as Castlegar News

July 30, 1989

OPINION

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Apparently a gear slipped

the members of the Kootenay Region Tosk-Poreson Transportation

ond the recommendations printed in the task force's draft report

made public in June

Castlegar city council members are understandably dismayed

that the draft report contains the recommendation

That a study be

commissioned by the provincial government in conjunction with the federal government to determine a suitable alternative site to the Castlegar airport in order to accommodate night operations in the

western portion of the region

Castlegar can support neither night operations due to terrain

or, during winter months the dratt report explains The way it is written

unhindered day operations due to tog

the entire section on air transportation in

the Kootenays tends to denigrate the Castlegar airport and leaves us with the feeling that the hard-working task force members think the airport is not of much use and another site should be found

We know that's not true

As task force chairman Jack White of Elkford points out, the in: tention of the task force members is not that the Castlegar airport

should be abandoned in tavor

of another facility but only that

another location be identified that can accommodate night landings in conjunction with the operation at Castlegar :

Mr. White hastened to point out that the draft report was not written by the task force but by a member of Minister of Stote tor

Kootenay Howard Dirks office Obvious

y something got lost in the translation

Ve suppose that's why it’s called a draft report. As it is now, the ration section is tull of holes and it ain't gonna fly

Pleasant sound

The thwack of golf balls smacked by skilled players. at the

Castlegar Golf Course weekend as the loca Championships

We lik

ed the sound and are admittedly shar

was heard all around British Columbia last course hosted the B.C. Mens Amateur Golf

‘oss boosters of

such high-profile events in Castlegar. We d like to see more of them The Castlegar course is a well-groomed challenge in a setting of

great beauty

We hope that the players in the amateur

along with

the many celebrities who played in Thursday's Jim Young Celebrity

Tournament

If but also for the many other

ties available in the area Tourism is a clean industry

spread the word around the province that'’Castlegar ha bad place to spend a tew days

not only tor a tew rounds summer and winter recreational

as long as our visitors pick up their

litte and development of a solid toundation of tourism locally can do nothing but good as a hedge against the boom-and-bust cycles of our established resource-based torest industry

Sporting and recreational events such as the B.C. Amateur Golt Championships are important bricks in building that foundation

Castlegar

next spring will host the 1990 B.C. Recreation and

Parks Association annual provincial conterence More than 300 recreation professionals and volunteers will join provincial and municipal politicians trom B.C. and Alberta at the con

ference

The theme of the conterence will be Great Expectations In two words that sums up our hopes for tourism in this area

A miracle

prominent people will n Valley Festival near 6 and 7 to preserve the »m the chainsaws and

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By MIROCE BB NG TORIA (CE P B

BRIEF NEWS

destruction of our precious heritage

On the CBC News recently Bill Van der Zalm toured and was shown the Black Hole’’ adjacent to the entrance of Pacific Rim Park. He was stunned at this devastation, and agreed with protesters that they were right in asking

When Bill Vander Zalm and | are on

notorious

for some control he same side, such a miracle can no longer be ignored

Keep B.C. green Pat Romaine Castlegar

The sales include: 817 Crown land for $423.2 million; por tions of Crown corporations, mastly divisions of B.C, Hydro, for $801.4 million; and a mix of government ser vices, like laboratories and highway $338.2

hectares of

maintenance contracts, for million These sales more

removed than

5,600 full-time employees trom the government's payroll

Vander Zaim has also been selling s own b free-enterprise philosophy: namely, government

hould act as a manager and -set the

economic and social

rivate sector must provide goods and services MORE SYMBOLIC Surprisingly, the

sales haven't in:

spired the political firestorm most pundits anticipated

I think there's been more political symbolism than anything else,"" says Ruff, a professor at University of Victoria

Ruff points out that Vander Zalm has stayed from privatizing schools and hospitals. Contracting out thrust of allowing the

Norman political science

away has been a major privatization gover nment to bo. civil service cuts without really reducing serv

