Families feeling | very isolated “can’t believe they'll still be using radiophones and gen- “erators after a high-tech new fibre optic phone line - goes through their front yards. :“Te’s absurd,’? says farm owner Maureen Bostock. “We! re going to have nothing even though this fibre optic cable is going right past our driveway.” oy ‘can’t hook up the local homes because it requires epower to convert the signal from digital to analog. But there’s no power right now, between Chim- ‘demash and Cedarvale, and B,C. Hydro says it has no “there. “That's another sore point for homeowners: in the blackout area - They, want B.C. Tel to use larger ‘poles for the fibre “optic line, so that they could eventually be used to ex “tend power as well. Bostock says there’ Ss excellent farm land along the “Skeena in that area and the actions of the two utility ‘companies ensure it will never be developed. . “How on earth did they get permission to put in “poles that size that preclude any other development?” . she demanded. ‘Probably for another $100 a pole.thcy “could have had regulation size poles and eventually wp. tt ~ But B.C, Tel’s Clark disagrees. €'We-don’t build our fibre optic lines so that 10 or 15 _ years from now Hydro can use our utility poles,’’ he “said. “It has to be done to standards — our standards.” It’s frustrating, Bostock says, because not only is it - expensive to run the generator for power, but using a FAMILIES east of town beyond Chimdemash Creek B.C, Tel spokesman Ed Clark says the phone compa- : - plans to extend service for the handful of homes out | “brought in power. They skimped on us just to get this Aia- The Terrace Standard, “Wednesday, November 4, 4995 ares Regional district t to take action LOCAL OFFICIALS may have snipped a ribbon to of- ficially declare the Queens- way sewer project open, but local contractors haven't been paid for their work. The problem goes back to the payment schedule agreed. to between the Kitimat-Stikine regional dis- trict and Kelowna-based Canwest, the main con- - tractor, . Canwest. was paid for work completed until the end of 1994 with a second payment due for work com- pleted this year. But the company has to fix some problems on the ‘ project and because that hasn’t been done yet, hasn’t received the second pay- ment, Since Canwest hasn't been ‘paid, neither have the sub- contractors it hired for the project ° Thomhill regional district director Peggy Julseth says it realizes there is a problem and has come up with a solution. The solution is to forward a payment to Canwest but ta Peggy Julseth keep some money back until the problems are corrected, That way, says Julseth, unpaid subcontractors should expect Canwest to settle accounts. “We're trying to do what we .can for the —sub- contractors,”’ she said. Julseth added that the regional district has also to protect the taxpayers in ensuring that money paid owt was for work, that met specifications. “Y would expect this to be resolved in the next weck or 50,’? suid Julseth last week, Although there’s no Fegal method the regional district can take to censure that any payments made to Canwest are then forwarded to sub- contractors, the company has posted bonds with the regional district. One subcontractor, Bill Mahoney, says Canwest owes him $5,000 dating back to August, There are others who are owed far more than he is, Mahoney added. “The usual payment is 30 days after the end of the month but that.sure hasn’t happened here,’ — sald Mahoney. 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