m • i bu d get ) ' old guys merge ,.put on hold TERRACE -- One northwest imately three Corona common a year -- once the deal goes area of northern Ontario. TERRACE -- The city has municipalities now receive. gold mine and one under shares for each Homestake one. through. For its part Homestake is postponed finalizing its 1992 Reduction or withdrawal budget until the provincial development will find Analysts generally favour the International Corona now considered an expert in of any of those grants would government hands down its themselves under the same cor- deal, saying Homestake has the produces 600,000 ounces of autoclaving, the type of change the cost to the city of own budget tomorrow. porate roof if a merger goes kind of money needed for the gold a year. metallurgical process that'll be a number of projects which Alderman and finance through. Eskay Creek mine which is ex- used to extract gold at Eskay are in~,lded in the city's Homestake and International Creek. committee chairman Danny Involved is a shareswap bet- pected to cost $210 million. latest draft budget, said Corona have already approved This is the second major cor- Sheridan said the New Sheridan. ween Homestake Mining Co., A final feasibility study for the deal and it's expected to be porate event in the last while to Democrat government's con- He anticipated the city will which has the controlling in- that project is expected later this ready in time for a mid-May an- affect the Eskay Creek proper- tinual warnings about a shor- bring down its budget by the terest in the Golden Bear Mine year. nual general meeting of ty. tage of money has created a second week of A'pril. west of Dease Lake; and Inter, Homestake is one of the Homestake. Just recently International "fear of the unknown" national Corona, which has the largest gold producers in the In addition to Eskay Creek, Corona and Placer Dome Inc. among municipalities. : controlling interest in the Eskay For a look at what the city United States and will become InternationalCorona brings to reached an agreement whereby In particular, there was Creek property. has done so far about the the largest North American gold the deal its David Bell. and the:latter will also have an in- concern about the fate of 1992 budget, turn to Page The swap features approx- producer- 1.8 million ounces Williams mines in the Hemlo: tereStfinancing the property. manyof the provincial grants AS. i Overall cost still a worry Drills Province raisessewer offer 'find " TERRACE- Victoria is giving president Chris Clark says flat- with one hand and taking away ly. "This would make us by far with the other. the most expensive sewer system That's the reaction of Bob- in the province. How are you bowl sein Crescent residents to going to go door to door and municipal affairs minister convince your neighbours that TERRACE -- Core drilling at Robin Blencoe's final offer of they should pay way more than the west of Halliwell has con- aid for a proposed $5 million anyone else in the province?" firmed the presence of an sewer system to solve the pro- "We have to get it down underground clay "bowl". blem of raw sewage in the dit- below $600 or else a lot of peo- But it will be some time yet ches there. ple won't go for it." before the city has a" possible Blencoe has upped the She noted Bobsein residents solution to basement flooding municipal affairs ministry's will have to sell the sewersystem problems being faced by contribution to 75 per cent of plan to the other more than 250 neighbourhood homeowners. the total cost from 50 per cent. homeowners in the Queensway The bowl traps water flowing But he's also effectively area who aren't as badly af- into it. This saturates the eliminated a $249,000 grant for fected as Bobsein. ground inside the bowl,• in- part of the sewage treatment Blencoe has capped the pro- creases the groundwater'level plant that had already been ap- vince's commitment at 75 per and ultimately causes the proved by the environment cent by deducting from that flooding. ministry. : total any grants from other Test drilling was carried out The net result is that the an- ministries .--- such, as the after Halliwell residents ap- nti'al-'cdst"to ~aeh home6wner-'$~49;OOO'ffOfii;tiie~i~ir6niiiefit ' peared at a Jan.:: I3 'council comes down from more than ministry. meeting to complain about the $1,100 to $718 per year for 20 Clark and committee vice- situation. yea.rs, There is also a one-time president Rick Hawke say At the time one resident, hookup fee of $1,000 to $1,200. they're glad Blcncoe has aban- Judy Tessaro, told aldermen i doned the idea of amalgamation five pumps had been con- "It will not pass. How as a solution to the Bobsein tinuously operating in her base- are you going to go door sewage crisis. But they point out ment for five weeks in an effort to door and convince that environment ministry grant to combat the steady inflow of would have put the cost below water. your neighbours that $600 and improved chances for Engineering director Stew they should pay way a referendum. Christensen said all test holes more than anyone else "We have an emergency had hit clay after initially in the province?" situation here and they're shut- pushing through a layer of ting the door on us," Hawke sand/gravel. Blencoe said Friday the new says. At the north end of Marshal offer is the most his ministry Now, they say, they're going St. and close to Kalum Lake will be able to put on the table. to ask the federal government Drive, the clay was only five "I've done what I can do," for more money. and half feet below the surface. he said. "Whatever happens it They said they will approach In front of the Tessaro has to go tb referendum. So the the federal Department of In- residence the clay was 17 feet people will have a say -- yea or dian Affairs -- because the new down. nay.'' system would serve the Kitselas "I have a lot of municipalities Indian reserve on Queensway, with sewer and water problems, as well as the Department of and the costs are high," Blencoe Fisheries and Oceans, because said. "They're all a priority for coho fry live in one of the con- Page me. But this one did rise to the taminated ditches along top. There's no question there's Queensway. a valid concern when the cost is Health ministry officials so $1,100 per household." far haven't taken any residents Turners But the residents say $718 a to court -- for failing to meet year isn't low enough to survive cleanup deadlines -- since star- HOMEOWNER David Giesbrecht and his neighbours along Bobsein Crescent are pondering a a referendum. ting their crackdown on the raw new offer fiom the ministry of municipal affairs for grants to help build a sewer system for the "It will not pass," Bobsein- sewage problem earlier this sewage-plagued subdivision. : : Miners getting Queensway Action Committee year. help, Page A9. Harcourt on Nisga'a ponder future wood use industry, TERRACE -- The Nisga'a economic development. can reduce the cut to a sus- company in Maple Ridge. be responsible. We have to be Page A10. Tribal Council is looking at the "Our primary concern is that tainable kind of forestry," he "We now have to cost out the sensitive to the environment. costs of bringing in new we'll have some form of an continued. capital required -- to begin to We can't run' like profit makers Music kick off, technology to better use the agreement in a year or two years Moore said favourablc to New York," Moore said. determine whether it makes Page ,B1, ,:. : , , wood in its Nass Valley ter- from now. The point is that we responses were received from sense to retool existing opera- The Nisga'a also talked to ritory. have to get ready, prepare for Canadian, American sad tions or to build new ones," he companies with other types of Golf, already.? It'll be doing so through the eventuality when it happens Japanese companies. A follow said. technology that could be ap- Page C31 business connections made at to take advantage of the up visit is planned soon with a "Our goal is that wc have to plied in the Nass Valley. last week's Globe '92 en- benefits that will flow from the Ill vironmental trade fair in Van- agreement," said Moore. couver. "We'll be looking for more value out of the actual resource "We're looking at a more that we do have. We feel that sustainable operation of the North west .Rou nd u p land claims will be good for forest --to pull together ex- B.C. and for the environment in GRANISLE -- One Granisle isting licence holders and other PRINCE RUPERT -- The SMITHERS -- The school HAZELTON -- A book B.C.)" he added. resident says there's a sense companies," said Matt Moore largest food store in the nor- district covering Smlthers about the Gitksan and It's that kind of thwest is now open. of relief coming from the one of a group Of Nisga'a who and Houston faces a Wet'suwet'en land claims environmentally-friendly closure of the community's manned the tribal council's Canada Safeway's 42,000 $650,000 shortfall this year.