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governments since 1975. He says they VICTORIA (CP) — A commission appointed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to ask Canadians about the country’s future should consider the state of the economy, says B.C. Finance Minister Couvelier said the B.C. government would “have to Mel Couvelier. consider the merits of government talking to this “*Failure to include the country’s desperate financial group.” situation in those discussions would be yet another in- dication that Ottawa themselves don't yet realize the . Spicer profile, page Aé serious trouble we're in,"’ he said. “If it angers the group. is nothing but a shallow Premier Bill Vander Zalm is believed to be exercise then obviously we'd be less interested travelling the west coast of the United States to Califor- in making such an appearance.”’ Keith Sree, former head of the Duane Radio-

said Mulroney was only making a last-ditch effort to! regain some of the credibility he lost after the death of: Meech Lake. “I think it’s quite apparent its motivated by politics,”” he said. Opposition Leader Mike Harcourt said in an inter-

Jack Webster, a retired radio and television broadcaster, and Carol Corcoran, an Indian band manager from Fort St. John, are the two B.C. members.

Mulroney said the commission will travel the coun- try and deliver its findings by July 1 — Canada Day.

The president of the Federation of Franco-Colum- biens said the commission may provide renewed view he is pleased with the makeup of the task force and the failure of the Meech Lake con- that he doesn’t think it is too late for the country to stitutional accord. come together.

“My hope would be whether the report that comes He said there appears to be a good balance of. out of the commission . . . will re-affirm our desire to. people from all regions of Canada and a good balance stay a unified country with respect and tolerance for all of men and women. segments,’’ said Marie Bourgeois. The NDP leader said British Columbians will likely

Gordon Shaw, vice-president of the Reform Party, have a lot to say to the panel.

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EPA gives support to plans

By CasNews Staff

The U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency ‘‘strongly supports’’ the environmental controls Celgar Pulp Co. plans to institute as part of the

Proposed expansion and moder- nization of its Castlegar pulp mill, the EPA’s chief officer of water planning in Seattle says.

In a letter to Jill Bodkin, chairman of the panel reviewing Celgar’s Proposal, Thomas Wilson says the EPA is ‘‘extremely pleased”’ with the discharge limits being proposed for the mill modernization.

The reduction in pollutants such as highly toxic dioxins will help resolve many of the health concerns of people living around Lake Roosevelt im Washington state, Wilson says. Celgar, Cominco and eight U.S. pulp

mills discharge pollutants into the

Columbia River which flows over the

Canada-U.S. border into Lake Roosevelt.

“Please keep in mind, however, that if the mill modernization does not proceed on schedule, we will be urging the (B.C.) Ministry of En- vironment to take immediate alter- Native steps to achieve equivalent discharge reductions,”” Wilson says.

The EPA was expected to make a Presentation to the panel during technical hearings in Castlegar but has been unable to do so because the debate in Congress over the U.S. budget has put restriction on the EPA’s travel allowances, Wilson said.

In an interview with the Castlegar News, Wilson said his department “(doesn’t) pretend to have any regulatory authority in Canada.”’

But the EPA, working with the governments of Washington state and Oregon, is trying to limit the amount of toxic chemicals es into the Columbia, he

he EPA is proposing a maximum daily limit dn dioxin discharges. The was presented at a pubiic hearing in July and is in the final Stages now, Wilson said. If Celgar does not meet its reduction standards, the U.S. pulp mills that discharge into the river will have to cut their emissions more to meet the proposed guidelines, he said.

Documentation ‘of elevated levels of furans has led the Washington state Department of Health to issue an advisory recommending that young children should not eat whitefish from Lake Roosevelt, Wilson says in his letter to Bodkin.

The Washington state Department of Ecology, speaking before the

Workers from a crew hired by the Castl end of the file birds at the Bebeon boat launch. The work crew built the wharf which was

and District i

By CasNews Staff ‘A long-awaited wharf at the Robson boat launch has been

Wharf at Robson launch has become a reality

Armed with letters of support from surrounding communities, the development board ap-

into

“This is the result of an initiative that we've been working on for over two years,”’ said Harry Stan, executive director of the Castlegar and District Development Board.