The major privatization is

The heartbeat of the nation is ¥.” strong, it’s vigorous,

<= and it’s resolved

to even greater

The brain jis dead

Letters to the editor

Isolation p

B.C. Hydro announced an eight hour closure of the Keenleyside dam roadway for Wednesday, July 12, just ‘over two weeks ago. When a incident occurred, the roadway was closed for something — over Throughout, Castlegar and Robson residents learned of these conditions from crude handlettered signs placed beside the (closed) Robson ferry ~ not much use, if you lived west of the ferry For Robson residents who work in Castlegar, the closure changed a 20- kilometre round trip into a 34 kilometre round trip; if (as in my case), shared one car, that meant a day’s work in Castlegar cost 68

three days

two workers kilometres of travel — almost as much as a round trip to Nelson, for good ness’ sake

For Robson residents who work at the mill, the trip around Robin Hood’s Barn was even more absurdly dragged out. And now that the dam road is open again, we still have to dodge around the log gate and lift bar. The Ministry of Highways’ claim that Rob. son is served by ‘‘two first-class high ways”” won't wash here, friends, and ensures no confidence in any other pronouncements by that ministry

But L-have a more-serious concern than tHe costand annoyance of driving around Robin Hood’s Barn. It does not take a serious highway incident to close either the Kootenay or the Kin- naird bridges. If either of those had been closed during the latter half of last week,|Robson would have been cut off

ossible

from ambulance, police and some auxiliary fire unreasonable and unacceptable time The Robson ferry is not only an historic communication route and true convenience: it is also cheap insurance during emergencies

services for an

The dam incident of two weeks ago was an unwelcome inconvenience for residents of Robson. But it was also a good, low-cost lesson for those wise enough tolearn that the ferry remainsa legitimate and valuable link in our local transportation system. Come on, B.C. cabinet, don’t be so foolish as to wait fpr a lesson that costs a human life.

F.M. Mealing Robson

Celgar should reveal expansion plans soon

Castlegar and area residents should be told whether or not Celgar Pulp Co will expand the present mill soon. This proposed expansion will reduce the amount of pollution substantially

The present chlorine dioxide sub stitution that Celgar is now reduces the amount of chlorine by products such as dioxins in the effluent and in the pulp. Unfortunately, we have other pollution problems such as

air emissions,

e little

finished,

using

spills to the river and

says Vander Zalm, ‘‘and we're now basically going through and identifying within the operations of government relatively functions that could still be privatized

some minor

Perhaps the biggest surprise about the scheme, however, is that it never was the $3-billion sell-off the British Columbia government declared it would be.

JUST NUMBER

It wasn’t ever really $3 billion,” said a senior government official, who asked not to be identified. **That was just a number David Poole came up with now banished from B.C politics after the provincial ombud: charged him inap propriately using his political influen ce, was Vander Zalm's former prin cipal secretary

sman with

“Reporters asked him how much the government was selling,”’ said the official. “He told them, ‘Oh, two, maybe three billion.” Whatever the final price, ziation has helped the Socreds to a balanced budget and struck a serious blow at a political enemy — the mighty B.C. Government Employees Union In 1987,

privat

when privatization was

Sa Castlegar News

AAEAABER OF THE B.C PRESS COUNCH

PUBLISHER i

PLANT FOREMAN ADVERTISING MANAGER

Burt Campbell Simon Birch

Peter Harve; Gary Fleming

OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsir

ARCULATION MANAGER

Heather Hadley

the union had more than 31,000 members in the B.C that number had been cut by about 2,000 with most of

civil ser

vice. One year later,

the members going to privatized ven tures with which individual union con- tracts must be worked out. Current numbers were not available It puts more strain on the unior

admits spokesman Soren Bech. **It's a challenge to negotiate all these dif Terentcontracts.*

NDP CAUTIOUS Leader Mike Harcourt has steadfast opponent of

NDP been a

other industrial problems which have plagued this area for years

Pulp and Paper Woodworkers 3 Canada is committed in its fight for a pollution-free environment. The proposed expansion must be technologically second to no other in the world. Our pulp markets are worldwide and European countries are asking for dioxin-free products. In or- der to comply with European standar ds, Sweden has installed oxygen

a

privatization, describing it at times as an ideological firesale.

