.'A,ILIA g,J, ~LD~;S V£.C~TORZA B C Alcan route for hydro, oil, rail Northern corridor may kill Kitimat line PRINCE RUPERT, 'B.C. to the West Coast, as a the northwest to a host of ",We can do it several move our northern produc- developments in the north crude oil has to be found on He said, however, that if (CP) --An oil pipeline nation builder in the true other developments. times over. We can build a tion, oil as well as gas, to the ndamay move this way. Metals the Canadian side of the big Canadian oil pools are paralleling the AlasKa lligh- sense of the word," he said. "As more oil reserves are largediameter oil line down highest price markets in other minerals will, Alaska-Yukon Boundary." found quickly in the north, it way natural gaspipeline is Even if big oil discoveries developed around Prudhse the Alaska Highway. North America. even some forest products. "It has to be found in large will make a Kitimat oil line inevitable, Jack Davis, are slow in coming, said the Bay, off-shore and on-shore, "We can pipe Alaskan' Oil "In transportation terms I "A railway link could be quantities in the MeKenzie redundant. British Columbia energy, minister, and even if a economists and engineers down from Edmonton see a big new northwest economic in time. And, with Delta or offshore where "Believe me, I'm not transport and com- Kitimat-toEdmonton oil will say what we can do with through the Inter-provincial corridor developing... all this happening, Canada's Dome Petroleum is ex- mentioning a Kitimat oil munications minister, said pipeline is built, "an oil line as we can do with oil," Oil Pipeline System to "Who know? Electricity two major transportation ploring now," he said. pipeline because I think it is Thursday. following the Alaska High- avis said. • Chicago as well. We can from major hydroelectric corridors to the coast (the "It may not happen inevitable," the miniSte~ Davis said in a speech to way route is inevitable in ! two national railways) tomorrow but it will happen said. "It may never be built. the Western Advisory the long run." would be joined by a third, eventually." "But Canadian energy Transport Committee at Davis also said that it was the Alaska Highway route, "We are bound to find oPolicy, dictated, mainly hy their annual meeting in this also inevitable that the the route that will really put ntario, can call for its coastal British Columbia McKenzie Valley gas northern B.C. and the Yukon more oil and gas in Arctic Canada, around the completition." community that the new pipeline proposal was on the economic map of He added tN~t if such a transportation corridoa rejected by the federal Canada." Mackenzie Delta and in the pipeline were built, it too being opened up by the pro- government. MUST DE FOUND Beaufort Sea." could be paralleled by posed gas pipeline is of far- "It shouldn't have been the l erald Davis qualified his Davis also said that the major economic activity reaching importance. shoved up front in the first Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the NaBs prediction about the oil line Kitimat pipeline proposal along its route. • "Soon it will rank, along, place," said Davis. i down the highway by saying would not necessarily die if A copy of Davis's speech with our two trans- He. said that the Alaska VOLUME 71 NO. 105 Price: 20 ce~ts FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1977 that, "first, to make the oil flowed down the Alaska was released prior to continental railway routes Highway route will open up .... Alcan route viable for oil, Highway. delivery. Oil inquiry seeks secret documents VANCOUVER (CP) -- Dr. Rounthwalte argued that Thompson said he wants ~~~i~i .~i ~/'~ M q Andrew Thompson, head of the sub-cabinet level to be the judge as to whethar .. ~ the West Coast oil ports reports, studies' and the documents are truly inquiry, continued to press memoes are essential if the confidential. He has the , :~ ~ Wednesday for confidential inqulry is to gain a complete power to subpoena both ~: i ~::~:~(:~, federal documents con- •picture of the economic, witnesses and documents, earning pollution problems social and. environmental but he said he wants to use it ! ~i~: :::~ :~:::~!,~ - involving the world's oil impact an oil port would * r lbn gl tanker fleet.. have. • persuasion over an Yor~ar. • ~~ :~ "~=~: •~'~ / It was the second day in a • ~:i~:~ ~ ...... row that Thomlmon had decided his federal inquiry needed material which has not been made ~blic. Some of the documents are confidential, and :Z Thompson said be would .... need the eo-o~raUon of reduce taxes such cabinet ofheers as Ex- VERNON, B,C. (CP) -- giving an example to' the ~. ternal Affairs Minister Don Premier Bill Bennett today world of what can he done ,, J t threw cold water on a for industrial relations." . /,i :~:~.. Minister. Otto Laug and suggestion made Wed- Commenting on Vandar ,, ~.... Environment and Fisheries nesuay by Human Zalm's statement that B.C. ~ ,~. Minister Romeo LeBlanc. Resources Minister Bill is prepared to spend $250 ....