had postponed a decision for months, even though RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster is on record as favoring the wearing of turbans. Libya claimed producing gas WASHINGTON (AP) — Libya is producing limited amounts of mustard and nerve gases useable as chemical weapons, U.S. officials said Tuesday night. The Rabta plant about 100 kilometres south of Tripoli i also capable of producing canisters to carry the lethal chemicals to selected targets, the officials told The Associated Press on condition that they not be identified. It was not clear whether Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is relying on outside sources for help in accelerating a dangerous program that a year ago seemed to have subsided under a barrage of U.S. com- plaints about West German firms and other foreign suppliers. The officials said the Libyans over several months had kept the assembly line active but only toward the end of last year achieved what one official called a ‘‘certain operational capability’’ that it did not have before. Unification talks to begin WASHINGTON (CP) — Talks on German unification, involving officials from East and West Germany-and the four victorious Second World War Allies, will begin next week, the White House said The date and venue of the meeting of senior officials — the first of the ‘‘two-plus-four forum’’ — had still not been decided. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater initially told reporters the meeting would take place March 14 in Bonn but later added that at least one other date and location were under consideration. Meanwhile, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said the reunification-of Germany should proceed slowly and NATO member- ship for the new country was ‘‘absolutely out of the question.” Gorbachev spoke after meeting at the Kremlin with Hans Modrow, the Communist premier of East Germany, who also opposed NATO membership for a future German state. Their remarks were carried by Tass, the official Soviet news agency. ‘ morch7.1990_CastlégarNews 4s B.C. case set for May hearing VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia's court challenge to federal budget limits on Canada Assistance Plan payments.will be heard in May unless the federal government takes the dispute directly to the Supreme Court of Canada, the B.C. Court pf Appeal decided Tuesday. Justice W.J. Wallace, after a 30-minute hearing, set May 16-17 as the hearing dates for the federal-provincial dispute. Five judges will hear the case on the assistance plan payments for welfare programs and services, Wallace said. British Columbia wants the Appeal Court to rule on whether the federal g is breaking a 23-y id agreement that calls for a 50-50 cost-sharing formula bet- ween the federal government and the provinces. Under last month’s budget, the three wealthiest provinces — British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta — will see their assistance plan payments limited to an an- hual growth of five per cent for the next two years. Ontario has pledged to intervene in the case but will present a separate argument. Alberta has said it will follow the dispute closely before joining the court challenge. B.C. lawyer Bob Edwards asked for and the court agreed to March 26 as the deadline for other provinces to file interventions. Edwards said he hopes to argue that the limits on plan p d with tighter unem- ployment insurance rules, "will unduly cause hardships for British Columbia. Federal lawyer Peter Butler said he would seek guidelines from officials in Ottawa today. He said he has no idea whether the federal government is ii in With eight reporters taking notes at the back of the courtroom, Wallace,said it would be premature to discuss Edwards's plan to introduce an affidavit from the B.C. Ministry of Social Services that-would detail-the har- dships. Butler described the document as being ‘based: on nothing but intuition.’’ He said he wants to avoid dealing with ‘‘self-serving affidavits... We then have (Attorney General) Ian Scott of Ontario wanting to put in his. The B.C. affidavit was signed by John Pickering, director of financial: planning for the Social Services ministry. Pickering estimates the federal government will create a $31 million shortfall in assistance plan payments for British Columbia, leaving the province with $716 million in the 1990-91 budget year. Stricter eligibility requirements for the jobless, an- nounced in the 1989 federal budget but not yet law, could reduce unemployment insurance payouts in 1990-91 by $140 million in British Columbia, he said. As a result, B.C. welfare rolls would increase by an average of 7,500 cases a month, at an increased cost to the province of about $45 million annually, Pickering said. In September 1989, the ministry handled 102,505 welfare cases in British Columbia. If the jobless rate is higher than expected, the provin- ce would be even harder hit, Pickering said in the af- fidavit. An official of the Attorney General’s Ministry said earlier that it would argue ‘‘the doctrine of legitimate ex- pectation,”” which contends the province has the right to expect the assistance plan agreement, signed March 23, 1967 still stands. The says the federal government can opt referring the case to the Supreme Court. out of the program with one year’s notice. PM says he won't change unpopular Tory policies HALIFAX (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Tuesday that Ot- Two hundred noisy stood in the cold sunshine at got a rude ion from Brian Macaulay, an unemployed tawa’s tight fiscal policies are largely Di ie L while truck driver who opposes federal cut- * FAMILY PACK x MORTGAGE APPRAISAL WE WILL PAY FOR YOU APPRAISAL responsible for the Tories’ record-low popularity but he insists he won't back down. 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