Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 20, 1991 — Page A7

TERRACE Local air
cadets. received a certificate
Feb. 13 from the provincial
Provincial Emergency Pro-
gram (PEP) in appreciation
for use of their hall at the air-
port as a headquarters for
the search last fall of a miss-
ing aircraft,

Approximately 100 PEP
volunteers and ihe search
and rescue squadron from
Comox on Vancouver Island
used the hall for about a
month during the search for
a Trans-Provincial Airlines
aircraft carrying pilot Max
Neubacher and three
passengers.

PEP northwest zone coor-
dinator Rod Salem told the
eadets that 3,700 volunteer
hours were spent on the
search.

Making the presentation
on behalf of the province was

THE PROVINCIAL Emergency rogram made { two presenta-
tions last week in recognition of work done during last fali’s
search for a missing plane. The air cadet squadron was
thanked for the use of its hall as search headquarters while
above, emergency program zone manager Rod Salem and
MLA Dave Parker thank Mary Ann Shannon who organized
volunteer pilots and spotters during the search.

An evening for
appreciations

‘taken from our traditional

Skeena MLA Dave Parker.
He also handed out Cana-
dian flag lapel pins with tiny
yellow ribbons attached in
recognition of Canadian
armed forces in the Gulf,
Parker said he got the idea
after seeing similar flags and
ribbons during a visit to the
supply vessel. HMCS Pro-
vider in Victoria last week,
‘Tt’s a tradition we've

friends and allies, the United
States. It's a hope for a safe
return of our service people
involved,” said Parker,

Also presented with a cer-
tificate leading from the air-
craft search was local PEP
air coordinator Mary Ann
Shannon,

She was responsible for the
coordination of- PEP
valunteer pilots and spotters
during the search,

Drill plan

TERRACE Despite
assurances the drilling of test
wells will not cut the flow of
water to Mount Layton Hoispr-
ings, Kitimat-Stikine regional
district has decided to continue
iis opposition to any drilling
within 6kms of the resort.

Fairbank Engineering wants
to carry out exploratory drilling
south of the hotsprings to
establish whether there is suffi-
cient hot water to make a geo-
thermal power plant viable.

Directors called for the. no-
drilling zone. last month in
response to Mount Layton
owner Bert Orleans’ request
they oppose the project on the
grounds’ it threatened his
development.

Putting his case at Saturday’s
board meeting, Brian Fairbank
admitted he should perhaps
have appeared before the board
earlier. Describing geo-thermal
power as ‘proven technalogy”
which, was both ‘‘safe and en-

vironmentally preferable,'’ he-

said he had thought the pro-
posal would have been
“‘welcomed with open arms,”
in an effort to allay some of
the district's concerns, he was
prepared to reduce the size of
the drilling permit area so as not
ta overlap Orlean's property,
agree to no drilling within 2kms
of the hotsprings and abandon
plans to drill two test wells near
Schulbuckhand Creek.

Fairbank said he was alsa

prepared to limit initial explora-

Euroca n

= Kitimat’s

TERRACE

Eurocan pulp mill has -been -

charged with pollution offences

relating to a bunker oil spill last

year.
The mill’s parent company,

Enso Forest Products, is charg- -

‘ed with two counts under the

- Waste Management Act — in-

 troducing. waste into: the en-

‘vironment and faillng to comply.
; with: the condition: of a waste .
. “riianagement perrisit;.: aa
' -EThes charges: stem from ‘the .

| ‘alleged’ discharge’ In’ June 1990
Of 43, 000) ‘gallons of: bunker c

nixed again

Brian Fairbank

tion to a single well $.5km south
of the resort. IF that test drill
found water at 60°C, it would

indicate there was a large supply
of heated water in the valley.

Although the next step would
likely be to drill a second test
well 3km from the hotsprings,
he emphasized it would occur
only if it had been shown the
resort would be unaffected,

In moving the beard stick to

its original position, Kitimat

director Ray Brady said he had
the impression the proposed in-
itial well was the first in a series
that would move ever closer to
the hotsprings, That, he added,
was contrary to the district's in-
tent of creating a buffer zone to
protect Mount Layton.

charged

oil. ’
District . conservation. officer

Peter Kalina said the company .

could be fined up to $1 million -

under the Waste Management

Act. ;
‘It’s the second recent time the

pulp mill has faced charges of. :
bunker oil spillage. The oll'is a |

heavy petroleum derivative used -°
as boiler fuel i in pulp, mills and ©.

ships. ws
- The company: : was™: -fined:

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