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OTTAWA (CP) — Environment. Minister Lucien Bouchard has released draft regulations to clean up Canada's pulp and paper mills, fulfilling @ pone he

made Pa year. said- compa!

nies will-heve-to

invest or billion to comply with the proposed regulations, and they're ready to pay the price:

“We are not quarreling with the need for regulations; they will_provide—all_companies_with a uniform baseline,"’ Louis Fortier, a spokesman for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, said Tuesday.

But an environmentalist who specializes in pulp mill

Reaction, page AS pollution says the new standards won't touch some of the most worrisome contaminants, a category of chemicals known as organochlorines. “That's reilly the issue in the industry right now,”’ said Bill Andrews, executive director of the Vancouver- based West Coast Environmental Law Association.

* dary

not included,

large areas of the B.C.-coastal seabed-because-of-con- tamination from pulp mill effluent.

Environment Department officials will begin a mon- th-long public consultation on the draft regulations April 28. : The new rules would force 90 mills to install secon-

of their rather than di it virtually untreatgd into marine waters, said Ed Norrena of the Environment Department.

In addition, dioxins and furans would be reduced to non-measurable levels.

Norrena said standards for organochlorines are un- der study.

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Organochlorine clean-up

expert says

hours, the effluent is considered non-toxic: ~

All mills would be required to meet the test by 1994.

“That's a big step forward, but that test may not be suficient to protect the environment,”’ said Andrews, ad- ding that new evidence had shown that effluent meeting the test could still cause disease in salmon.

But Fortier said some mills will have great difficulty in meeting the 1994 deadline, and should be given more time.

Bouchard promised tough new regulations last year after leaked reports that most of Canada’s 122 pulp mills could be charged for dumping toxic chemicals into the water if existing regulations were strictly enforced.

regulations released

50 per cont of all the fi ta into Canada’s waters.

for the Gi peace en- vironmental group ‘tal the proposed pollution rules will allow pulp mills to continue pumping a ‘‘chemical stew" into B.C. waiers.

Regional director Catherine Stewart said she is glad the rules will force pulp mills to install secondary treat- ment for waste water.

‘But while toxic dioxins and furans will be reduced to non-measurable levels, the new regulations don’t cover organochiorines.

Stewart said mills produce up to 2,000 different

ines in the paper process. They en- ter the water and to seabed 5

“It’s a chemical stew,’’ she said.

Spokesman Brian McCloy of the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia said secondary treatment of waste water should eliminate most organochlorines.

He said the industry and some environmentalists disagree on how much of the-organochlorines shoutd be allowed into waterways.

all the or

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News

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1990

““That_issue_will be dealt with,’’ said-McCloy. **Reports on it are being written right now.””

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Trustees voice opinions over school referendum

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer

The provincial goverhment’s block funding for education covers all areas of the school board's 1990-91 budget adequately, Castlegar school trustee.

ween Smecher told the board Tuesday before joining fellow trustees Evelyn Voykin and Tony Guglielmi in Opposing a motion to hold a referen- dum this spring for extra funds to im- plement the new primary program.

The board made the decision to hoid-a referendum two weeks ago in a closed meeting. The School Amen- dment Act, tabled in the legislature last week, includes a regulation that a vote to go to taxpayers for more money than the province_will_provide must be held during a public meeting.

Board chairman Gordon Turner and trustees Mickey Kinakin; Bill Hadikin and Ed Conroy passed the motion.

Smecher told the Castlegar News holding a referendum for $200,000 to hire teaching staff for the start-up of the new program will provide single- issue groups with a platform to attack the board from.

“*We'll cause more harm than we'll ever be able to measure,”’ she told the board.

Smecher reminded the board that the block funding for 1990-91 is about $1 million more than the

board’s current budget which has generated a surplus of between $150,000 and $200,000.

The Ministry of Education has in- creased funding for-each-area-of the

help to relieve the workload, he said. Studies have shown the teaching staff is the determining factor in how well an ungraded system works, Kinakin—said, ‘adding the new

board’s budget ludi about $500,000 for the portion of the budget that includes the primary classes, she said.

““There’s no question in my mind"’ that all areas of the budget are being well-funded, Smecher said following the meeting.

However, Turner said Smecher is overlooking other factors.

The government has increased the over-all budget funds but costs have

Pp the largest ‘Sverhaul (of the primary curriculum) in 30 years.”

