- PAGE 2A, THE HERALD, Tuesday May 31, 1977

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Oil seeps to the Peace

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.
(CP) — Oil collecting booms
were being laid down
Monday at two locations on
the Peace River in
preparation for the arrival
of an estimated 30,000
gallons of oil that poured
through a ruptured West-
coast Petroleum Co, Ltd.
pipeline near here last Fri-

y. .

Company - president
‘Robert Lawrence of Calgary
said the plastic, rubber and
wooden
laid across the river at a
spot near the British

ms were being ~

Columbia-Alberta border
and at another spot about 30
miles upstream.

“We're setting them out
ahead of the slick in
preparation for its arrival,"
said Lawrence. “The oil can
then be diverted to a back-
water or collecting area for
purbing out.”

The blow-out occurred
shortly ‘before midnight
Friday in a section of
Westcoast Petroleum’s 12-
inch pipeline which runs
alongside Stewart Creek.
Company officials at first
refused to give any in-
formation on the spill, which

has heavily fouled the creek
and two major rivers, but a
federal environmental
department spokesman said
initial estimates placed it at
about 1,000 barrels.
Environmental officer
Tom Carseadden said that
his agency would probably

be sending personnel from

Vancouver to view th¢ spill
and assess the
vironmental damage.
Heavy rain was
pering efforts to con
oll and it was tco
assess what damag
been done, he said. --
Lawrence said he kpped

BOARDS TO FAULT _ :

s Something

PARKSVILLE, B.C. (CP)
— British Columbia con-
sumers sometimes are sold
Grade A eggs up to three
months old, a Sidney egg
farmer said Monday.

W. T. Burrows told a
provincial food inquiry the
policies of the national and
B.C. egg marketing boards
were to blame for

lag. ;
“The time interval bet-

ween egg lay and purchase
by constmer can range

sour

e sales"

from three days or less to
three months, with eggs still
meeting the Grade A
requirement,” Burrows said
in a brief.

Burrows' report was
among the first presented to
the i0-member legislative
committee as it opened two
days of public hearings
here.

Subsequent hearings will
be held in Vancouver and
throughout the province as
part of year-long § in-

IN PROVINCE

season ahead

for fruit growers

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP)--
‘Charies Bernhardt,
president of the Okanagan
‘Fruit Growers Association,
said Monday fruit growers
will loge money on the 1976
soft fruit crop despite fed-

_ eral and provincial price

‘ assistance, =,
t eerfantt said itantin-
i Sieor-that -inconté “trom
: fruit sales combined with
* government assistance will

‘Liquor .
‘board —
“scrapped
"VICTORIA (CP) — The
, British Columbia govern-
‘ment moved Monday to
. abolish the B.C. Liquor
’ Board, making good on a
. promise made two months

ago by Consumer and
Corporate Affairs Minister

Rafe Mair.
In an order-in-council re-
leased Monday, the

. government terminated the
appointments of board
irman Neil. Davidson,
vice-chairman Jiro

Miyazawa and member Pia.

Tofini.
The board was established

in 1973 by the former New.

Democratic Party govern-
ment to hear appeals from
liquor licensing and listing
decisions.

Mair said March 31 that
after the board was
abolished= a, move
requiri egislation—ap-
peals will be referred to the
corporate and financial
services commission, the
general appeal bedy that

rs appeals from a broad
range of administrative
decision in the ministry of
consumer and corporate
affairs.

Mair said he would per-
sonally decide appeals,
however, on the question of
neighborhood pub licences.

QUEBEC
ISSUE
VITAL

PENTICTON, B.C, (CP)-
Francis Townsend,
honorary president of the
Royal Canadian Legion's
Pacific Command, told a
legion convention Sunday
that the separation of
Quebec is of vit] concern to
yeterens who iu two World
Wars have helped make
Canada a nation,

Townsend, of West Van-
couver, B,C,, urged
delagates to put the Legion
and its leaders at the
forefront of the movement
to stop the breakup of
Canada.

‘Canadian Real

not meet the real costs of
producing the fruit.

- But he said he wasn’t
seeking enough government
support to end all losses
because ‘if we were assured
of all our costs of production
we would lose the necessary
incentive ry aur en for
production “fruit,”

Bernhardt said the only
way growers can make a

ofit is to have high returns

rom the marketplace

because government sup.
port programs cover only
part of production costs.

Growers, he said, will lose
six cents a pound on the 1976
cherry crop. While they cost
37.5 cents a pound to
produce, the return from the
marketplace and govern-
ment subsidies will bring in
only 31.5 cents.

It is estimated that
federal and provincial

overnment subsidies for

e 1976 crop will be 13 cents
@ pound for. cherries, 7.7
cents for apricots, 6.5 cents
for pears and six cents on
plums. .

Wmile calling the support
levels fair, Bernhardt said
he was disappointed that
limits will be put on the
amount of a grower’s crop
that will qualify for a sub-
sidy.