• Thompson; a University of Vander Zalm that the million on the world's most o British Columbia law provincial sales tax be comprehensive state-run professor, has sought ieduced, health, care system Bennett ~ ~' " documents pertaining to Vandar Zaim said he said the "program was e~.~'..... : ::!:i:~i Canadian complaints to would like to/:at~e B.C.'s announced earlier this year ~:~i,,~,~:i/i" / countries about ships regis- seven per cent sales tax cut by the health minister and tered in {hem that have to five per cent ~: less. He myself and the figure given ~~:..,,, ., . ,............ • ppilled oil in or near said thego~arnments~d by V and~ Zalm I, would ~ ~ ~_ ......: ....: ~:/ !~ Canadian :~ate .~ .... .... Benfi~t~~ sales !i . .... ; :~...... .... = Colin Goodall silk screens T.sldrts for the Northwest Loggers Assoclatioh lnfla,ion controls are phased OUt and cocktail h0ur aiid banquet Saturday conte~ ~b~/en~- °~er?~:~would not come down~::! =• ~t~im~e~ofPa~~e'~ ~ mi~llo nmC~t festival which begins with entertainment tonight. The message reads, evening. Entertainment to go with the convention includes the Allan ments to a section of the "l'm a mother-loving'logger from Terrace, B.C." The shirts will be sold in Sisters singers at the REM Lee Then/re Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Canada Shippin~ Act •some thne yet because the April. conjunction with loggers' events. These include a safety eonference in the who share the stage with comedian Jay Hoyle und banjo-player Felix dealing with liability and money already was corn- ~- Terrace Hotel Saturday morning,a paneldiscussion on responsibility after Possak. compensation for oil spills. mitted. • WHAT COUNTRIES The premier pointed to the Thompson told Erik improved labor situation in Wang, a legal affairs officer the province, saying there Premier : Workingparents need babysitters in the •external affairs had been 85 per cent fewer department, that his inquiry man days lost in industrial needed to know when and to disputes in 1977 than in the VANCOUVER what country Canada has ewous year. Hesaid that British Columbia's future complained in receri~ years ure was achieved at a premier could be Bill about substantial oit dis- me when 80 per cent of the Vander Zaim - 0r so the charges. major industrial cbntracts Human Resources Minister ,, Church..evicts day care His request for documents were up for negotiation. mused Wednesday. came on the third day of Bennett said the labor "I'm not interested in the By DONNA VALLIERES the board received word last find other accommodation square footage, yard space, family, total income and testimony concerning in. record will pay dividends job right now, but eight to 1O Herald staff week that the eentre's lease by the end of the year. washrooms and health and family expenses. ternational laws governing for B.C. in both Europe and years down the road, if I'm Working parents of pre- will not be renewed in "H we can't find a new fire requirements. A rough estimate would sea-borne oil ~hipments. Japan. He said B.C. is the still interested and if the school children may be December. facility ... 25 parents will be be that a single ]parent with Wang said that in the past bnght spot in Canada with The centre has been one child earning $600 a people want me, thenmaybe caught in a bindif the looking for babysitters," operating out of the building 10 years Canada has. an-inflation rate less than I'll take a shot at it," he Terrace Day Care 'Centre St. Matthew's Anglican Effray stated. month or less, with normal complained 80 times to the national average and a on Park Avenue since 1973. expenses, would not have to said. • canno fmd another building Church, which owns the The board treasurer said It is operated by the Terrace foreign countries about oil real growth rate of close to ~He said that "someone in town where they can building housing the child there was no other facility in any pertionof ~e fee. six per cent. • Day Care Society, made up tankers. He said that only 30 46 " • have to do the job if Bill operate the child care care centre, has informed .town to her knowledge every $20 extra income per cent of the complaints Everyone from labor Premier Bennett goes- and fo all parents wnese over that, the parent would facility. the parents group that the which would meet the children attend the centre, ware investigated by the through to m~inagement is I don't want that person to Pauline Effray, treasurer church needs the building stringent governmen{ pay a $5 portion.