“(Government should) give us the flexibility so we don’t createa-system where kids fall through the cracks,”’ because there are not enough trained staff members to identify children who need extra help or attention, he said.

Guglielmi agreed with Smecher that

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also gone -up and the i fun- ding does not cover those costs, Tur- ner said.

And funding for in the

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district is down substantially this year, he noted.

Smecher also reminded the board student enrolment has dropped bny about 50 students while staff levels have remained the same or increased.

Turner, in his address to the board, related his experience as a teacher in Saskatchewan in the 1960s when an ungraded system was implemented but staff levels remained the same.

“By and large that system disap- peared”’ eventually because teachers were unable to cope with the extra demands on their time and lack of

Budget to be tabled Cominco, union

VICTORIA (CP) — Thursday’s budget will set the government on a course of providing security for British Columbians during his next term in office, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Tuesday.

He said the budget for the current fiscal year will be ‘‘one of the most Progressive budgets in history . Progressive in the sense that it goes beyond what it is we normally go for.””

He said instead of budgeting just one year ahead, it’s ‘‘futuristic, it’s looking beyond.”

But the thought of Vander Zalm planning for his next term in office drew chuckles from NDP finance critic Glen Clark.

“It’s comical that Vander Zalm would be-a convert to planning,’’ Clark said. ‘This is the guy who changes his mind three times on the way in from the parking lot.

**He’s the last one the public would believe is committed to long-range, rational planning.””

Q WIN CERTAIN

Vander Zalm said a Social Credit election win is certain and he is already planning his second term.

“*My goal for the next term, and that would be the government’s goal, is to try and start working on security, security for the people.””

He said the government will try to even out boom-and-bust cycles.

“You never get rid of them en tirely, but (we will) try and provide security by planning more effectively in advance.""

Finance Minister Mel said on Monday the government wan ts a long-range approach to major public capital spending projects

Clark said the Socreds are.‘* to make big spending announcements that are phased in over five years.’

Couveher

trying

He said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney used a similar ploy in the last federal election

“The spending figures will be large, but if you look at them annually, (hey won't be much bigger than current spending.”’

Forest industry in peril, B.C. commission told

VICTORIA (CP) — Soil degradation and clear cutting will destroy the forest industry as quickly as those practices destroy B.C forests, a provincial government commission was told Tuesday

“*The Forestry Act does not address soil protection,” said Hal Knight, @

land management consultant. ‘“There is no future in the forest industry if we continue our present land practices.”’

He was appearing before the B.C. Forest Resources Commission which was formed last June to advise the government about the future of the forest industry and recommend ways

to improve and protect it

Knight quoted provincial mment data as saying the B¢ economy was losing $80 million a year by 1986 because of soil degradation and blamed it on the ignorance of B.C. foresters.

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resolve

By ED MILLS Staff Writer

A spat between and management at Cominco’s lead-zinc smelter in Trail was resolved Monday with both sides giving a little or their positions to reach an agreement

As a result, Cominco cancelled scheduled layoffs of 70 workers while Local 480 of the United Steelworkers of America called off an overtime ban

The agreement was reached outside of a provincial Industrial Relations Council hearing to decide the issue which had been in progress in Rossland since last Wednesday

“The company and the union feel the agreement effectively addresses concerns that both parties had,’’ company spokesman Richard Fish said Tuesday

Union spokesman Mike Spatari said, ‘I would call it (the agreement) an understanding more than anything else."”

Both sides say they hope the dispute has helped clear the air for contract negotiations which are slated to begin in two weeks.

The company said the layoffs, which were announced last week,

union

dispute were necessary because the Trail operation wasn't able to function at full capacity due to the overtime ban and construction-related delays.

But Local 480 president Doug Swanson said last week that the layof- fs were just a tactic to get back at the union for calling the ban.

The ban was called to protect the hirigg of a management consultant and the layoffs of miners as the result of the closure of the Sullivan mine in Kimberley, Swanson said

The consultant, Alexander Proudfoot Canada Lid of Mississauga, Ont., continues to be employed by Cominco, Fish said

But he said the company agreed, as much as possible, to limit any further reductions in crew size to attrition

Spatari says nobody really anything in the fight :

“We didn’t get very much to be quite honest with you, but. the dust

has settled for bargaining, which was ‘one of our major concerns.

“With negotiations coming up . . . we felt this was the right time to remove the ban,"’ said Spatari

The last contract negotiations in 1987 resulted in a strike lasting four

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