A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 1, 1995

Premier’s Kemano stand blasted

Dear Sir:

I categorically reject outright
every imaginable reason the
Premier of B.C. has stated for
_ Kemano Completion causing ir-
reparable harm to the fisheries
stocks of the whole Fraser River
system. ;

These statements are erroneous,
purely fictitious, and not sup-
ported by the B c. Utilities Com-
‘mission findings or:
scientifi ically documented — re-
search,”

The Premier’s Gutlandish and-

absolutely unfounded comparison
of the extinction of East Coast
cod. slocks with the imminent
destruction of our West Coast sal-

mon fisheries as a direct result of

the Kemano Completion. Project

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Dear Sin
I would. respond to our

Premier's decision: to halt the

Kemano Completion Project with
_ 8ome queries and comments that
have their basis in fact and not in
political desperation,

‘Kemano 1 was built at the re-
quest of the B.C. govemment.
Successive’ govemments  en-
couraged hydro-clectric develop-
ment. Our Provincial government
sided with Alcan in challenging
the federal government and it was
at-the request of the government
of B.C. that the 1987 settlement
"agreement was signed and al-
lowed it to be settied out of court.

A short-term benefit of a mini-
mum of 500° construction jobs
- created. and the economic spin-
offs - of, the: Support of a major
construction’ project would have
been realized by Vancouver and
the province as whole. Four to six
‘permanent jobs would have been
created, .

The B,C, economy would have
benefited from all relevant tax
revenues and disposable income,
Five million dollars a year, for
two years, minimum, has been
lost from wages alone. This does
not include lost revenues in ex-
cess of tens of millions of dollars
for businesses in B.C,

B.C. Hydro, a crown corpora-
_ tion, would have been able to

purchase this power cheaply and
‘realize a profit of more than 200

per. cent in conservative

estimates. This profit benefits the
- economy of B.C. and Canada.
. The tens of millions of dollars in
camings could have been applied
to reduce our deficit.

In summary, why Mr, Harcourt -

did this mystifics me! His deci-
sion, based not on the BCUC
report, but on political vote-
getting, has dealt an economic
blow to our future economy. Tax
revenues lost, profits rejected,
jobs thrown away, all for what?
Our government is currently
running a deficit that this project
could have lessened. Has KCP
been killed merely to guarantee
Mr. Harcourt enough votes to get
re-elected? ‘Well, Mike, you have
lost my vote.
. Kenneth J. Dageg,
~. ‘Kemano, B,C

B+ not
earned

Dear Sir:

Ihave written to the mayor a
number of times on various issues
but he has not shown the courtesy
of any response.

Your. paper carried the Christ-
mas spirit a bit too far by giving
him a B+ for performance,

T used to be an alderman in an-
other city and I know that things
are never so good that the mayor
would not have anything to say,

I would simply dub our mayor
‘Silent Jack’? and like they say
~~ The person who never makes
any mistakes is. the guy who
never does anything.

, Andy Nahess,
Terrace, B.C,

other

is merely a ludicrous way of
spreading fear and loathing
throughout the province as his
government pollsters prepare for

formerly a West Coast salmon
fisher, I made a special trip to
Newfoundland to explore and
jear first hand from the primary

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a spring election,

This comparison it irrational
and devoid of even a fragment of
reason. . The biology and
ecosystems of these two fisheries
species are a night and day dif-
ference to begin with,

This past summer, having been

ocean producers in the cod

fishery,

What I learned, time and time
again, was it was not industry, it
was not pollution, it was not ship-.
ping and offshore drilling ac-
tivities, it was not hydro-electric
generation which were the death

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knell of the cod fishery, Nor was
it the little family and village
fishing fleets that had decimated
the treasure trove. Rather it was
the large, automated factory

trawlers and = s¢iners both
domestic and foreign coupled to
massive shore processing

facilities which drove the cod into
oblivion during the 70s and the
80s. .

I petition to all of you that the
genuine perpetrators in the dwin-
dling slocks of our West Coast
sockeye, chinook, coho and stcc}-
head are in fact the over
capacitated unionized selne and
gill net fleets which have rapa-
clously  over-harvested _—the
resource for decades and the un-
sustainable squandering of her-

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ring stocks,

So now with such bleak future
economic orizons for us
Kitimatians, I ponder the validity
of our NWCC Applied Science
Program’s students’ prospects,
when we hear young people
protesting over education cut-
backs, and we all know full well
that Ottawa is imploring all of us
that we must address the highest
per capita debt for you and I in
the Western world,

Tam honestly concerned what
legacy we are leaving these
prodigal children of today and
tomorrow.