He said a grower can get a
subsidy on only 25 tons of his
cherry crop, but one of his
members harvests up to 200

ns.
Bernhardt said what
Canadian growers need
most is tariff protection
from United States and
overseas fruit coming into
the- country.
. He said with U.S. harvest
dates ahead of Canada, the
fruit hits the Canadian
market at a time of high
ices, and by the time local
ruit hits the market the
rices have often declined
low the cost of production.

Realtor wants paus
in government actio

NANAIMO, B.C, (CP) —
dim Robb, president of the
Estate
Association, Monday called
for a five-year restriction on
government programs to

alt growing Canadian
bureaucracy.

Robb told the annual con-
vention of the B.C. Real
Estate Association
(BCREA) that at the end of
the five-year term,
bureaucrats should be able
to justify the programs’
continued existences or the
projects should be
disbanded.

The president’s comments
came out of a speech to the
convention which centered
on the zrosion of the free-

, isrotten .
with 3-month-old eggs

vestigation into the high cost
of food in B.C.
Burrows said the

Canadian Egg Marketing
Agency caused the lag.

because it divided the
estimated yearly demand
for eggs evenly over 12
months.

“The result is a uniform
monthly supply which fails
to take into consideration
seasonal
demand.”

The grading stations had
to store the surplus eggs in
anticipation of an increased
demand a month or two
away, he said.

“When the anticipated

_ time arrives, the stored

eggs begin to move out—the
oldest first— until the stock
is current,’”’ said Burrows,
adding all of B.C. was af-
fected by this practice.

. The unequal distribution
of egg pr

farmers further contributed
-to delays in egg sales, ‘he
added.

Burrows said Fraser

sufficient quotas to
local demand.

He said the val
quotas had risen more than
400 per cent in the past few
years, to the detrimeht of
small farmers as ohily
larger farnis could afford to
borrow money to purchase
the quotas. - “

Higher prices for feed and
interest on loans added to
the costs shouldered by-the
consumer, he said, =:

“It is doubtful if there is
more than token com-
petition on feed prices
anymore. It is evident they
are competing to obtain
quotas for their customers.”

Burrows emphasized a
wellrun marketing board
was essential for a sound
pregtant of production,

istribution and fair prices.

‘variation -- in.

uction quotas to-

that much of the oil would
have been dispersed in the
water or evaporated by the
time it reached the booms.

“There's going to have to
be some mop-up and clean-
up along the banks, but the
main thing now is to catch
as much of the slick as
possible,” he said.

The oil was. being pushed
along on waters swollen by
rain and runoff,

“It was a drop in pressure
along the pipeline that
alerted technicians to the
possibility of a leak. The
system was shutdown, but it
was too late to prevent the

oil from gushing through the
ruptured pipe. .
A helicopter search down

the pipeline early Saturday
quickly pin-pointed the
location.
_,Carscadden: said the
break appeared to have
occurred in a section of pipe
between two valves and
could haye been caused by a
seam bursting or failure of
the pipe wall. ‘
The ci] spewed out on to
the and then some of
it drained into Stewart
Creek, From there it made
its way into the Pine River

and by Sunday flowed into -

“the ° Peace.
‘Booms were placed across

the Pine and then below the .
community of Taylor which -

is on the banks of the Peace
close to here,

Oll managed to get
through this second boom,
however, and drifted further
down th
cleanup crews to string
another boom across the
river at Clayhurst Ferries,
about 35 miles away. n

Westcoast Petroleum is a
subsidiary of Westcoast
Transmission Co, Westcoast
has hired the Alberta
company, Supervisory
Consultants Ltd., to handle
the containment and
cleanup.

¥

e river causing —

Eight-year-old Carrie Crowder looks atder than her years as she waits her turnto perform. Carrieisa ..

student at Vicki Parviainen Dance

Festival Saturday.

criminal justice system has
become too costly, hasn’t
the capacity to reform and
should be dismantled and

* restructured, says Keith

Jobson, a University of
Victoria law professor.

_Jobson, speaking at the
annual .convention of the

John Howard Society of .

Vancouver Island during the
weekend, said the system
was “wasteful, destructive
an an unreformable
behemoth.”’

He said justice in Canada
has evolved into a billion-
dollar-ayear ‘‘crime-
industry” and charged it
lacks accountability in

.. JUSTICE SYSTEM -
REQUIRES REFORM |

VICTORIA (CP) — The

terms of costs.

Jobson said the soaring
police, court and prison
costs are attributable to an
indiscriminate handling of
the raw -material—the of-
fenders entering the system.

The lawyer suggested too
much time and effort is

being wasted in in-
vestigating and processing
‘minor drug, theft and

drinking offences.

Jobson said if the crime-
industry was fubject to the
same requirements as other
industries, the Combines
Investigation Act enforcers

would have told it “a long
time ago to pull up its
socks.’” +

RAY SUPPORTS IT

Again, Skagit threatened _
by threat of High Ross dam

VANCOUVER (CP)
Politicians and en-
vironmentalists in. British
Columbia have expressed
dismay about the decision
by Washington Governor
Dixy Lee Ray to“throw the
power of her office behind

roposals to raise the Ross

am.

The proposed project
threatens to flood 5,000
eres of the Skagit Valley in

a
Ss

fe
enterprise system?’ in
Canada through increased
‘government interference.

