24. Terrace Review — ~ Wednesday, March Il, 1987. New silviculture: \udget c -be. replanted i in the ‘Kalum TERRACE — Ministry of Forests in- dicate silviculture plans for the Kalum — Forest District this year will keep up with harvesting rates, but. little or no planting will take place on -un- stocked areas left over from previous years. Terrace. district. silvi- culturalist Bob Wilson said recently 3,000. hec- ‘tares of clear-cut land will Prelimi-_ nary data from the Ter-. race district office of the. . million’ trees . Forest District this . year, compared ° to.. 3,300 last year. At an. average of *. 1,000 trees per hectare, the - Ministry of Forests and the tree farm licensees, Skeena Cellulose and West Fraser/Eurocan, in- tend to put a total of three in the ground, The district forest . , year, Wilson said, will be about $1, 1. million,” com-. pared to $1.3 million spent last year. Wilson. noted, however, that this year’s Figure does not include the district's allocation from the FORSAR (Forestry Social Assistance Recipi- ents) program because the FORSAR budget has not yet been announced; last year the program ac- counted for $652,000 of ‘tion. Wilson Said the two major forest companies ‘plan to spend $1.8 million -in ~silviculture - activities” this year,, up from $1. 6 million for 1986, This. year. 5 budget, however, has no provi- sions for addressing large areas of neglected ‘forest . land in the district. These include clear cuts from previous years that -weren’t replanted and failed due to lack of stand tending. Wilson ‘said the cost - of: revitalizing the backlog’ lands is con- siderably higher than the. cost of planting freshly cut lands due to extensive brush clearing and site preparation: Tequired, Wilson said all spring planting contracts have been signed: More than 20 individual-contractors will ‘be working in the district, ‘about. 300 » people” “for periods. of one: to four weeks, > Wilson noted. that this year for- ‘the first” time: forest companies as* well as the ministry will be eligible for joint federal-. ‘provincial .. funding - for: financing silviculture. The | . Terrace district forestry office ‘will. receive $297,000 -in FRDA -fun- ding, andthe forest: com- - panies will receive a | total | Hi U be rt Beye r a pagel | so sure anymore. The government, Vander Zalm s said at an Investment Dealers Association luncheon in’ Van- couver, would introduce changes to the B.C. Labor Code that will upset some people. The legislation had not yet been finalized bitt would Vander Zalm said. Asked whether the labor code changes would be controversial, he replied it-was im- possible to touch the labor code without upsetting some people in the process. There was nothing surprising. in the. premier’s an- nouncement that the government will’ introduce labor : code changes. We knew that. Every government tries to. fiddle with the code in the hope of bringing about better labor-management relations in British Columbia. What alarms me is that the changes appeared to be all but finalized before Labor Minister Lyall Hanson had a: chance to report the premier on the results of his road show. Hanson has been holding public hearing all over the province to-find out what changes to the labor code might be appropriate, I can understand the minister’s confusion when he heard what his. boss had told the investment dealers. Like the-rest of us, Hanson had been under the impres- sion that the results of his travelling road show were to provide a basis for any changes i in the € labor code. | S S u e S continued from page 3 budget for” the coming | the Kalum district alloca- replanted areas that have employing a workforce of of $429, 000. “My mandate from the premier was to review the labor. code because of B.C.’s reputation in the interna- tional market for having poor labor relations,”’ Hanson . said, adding that he had not yet shown the premier any .. part of his findings. ' be introduced in the’ upcoming session of the legislature, There are two. possible explanations for the confu- - sion, One is that’ the premier engaged his mouth before putting his brain in gear. He could have been simply talking about: what he: believes some of the changes . might be. In. that: case, no real harm was.done. The other possibility is that the labor minister’s public hearing junkets were just a sham, a meaningless gesture _ back: of the trade unions, he will fare no better than his designed to show Vander Zalm is serious about his pro- _ mise to listen to the people. I hope that wasn’t the case, of anarchy with his unprecedented war on organized but the possibility cannot be rejected-out of hand.. Lalso hope that whatever changes will be made to the labor code, be that as a result of Hanson’s hearings or Vander Zalm’s own bias; will not. be perceived as a declaration of war on trade unionism. The premier seems hopeful on that score. Asked whether the government might. find itself with another - Solidarity tiger by the tail as a result of the planned changes to the labor code, Vander Zalm said he didn’t think so. “I think the climate is much different. We have now in charge of the Federation: of Labor Ken Georgetti, who has been very, co-operative and who, I think, wants to create.a spirit of working together. And we have i in the business council Jim Matkin, again ‘a very co- operatively-spirited. fellow. So I think we can. pull it together,’’ the premier said. — - Hope springs: eternal. . Perhaps the changes will be good ones, Perhaps the premier did more than ride rain- bows and visit relatives during his recent European tour. ‘Perhaps he took: a:look at some of the labor-manage-_ ment tools that have served Germany and his own Holland so well. “Onething is certain: if Vander Zain tries to break the predecessor. Bill Bennett took the province to the brink: labor. In the end, it was a trade union man who pulled: ; us back from the abyss. . _ Without the Kelowna Accord, reached between Ben- nett and IWA boss Jack Munro, at considerable risk to the latter’s reputation. with his own people, British Col- ‘umbia would almost certainly have been engulfed by a-_ general strike, the effects of which would have crippled us for years. _ [hope the labor code changes take those dangers into’ serious consideration. If they don’ t, people will take to the streets once more. tt hhh harhahhio DAM. PLANS City of Terrace a Ministry of Labour the weekend before the legis- lature reconvened revealed that the report of the review committee was still being fine-tuned. ‘ Other public hearings have been held recently by the cabinet Social Plan- ning Committee, but in- quiries at the committee’s. Victoria office indicate that more hearings- are scheduled and no recom- mendations will be filed until the end of April. _ DUSTED OFF The-.construction of a major - ‘hydroelectric dam — in northeastern B.C.,.the. ‘Site C” proposal. for the Peace River, has become the subject of public com- ment by the government during recent. months. The project -has been discussed in connection with long-term. power sales to the western U.S., but a report released by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Re- : sources projects that de- mand for. electricity in B.C. will exceed present supply levels starting. in 1997. This information puts the amount of avail- able power the province will have for export into question even if the dam is’ built, and, if B.C. Hydro * is privatized, produces the possibility of B.C. ‘resi- dents and industrial enter- _ prises. ‘competing against export markets for hydro- electric power. eebtehchahettkctateted "Survey on n Smoking Regulation PREAMBLE: The Clty of Terrace is considering establishing a. Smoking Regulation. By-law. The intent of such a by-law would be to restrict smoking, only in certain places where the public gathers. Your opinion is being sought for this Important Issue. Please answer the, questions below and return this survey by: March 31, 1987 ee eee a ati ie aie tn oil ie nin ei ee i rr rere , PAD DADSEART HER AH HEHEHE A HERA EH ASE ETE DWEDW DT Open House at SE SEB BEWABWAADADA BENSON OPTICAL — We invite everyone to an Open House at our new location: | 4608 Lakelse Avenue (next to the Bank of Nova Scotia) Saturday, March 14, 1987 for a preview of the ESSILOR PHOTOCENTRON — the most advanced European optical meseuring system today! a 638- 0341 advanced. 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