A6 « The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 30, 2002

MLA Harris must be tougher
on Alcan and its power plan

Dear Sir:

{In response to the Oct.
16 article “Skeena MLA
Roger Harris urges to let
Alcan sell power,” | would
like to offer these com-
ments. .

It seems to me that Mr.
Harris’ comments may be
well intended. However,
his comments show his ig-
norance on the history of
Alcan’s corporate deal-

ings, and are indicative of ..

his willingness to sell out:
his constituency in favour ,

of supporting his boss Gor-
don Campbell’s policy of
selling B.C. Hydro to the
private sector.

First and foremost Mr.
Harris should be reminded
once again, that the 1950
Water Licence given to
Alcan was very restrictive
and specific.

This in turn gave Alcan’

some limited right to sell
surplus power in the vicin-
ity of the smelter, provided
that priority was given for
smelter consumption.

Mr. Harris has met with
both the union (CAW
Local 2301) and District of
Kitimat representatives
who are most directly im-
pacted by Alcan wanting
10 convert their operations
into becoming an indepen-
dent power provider.

It was made abundantly
clear to Mr. Harris the ne-
gative impacts which

would follow if the provin- |

cial government allowed
Alcan to refocus its busi-
hess to that of a power
provider.

The long-term viability
of the smelter would be in
serious jeopardy. This
would lead to a negative
economic impact on Kiti-
mat, Terrace and north-
west B.C. as a whole.

Mr. Harris acknow-
ledged at these meetings
that he not only fully un-
derstood the concerns as
expressed but, in fact,
agreed.

What Mr. Harris now
seems te be proposing
seems to be a knee jerk

teaction aimed to support -

Missing
Telus

Dear Sir:
I was in Telus’ phone
mart a few days before it

closed and the place was ‘

dismal and bare. Those
outstanding ladies who
work there were sad to see
the place close down and
so was I.

In this age of instant
mass communications we
have become internet co-
lonies of the head office.

First they refused to
take out bills locally and
once we started paying our
bills electronically putting
a human face on the busi-
ness became redundant.

The ladies at the phone
mart discretely took the
bills of seniors and the dis-
abled who needed assis-
tance and they were al-
lowed to pay with cash the
old fashioned way. That
service is pone.

Being on a low income
myself, I discavered that
their typing-photocopying
paper was the cheapest in
town. So much for bar-
gains.

The whole idea of los-
ing the phone mart has left
a bad taste in my mouth
and 1 think VIl sprint
somewhere else to do my
business,

My only reasons for
staying with Telus was the
local office here and the
fine service it provided to
Terrace customers,

It’s those preat pals who
worked there I'll miss.
They were like a friend-
ship center. Telus can’t
tell us anything now. We

need to get back to a’
human economy and not.

one run by automatons and

ATM cashiers. After all,

what’s an economy for?
Brian Gregg,
Terrace, B.C,

Tha Torrece Standard 49

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Gordon Campbell's policy
to give away the people’s
natural resources ep. water
~ power to the private sec-
tor to explcit for profit.

If Alcan is allowed to:

refocus its Kitimat-Kema-
no business interests to
further expand into an in-
dependent power producer,
the days will certainly be
numbered as per the Kiti-
mat plant remaining a
viable aluminum producer.

Residents of northwest
B.C. can fully reflect back
to the days of the Kemano
Completion Project where
unfulfilled commitments

and broken promises were °

the rule of the day by

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Alcan.

Mr. Harris instead
should focus his energies
on ensuring that Alcan -will
move forward to investing
significant capital in Kiti-
mat-Kemano Works to-
ward full expansion in the
facility.

This in turn would con-
tinue. to provide long-term
good paying jobs with
good benefits which would
pravide prosperily for both
Kitimat-Terrace and the
northwest as a whole.

Mr. Harris’ proposition,
if enacted, would allow
Alcan to prosper as an in-
dependent power producer
and at best would facili-

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tate an industrial base in
the northwest of smaller
industries providing fewer
employees with fewer

“wages and benefits.

Alcan then, would in all
likelihood, be in a position
to phase out their smelter
operation in Kitimat, and
Teinvest profits made from
power sales either in Que-
bec or elsewhere world-
wide.

| suggest to Mr. Harris

‘to rethink his position on -

this issue. Mr. Harris is in
fact selling out fo his con-
stituency he professes to
represent.

This is being done in
my view merely to support
his government's wish to
privatize B.C. Hydro, thus
giving away the people of
British Columbia’s mi-
nerals and resources to the
highest bidder for exploita-
tion,

Ross Slezak,
Terrace, B.C.

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