Yours despondently, _

Gerry James Bloomer
Manager, Kitimat Shipping

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amigos

Dear Sir:

The NDP should be
ashamed of themselves for
killing the Kemano projects ]
hope come election day the
voters of Terrace remember;
that Mike Harcourt, Gordén
Campbell and Jack Weisgér-
ber all supported this dedi-
sion,

They backed up some lodd
and obnoxious ecoterrorisis
rather than supporting goad-
paying jobs for British
Columbians, a4

Peo Cet ern rere

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Darren Lowe,
Past Deputy Leadey,
Family Coalition Party gf
British Columbia,
Vancouver, B. CG.

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Our reps need ice time

Dear Sir:

Probably of no consequence:

to many citizens of Terrace
and the surrounding area, is
the fact that the Terrace
Midget Rep hockey team, (16
& 17 year olds) has, by. win-
ning playoffs in the Pacific
Northwest, earned the fight to

represent the area /in the.
“provincial play offs at Oliver

March 22-27,
The reps will also be at the

BC, Winter Games to be held

at Comox Feb. 23 - 26,

This is quite an achievement
when you consider that this
team gets one hour of practice
time a week to prepare,

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' Terrace teams have not
qualified for provincial play
offs since the Sharples team
won the 1981-82 provincials,
We once again have a team
that could put Terrace on the
map, but the team needs more
ice time to prepare for these
evenis. One hour a week is

. not sufficient practice time to

physically ready a team for
these events. The teams they

_ have defeated to qualify for

these events get five to six
hours of practice time every
week,

Let's show some civic pride
by doing what we can to pro-
vide another couple of hours

their abounding ability.

of practice time for the Ter-
race Midget Reps.

What F am suggesting is for
other ice users to give an hour
or so of ice time per week 80
that the Terrace Reps can do
their best at these events.

Practice time should be
evenings as these young men
go to school and must. have
passing grades to qualify for
the team.

.Come.on Terrace, let's give
some support to these players
and do what we can to enable
them to compete to the best of

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Terrace, B.C,

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a Dear Sir:

Chudette Sandecki may not be
up to date on the criminal code of

Canada. She may not be aware of .

the offerings under Bill C-17, and
she may have “‘avoided to scek
out facts to substantiate her

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 1, 1995 - A?

mon sense!

"“Simplctons’? was the ward
used 1o describe Sandecki and
those who share her views on this
topic. There was also a disbelief
that ‘‘fewer guns can save lives,'’
the rationalization on which to

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exudes a characteristic that her
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base such slandering. And how
docs onc defend such a con-
tradictory opinion and justily
such name calling? By suggesting
that arming of the Jews before the
holocaust, the Muslims in Croatia

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and the Tutsis in Rwanda would
save saved lives!

Had victims such as the Jews,
Muslims, and Tutsis been sup-
plicd with guns, the outcome of
such occurrences may have dif-
fered. But would the fatalities in
such cvents have dropped in
number?

Not overlooking the fact that
the above mentioned groups have
suffered great injustices, an
alternative ‘outcome would~have~ —
tesulied in an equal number of
caswaltics! For itis an cquation of
mathematics that the simplest of
simpletons can resolve, Give 50
men on one side of a war, 50°
guns. Give the 50 men on the
other side of the war nothing. 50 —
men will dic. Give all 100 men ~
guns and at least 50 will die!

Common sense tells us that two —
wrongs do not make a right! It is
the lack of common sense that
leads us to believe that two nega-
tives will eventually create a pos- ,
itive.

This is a message that
Sandecki’s critic should take
some time to contemplate. For
these are his words on the pos-
sibility of incarceration for
neglecting to register a firearm,
“T will not comply with any fur- -
ther restriction on my freedom
and T will encourage all others to”
do the same."’

Is it not such blatant acts that
have created the problems of
today's society?

Before Sandeckl’s critic de-
cided he should defend the op- .:
posing side to this topic, he
Should have first questioned «
wether he was perceiving the
topic clearly, or was blinded by
ignorance. For the primary pure ~
pose behind the creation of
firearms was destruction, and
destruction continues to be the
major result of firearm use today.

Though Sandecki’s dream of
Heaven on Earth may never be.
realized, this writer would rather |
peer through her clouded bifocals
than be blinded by ignorance!

Christopher Leonard,
Terrace, B.C,

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