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Pesticide management system proposed

OTTAWA (CP) — A Proposed system for

much more quickly than under

would allow public access to con- fidential information about new pesticides before they are. app

curtent said the paper.

The proposed system is the out- come of a year long review bya group that

for use in Canada, said a report released this week.

The system, described in- a preliminary report for the gover- nment, would also allow public hearings on controversial pesticide decisions.

These would be subject to a time limit, and decisions would be made

final talks begin

WASHINGTON (CP) — It's finally crunch time for the U.S. Clean Air Act — environmental legislation

reduce

ions on a massive overhaul of the 13-year-old air- pollution regulations began Friday — more than a year after President George Bush sent the matter to Congress. Politicians from both chambers of Congress were to meet for what’ s

federal experts, forestry users, a labor official and a chemical industry representative.

After public hearings, a final report will -be sent in December to Agriculture Minister Don Mazankowski, who will make the final decision on the new system.

“One of the primary objectives . . was to ensure that the system that was proposed was very transparent, so the public would know what's going oh,"’ said Halo Versteeg, secretary for the group.

He said the current pesticide registration system, in which more decisions are made by the agriculture minister, has a credibility problem.

“Because the system has not historically been open to public

access and public input, there's been a tremendous credibility gap."

In the past, environmentalists have charged agriculture ministers tend to favor pesticide use without giving adequate consideration to environ- mental and health considerations.

Under the proposed system, decision-making power oh pesticides would be shared by the ministers of

, health and agri

Canadian Labor Congress, Its representatives on the review commit- tee refused to sign the main report. ‘

In its dissenting report, the labor

regime isn’t designed to discourage use of chemical pesticides which are

vital for crop protection. Agriculture Minister Don ki called for the review af-

group said the system fails to require extensive testing for acute and chronic health effects of all pesticides used.

By 1998, the congress says, Ottawa

ter a prolonged controversy about Alachlor, a chemical pulled from the

Canadian market several years ago. Under the proposed system, ical would be

should phase out all with a

However, the recommendations

to public i

were as i by the

to harm human health or the environment.

Verteeg said the proposed new

required to pay the full cost of regulating pesticides, estimated to be in the range of $10 million a year.

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“THere are questions as to how we're going to resolve certain issues, but in my mind there’s not a question as to whether we're going to take clear action,”’ Representative Henry Wax- man (D-Calif.), a key supporter of the bills, said in an interview after House members of the conference held their first meeting Wednesday.

“‘We'’re going to have a strong clean-air law when all this is said and done,”’ said Waxman.

“The part I feel most confident about is the acid-rain piece of the legislation.””

Both the Senate and House bills would phase in over the next decade a reduction of about 50 per cent, or 10 million tonnes in sulphur-dioxide emissions — gases that flow north of the border, mix with other elements in the atmosphere and fall as acid rain in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

As well, each bill would cap emissions once the reductions have been made, meaning no new pollution would be allowed without a corresponding reduction in existing emissions.

The 10-million-tonne cut and the emissions cap have been the cogmer- stone of Canada’s lobbying during the clean-air debate.

Given its choice, Canada would side with the Senate version, which reaches the reductions a year earlier and proposes larger cuts in nitrogen oxide, another acid-rain gas.

Ottawa has said the U.S. proposals, combined with its own programs, would stop further damage to lakes, rivers and forests in Eastern Canada

Mummies to undergo AIDS test

LONDON (AP) — Several Egyp- tian mummies in the British Museum will be tested for traces of the AIDS virus, the London Times reported

British Museum officials have given the go-ahead to two Dutch virologists to conduct the tests

They will be using the same techniques as researchers from the University of Manchester, who last week announced in the medical review The Lancet that they had discovered the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, in tissue from a British sailor who died in 1959.

They will be testing samples from a mummy that dates back to 3,500 BC.

The researchers believe the AIDS virus has existed in African.monkeys

‘Bypti mify domestic monkeys, so the two Dutch researchers will also be testing monkey tissue dating back to the fifth century BC

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Council slams agency

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar city council levelled a blast Tuesday at Transport Canada for its handling of the control tower issue at Castlegar Airport.

The federal government agency an- mounced last week it plans to eliminate air traffic controllers from the tower and replace them with flight service specialists from the Flight Ser- vice Station at the airport, possibly as soon as October.

“I deplore the way this whole situation has been handled as far as the Ministry of Transport has been concerned,"’ Mayor Audrey Moore said. She added that the way Trans- port Canada has arrived at the plan to eliminate the controllers is ‘‘a long way from consultation’? that was promised by former Transport Minis- ter Benoit Bouchard.

“I do believe removing the con- trollers from the airport tower will have a deleterous effect on Selkirk College’ s training of aviation students and I think that should be’ con- sidered,”’ the mayor said.

Moore said it’s been her position Transport Canada should take the air traffic controllers out of Castlegar when it takes the controllers out of the airport at Baie-Comeau, a reference to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s home riding.

Ald. Albert Calderbank was ever blunter_in his condemnation of Tran-

rt Canada’s plan to eliminate the controllers.