The NDP hasn’t stipulated what it would do if it got into power other than to say it would consider buying back some things where public safety is jeopardized

Free’ enterprise inevitably leads to

bleaching systems. Swedish pulp mill research and development is recognized as the predominant technology in the world today. Our proposed expansion also calls for an oxygen bleaching system

Environmental regulations are stric ter than ever. Local public pressure is ever increasing. Celgar Pulp Co. must not only reduce dioxins in the effluent and the pulp, but all pollution emissions in any form to air, land and water

We in British Columbia live in the most beautiful part of the world — but we could lose this very quickly if we do not fight to maintain our environment

Calvin Him Environmental Pollution Chairman PPWC Local No. 1

Headline bothers

companies cutting corners td take more money, says the NDP. The party says it is only a matter of time until highways become less safe and en- vironmental testing becomes lax at the now-privatized laboratories

So far,| however, the New Democrats have been largely unable to pick out concrete examples of serious damage to the public interest. As a result, the NDP attack has weakened considerably 1987 when it pledged to fight privatization every step of the way

Harcourt has even eaten a little crow

since

It’s tough to unscramble the egg once it’s happened,"’ says Harcourt *We would never make the commit- ment going to bring everything back into the public sec tor

that we're

STORE PROSPERS The NDP retreat suits Carolyn Pet terson, one of the four owners of Crown Publications Inc Thesiny Victoria bookstore was one of the first things sold off by the gover nment in January 1988 Petterson, a former clerk, and three other employees of the government bookstore paid $352,000 for the operation and are now prospering I'm making almost twice what | made before, that she is paying her dozen employees shghtly more than union wages When the government offered me this chance | couldn't believe it. | went for it and it’s going great.”

says Petterson, adding

manager

1 would like to correct the im pression created by your headline in the July 16 issue concerning the hiring of an environmental consultant by Celgar Pulp.

As explained in the press release, this activity is a requirement by gover nment in order to assess the impact on the environment from the expected liquid and air emissions from the ex panded mill. It is arequirement before they can issue any permits to proceed with construction

The engagement of a consultant was not done, as implied by the headline, to quell any rumors

R.W. Sweeney General Manager Celgar Pulp Company

Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar

Letters should be double-spaced and not longer than 300

typewritien

Letters must be signed ond include the writer s full name and address Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writers nome Nevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor

the Cestiegor News reserves tne right fo edit letters tor brevity, clarity. legality ‘ond grammar

Remember When?

40 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 4, 1949 Castle News

The Pound By-law has been filed in the office of the Inspector of Municipalities at Victoria and is now in effect

Mr. Omar Lightle has been appoin ted pound-keeper. Stray cattle will be impounded and the charges for im pounding will, be inforced for each animal of the bovine species — that is cows, bulls, etc. The charge is two dollars per day for each animal, plus the feeding charges. The animals will hot be released until all charges have been paid, and if they are not claimed within seven days they will be sold.

Owing to limitations given in the Village Municipalities Act regarding ownership of land for airports and landing fields, the Castlegar and Kin: naird villages have been prevented, for the time being, from becoming joint owners of the Castlegar Airport, but a resolution has been prepared and is being submitted, to be presented at the fall meeting of the Association being held at Nelson Aug. 20. This is the preliminary step on its way to the legislature at Victoria.

25 YEARS AGO From the July 30. Castlegar News

B.C. Hydro and Power Authority and the Village of Kinnaird have agreed that ground-water wells will be constructed in order to protect the Village’s water supply during the period of turbidity in the Columbia River resulting from the construction of the Arrow Lakes dam. The Authority will be responsible for drilling and developing the wells following which Kinnaird will own and operate the system. These wells will provide Kinnaird with an alternate water supply system after completion of the dam

The Castlegar Development Assn was formed Monday night at a special meeting called by trades holders in the village.

