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The Honourable Iona

“ Campagnolo, Minister of

State (Fitness and Amateur

~ - Sport) has laid her cabinet
* post on the line if the
{Minister of Transport, Otto
b

Lang, does not improve the

+ coastal services to all

o

a

communities left in a mess

by a decision to put an end to

some $4 million in subsidies

paid to Northland
avigattau.

Campagnolo indicated
that her constituents come
first ‘and she- will not
sacrifice serving them for
any cabinet appointment.
She laid own five
requirements to be met by
dhe Transport Minister and

yes him six weeks to come

rough or else.

A spokesman in her Ot-
tawa office indicated that
these conditions are an
improved passenger service
toand from Ocean Falls, the
replacement of the vessel,
Malibu Princess, with a
more suitable vessel for
service between ‘Prince
Rupert and the Queen
charlotte Islands. She also
insists on the assurance of
service to Sewell Inlet and
other isolated communities
on the Islands previously
served by Northland
Navigation. She also wants
the assurance that adequate

e unloading facilities
will be available in Prince
Rupert which is open to all
comers. Rivtow Straits now

- has such a barge facility but

this is privately owned and
could not be available to
another firm.

When questioned on how
such a state of affairs could
-be ‘allowed to come about
Mrs, Campagnolo laid the
blame on what she called
“bureaucratic civil ser-
vants”, She said the first
news of the drop of subsidies
came to her at the same
time that Northland
Navigation got it.’ She
epined that members of
parliament and — other
concerned people should
have been kept informed af
what was transpiring and
that an adequate study of
the consequences of the
subsidy removal would have
as well as adequate plan-
ning to assure that the
decision would not create
unpardonable hardships on
the coastal communities.

Mrs. Campagna.o also
said that she had been
assured. that the money
previously paid out to
Northland would remain
available to the west coast
should the need arise. .

-LIBERALS SUPPORT

-All British Columbia
Liberal M.P.s appear ta be
rising to support Cam-

~ pagnolo in her lobby to
obtain adequate services
from the Transport
Minister. Jack Pearsall has
indicated support -as have
Ron Basford and Len

- Marchand, Ail agreed to

- debate the problem at a
cabinet meeting: scheduled
for last Friday.

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RESCUE
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Campag nolo
Lang six weeks

community from its tran-
sportation impasse. It has
alfered to serve Stewart as
part of its regular services
out of Alaska. Mayor Ian
McLeod of Stewart said that
Alaska is prepared to make
his community a regular

rt of call with its 235 foot
feeder ferry which has a
capacity of carrying 250
passengers plus vehicles
and cargo, at a lower rate
than Northland used to
charge. The proposed rate

would be $12 per passenger
as compared to the
charge now. The

automobile rate would be
$37, This now exceeds $100.
The debarkation port would
be Prince Rupert.

Mayor McLeod said that’

he would rather see Stewart
served by a Canadian
service but added that his
town is desperate. He said
that he has’ advised his
council to wait awhile to see
what Ottawa does. He said
he feels that Ottawa should
be given time to improve the
service before any drastic
action is taken.
The northern first

‘magistrate commented that

itis unfortunate that.we had
to seek a solution through
Alaska as they had to in the
past in resolving the Search
and Rescue problem.
AIRPORT
IMPROVEMENTS
Another beneficial off-
shoot of the coastal tran-

gives

sportation hassle has been
announced by Jack Pearsall
on behalf of Lang. He ad-
vises. that $380,000 has been
approved for upgrading of
© Bella Coola Airport. This
money will be used to pave
and extend the runway to
4,200 feet. In addition a
taxiway and an aircraft
parking space will be
constructed. This upgrading
will mean that a year-roun
schedule can be established
for flights in and out of Bella
Coola and Vancouver. No
date has been set for the
beginning of construction.
ntral Coast Regional
District Chairman, Red
Hostman, advises that some
work is already underway at
the airport. Through tfun-
ding from a Local Initiative
Project 12 people are now at
work clearing brush and
preparing land so that
existing buildings can be
moved back from the
runways.

He said a major problem
exists in the fact ‘that he
foresees difficulties in
getting paving machinery
into the site. He opined that
one possible solution would
be collaboration with the
Highways Department in

tielng in highway work with -

the runway paving. “Mr.
Hostman suggested that
construction would be
getting underway next
summer.

Report from Victoria

by Cyril M. Shelford
The time has come for all
people in the northwest to
come. forward with
Suggestions on how best to
improve the coastal tran-
spottation system which is

in a deplorable state. —
There is no question that
the Hon. Otto Lang has
handled the issue in the
most inco

that a Minister of Transport
from Ottawa would come to
British Columbia and look at
the problem after creating
the problem in the first
place by taking away -the
subsidy to Northland
Navigation. He should have
come to B.C. and in-
vestigated the consequences
before making a decision,
not after.