“We certainly should raise a heck of a stink," hgse@id. I don’t think they should get away with it. They’ve ‘lied to us and told us all the fairy stories under the sun. As far as I’m concer- ned their credibility has disap- peared.”*

Transport Canada officials will at-

tend a public meeting tomorrow at 7

p.m. at the Fireside Inn in Castlegar to discuss the tower issue.

Moore said she hopes most alder- men will attend the meeting which Transport Canada postponed from July 4.

Fire risk rises

By ED MILLS Staff Writer

Doug Fellman of the Arrow forest district office has a warning for cam- pers and hikers in the area.

“If this type of weather continues, we're anticipating more (forest) fires, there’s no doubt about it. All we ask is that the general public be aware of that fact and use caution when they're hiking and with their camp fires,’’ Fellman said Tuesday.

Even though there aren't any fires currently burning) the situation could change rapidly if the hot, dry spell Castlegar has been experiencing lately continues, said Fellman, the district's fire control officer.

Fellman said the weather warrants a high to moderate hazard warning in the Castlegar area, and a high war- ning in Trail and points south.

Firefighters got a taste of what might be in store, getting the call into action to six fires last week.

The most dangerous one flared up Saturday on the north side of Lower Arrow Lake near Scottie’s Marina, Feliman said.

“That one had excellent potential with a southern exposure facing right into the sun," he said.

But a quick response by the public reporting the fire allowed firefighters to douse it before it got out of con- trol. Lightning in last Thursday's

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Celgar's revised report in hands of panel

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer

Celgar Pulp Co.’s new five-volume impact assess- which the company released this week, is a highly technical document, but the first volume, called an

ment report,

overview and environmental summary, layman

Person’s ‘concerns that were covered reference’’

and archeological impacts.

The report is lengthy because the questions posed in the terms of reference for the report required more detailed answers than the questions initially suggested,

Sweeney said.

But Celgar was cautioned by the committee to respond fully to each question and company officials

“*felt it was better to take a little more tii

complete the report thoroughly and not interfere with a “*overall schedules’’ for the review, he said.

The new report incorporates Celgar’ in May that the expanded mill wilt use hydrogen peroxide in the bleaching process which will reduce the amount of

to understand, said Wilf Sweeney, manager of the pulp mill expansion project Analysis of the six-inch-thick document is now in the hands of a three-member federal-provincial panel appoin ted to review the proposed $630 million expatision and environmental cleanup of the Castlegar mill. “We designed the overview to respond to an average

for the report, issued by the committee that conducted the first stage of the review, after the commit- tee received submissions from various government agen- cies and West Kootenay residents, Sweeney said Tuesday. However, the socio-economic effects the project may have on the area are not contained in the overview, he noted. Volume 5 is devoted entirely to socio-economic

chlorine required to bleach pulp. As a result, the amount of chlorinated organic compounds — including toxic dioxins and furans — which are generated in the bleaching process will also be reduced.

“However, because of a lack of reliable information on how pulp quality is affected when chlorine usage is severely reduced or eliminated, Celgar must continue to forecast that some chlorine will be required in the bleaching sequence of the modernized mill,”’ the report says.

“‘A major reduction in chlorine use will be achieved by operating the modernized mill with 70 per cent chlorine dioxide in the chlorination stage. The modernized mill will have sufficient chlorine dioxide generating capacity to eventually replace all of the chlorine, should that prove to be feasible.

‘‘However, without more detailed .and reliable in- formation, Celgar cannot confidently commit at this time to increase the substitution level beyond 70 per cent. Such a move would jeopardize quality and the abiilty to meet the demands of the market for Celgar's pulp.”*

Celgar is conducting a research program to determine whether complete, or nearly complete, elimination of chlorine is feasible.

Celgar is also proposing installing a ‘‘world-class at- mospheric emission control system.’""

The equipment: will include a low-odor recovery boiler, electrostatic precipitators, and other methods to limit air pollutants. Celgar expects the changes to result in “substantial decrease’’ in particulate matter, total reduced sulphur, carbon monoxide and chlorine and chlorine dioxide emissions. The emission rates for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds will please see CELGAR page A2

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Agreement expected

By CasNews Staff

All outstanding issues in the con- tract negotiations between Cominco Ltd. and the United Steelworkers of America have been resolved and a memorandum of agreement ‘is expec- ted to be signed sometime today, a

and the Sullivan mine in Kimberley, which Cominco closed in January, will be reopened now that a contract settlement has been reached.

Cominco public relations officer Carol Vanelli was unavailable for ing the ion of

union said g the final round of talks between the com pany and the union this morning

Once the agreement is signed a ratification vote can be taken, likely on Friday, said the spokesman who cannot be identified according to union rules for dealing with the media.

USWA Local 480 chief negotiator Ron Schmidt, who is also the untan’s offi spokesman and the only one who can be quoted by name, was unavailable for comment during negotiations Tuesday and today.

No details of the contract, which covers five lotals in Trail and Kim- berley, will be released until the union members have been informed of the contents, the spokesman added.

