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permit time for Orenda

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- Sals
document submissions, Orenda Forest -
_” -Products has gained approval-in-principle
for the construction of
pulp and paper mill
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emissions and landfill

_ Transportation and
- Kitimat-Stikine Regional District,

FTER THREE YEARS,
and countless

south of Lakelse
ake

. ~ Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht and .
. David Parsons and Frank Blasetti, co-
' Chairmen of the Major
. committee, announced the approval last
Friday in Terrace, a mere week after

Project steering

hearing the final concerns about the

project from Haisla and Tsimshian native
_ leaders.
.. Orenda can

pproval-in-principle means
go ahead with applications
for the variety of permits required to

. build and operate the mill, ="
~ Orenda vice president Frank Foster’
Said Tuesday he hopes the company can

break ground for the plant this ‘summer.

_ Foster said Orenda management is "very
pleased"
Preparing to get down to the detailed

' engineering and environmental work
involved in acquiring the permits, Most

with the announcement and ig

of those, Foster said, apply to the air

mill and are under the jurisdiction of the

' Waste Management Branch, Other per-

mits required will involve the Ministry of
Highways‘ and the

Six million dollars hasbeen spent on

the project to date, according to Foster, -
$1.5 million of: direct investment by

Orenda and about $4.5 million that

-_ equipment and machinery manufacturers

have forwarded against the cost of engin-

"Terrace Review — April 16, 1992

“eering work,
investors, Foster said,’ is Tampella of ©
'. Finland, the company that designs and -

a $365 million

operations for the

One of the a! primary |

markets the groundwood pulping technol-
ogy the plant:will use. ne
Foster said Orenda is currently re- -
viewing the Project schedule with. its
major financial backers to get it: back on

track after the delays in approval.

The government approval is: hedged’. ;
about with’ conditions, the most -promi-. .
nent of which is a standing committee to :
monitor the plant’s performance,: | -- . ve

_. "The committee will be a permanent. :.

fixture as long as the mill is in operation. : .

It will consist of ‘Tepresentatives of the ::

Haisla Nation, the Tsimshian: Tribal.
Council, the Regional District of Kitimat-
Stikine, the City of Terrace, the District.
of Kitimat, the Lakelse Lake Community
Association, Orenda, government regula-
tory agencies includi
environment and forests, and two mem-
bers-at-large to he chosen by the stand-—
ing members of the committee; The com-- .

“Muittee’s purpose will be: to watch Oren-

‘da’s development of monitoring programs:
for groundwater and surface water qual- _
ity and flows, emissions and ambient air
quality, the chemical composition of ash
from the boilers and leachate from the
landfill into which it will be dumped, and
spill - prevention and: emergency
measures, ee _ .

Orenda will be required to do an

annual environmental audit for the com-

mittee, and the government
agencies will also have to

regulatory

to report to the Major Project. Review =
Process steering committee every six

\

g the ministries of. -.

submit an ©
‘annual report, The committee is required