The formation of the Association was prompted by the outcry against the parking arrangements imposed by the Village Council

licence

The Contractor’s Assn. and Car penter’s Union of East and West Kootenay’ reached an agreement yesterday

Signing on behalf of the Union were, Bruce Comerford and Bill Cameron and for the Contractors Mono Ferro and Nick Oglow

15 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 1, 1974 Castlegar News

The IWA strike against Can-Cel’s lumber division ended almost as quickly as it started

The sawmill was started up again on Monday while the pulp division, which was closed when the woodworkers put up their picket line at the pulp mill's en: trance, was started up Sunday.

IWA members walked off their jobs here a week ago Friday (on July 19) to back up their demands for a new con: tract. A picket line went up at the pulp mill at noon on Wednesday of last week resulting in the closure of that division

There aren't many 11-year-old kids who have been able to claim the proud title of Canadian champion jumping frog owner

Gordon Thompson of Castlegar walked away with the honor Sunday after his frog outjumped 45 others to win the Canadian Open Frog Jumping Contest at Pass Creek Park

S YEARS AGO From the July 18, 1984 Castlegar News

A fire gutted the China Creek Shell gas station on Highway 22 Monday af ternoon, destroying most of the con tents before firefighters could quell the blaze.

‘The whole top floor is probably wiped out, | would say," said Fire Chief Douglas Orser of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Service “You're looking at a 70 to 75 per cent loss | would say.”

A suggestion by Transport Canada officials that a proposed terminal building for the Castlegar Airport be reduced in size by almost ‘one-third even before it hits the drawing board was attacked by Castlegar city alder men Tuesday night

Ina letter to council dated July 9, a Canadian Air Transportation official says that, although preliminary drawings for the terminal ‘will show a standardized stand-alone terminal of 1,800 square “deregulation and movement away from Boeing 737

metres because of aircraft to smaller aircraft like the Dash 7, we expect that new forecasts will suggest that a stan dardized terminal building of 1.300 square metres is more appropriate 1or Castlegar's needs

July 30, 1989

Castlegar

Satell

ite finding

greater fire damage

WINNIPEG (CP) — A ground- breaking decision to use satellite photos in assessing Manitoba’s forest fires has led to’ a sharp increase in damage estimates, say officials of the provincial Natural Resources Depar tment

“Some of these fires are absolutely horrific in size, spokesman Don Keith said

Natural Resources officials began using Environment Canada satellite photos: Thursday to assess the size of the fires, which have prompted the largest evacuation in the. province's history

Bill Medd, superintendent of fire services, said it is the first time the province has used satellite images to map active fires. In the past, they have been used to assess damage after fires were out

Stop

communities in the last

The depariment estimated the area burned to date at 18,000 square kilometres — an area nearly the size of Lake Ontario. The figure was up from the 12,000 square kilometres estimated Wednesday and the 16,000 estimated Thursday.

Medd said the damage to Manitoba forests this year far outstrips anything else on record, including 1929 when an etimated 15,000 square kilometres were destroyed

And he said even the 18,000-square- kilometre estimate is conservative

“I’m sure it’s higher than that."”

No one has died in the fires, and only a few cabins and lodges have been destroyed. But over 23,000 people were evacuated from remote northern week Although 4,600 have been allowed to return to two, communities deemed

PCB shi

residents o

NEW INN, Wales (AP) — Officials and residents are trying to stop 1,500 tonnes of polychlorinated bypenals, commonly known as PCBs, from being shipped from Canada for disposal at a local incineration plant. The chemical waste is potentially lethal, they say

But the Department of the En- vironment says an inquiry has ruled that the disposal of the liquid chemical waste at the plant in this village in in- dustrial southeast Wales is not a health threat.

David Trippier, a minister of state at the department, ordered the inquiry because of local worries about the

B.C.

y ANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Utilities Commission. will allow B.C. Hydro to resume construc- tion of a controversial hydro-electric line on Vancouver Island.

The commission, which denied the request from the Comox-Strathcona regional district and others to reroute the line, also ordered Hydro to extend the deadline of a buyout offer made to residents immediately adjacent to the right-of-way from May 31, 1989, to Sept. 15.