He told members that free
enterprise was becoming
more and more the junior
partner in a democracy
partnership. ’ .

“Instead of being con-
sulted to ‘the degree one
would expect in*a_part-
nership,” he said, “it is told
what it must do and must
provide the funds to fuel'the
spendthrift habits, of
rapacious government: and
the growing bureauctacy.

“And with increased
speed, the mileage between
a free enterprise economy
and a socialistic state is
rapidly devoured.”

et ee ee mtn tlt, ti

Under former governor
Dan Evans, the state was
opposed to a joint City of
Seattle and Seattle City
Light proposal to raise the
dam’s height by 122 1-2 feet.
But Ray announced that
because of the drought
conditions she is reversing
the state’s position.

Gary Gallon, executive
director of the Scientific
Pollution and En-
vironmental Control SPEC
society, said Ray's decision
was a shock,

Gallon said SPEC, which
fought the proposal for
years, “will try to stop it
every way we can.”

He said the upper Skagit
Valley would have to be
logged before any Flooding
‘takes place, and “we wil
put people out there to
disrupt that logging if we
have to.”

QUESTIONED LOGIC

Gallon questioned Ray’s
logic for the policy change.
The . project would take
about three years to com-

plete and would not help.

Washington with its im-
mediate drought problems.
_“T think it’s a ruse," said
Gallon, “She's taking ad-
vantage of the water
shortage to push this
through.”

Jim Nielsen, B.C.’s en-
vironment minister, said he

also thought: the drought

was being used as an excuse
because the dam could end
up being raised during a
rainy period.

He said it was difficult to
assess what weight the
overnor’s decision will
ave because until now

Washington state has not’

been involved in the con-
troversy. ~

“It's really hard to
determine what weight that
will have but it seems te
give Seattle Light another
partner in their corner,
which distresses us very
muth,” Nielsen said.

He said Ray's in-
tervention comes at an
unfortunate time because
his department has been
working toward a_ set-
tlement with Seattle
agencies for over a year.

“T don’t know how
determined they believe the
B.C. government is about

‘this. [ hope they don’t think

B.C. is holding out for a
better price because I can
assure them that that is not
the case.

_ “The government of B.C.
is very much opposed to the
raising of the Ress Dam and
we certainly don't intend to
give up...however, it’s too
simple to say we just won't
let them do it.”

School which performed a number of dances at the Outdoor Arts ..

EXPLORATION NEEDED

MONTREAL (CP) —
Major new stocks of
petroleum energy will have
to be developed even if
Canadians can be induced to

curb their growing demand .

for oil and natural gas, a
senior oil industry official
said Monday. .

J.G. Livingstone,
executive vice-president of
Imperial Oil, said greater
conservation by Canadians
will: only provide an extra
few years to find needed

. energy reserves to carry the

country through the rest of

this century.
He was speaking toa joint

conference of the Chemical

Institute of Canada and the ,

American Chemical
Society, which continues

‘through Thursday. The

meeting has attracted more
than 3,000 chemists and
chemical engineers from
Canada and the United

‘ States.

Livingstone gave a
gloomy assessment of the
world’s energy supply
problem 10 or 15 years from
now, noting that some ex-
perts expect mid-East ail
production to peak by the
end of the 1980s.

“In other words, by the
end of the next decade we
might find ourselves in a
position ‘where some
countries won't be able to

‘secure all the oil they want

at any price,” he said.

By 1990, he said,
Canadians will probably
require 1.5 billion barrels a
year, compared with 900
million now.

Gas and oil reserves in the
Arctic hold this country’s
key to economic stability in
the face of rising prices and
demand for foreign
petroleum reserves, he said.

Referring to the 10-year

~ moratorium on construction

of a Mackenzie Valley gas

pipeline recommended in .

the recently released
Berger report, Livingstone
said: “Mr. Justice Berger
himself is reported to have
said that developments in
the North should not be
blocked if such projects are
determined to be in the
national interest ..: ”

He said Canada will run
up what could be a $5 billion
balance of payments deficit
from oil and gas imports

alone by 1985 if it cannot tap —

Conserving. not enough e
to save oil reserves

the Arctic réserves. That
deficit could be cut by 30 per
cent if the Arctic gas can be
brought to southern
markets, he added.

“Given an early govern-
ment go-ahead on the
proposed Arctic Gas
Pipeline, natural gas could
be - flowing from ‘the
Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort
Sea region by 1990,” he said,
adding that the energy in-
dustry expects foreign oil

roducers will continue to

ost prices.

He gave full support to
development of the Alberta
oi} sands as a way of
reducing Canada's
dependency on gas and oil

imports and called “on
Alberta and the federal
government to encourage

exploitation of the sands..

_ “Whatis lacking is a set of
policies that will make
further deyelopment (of the
oil sands} an economic
proposition,” Livingstone
said. “The importance of
such policies is, we trust,
obvious to the governments
concerned.”

Earlier, several energy
researchers told reporters
that development of the oil
sands could provide a bigger
boost to the economy than
could be derived from the
investment of $8-billion in an
Arctic gas pipeline. |

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