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VANCOUVER (CP) —
Kitimat. appears to be the
best site for a major oil
tanker terminal on the
British Columbia coast, a
federal-previncial
“mittee has concluded.
Termpol, a committee in-
- cluding representatives of.
‘seven federal government
departments and _ the
provincial government set’
up in February, released a
report Sunday favoring the
Kitimat site because noth-
ing was identified as an
unusual navigational risk.
The committee said the
terminal, proposed by
Kitimat Pipeline Ltd. to
com- —
receive oil from Alaska and
the Middle East, was ac-
ceptable from an engi-.
neering standpoint but more
information is needed on the
marine, weather and en-
vironmental aspects of the
tanker route.
The assessment, which
will serve as‘a blueprint for
proceedings at the
federally-appointed Kitimat
Pipeline Inquiry under Or. |
Andrew Thompson, is not a
policy statement..
The committee report
said further documentation
and studies of fishery
resources would not alter
the committee’s_ conclusion
site gets support
that the tanker route has an
extremely high potential to
disrupt fishing activity.
. The committee also found
that knowledge of seasonal
distribution of marine birds
‘along tanker approach
routes to the proposed
terminal is generally
inadequate.
itt ip generally accepted
that oi] spills are inevitable
asa result of the proposed
oil terminal operation,” the
report said. “The effect of
such spills to the biological
resources and the socio-
economic effects could be
serigqus..’
“ttwas concluded that:
concerns relating to the
state of preparedness, the
effectiveness of oil spill
countermeasures and
related socio-economic
matters, were not
adequately cddressed by the
proponent,”
The committee made 26
recommendations about oil-
handling equipme.x at the
terminal if the project is
approved.
“The report also calls for a
report on landslide activity
in the area and its possible
effect on floating docks,
improved meteorological
services for the area and
implementation of a marine —
traffic raanagement system
for the entire Prince Rupert
area. :
The committee found that
existing climatological
information indicates that
weather in the area is
favorable for navigation 75
to 85 per cent of the time.
The committee said the
one spill scenario developed
by Kitimat Pipeline did not
adequately reflect the
countermeasures required
to clean up a major spill.
The committee said the
company has agreed to
provide information on
controlling smaller spills on
inlets and sounds.
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STEWART-CASSIAR —
road contr
Frank Calder (MLA-Atlin), Highways and Public (MLA:Skeena) were in Terrace Friday to announce
Works Minister Alex Fraser, and Cyril Shelford twa ngw contracts on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway.
BoC SSS
YOUTH
- KILLED
A fifteen year-old Terrace
man was killed in a climbing
mishap Sunday afternoon on
Kitselas Mountain near Usk,
20 miles northeast of
Terrace, ©... 2...
The youth.was hiking with
four companions when ‘he
slipped and fell 200.feet onto
‘arock face. RCMP called in
the provincial emergency
rescue teatn from Terrace
who were flown to the site by
helicopter. eee
The body of: the young
man was taken to Mills
Memorial Hospital - in
Terrace where he was
declared dead on arrival.
Police are withholding the
‘name of the man until the
next of kin are notified.
SSE aeeaoee
LOGGERS TOLD:
— Caution on quotas
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C..
(CP) — Forests Minister
‘Tom Waterland told a -
meeting of independent
logging contractors
_ Saturday that their desire to
lease timber quotas could
destroy their autonomy.
Waterland told the British.
‘Columbia Independent.
Logging Association that .
~having a quota requires a -
tremendous amount.” of
responsibility .and could
‘drive some’ loggers ' into
bankruptey;°
’ Independent loggers now
are hired by mill operators
to harvest and deliver
atimber. Association
members have indicated a
desire to also lease the tim-
Ben cries “uncle”
at Bennett Junior
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
’ (CP) — Industrialist Ben
Ginter, whose operations
reached a peak in 1671, said
Sunday they will never be as
‘Jarge again because in-
centive and his interest.are
gone, Lo
in road construction and
pulp mills in addition to beer
marketing. He says -his
present holdings will be out
of receivership within a
month if-all goes well,
Ginter says the response
to his share giveaway
program involving beer
bottlecaps has already
‘increased orders three and
four times to what they
were, “
Ginter was onée involved’
Ginter also ‘had some
harsh words for the present
Social Credit government. :
He says he voted Socred in
the last election, but says
Bill Bennett has none of the
fine leadership of his father,
W. A. C, Bennett.
He said that since the
Socreds formed the
government, all they have
done is impose more taxes.
“It's just a ripoff,” he
said.’
. Weather ,
Yesterday: High: 18 Low: 5
Today: High: 19 Low: 6
Continued sunny and warm -
berland they work, much
like a’sawmill owner,
The issue of independent
loggers leasing quotas is
currently being reviewed by ~
the forest policy advisory
committee, which includes
representatives of the forest
servieg and-forest industry,
consulfants..:° .”
“The committee is studying : ae
recommendations: ofthe”;
“Pearse Report on timber . —
rights and forest policy, and
is advising Waterland on
implementation, ~~ /-.