However, he said the Trail smelter could start up again on the weekend

contract talks.

The two sides talked over the weekend, including a 21-hour session beginning Saturday morning and en- ding Sunday morning, Vanelli said Tuesday.

By Tuesday, only two issues — a wage schedule for the office and technical employees and the Kim- “berley miners’ incentive contract — remained outstanding, the union spokesman said.

The Steelworkers began their strike July 9 after talks broke off over wage and benefit discussions.

The union has been seeking wage parity with workers in other industries in B.C. such as Celgar Pulp Co. em- ployees who make about $4 an hour more than Cominco workers, Sch- midt said in an earlier interview.

Experts to

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer

West Kootenay residents who find Celgar Pulp Co.’s second im- Pact assessment report difficult to understand will have a chance to talk to experts being engaged to assist the three-member federal. provincial panel continuing the review of Celgar’s expansion Proposal, panel chairman Jill Bodkin said

The technical specialists may be made available to local residents through the office the panel will have set up in Castlegar by Aug. 1, Bodkin said Tuesday in an in- terview with the Castlegar News. The office will be located at 1414 Columbia Ave.

The panel is seeking the advice of an expert on toxic substances in water, an aquatic and fish biologist, an air quality expert and a forestry specialist with particular knowledge about wood chip sup- plies, panel executive secretary Alan Ferguson said.

The panel may decide to consul, other specialists as the panel members go through the report, Bodkin added.

“Our understanding (of the report) and the understanding, of the people who are interested (in the report) is very important,’’ Bodkin said in explaining why the technical specialists are required.

The other two panel members, a University of B.C. professor and a forest industry consultant, are also ‘‘scientists in their own right"’ and will be ‘‘very, very helpful’’ in examining the reports and “‘exer- cising judgment’’ when the review Process is competed, she added.

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Thé five-volume report, which Celgar completed and distributed to the panel this week, will be put on display at the Castlegar Library and Selkirk College’s library in Castlegar, the village offices in Slocan, New Denver and Silver- ton, and the Nakusp Public Library. Copies will also be available at the Nelson Library and in Trail, Rossland, Salmo, Kaslo, Revelstoke and Vancouver

The report can be viewed at the panel's Castlegar office as of Aug. 1, a panel news release said

Bodkin was in Castlegar to meet with various groups interested in the review process as well as to meet pulp mill manager Jim Browne and ‘‘get a good sense of the geography” of the area, she said.

The panel members want to give people an understanding of how the panel’s review relates to the initial review conducted by a Provincial committee with federal representation, Bodkin said

As well, the panel wants area residents to be assured their con- cerns will be heard, she said.

The public hearings the panc! will conduct in the fall, while having ‘‘some procedure and structure,’’ will be ‘‘as informal as possible,"” Bodkityaid

“We want people to be assured they can express their views whether it’s in writing or ver- baily,”’ she said

Written submissions can be made at any time during the review and don’t have to wait for the public hearings, Ferguson pointed out please sue REVIEW page A2

Nurses, gov't wait for recommendations

By CasNews Staff

Central Kootenay community-care nurses are ‘‘all happy and full of all kinds of energy’ since returning to work Monday after two nursing unions and the provincial government decided to seek arbitrated settlement to their contract dispute, said Dorothy Salisbury, a Castlegar for the B.C. Nugses

is the cause. Creek had to be water bombed from the air but was also put out by fire crews, Fellman said. please see FIRES poge A2

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Spokesmen for the-nurses’ union head office and the government said they were expecting mediator Vince Ready’s recommendations sometime

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Public health nurses with the Cen- tral Kootenay Health Unit were con- cerned the strike could create a backlog for the immunization clinics but plans have been made to schedule Clinics again and those needing shots will not have long to wait, said Shirley Hunter-Ogiow, public health administrator for the health unit.

“*If (the strike) had gone on for any length of time there could have been a problem (with immunization),’’ she said.

Health unit director Dr. Nelson

today but the had not been released by the time the Castlegar News went to press.

Nurses who work as long-term care assessors, assessing the needs of people who require care in the home, have a backlog to catch up on despite working part-time during most of the three-week strike, Salisbury said Long-term care assessors were

an essential service by the In. dustrial Relations Council but last week the assessors walked out with other. striking nurses after receiving word to do so from the union head

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Ames ‘‘was able to keep the ship afloat yery nicely’? while the nurses were out, Hunter-Oglow added

The B.C. Nurses Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses on Saturday requested Ready make recommendations to end the dispute, nurses’ union communications officer Jo Dunaway said Tuesday.

The nurses feel Ready understands their position, she said.

“We have a great deal of confiden- ce in his ability to mediate," Dunaway said.

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“disappointed” an agreemeni could not be reached by the two sides, said Ron Myers, the government's per- sonnel services negotiator.

“But after a six-week strike, and in the interest of patient safety and care," the government agreed to an arbitrated settlement, Myers said.

The nurses have bert seeking wage parity with The government said the nurses were asking for a greater percentage in- crease than the government was able to provide.