The Terrace Stondard, Wednesday, January 24, 200] - Al] | fDeRAOkini Seer F ‘General Deniisry, Orthodontics, TMJ ESE 90.4819 Park Ave Office Hours ee 8 Terrace, BC V8G 1V5 , Mon - Thurs 8:00 a.m. «'4:90 p.m, (250} 635-7611 BUREAU ALLAN HUDSON has been (oadirig up his truck with firewood every two weeks since he got rid of natural gas heat for his home. Natural gas prices have doubled since July 1998 and many home owners are looking in to alter- native sources of heating such as wood burning appliances. People choose wood instead of natural gas By SARAH A. “ZIMMERMAN STEADILY increasing na- tural gas ptices are forcing some people to switch to alternative sources of heat. Local resident Allan Hudson is so fed up with the. rising costs of natural gas that he has switched back to wood burning heat to keep his home warm. *I had no choice but to go back to wood burning, I have a five bedroom house,” he said. Since making the switch his cost of heating has gone down to about $70 per month. Hudson es- timates thé’ cost to heat his house with natural gas would be roughly $200 per month at the current rates. He’s been getting his wood from the Terrace Correctional Centre since . he made-the switch... me Sinée the. prices went. | up [-have-to drive down here every two weeks,” he said, ce The amount of wood sold .at the institution is not much higher than last — year, but employee Fred Sturby blames the. average sales on the type of wood they had early in the sea- son. ' quality of firewood this year, the sales would have been booming, guaran- teed,” he said. “We've had a lot of inquiries.” The Terrace Builders’ Do-It Center has also had a steady stream of custo- mers. | “There has definitely been an increase in the sales of wood stoves,” said. store employee Rocky Gray. “You're looking at a 35 to 40° per cent increase.” - A couple . customers’ have. already installed their wood burning stoves, “ he said. “These people are real- ly angry,” said Gray. However, the cost of re-" Ay Rupert pushes for steel enterprise THE PRINCE RUPERT Chamber of Commerce has started a letter writing campaign in support of. a planned steel mill. The chamber is trying — to convince the provincial government to help subsi- - dize a company called Pa- cific Iron. and Steel Pro- ducts. That company says it is working on a commitment for money from a steel company in Korea but also needs government help. ”. The company says it could provide up to 33 per- manent jobs after the mill is built and 1,200 jobs dur- ing a+16-18 monih con- struction period... 0° elt says the project is warth an estiniated . $810 million. ae “If ‘we'd had a better placing natural gas ap- pliances with wood burn- ing can be a costly enter- prise and not everyone is prepared to make the in- vestment, said co-owner of Acadia Northwest Mech- -anical Inc,, Greg Towns - send, “To take out gas and. put in wood will cost at least $3,000,” estimated Townsend. “It'll take ten years to recoup their costs.” “Everybody’s . looking but nobody’s buying,” be said. Another option would heelba be a higher efficiency fur- nace, Townsend said. “They can run figures through a computer to de- termine what the savings are using a higher effi- ciency furnace,” he said. “It depends on what your recovery rate is,” Allan Hudson is glad he made the switch to wood -but he’s still upset by the skyrocketing natural gas prices, “Thank God we don’t have a natural gas water heater,” he said. “Something’s got to be done,” ped with Personal Safety Syatem Including: Second Generation Dual Stage Driver and ga ABS Brakes + Side Door Intrusion Gsame ré:Warning System ¢ Securl.eck™ Anti-Theft Syatem + Standard Dual Siiding Geors + Full-Slzo 200hp V6 Engine: 4-Spead Automatic with Overdrive * Alr Conditioning + Power tte! 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