- Watérland: . said
highly efficient group and
cautioned them “to be very .
sure before you wade into
“the swamp” of ‘timber
ens advice is offered to
you omy as a caution, nota
sermon, and not as any
indication of what’ policy
might be forthcoming from
_our study of the Pearse
Royal Commission report,”’
-he said.
“If you acquire timber
quotas on your own, you will
have to eliminate the: word
independent from your
name.
“If you acquire timber
quotas of your own, you will
probably eventually begin to
think about establisting ‘a
* sawmill,
“If you acquire timber
quotas’ for your own, and
RAORNNINNINANAA build d- sawmill, then you
will probably begin to think
. about
ring an independent
» logger to do your logging for
ou.
* Wiaterland sald to offer
independent loggers rights
WAAAAAnnnnnnne = to qudta may only com-
“dae.
dependent loggers aré. a’.
plicate “'a presently ef-
ficient: economic function.”
' About 400 people attended.
the BCILA convention held
here Wednesday through
Saturday... a
“ LONDON (CP) -
diistrial countries ended
their two-day Downcng
.Street summit here Sunday, -
saying
task” is
e “most urgent
create jobs while
.cutting Anflation..
They/ pledged to “‘main-
fain the momentum” of
economic growth, expand
trade’ and begin an urgent
study of ways to expand the
use of nuclear energy while
preventing the spread of
atomic weapons.
- A surprise decision called
for a ban against irregular
practices ard improper
conduct in international
trade.
U.S. President Carter en-
dorsed the: action, saying,
_"We believe the time has
come for international
control and prohibition
against illegalities, bribery,
extortion and other actionf:
that have sometimes been
condoned in trade, com-
merce and banking.”
The scandal involving
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. of
the United States Jast year
shook the governments
of'.Japan, Italy, the
acts let
promised
-By ANDREW PETTER
Highways and Public
works Minister Alex Fraser .
has announced that two new
multi-million" dollar
contracts for work along the
Stewart-Cassiar Highway
‘ will be called later this
month.
The first of the two con-:.
tracts is for’ a13-thile con-"*
- struction ©. project; from
Kitwanga north to Kit-
‘{wancool on the southern end’
of the highway. Fifteen
‘ native Indian — workers,
using their own equipment,
have already cleared 10 of
the miles under a day-
labour contract. This phase
of the project will continue
to..completion, followed by
* the larger contract for the
entire 13-mile — stretch,
Fraser said.
~The second contract is for
construction of the 14-mile
stretch from a point 55 miles
‘north of Kitwanga along the
Nass River to a point 69
miles north of Kitwanga.
The highway is presently of:
‘logging road standard, and
a complete “upgrading has
been planned. .
Fraser estimated that 100
workers will be.employed'on
the two contracts.. Con-
struction will start in June,
*. continued on page 3
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OTTAWA (CP)"— Mr.
Justice Thomas Herger lays
‘put for the federal govern-
ment today the information
he feels they will need to
make ‘some hard and
painful cholces’’ on
proposals to build a pipeline
from the north.
In two years of hearings
throughout the Northwest
Territories, the - British
Columbia Supreme Court
judge has listened to the
pleas of native groups not to
allow a pipeline until: well
after their long-standing
land claims are settled.
Others have told him that
the multi-billion pipeline is
needed to provide wage
employment for thousands
of young, educated native
peopler-who they say are not
willing to follow’ the
traditional lifestyle of
ping for survival.
Imposed on top of that are
the arguments from the oil
companies that natural gas
from the north is needed to
fuel southern, industrial
Canada and to help reduce
the country’s dependence on
imports of crude oil.
- Berger, a 43-year-old
former native rights lawyer,
says the government faces
some tough choices and he
sees his task as helping.
them make an informed
opinion. The choices, he
says, will “tell us something
about what kind of country
Canada is, what kind of
people we are,”
At issue are competing
proposals to move to U.S.
and Canadian markets the
25 trillion cubic feet ‘of
natural gas found in nor-
thern Alaska and the six
trillion discovered in the
Mackenzie’ delta in the
Canadian Arctic Gas
Pipeline Ltd. wants to build
-a joint pipeline to serve both
areas, Foothills Pipelines
from the two areas,
Berger has been careful to
say that he won't decide
whether a pipeline should be
bujt or, if one is built, which
company should get the job.
His mandate is to report to
government his findings on
the social, economic and
environmental impact of a
pipeline on the north and to
suggest conditions that will
be placed on the north and to
suggest conditions that will
be placed on any pipeline
approval, — .
But the attention Berger
has attracted and the
comments made in some of
his speeches make the
pipeline companies nervous
as the time approaches for
release of the report.
_ In a speech here earlier
tT
Thomas Berger
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: BERGER COMMISSION |
"Painful" pipeline
choices upcoming
..report today.
bunting, fishing and trap- °
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BERGER POISED |
TO PROPOSE HALT -
TORONTO (CP) — The
Globe and Mail says the first
volume of the final report on
the Berger inquiry calls for
a 10-year moratorium on
construction of a northern
Bas pipeline along the
Mackenzie River Valley
corridor.