The project.to replace the old wharf started with former Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Bob Brisco and proceeded as far as building a ramp to launch boats.

“They got the ramp in and then they ran out of money and they didn’t have any ways of put- ting any type of moorage in,” Stan said.

PI the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans but found it would cost $35,000 to build a wharf to the department's specifications, he said.

Fisheries and Oceans officials said the department didn’t have the money.

“So slowly over time we've been able to gather, pretty well by donation from everywhere . . . enough materials and cash together from a whole bunch of different people in order to make (the wharf) happen,’ Stan said.

“It’s an excellent example of how the community all pulling together, everybody giving some

and money from the community. —costews photo by Ed Mills

Board wander down to the

donations in . . . material and some cash, of how you can make a project happen.””

Fisheries and Oceans con- tributed $5,000 for the wharf, built by the development board’s 14-person work crew hired under a provincial government program called Employment Plus, Stan said.

The crew, which has been working since last spring, has done numerous jobs in and around Castlegar such as trail clearing on Zuckerberg Island, work at the Castlegar Rail Station and cleanup of beaches.

The new wharf is for tem-

porary moorage only while boats load and unload passengers.

Doctor backs planned study

By CasNews Staff

An occupational health physician who is working as a consultant for Celgar Pulp Co. said he supports a study being proposed by the B.C. Cancer Control Agency to determine whether the working environment of pulp mill employees causes cancer.

Eric Jeffries said there is ‘‘in- creasing evidence’ that working in

have already been conducted on the subject.

The union also wants guarantees that adequate monitoring will be in- cluded in an expanded and moder- nized mill to ensure workers do not come into contact with chemicals, especially gases.

More than 60 ‘‘gassings’’ have oc- curred at the mill so far this year, Greg the union’s

pulp mills may lead to the often-deadly disease.

But pinpointing a cause is a com- plex problem, especially since the disease can develop over many years and the person may no longer be in contact with the substance that star- ted the illness, he told reporters during technical sen on into Celgar’s proposed $650 D million x- pansion and

national occupational health and safety officer, told the panel reviewing Celgar’s proposal during technical hearings last week. Any contact with a gas used inside the mill, including chlorine which is used to bleach pulp, is considered a

The more complex a disease is, the more people that must be studied to “*tease out”’ the causes of an illness, Jeffries said. He said the Cancer Control Agency study, which will collect data on 30,000 to 35,000 pulp mill workers in the province, will be an important step toward gaining a

Jeffries said studies so far have not provided consistent or conclusive evidence that pulp mill chemicals cause, or are unrelated to, cancer in pulp mill employees.

The Pulp,

Celgar to participate in the agency's study because the union believes working in pulp mills leads to con-

for workers, as well as the has been it into the design of the upgraded mill. However, Jeffries said that

mills, the sensitive sensoring devices may not pick up the same gases workers are breathing, even if the devices are worn by the employees. The union supports Ceigar’s plan to substitute 70 per cent of the chlorine used in the bleaching of pulp with chlorine dioxide, which experts say produces less of the har- mful byproducts of the bleaching Process such as dioxins and furans. But chlorine dioxide is thought to be 10 times as dangerous as chlorine if imhaled = the union hopes the

completely the use of both » Meinechuk said.

concluded that the projected normal low levels of sulphur dioxide will be harmful to vegetation over a long period of time.

Leaves and needles take in sulphur dioxide, neutralize it and store the material as sulphate, he told the Castlegar News.

He said the buildup can lead to needles dropping prematurely. And leaves and needles high in sulphate that accumulate on the forest floor will lead to degradation of the soil when rain releases the sulphate, he said.

Van Barneveld pointed out much of the West Kootenay has been iden- tified by the Environment Ministry as being sensitive to acid rain.

To combat the problem, Bennett said Celgar will have to find other ways to handle the sulphur dioxide during shutdowns of the lime kiln.

only option the company has for solving the problem.