Construction of the 230-kilovolt Courtenay-Comox line, which will power a $320-million Gold River pulp mill owned by Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd., was stopped earlier this year because of public concern over the health effects from electromagnetic fields.

A four-day inquiry, chaired by commission chairman John Mcintyre, heard from several expert witnesses and residents who wanted the line

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The PCBs, which have been placed in double barrels filled with absorbent materials to lessen the damage ip case of spills, will be transported by an emergency team, Michel Gagnon, Quebec's deputy minister of environ- ment, said

The 163 barrels will be taken to the Port of Montreal at the rate of 15 a week until the end of October and then shipped to Wales for disposal.

Each barrel has been insured for $10 million. Taxpayers will pay $7.9

said a department The plant is run by a Rechem Inter-

safe from smoke and flames, another 18,500 are stuck in makeshift accom- modations across Manitoba, patiently waiting for word that they can go home.

A (otal of 245 fires were burning in Manitoba Friday, including 67 that are out of control and 126 that aren’t even being fought. The satellite photos provide an accurate map of hot spots and where the fires are heading. They will be used to map priority areas for firefighting.

Natural Resources Minister Harry Enns warned Friday that continuing hot, dry weather will mean a long haul for firefighters. The blazes have already cost the province $35 million.

“I can’t really answer with optimism about us getting out of the firefighting business fairly quickly, Enns said

Provincial officials said fires now burning in the United States and other parts of Canada are making it more difficult for Manitoba to get the help it needs in fighting the blazes.

The province asked for 2,500 lengths of hose and 100 pumps from the U.S. Forest Service in Boise, Idaho, but was told Friday that U.S. authorities could spare only 2,500 hoses and 50 pumps worth $400,000.

“The wholesalers in Canada are pretty well sold out,’’ Keith said, noting demand is heavy because of fires in Saskatchewan and north western Ontario as well as Manitoba.

RETURN HOME

In northeastern Saskatchewan, some 900 residents of Sandy Bay had to flee an advancing forest fire last

weekend but were allowed to go home

Thursday

ping plans

Wales

million for the cost of transporting the toxic chemicals to Great Britain

Dynamis Envirotech Inc., which is handling the transportation, faces a fine of $10,000 for each day it passes the Oct. 31 deadline for getting the PCBs out of Montreal.

Last Aug. 23, more than 3,000 residents of St-Basile, St-Julie and St- Bruno — three small communities 20 kilometres east of Montreal — were forced to leave their homes for 17 days while environmental __ experts monitored the area where the toxic fire destroyed a PCB storage warehouse.

The incineration process involves very high temperatures

say

A British tabloid, the Star, which launched a campaign Friday to stop the waste being sent from Canada to New Inn, said today: ‘‘PCBs cause liver, brain and skin disorders and can be fatal in large doses.””

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups have demanded a banon the import of all dangerous wastes, including nuclear waste from Japan and other places.

Under a front-page headline reading Stop Ship of Death, the Star said Friday that PCBs, which were used as a coolant for transformers, are no longer made either in Britain or Canada

dro given go-ahead

rerouted away from their properties.

Hydro was opposed because it would cost up to $7 million to reroute the line and not enough was known about the issue.

CANCER ALERT

Alarm about high-power lines has been growing for years and people living near the lines fear the elec- tromagnetic fields can cause everything from learning disorders to migraine headaches to cancer.

The buyout offer will be based on

the market value of the property as of May 8, 1989, the day before Hydro made the original buyout offer in let- ters to affected residents.

Many residents believed the value of their property dropped since the letter was mailed and that the letter was an admission by Hydro that a health hazard existed.

But Mcintyre concluded in a 40- page report to the commission that no conclusive evidence exists to support a health risk, although “‘it is clear that

some results emerging from the studies conducted to date give reason

for concern.”

The commission also directed Hydro to collaborate with the ministry of health in devising and funding research , programs into elec tromagnetic-field issues

“Given the situation, I think that's the best the residents could expect,” said John Marton, a member of the

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1989 to September 30, 1989 City Hall office

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