Quoting sources it says
have seen the report, the
newspaper says. the report
also concludes that an in-
terior route across the
northern Yukon and bet-
ween Alaska’ and the
Mackenzie delta would not*
eliminate the major en-
vironmental and social
problems posed by the route
now being proposed for al
Canadian-United
joint
States gas pipeline.
Mr. Justice Thomas
Berger of the British
Columbia Supreme Court,
who conducted two years of
hearings into the impact of a
pipeline from the north, will
release his report today.
The Globe and Mail says
in an Ottawa story that the
report comes down par-
ticularly hard on a proposed
pipeline connecting
Alaska’s large gas fields in
Prudhoe Bay to Canada’s
smaller gas reserves in the
Mackenzie delta.
oan ey
Ltd: proposes separate lines
this year, the judge said the
government should “listen’
to the voices of the northern
people” hefore™ making“ a
decision. Those were the
people who would have to
live -with whatever the
government decides.
The voices the govern-
ment has been hearing from
the north are divided over
what action should be taken
on a pipeline, with most
hative groups opposing a
pipeline but the Metis
Association supporting its -
construction as a way to
help solve chronic northern
unemployment,
In a preliminary report
last fall, the staff of the
Berger Commission agreed
with the native groups that
any pipeline within 10 to 15
years after settlement of
land claims would be
detrimental to the native
people. They feel they will
need that much time to’
prepare for development.
. The staff made it clear at
the time, however, that the
recommendations they
made are not binding on the}.
judge. ‘
Depending which project]
is “selected, ‘thé “pipeline |’
could. be up to 2,400 miles
long and cost up to $9 billion.
The federal government is
under pressure to make a
quick decision on the issue—
both by the oil companies
who own the gas and the
U.S. government, which
wants to get Alaskan gas to
help meet their energy de-
mands.
the National Energy Board,
Recommendations from]
aa
the federal regulatory] -
agency, are expected by
July 1 and the government}
hopes to make its ruling by
Sept, 1.
The NEB has been holding |
hearings parallel to the
Berger inquiry, but has}
concentrated more on the]
technical and financial
aspects of the project, It will
recommend. whether aj™._
pipeline should be built and]”
which one the government
BUT DECRY INFLATION
‘' Netherlands and other
Leaders of the - United...
' States, Canada and five
: other ‘non-Comm unist in-
countries afternit was
‘disclosed that payments
were made to influence tme
sales of planes. '
Canadian Prime Minister
“Trudeau sjid a highlight of
the summit was a display of
politicalnwill to deal with
economic difficulties,
.He warnednthat the way
Western democratic
societies handle their
economic difficulties is
-being watched by de-
veloping countries.
“Our very way of life,”’ he
poined out, is linked with the
Western response to
narrowing the gap between
industrialized and
developing countries.
-He said he is convinced
‘the non-Communist
economic powers will tackle
the problems ahead in a
spirit of co-operation and
realization that the world is
interdependent. .
“I am very pleased at the
display of political will te
adjust to the changing
economic stituation,” the
prime minister said of the
London summit.
Informed sources said
Trudeau had done much
persuading at the con.
ference to make the Paris
meeting between in:
dustrialized and ‘developing
countries—commonily
known as North-South dia-
logue—a success.
Trudeau. said he is
gratified to'see that the
positions of the countries
attending the summit have
advanced beyond those
taken at the previous North-
South conference — at
Rambouillet in November,
1975, and at Puerto Rico in
June, 1976,
Allan MacEachen,
president of the Canadian
Privy Council, is co-
chairman of the NorthSouth
conference struggling to
reach agreement on ways of
ensuring more revenue for
SPEC TOLD;
should. select.
festern leaders push jobs for young -
developing states.
Participating at “the
summit along with Carter
and Trudeau were: British _
James °
Prime Minister
Callaghan, French Presi-
dent ' Valery Giscard
a'Estaing, West German |
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
and Prime Ministers Giulio
Andreotti of Italy and Takeo |
Fukuda of Japan.
Hearings are no place
to just ask questions
VANCOUVER (CP) —
Public interest groups that
intervene in public inquiries
-and hearings should come
fully informed on all aspects
of the {issue concerned,
lawyer Russ Anthony told
the annual general meeting
of the Scientific Pollution
and Environmental Control
Society Saturday.
Anthony has been ap-
pointed commission counsel
into the federal inquiry on
marine aspects of the
proposed Kitimat oi! tanker
terminal. He represented
environmental groups at the
Berger inquiry into the pro-
posed Mackenzie Valley
pipeline.
“Too many people come
to public hearings to ask
questions,” Anthony said.
“You should come fully
informed.”
SPEC is seeking special
funding to intervene in the
Kitimat .nouiry.
Environmental groups
like SPEC should continue
to be represented at
hearings, Anthony said, and
should encourage more
widespread representation
of individual residents in
areas affected by
development. -
“Kamloops SPEC.
representative Don Ellsay
was elected president of the
2,000-member organization.
Executive director Gary
Gallon reported that SPEC
had $6,047 in the bank at the
ena of 1976.
. The group relies on cor-
peeste donations and Local
Initiatives Grants for most
of its revenue.
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