He could not say what bearing the ministry’s new findings will have on how Celgar’s project is evaluated or how it will affect the decision of the

and federal

“That's a role for the panel,"” he

He also noted that, since the ministry received the new data Oct. 16, it has only had time so far to study the sulphur emissions and problems with other pollutants may be discovered when the rest of the data are looked at carefully.

But he said a cursory review has indicated all other levels of gas emissions will be below the ministry's new guidelines.

McDonald, during closing remarks to the panel, said the ministry wants the issue of possible vegetation damage from sulphur dioxide

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“I’ve got to be in contact with the union this afternoon (Friday) and sce what they’ve got to say about it,"’ Hopkins said. ‘‘I don’t know what the union feels about (the non-union shop) but I would imagine there'll probably be some kind of organizational drive.””

Steve Thornton, a reporter with the Nelson News and the union's chapel chairman there, said he hasn’t discussed the new paper with union officials yet.

“As chapel chairman I'd say that we'd prefer that it was a union shop but I really can’t say anything rie at this point,”” Thornton

satertsacion obtained by the Castlegar News revealed production workers at the Castlegar Sun will receive gross wages of $325 per week, about half the wages of Sterling's unionized workers.

City's future predicted

VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver will overtake Montreal as Canada’s second-largest city as its population swells during a Pacific Rim economic boom, global futurist Frank Feather said.

“It may not happen this decade but it will surely happen thereafter,"’ he told the Pacific Canada Property Conference.

Feather, author of G-Forces . . . Re-inventing the World, said 80 per cent of immigrants to Canada now come from Pacific Rim or Third World countries and Vancouver will continue to be a major destination for those immigrants.

“*It will be fantastic for the city,” said the Lheimergnargs consultant. “It will and

They will soon understand that western European investors already have a big advantage in that part of the world, he said.

Feather said Canada is currently in a ‘‘mini-depression’’ that will last until 1993.

Despite concerns about the future viability of the Canada Pension Plan, Feather said the plan will not go bankrupt.

“This generation of baby boomers will be the richest pensioners you’ve ever seen,’’ he said. ‘‘They

sciousness.

‘Companies that are not sensitive to the environment will either be legislated out of business or customers will abandon them and they'll go broke.””

He the could install a stand-alone incinerator with a scrubber to burn the gas during shutdowns.

Bennett said he had no idea what such an incinerator would cost and pointed out his suggestion is not the

about specific aspects of Ceigar’s proposal, ‘‘there are no out standing concerns that can't be resolved at the permitting and licen. sing stage’? after the company has received approval for the project, he said.

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won't even need the pension plan.’’ Feather said the ‘‘horrendous corruption’’ that accompanied the 1980s’ greed-driven economy will be replaced by a “high virtue’’ 1990s

position the city to nt @ major player in the Pacific Rim."*

Feather said Western Canada will also enjoy increased Asian invest- ment when Asian investors realize that eastern Europe is not for them.

“It can never be totally clean but it will definitely be a house-cleaning decade,"’ he said.

Feather said the environmental movement will not go away because it has become part of the global con-

In Castlegar provincial court, Ar- thur Sinclair pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and received a 90- day intermittent jail sentence.

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Johnny Postnikoff pleaded guilty to selling or giving toxicated person suspended sentence ths’ probation:

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Kirk Duff and Bob Pakula.

Woodland Dr. in Castlegar.

Tom Lang said.

City candidates to square off Candidates for Castlegar city council seats will face each other at

an all- i ” meeting Monday night at the Community Sponsored by the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, the forum

Seeking re-election are aldermen Albert Calderbank, Lawrence Chernoff, Marilyn Mathieson, Patti Richards and Doreen Smecher Challenging for the six seats up for grabs are Jim Chapman,

Bullding under construction Construction is well underway on a new 5,300-square-foot building on Martech Electrical Systems Ltd. property at 1700

The new building is primarily warehouse and office space and will be available for lease in carly 1991, Martech’s operations manager