| Pirate whaling ship is unseawort

VANCOUVER (CP) — The -
pirate whallng vessel
rammed by conservationists
Motiday off the Portuguese
coast will not be seaworthy
for at least three or four
months and may be beyond
repair, says aspokesman for -
the protesters. Bie &

Environmentallet - Paul
‘Watson and two others
down and rammed

Prince
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.

(CP) — The Prince George
forest area has enough trees
to maintain the. current
harvest Sree the next #90
yeara an ly expand it

says.a British Columbia
Forest Service report on the
area's timber supply, -

Dave Oswald, in charge of
for the region, said
that the Prince George area
timber supply is in much
better shape than the Fort
Nelson area, subject of the
forest .service's firat in-
ventory. —

The Fort Nelson inventory
showed that the annual cut
far exceeded the annual
‘growth, Prince George,
however, would have to,
increase its cut com-
nilttment to reach the annual
growth level. . .

the whaler Sierra after
sighting the vessel 300
tuguese coast. ‘

Watson said Thuraday in a
telephone interview from

Portugal that he was afraid

of being shot as he rammed
vthe. vessel or jailed af-
ferward,

The whaler’s crew ap-
peared too amazed to reach

George has lots

The report, released
Wednesday, said that Prince

George area woodworkers’

currently are committed ‘to
cutting 7.622 million. cubic

* metres of wood a ‘year, That

“cut could be Increased im-
mediately by 15 per cent to
§.6° million cubic metres,
risiig to 10 milllon cubic
metres in 50 years,

In 120 years, the allowable
cut would drop to 8.33 million
cuble metres, slightly below
the annual growth. It could
remain at that level for sop
years, the report said.

The immediate 15-per-cent:
Increase and the high level of
cut for-120 years would get
rid of current stands of

‘avermature timber, Oswald
said. :

“After that point, we
would be going on what we
have planted and what

Taylor was elected

Unions.

“

CASAW ELECTS
NEW LEADER

national president of the Canadian Association of
Smelter and Allied Workers, 9 0°" -

CASAW nominating convention held in Van-
couver July 14-15 in conjunction with the national
convention of the Confederation of Canadian

‘The new president is an anode operator on line
four at the Kitimat smelter, sa

by acclamation at a

~ continuing advisory sub-
* committee. a

for Weapons when their ship
‘was rammed, he said. And

- kilometres: off the For- ‘any charges: against the

Protesters would have to be
laid by the whaler’s ownera,
‘who are unlikely to risk
exposure in court, Watson
added,

“Pm tired of all the talk
about saving whales,” said
Watsun, a former director of
the Valicouver-based

Greenpeace Foundation who
now heads. Earthforce, his
own conservation group.
“All I saw was whales
being Killed. I decided to
take some concrete action to
save whales before they
were hunted to extinction,”
The 28-metre, British-
registered Sea Shepherd left
Boston July 3 with a mission
of tracking down the
metre Sierra and putting her

B.C. BRIEFS

VANCOUVER (CP) ~- The
Insurance Corp. of British
Columbla has paid $46,000 to
claimants as a result of a
liquid chlorine spill from a
flatbed truck here last
September,

Corporation spokesman
Sob Egby sald 2% clalms
have been paid — ranging
from $15 to $4,000 — and

. seven other claims are .

outstanding. , ;
Egby said most of the

Hospital to increase surgery:

VICTORIA (CP) — Health

Minister Bob McClelland :

said Thursday he has asked
Royal Jubilee Hospital in
Victoria to increase open-
heart surgery by 50 per cent.

The minister said in a
news release the increase to
nine from six operations a
week was recommended by
‘the. British Columbia
Medical Association's

claimants suffered either

minor discomfort from the

furies or a loss of business
When, thelr stores were

osed temporarily during an
evacuation ordered after the

At least 78 persons were
treated at. hospital for in-
halation of chlorine gas after
acontainer of liquid chforine
ruptured, Hundreds .of
people were forced to flea
their homes and a 25-block
area was cordoned off.

He said renovations at the
hospital last year allowed it
to increase open-heart
surgery to six cases a week
from four, as well as. an
additional one or two cases
on an emergency basis,

McClelland said the com:

mittee report warned that .

additional funding and staff
may be required so that the

surgery doesnot encroach on .
other hospital.services.

- Airwest deal completed

VANCOUVER (CL) — The
310 Pattison Group's pur:
chase of Airwest Airlines
pleted th has been com-

e company’ an-
nounced Thursday,

negotiations to buy Airwest
on March 27, 1979, and the
Canadian air transport
committee recently ap-
proved the sale,
Alrweat ‘provides only
fe}
-

“Today is expected to
‘continue sunny and warm
with a few cloudy periods,

WANT TO
HAVE A

WEATHER].

_The company entered into

of fina

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out af business without Commission, of which Japan

the crew,
Weison said the Slerra is
registered in Cyprus, but ia
owned, through several

of timber

is a member.

He said that after the
whaler was spotted, it
headed for the Portuguese
port of Oporto, The chase
lasted 10 hours and the

Sierra dropped anchor at 3°

4m. Monday off Oporto
while a crew member went
ashore.

The Sea Shepherd went
into port, and- Watson
decided to head out and ram
the whaler. The ship's
captain and 14 crew mem-
bers who did not want to
participate were let off the
ship and Watgon, Peter Woof

OE SEE ee AT age Wl eft Fag eg ab ST

The Herald, Friday,

hy

of Hawaill left port at 1 p.m,

The Sea Shepherd ap-
proached the Sierra and
moved alongaide, scraping
her hull to warn the whaler’s
crew, Then Wataon brought
the Sea Shepherd about and

- rammed into the Slerra’s

port side.

The Sierra was left with a
Gaping hole in her hull
Measuring two metres by
three metres and an -11-
metre dent along the deck.
The Sea Shepherd was only
alightly damaged.

Watson steered the Sea
Shepherd north toward
Britain, but returned to

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oo ts woe

July 20, 1979, Page 3

§
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Portuguese navy,

Amember of the Sea Shep-
herd crew who had left
before the ramming suffered
a concussion when he was hit
with a board. Watson sald g
member of the Slerra ‘crew
has been charged with
assault and Portuguese
officlals have warned Sierra

. crew members to stay away
_ from the crew of tha Sea
Shepherd,

‘The crippled Sierra limped
back into port. Severa)
hundred tons of whale meat
on board now is rotting in-
aide the punctured

refrigeration compartment,

of Australia and Jerry Doran Oporto at the request of the Watson said.

natural regeneration there
is,” he said, .

The Prine George timber:
‘supply area covers 7.7
‘ million hectares of which 5.9 *
fniltion are productive forest
The forest service report
took into account loss of. a
forest land to farming, [ie
Umber utilization standards,’
environmental factors and
current forest management
practices.

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