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Page AQ a Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 3, 1991

‘Kemano cutbacks
keep on climbing.

TERRACE — Layoffs at the

Kemano Completion Project
are expected to reach more than
500 by the end of. this week
following Alcan's decision’ last

month .to scale down the Pro-

ject.

Alcan spokesman “Allan
Hewitson said 430 people —
more than half of. the project’s

. 844 workers . — . had received

layoff notices as of last week. -
He said company officials an-
ticipate the project's workforce

_ will be down to aroutid- 300 by

‘

the'end of this week. ‘We're ex-
pecting another 100 or more
Cayorts) at al any time,” he add-
(+14 Pe '

“Meanwhile, B.C:

Alcan. to continue with the pra-
ject. hat
“Layotts at "Kemano started

_after the company’s decision to

halt new work pending its ap-
peal of a May 16 federal court
decision.” The federal govern-
ment is also appealing the deci-

Alcan wants order ki

TERRACE — A decision is ex-
pected so0on-‘on Alcan’s court
application to delay any en-
vironmental review of its
Kemano project until after the
company’s appeal of a federal
court ruling is heard.

The May 16 decision of
federal court judge Allison
Walsh quashed a 1987 water

' deal between the company and

the federal government, and
overturned the government’s
decision to exempt the $1 billion
project from the federal en-

vironmental assessment and —

review process.
Alcan appealed that decision

last. month and also applied for..

a stay of. execution of the deci-
sion, which would delay the ef-
fects of the decision until after

si Appeal | isteard

| i

i|FOR
IGREAT @

energy
minister Jack: Weisgerber wants -
the federal government to in-.
troduce new legislation to‘allow *
from’.Alcan” in 1994
scheduled date for completion .

sion.

: "These delays ‘and reversals:

are unacceptable. and the im-
pacts of the decision ° are
serious,” Weisgerber. said-of the
court ruling that now requires

the. project' to ‘undergo. a full

federal’. environmental review.
“It-has affected hundreds. of
workers in the: ‘northwest.

-region.”’

“He blamed the federal
government’s environmental
assessment procedures For caus-
ing the ‘‘uncertainty and confu-
sion”’ over the project,.
making it more difficult for the
province to plan its long-term

¢lectricity supply. .~
The province had hoped to“
delay . construction of: any new’

major power generating stations,
by starting to buy surplus power

of Kemano’s 540-megawatt se.

‘cond stage. .
~ [na press release, Weisgerber

blamed what he called ‘“‘inade-
quate federal environmental
legislation” for back-tracking

. The stay of execution applica-
tion is to ‘be heard. Monday in
the federal court of. appeal in
Vancouver.

Company spokesman Les’

Holroyd said Thursday Alcan
expects the stay of execution ap-.
plication to be heard in the first
two weeks of July. .

Alcan vice-president Bill Rich
says the company’s decision to
slash construction work at
Kemano was not part of any
strategy to put public pressure
on the government.

“The decision was made | on
the simple basis in which it was
portrayed,”’ Rich said last
week. ‘We didn’t say let's do
this to get everybody excited. It
wasn't done for that reason.”’

He was Fesponding to sugges-

issaue

‘tions “that the” company’ ‘has

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on agreements and. int d

on Ottawa. to bring. ‘ine pro-,
cedures which respect ‘provincial a en
environmental assessments. and «| "4
to introduce new legislation: to iz

do‘ that:-

“A clean-up of federal en-
vironmental assessment pro-
cedures and legislation . is

urgently needed to fully.

recognize the validity of existing
provincial. economic and en-
vironmental. assessment pro-
cedures,’’ Weisgerber said,
The federal court - decision
overturned the federal govern-
ment’s decision to exempt the
project .from its environmental

proportion of the water in the
Nechako River system to its

power generators at .Kemano,,, ...

llec

decided to play hardball follow-
ing a May 16 federal court rul-
ing that overturned the federal

government's exemption of the -

water diversion project from a
full: federal. ‘environmental
review. More than 260 workers
have been laid: off at. the site

since Alcan announced: a ‘halt in qT:

new work pending its appeal of
the court decision.

. Rich said the work slowdown
has meant abandoning con-
tracts and alienating companies
Alcan has been working with
for years,

- ‘After all, it’s our own ox
that’s getting gored,” he said.
“We are no longer confident of
‘our ability to operate this thing

_in the way we envisioned. This ©
,is simply the safest business

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Justice Allison Walsh found .
that a-full public environmental ; |.
.Teview must’ go ahead, and he -
also quashed a Sept. 14,1987 |
deal. in which the federal .
government, promised Alcan. it --
would be able to divert a certain: :

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