Alcan wins Kemano fight © but now waits for review TERRACE = Alcan has finally won a (three-year court batile with natives and environmentalists seeking to block the Kemano Completion Project, “The Supreme Court of Canada announced Feb. 4 it will not hear a further ‘appeal by the Rivers Defence Coalition, This reaffirms. Alcan’s right io proceed with the billion-dollar hydroelectric project, The coalition was attempting to appeal last year’s federal appeal court mling that gave the compa- ny the go ahead to proceed with the half-built project. But Alcan vice-president Bill Rich says the 800-plus Kemano construction workers laid off dur- ing the court case won’t be going back to. work until new un ° certainty raised by the province's newly announced. B.C. Utilities Commission review is cleared up. He points to. the apparent con- tradiction in the provincial review of the project. “They're telling the company there will be no changes to the conditions of the project and yet they still hold out the prospect that it’s a meaningful review,” Rich said. ‘That paradox is the uncertainty we sce at this point.” : Opponents of the project say . there are three remaining fronts on which Kemano can be fought: - © Using the public review as a forum to bring pressure for changes to the agreement setting out minimum water levels. -.* Further court action, probably aimed at tying up the project in native land claim actions, **Direct action.”’ . “Tt's we've lost,”’ said Cheslatta band spokesman Mike Robertson, ‘“‘but our battle plan is still in place.’’ He said Carrier-Sekani natives are getting. prepared . for the review, which is to issue recom- , mendations: to cabinet by Sept. *30. “They better be prepared for a long drawn-out affair,’’? Robert- son said. ‘‘It’s going-to be an ex- tensive review. They shouldn’t-be.. : selling deadlines when they dont i hor “, 2% CEG a | another skirmish that | know what the terms of refernece are going to be yet.’ Rivers Defence Coalition spokesman Pat Moss said she was disappointed but not terribly sur- prised by the decision of the Supreme Court. Now, she says, she will work closely with the commissioners who will head the review to ensure the process has teeth. If the revicw does sot become an effective tool to probe the im- pacts of Kemano, she said the coalition and. Carrier-Sekani na- tives won’t participate. ‘We wouldn’t want to lend credibility to yet another whitewash,’’ Moss added, Premier Mike Harcourt last week urged Alcan, the federal Department of Fisheries . and Oceans, and all other interest groups to participate in the public review, . ; So far the federal government has given no indication as to whether or not it will participate. The first federal court ruling — on May 8, 1991 — quashed Al- can’s 1987 Nechako Settlement Agreement and ordered the pro- ject to undergo a full federal en- vironmental review, The agreement is the foundation of the project, giving the compa- ny the right to divert more water to its generators at Kemano - up to 88 per. cent of the original flows of the Nechako River. The Skeena Parents for Music Society regret the cancellation of the Big Band Dance. We would like to thank the following: That first judgment prompted company officials to halt con- struction in the summer of 1991, Last summer the Federal Court of Appeal completely overturned the earlier ruling and further ruled that the federal government had the right to exempt the project from environmental review legis- lation. 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