ee eee ve Poe A? — Terrace Standart Wednesday. JUNE € 2,108 | ay se ee vo cngewyraraies's ae ' ae many. “as: 50° local carpenters are among the more than 260 Kemano Com- pletion, Project workers laid off: last week « following: Alcan’s | - decision’ to: halt: work” on its , massive: ydroelectric: Aiversion” union. president‘ : John. Jensen’ said about 90: nor: : thwest" carpenters got “layoff : notices last week and about 50 : - of them are ‘from ‘Terrace. o i “This is going to have a ma- ' jor impact on our area,” J ensen © said. “Alean spokesman “Allan Hewitson said Friday the total number of layoffs at.Kemano ‘ has risen to 262, and is expected - to-..climb.. further. this week, ; About : 800. people had. ‘been | working on the, project... PY te TERRACE — “The federal: government is to blame for layoffs at Alcan’s Kemano com-" pletion hydro-electric project, : says Skeena. NDP MP Jim Fulton. . ‘. That's, because , it allowed Alcan. to go ahead’ ‘with the pra-. ject without ‘having it. studied under. its own environmental review process, he said. Alcan seems to be blaming the {review) process. Bui that process has been i in place since a TERRACE — The deal Alcan and the federal government negotiated j in 1987 so the latter could start its $1 billion Kemano completion project should | -have" been protected from’.a court action, . says chamber. ‘of. commerce president-elect Sharon Taylor... She made the comment ‘after the chamber. executive met. to discuss: layoffs ‘begun last-week: by Alcanand thei ‘effect: gn the: local’ economy. ey “The government just can’t move the goal Posts. Alcan had Was oO ‘Fulton. blames the: feds - “Mainland Chinese, Bokhara, to ‘a. third of the project’s workers are from Kitimat, Prince. Rupert, Terrace... or Smithers. we The layoffs are. part ' Alcan’s decision to cancel plans for all new work on the project - and cut costs on already com- mitted work because of “grave - uncertainties’? left by a May 16 federal court ‘ruling. - The - company is, appealing that. tuling, which overturned the federal government's. deci- sion last fall to exempt * Kemano's 540-megawatt second stage, from a full federal en- vironmental review. — Justice ‘Allison Walsh found that a full public environmental review must go ahead, and he also quashed a Sept, ‘14, 1987 deal © in which the federal. cabinet order of 1984, ” said Fulton. “Alcan. tried its best to live within: the: process provided ‘by Ottawa but it's now apparent that process. was flawed,”’ he added. - SSIES “there ls blame it’s with ‘one.{former fisheries minister) Tom Siddon and one Brian Mulroney. The.court: said they "erred at law, they broke the law, in regard to Alcan,” Fulton continued. Chamber reacts permission to proceed from the federal government and now another entity is saying they can’t,” said Taylor, — ; “Alcan had been going through the hoops for a number of years,’’ she said. Although Taylor admitted there’s not much the chamber can do, it is sending letters to Alcan and the federal depart- ments: whicls are appealing the decision; ~~" ern on Chamber members. are ‘en- couraged to do likewise, she | said. PUBLIC AUETION RE: DEFAULTED UNPAID DOCUMENTS ~ _ CANADA CUSTOMS CLEARED © DUTIES AND TAXES PAID AT PORT OF ENTRY: “Fine , imported rugs. The majority consists of hand- knotted oriental ‘tugs. Contents: Persian Tabriz, Baluch, Indo Kirman, Deep: Pile §. Sunwashed Village Rugs, Kara, ‘Silk § “Masterpleca Qum, etc. Sizes 1x1 to 10 x 14. Rugs unwrapped. and. buy Mauidated piece by piece in the quickest possible: manner: ; ve EET Hee estimated j about’ ‘a ‘quarter government promised ” ‘Nechako River system to its’ -— “power ‘generators at Kemano; of © they've already spent more then ~ ~ $675 million on the project. and. have filed a an n appeal: of Walsh's would be able to divert'a ‘certain proportion of the water in the : Company: officials ga ruling: But. they’ ‘have: also’ said the judgement casts": shadow: ‘of: uncertainty (on the project’ that means they: will spend no more- money than. what's = already: committed ‘until there: is-a deci-” sion on the ‘appeal 01 or. unull. the review is fi inished.- “Hewitson said tunnel Works with Power Mountain, Contrac-' ting are expected ‘to be laid ‘off this week. But he added some of . them ‘would probably be te = “The tragedy. in this is-that there are completely: innocent workers and contractors with’ the project who are now getting. © high centered because of actions of the federal Tories,” he said. . Fulton said it is. unfair to blame the Rivers Defense. Coali- tion made up of environmental, native and labour groups which brought the’ federal court ace tion. ots abundantly clear that’ the ° ‘environmental review pro- cess’ was in place all the way. back to’ 1984, .An assessment ‘could have taken place before - construction began,”’ he said. “> Testimony by federal en-, vironment minister Jean Charest before a parliamentary éommittee’ hearing last week confirmed . the’ ‘intent, ofthe — federal environmental “review process, said Fulton. ; CCharest told the committee that’ intended changes to the - review legislation will tighten fe- quirements affecting. major economic development Pro- jects, he said. . “From what he aid ; pre * jects affecting pen flows, a review will be'mandatory. There is no question, * said, Pulton = 2:00 4634 Walsh Avenue, Terrace p.m. a - viewing from 1:00 )p.n m. bject: by: Federal Collaction “Agony inc: - Cash, Major. ‘Credit Cards, Bank Cards or Bank Bhociss Brokerage and Wirehousg Charges to ded. wea dee ha ge EE eg He Pea ba bere rel ad on “They. are “expected to: reach boring a tunnel from Kemano’ to Tahtsa, Lake. The tunnel, bors: , “the mountain — a process t take ing at. least.- two weeks 250. can be’ refitted and ov hauled. . ee! Segtimate” that somewhere between; 28 and: 30°" per'cent of ‘the ‘people working : there are from the northivest,"* , ‘Hewiltson said.” “Workers with PCL/Nofthern’ and: “PCL/Pacific.: ‘working’ on. “dredging and tunnel work were” among. the 30 layoffs arngunc- » ed.-Friday, he said... |: “B.C. Hydro: spokesman Mike" Gwilliam ..said - surveying ofa, new : :287-kilovolt Jing. between here and:-Kitimat will be: finigh-: ed in-five weeks, but. the remain-" ; ing work on’ ‘the line-—= clearing evaluate our - ‘situation - ‘at that "he _time.to'see if we want to spend. any mare money,” he’ said. The new line ‘would. allow the: ‘power ‘utility: company to buy - surplus power - transferred to ‘the .B.C.: power: "grid, and some of which would — be exported t to the U. Se _— the halfway point ‘this week in Lb put ; from Alcan, ws ‘some of which would..-be = "Wed., 2 ~ See you at our. Grand at the new tocation Wad. duly 3 ur money's worth ang FRE Consultation - NEW | rei Mora | a s », Alice: Pickard -; lost 77. Bs. moving Jie - WORKERS’: _ COMPENSATION” _ | BOARD - Safety. Let's Work On It