i'"',:.:~" .! :i ,:;~r~c-:.:,r'~i'.: F:,.'..J. ]. c~;., ,~:!:i, ,? :;, C ..... :i. i:?, "~'.:l I'" /EDNESDAY, JULY 3, !991 , "C.. ~..'-" r --.. ........ 'oi.' 7, Issue No. 27 II II Phone 635-7840 |1 Fax 635-7269 I I Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk,. arvale, Kitwanga, Mezladin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 7s cents pin8 GST Orenda to reveal choice of pulp mill site today Orenda Forest Products will end several weeks of speculation today by announcing a new site for its proposed pulp and paper mill The announcement Is expected at 1:30 p.m., a time chosen by company management to coincide with the close of trading in eastern Canadian and U.S. stock markets. Orenda is a publicly- traded company. Company officials declined to give any hint of the location. ..................;:%i Orenda originally chose the Swan Lake area near Mmindin Junction as the preferred site for the mm proposaL The company iiiiiii;:~ .i:ii~i! filed a prospectus based on that site sek~'tion in November of last ~ i/i:!: year, but recently Orenda vice president, Frank Foster said they ~/ :I~ :il had been glven "verbal Indlcations". by government offlOnln that Process, He said the pr~pectus would have to be extenslvely reworked because many of the premises'-wem?~c- -,,~ --- to the Swan Lake location. Orenda president Hugh Cooper indicated two weeks ago that the new site would be "closer to population areas and ingrastrue. tune. Health Care Society optimistic despite ~i,.i :iii'i hospital bed closure by Ted Straehan expect anytidng to happen immedi- and err ately but it appears now the minis. • i ~ Nancy try has a better undemtandin8 of A delegation from the Terrace the services offered by Mills Me- Regional Health Care Society met morial and may be cimcr to grant- ++" ing regional funding for regional • ~,., ;~'. -.:. ?:!, .~ with Minister of Health Bruce Strachan and Skeena MLA Dave services. Still, any promise of regional ' : : ii ¸ i/¸ Parker in Victoria last Wednesday to discuss regional funding for funding sometime in the future Mills Memorial Hospital. Although doesn't help MMH balance their Mills Memorial serves as a budget now. As a result, the regional hospital, they are ftmded society's board of directors passed TROU BLI NG WATERS as a municipal hospital and this a resolution Thursday night to Skeena MP Jim Fulton wears a puzzled contract was awarded in October 1989. The means they're sbort-funded by close more than 35 percent of the expression as he contemplates a bottle of the water contract went to the American company, she said, about a half million dollars a year. hospital's beds in medical surgical, supplied to Canadian National Railway workers only because the quality of the water was The Society delegation included paediatrics and psychiatrics. This is throughout the national rail network. The water is acceptable at a price substantially below that chairman David Lane, finance something Lane told SWachan and purchased under contract by CN m from a tendered by any Canadian company. committee chairman Dave Mc- Parker would be happening, and it company in Louisville, Kentucky. "This is The water is Louisville municipal tap water. Kcown, MMH chief of staff Dr. did. pathetic," he remarked. "We have some of the best Robson said the contract is for an indefinite term. Lani Almas, and CEO Michael The number of beds in medical water in the world." It will be re-tendered when CN's purchasing agents Leisinger. surgery have been reduced from 30 Fulton wants the individual responsible for feel there has been enough of a change in the Although the delegation returned to 20. In paediatrics the number of awarding the contract fired. market price of bottled water to make it empty-handed, they brought back beds dropped from 22 to 12. And CN public affairs officer Marion Robson said the advantageous for CN to call for offers again. with them plenty of optimism. in the psychiatric wing four beds According to Lcisinger, "It went were closed reducing the number quite well." Hc says they didn't -- Conttnuea on page A3 A~:,:~erraceRay, w--Wednesday, July 3, 1991 , .. ' • " r~ i"ty council supports.,:.,Kemano:. Completto"~ l Alean's Kemano Completion federal government regarding and intruding into provincial out among the province, the com- unacceptable, and the impacts of the decision amf,serious," says water fights to the reservoif'that affairs,and asks Ottawa to bring in party and the federal government." Project has the support of the Weisgerber. ,They .have caused would supply the project with procedures which respect provin: Terrace city government. Terrace uncertainty and confusion over the water to power new turbines. cial environmental assessments and According to Weisgerber, the council deliberated in-camera June project, and put needless hurdles in Provincial minister of Energy, resource management responsibil- 1987 agreement was: based on 17 and came out with a recom- the way of British Columbia's Mines and Petroleum Resources ities. But, adds Weisgerber, the more than seven years of environ- mendation to write a letter of ability to plan its economic future Jack Weisgerber has written a feds continue to ignore a year-old mental evaluations, and followed "strong support" and an offer of and long-term electricity supply..It strongly-worded letter to federal provincial proposal which would an extensive review of Alcan's "aSy lobbying assistance that may has also affected hundreds of Minister of Environment Jean clarify the field of environmental project by federal and provincial be nw~sary". workers in the northwest region. A Charest lashing out against the and economic policy. experts and an independently- The $1 billion hydroelectric clean-up of federal environmental "confusion and uncertainty" caused "Three years after work started chaired working group. Be says project south of Kitimat is gradual- assessment procedures and legisla- by the federal environmental on Alcan's $1-billion investment," the agreement protected fishefles ly being put on hold by the com- tion is urgently needed to fully impact assessment procedures. writes Weisgerber, "the clock has and resolved water conflicts among pany pending the outcome of a recognize the validity of existing Weisgerber blames inadequate been turned back five years by the the three parties. legal action to overturn a recent provincial economic and environ- court decision striking down an federal environmental legislation Federal Court's decision to set agreement between Ale,an and the for back-tracking on agreements aside the 1987 agreement worked "These delays and reversals are mental assessment procedures." :"!nter,or : , operatton fined I I While Alean argues environ- pleaded guilty on May 30 in Ver- , SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM mental issues surrounding the non Provincial Court to two • 1 year---$39.00, plus GST Kemano Completion Project, the charges under the Waste Manage- Close Up magazine, $10 extra in Terrace and Thornhill company's Vernon operation has ment Act and on June 13 the com- been hit with a fine by the Mira's- pany was fined $45,000 for intro- O Cheque [~ Money Order V1 Master Card I-I Visa W/of Environment. 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