Page A& — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 3, 1990

Dump

fire

charges laid

TERRACE — The Bulkley-
Nechako regional district has
been charged with pollution
violations at the Burns Lake city
dump.

Environment minister ‘John
Reynolds announced’: the
charges last week in. Terrace,
and reaffirmed the ministry’s
commitment Lo prosecute all en-
vironmental violators.

‘No one is -immune,"’
Reynolds said. ‘“There are a
number of cases out there where
the fines could be’ the max-
imum.’

The Bulkley-Nechako
regional district is to appear in
court Oct, 17 on three counts —
carrying maximum fines of $1
million each — of violating
waste permits in connection
with a series of burning in-
cidents last year at the Burns
bake landfill. Styrofoam and
other materials designated as
special wastes are alleged to
have been burned.

A regional district director

said it’s difficult to prevent peo-
ple from dumping household
hazardous wastes which
range from paint cans and
cleaning fluids to solvents and
pesticides — at the landfill. All

such hazardous wastes are.sup-

posed to go io environment

ministry depots, and the only |
is in !

one in’ the northwest
Smithers.

“It’s ridiculous that someone
from Burns Lake with an old
battery or a few cans of paint
should be expected to drive to
Smithers,” Mickey Bisanz said.

Terrace residents face the
same problem of having to drive
two hours to dispose of their
special wastes. Reynolds noted
that ihe ministry helps pay for
special waste collection days,
which can be arranged in areas
other than Smithers.

Bisanz said even gyprock is
classified as a special waste,
putting cities and regional
districts at risk of prosecution
when it’s dumped in landfill
sites.

Fish sale
investigated

SMITHERS — The Depart-
ment of Fisheries and Oceans
(DFO) is contemplating charges
after a Moricetown native man
staged a commercial fish sale in
Smithers Sept. 13.
Moricetown band chief
Adam Gagnon sold seven
sockeye salmon, two steelhead
and a coho to Telkwa resident
Richard Overstall just outside
the DFO office in Smithers.

Overstall bought the fish off the -

back of Gagnon’s pickup truck
for $100 in defiance of federal
fisheries officers, who
videotaped:the:transaction. ....
“> Charges could. be submitted
to prosecutors for approval as
early as this week if sufficient
evidence exists, said DFO
district assistant supervisor
Laurie Gordon.

Natives -staged the event as
part of a continuing drive to win
the right to sell fish commercial-
ly. They say band bylaws give
band members the right to sell
fish wherever and whenever
they want,
before the courts could still
overturn those bylaws, DFO of-
ficiais say, and it’s illegal for

non-nalives to buy native-
caught fish.
“TT think it’s totally un-

constitutional what they're do-
ing to us,’’ said Gagnon, who
wants charges laid so natives
can force a court decision.
“Every time we try to start up
an inland fishery for a selected

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harvest, (DFO) keeps intruding
and threatening our buyers and
scaring them off,’’

Gagnon said the band tried to
start an inland commercial
fishery this surmmer, but were
blocked when DFO threatened
to prosecute Prince Rupert can-
neries if they bought fish from
the band.

“We have to establish a legal
precedent that non-native peo-
ple can buy fish,'' said
Overstall, who is not a band
member but works for the
Gitksan-Wet’ suwet en Educa-
tion Socielys3>- mH

Federal’ lawyers*ate: ‘appealing?
a court ruling earlier this year
upholding the right of natives to
sell fish off reserve,

Crown lawyers contend
natives are cnly allowed to sell
fish on reserve, and only if the
fish are caught on reserve. They
say they will argue rivers flow-
ing through reserves aren't ac-
tually part of the reserves, and
therefore the bylaws can never
apply.

Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en
hereditary chiefs’ spokesman
Don Ryan said fisheries officers
actions are aimed not at enforc-
ing laws, but at keeping natives
out of the commercial fishery.

“How can they restrict our
markets and set allocations
withoul our having a say?”
demanded Ryan. The hereditary
chiefs are setting up markets for
native fish sales in North
America, the Orient and Scan-
dinavia, he said.

He said natives will take the
issue to court, regardless of
whether charges are laid against
Gagnon and Overstall.

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