The people of B.C, should
be upset with _ the
elimination of a subsidy of
Jess than four million dollars
while continuing the
massive subsidies of over
100 million in eastern
Canada. ] would like to urge

mpetent manner...
It is politidalty unbelievable” my

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the provincial Minister of
Transport, the Hon. Jack
Davis, to take a delegation
to Ottawa and support the
Hon. Iona Campagnolo in
her efforts to get a better
deal for all the coastal
communities in British
Columbia. This is a time
when all people, regardless
of party, s ould get together
and support~.our federal
meinber,* 7

is'to be hoped the

- federal minister will not try

and resolve the problem
with large subsidies to
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The’ possibility of the
construction of a pipeline
between Kitimat and Ed-
monton became a reality
last week when Kitimat
Pipe Line Ltd., filed a six
volume proposal with the
National Energy Board. The
line which will cost
$494,000,000 will extend over
753 miles. The construction
will provide between two
and three thousand jobs
over two to three years.

At the same time the
company filed a‘ marine
aspects proposal with the
Ministry of Transport, also
said to be a six volume
document.

The NEB application,

’ which set the company back

two million dollars will now
go to a preliminary
examination by the NEB
staff. The Board will then
order a hearing giving in-

terested people or parties a

month go get their material
together. It is possible, even
likely, that the Board will

order hearings along the.
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entire route of the propased
line. A decision should be
ready to be handed down by
mid-summer. :

The consortium formin
Kitimat Pipe Line Ltd.
comprised 10 firms at the
onset but this was reduced
to six by the time of ap-
plication. The member
companies are: Asland Qil
Canada Ltd., (24 percent);
Farmers Union Centra
Exchange Inc., (5 percent) ;
Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas
Co, Ltd., (15 percent); In-
terprovincial Pipe Line
Ltd., (15 pereent}; Koch
Industries Inc., (26 percent)
and Murphy Oil Corp., (15
percent}.

Three of these companies
are Canadian based com-
panies responsible for 54
percent of the capital
required,

The purpose of the

pipeline .is to transport:
crude oil from Alaska and ©

‘the Middle East and ‘In-
donesia to the Chicago area.
Refineries in that area
currently receive oil from
Alberta through offtakes

Fe eas OE I ac

Kitimat Pipeline
application filed

from the Interprovincial
pipeline, but these supplies
are likely to stop flowing
through a Canadian decision
to phase out of] exports by

1982.
Kitimat Pipe Line

President. H. Earl Joudrie .

said at the time of the filing
“the line would provide an
important strategic benefit
for Canada by giving the
country’s major east-west
pipeline system access for
the first time to off-shore
supplies via the Pacific
Coast."" He also said that a
major proportion of the
close to $500 million will be
spent in Canada with much
of it in the Kitimat area.
The construction will
create 2,000 to 3,000 jobs for
two to three years with a
total payroll of close to
$90,000,000. Annual
operating expenditures will
be in the neighborhood of
$18,000,000 in the first year
of operation climbing to
about $30,000,000 by the

. Bixth year of operation.

Income. tax pai@ by
Kitimat Pipe e Lid.,
would reach $180,000,000 in
the first 10 years of
operation. Property, taxes
over the same period would
bein the neighborhood of §70
On.

4s part of the proposal,
two floating docks would be
constructed on the western
shore of Kitimat Arm, about
two miles south of the Alcan
facilities. This will initially
accommodate seven
tankers of up to 320,000
deadweight tons. Oil will be
unloaded via a 48 inch pipe
toa tank farm of five 600,000
barrel storage tanks
allowing ten days holding
capacity for the 300,000
barrel per oy of | the tine
e at the beginning.
This will be increased

1994 to 13 tankers per month
and will require four more
storage tanks.

The first 29 miles of the
Pipeline would be of pipe 30
ches in diameter. This will
be followed by 93 miles of 36

inch pipe through the Telk- -

wa Pass Region. The
remaining 636 miles to
Edmonton would be 30 inch
ipe. Initlally there would
© 10 pumping stations with
six more coming on stream

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Once the line is completed
the total direct payroll far
permanent . employees
would be about $3,000,000 a
year of which a half million
would be for employees
residing in Kitimat.

. Tug boat employees who
also are to live in
Kitimat would have ‘an
annual salary of about
$450,000 meaning that a
payroll of close to a mhillion
dollars would be a per-
manent contribution to the
Kitimat economy. These
figures are based on an

estimated 60 permanent
employees. Of course this
will alsocreate about 15 jobs
in the service sector.

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Hydro lets $3.5
million contract

control of the transmission
lines between Williston
Glenannon, Telkwa and
Terrace substations, and
extend the B.C. Hydro
telephone system to the
North Coast Region.

With completion of the
Skeena system in 1978,
Hydro's microwave network

comprise five inter-
connected systems with 84
stations, providin
protection, control an
telephone communication
over more than 2000 miles of
route. .

The Skeena microwave
system will tie the Terrace
area into a province-wide
system first started in 1966
to serve the Peace R.ver
project, Subsequently,
additional systems were
built to serve the Lower
Mainland, Vancouver Island
and a portion of the South
Interior.

contractin an amount of $3.5
million for the completion of
a microwave system from
Prince George to Terrace.
Although the bulk of this
contract is for electronic
equipment the work will
ovide some local jobs in
e construction of roads
into the sites and other
related areas.
The microwave system is
wired to serve the 300

smiasion line being built
from Prince George to
Terrace {to carry power
from the main 500 kV grid
into the North Coast Region
presently being provided
with power purchased from
the Aluminum Company of
Canada at Kitimat.
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