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Moran Dam not power

By MABEL RICHARDS

€ controversy over the
ae Dam on the Fraser River
Ratio e by-product ofa
—— Which has no national
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ener On which does have an
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S of another nation.
tig . Provincial politicians
faddle federal politicians
,~- Licenses to export tril-
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“A €as to allow Canadian
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Outr} Oil to the Americans,

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: Worth of hydro power to
: N United States, billions of
tio Coal to Japan— this is our
a energy policy
ment ae the Bennett govern-
ale Ich in the 1950’s sold the
. la River benefits to the
ite ates for the proverbial
ibe eed, is casting about
Our Own or sources of power for
incoy future needs. By order-
Re wil last year they set the

Energy Board to research-

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Fight for

Your Future

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ing the site for a dam at Moran,
near Lilllooet on the Fraser
River.

The move is being met with a
great deal of hostility from all
quarters, including B.C. fisher-
men, the federal Department of
Fisheries, and scores of groups
made up of people concerned
with ecology. ;

Well might we protest. Apart
from what a dam on the river
would do to the salmon runs,
many knowledgeable persons
believe the geology of the Fraser
gorge is anything but conducive
to permanency; rockslides are
ever present and potential.

Civil engineer Leslie Edge-
worth, Pacific regional chief of
the resource development
branch of the department of
fisheries and forestry, said last
month that the “rapid rising of
the reservoir on refilling in June-
August period and continuous
bank sloughing and earth slides
would be incompatible with
recreation.” ;

He pointed out a fact which
proponents of the dam neglect to
mention: ‘‘A dam at Moran com-
pleted in the early 1980’s would
meet the increased demand for
a period of only two years and if

Bert Monk ill

Bert Monk, a veteran
supporter of the PT, and one of
our regular volunteer mailers,
suffered an attack of internal
bleeding last Friday night, and is
in St. Vincent’s Hospital. The PT
staff, the mailers and all of us,
send out greetings to Bert and
wish him a speedy recovery.

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construction were delayed until
the turn of the century — for less
than a year. By that time hydro
sources will certainly have been
exhausted*and thermal or other
sources of power will be an
absolute necessity. . .”

Edgeworth makes the
statement that nearly half of the
total Fraser River salmon runs
spawn above Moran. Others who
for one reason or another are
promoting the hydro dam, claim
this fact is not really important;
someday fish will be looked at as
just so many pounds of protein,
replaceable, ostensibly, in a
Dow Chemical laboratory.

These are the types who would
see industrialization at any
price, even the destruction of
the livelihood of thousands of
other citizens.

Can Premier Bennett’s prom-
ise that he will not consider
construction at Moran if it
would adversely affect the
livelihood of west coast fisher-
men be trusted? Not more likely
than we can believe he is going to
give us a ‘‘good life’ someday.

There are many thousand
people in the fishing industry
who would be directly affected
by a huge cut in the salmon runs
in B.C., and an incalcuable side-
affect in related industries. The
Fisheries Council of Canada
report that 45 percent of present
Fraser sockeye production, 50
percent of Fraser Chinooks and a
significant number of coho and

steelhead spawn and are reared

above the damsite. They charge
as well that the Moran dam
could effect a detrimental
change in the ecology and
environment of the valley

Book at printers

Stout Hearts Stand Tall is now
with the printer. Author Ivor
Mills who wrote the book dealing
with progressive farm and labor
development on the prairies,
said this week special rates of
$3.75, $4.75 for soft and hard
cover, will be cut off as of July 9,
and urged readers to take
advantage of the special offer
now. Send cheques or money
orders to Ivor Mills, 126 West

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flooded by the reservoir and of
the Fraser River delta and of
Georgia Strait.

No amount of ‘‘industrial-
ization’’ which the dam’s
proponents claim would negate
the loss of the fisheries, can alter
the picture of wrecked environ-
ment and the loss of food stocks,
and livelihood of people.

INDUSTRIALIZATION

It is time, perhaps, that B.C.
citizens backed up and took a
good look at what has become
the end result of industrializa-
tion at the expense of a thousand

tangibles and intangibles. Indus-

trialization has meant, on the
whole, a great increase of wealth
for corporations, mainly Ameri-

can, and jobs which give B.C.

workers neither security, (now
or in the future), nor prosperity.
The average worker in the
mines, mills and small
industries in this province are
daily faced with the losing battle
of making ends meet, trying to
save for the future, and are con-

stantly faced with unemploy'

’ ment,

FISHING INDUSTRY _

Despite the great wealth (to
corporations) generated by
“power’’ at cost provided by an
overburdened taxpayer, we see
in the province lack of money for
housing, education, hospitals,
health, old age pensioners and
for the needy. We must ask
ourselves: What has Bennett’s
vaunted industrial growth really
meant to us in terms of an all
’round better life? i

‘But if power we must have
there is a cheap source of it
being exported by the trillions of
cubic feet to the U.S.

solution

Premier Bennett sold and
continues to sell power when he
allows Westcoast Transmission
to sell 500 million cubic feet of
gas per day to El Paso Natural
Gas Co., (as he did in 1967) and
another 3.3 trillion cubic feet
over the next 18 years to the
needs of U.S. industry.

Natural gas is a clean, non-
polluting fuel for thermal power
stations. Why does it so seldom
enter the picture when the Dr.
Shrums.and the Bennett Socreds
talk power needs? Is the provin-
cial Energy Board investigating
the possibilities of this plentiful
energy source?

To date the area of investi-
gation seems to be centred on
hydro-electric potential. The
board has.only a few months to
do its research, for the premier
wants a report brought in by
February, 1972. This fact alone
makes a_ thoughtful man
shudder.

In the meantime, B.C. citi-
zens might do wejl to consider
these facts: We people have to
spend another $462 million
dollars to finish the Columbia
Treaty projects, plus the lonely
$10 million left in the fund paid-
by the U.S. for the Columbia
benefits.

No one seems to know for sure
how much the Bennett dam on
the Peace has, or is, costing the
B.C. public, but it is a long way
from being paid for. In 1967,
Hydro debts stood at
$1,134,192,986 or more,

“specifically $609 for every man,,

woman and child in the province.’

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