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Orenda adds paper mill

to pulp plant plans

Orenda Forest Products won’t be
making any decisions on.its plans
for a pulp mill in the Northwest
until an advanced feasibility study
is finished. The company expects
to have the study by the end of
September, 4 public relations rep-
resentative said last week. .

Orenda holds a 240,000 cubic
metre forest licence in the North

Kalum. They announced several
months ago the intent to build a
chemi-pressurized groundwood

pulp mill in the Northwest, with

Stewart indicated as a prefered
location. Estimated: cost of the
project was about $150 million.
The plan was part of Orenda’s
application for 100,000 cubic
metres of pulpwood offered by the
Ministry of Forests in the North

‘Kalum this spring under Pulpwood
‘Agreement 17. Orenda stated in

the application that financing for
the pulp mill project would hinge
on the company obtaining the
additional tenure, although they
expressed doubt that it would be
necessary to cut the wood.

Jim Hogan of Hogan Associates,
Orenda’s public affairs agency,
said the company is also consider-

‘ing the option of constructing a

fine paper mill along with the pulp
operation, an addition that would
add $290 million to the total cost.
Hogan said he’s reluctant to ela-
borate further on the company’s
plans until the study is submitied.

Locations other than Stewart are
also being studied, he said. Orenda
applied for an investigative permit
from the Ministry of Crown Lands
in early June to examine the area
around Swan Lake, northeast of

Human skull found

Cranberry ‘Junction. at the

headwaters of the Kispiox River,
for suitability as a pulp. mill loca-
tion. The permit would allow con-

sulting crews to sample soil and .

groundwater and examine other
factors in the area.

Jim Yardley, manager of Crown
Lands for the Skeena region, said
the permit application js still-in the
referral process. He expects a
decision on it within 30 to 60
days.

by Skeena River

A local fisherman found more than he expected while exploring
the banks of the Skeena last weekend 21 miles west of Terrace: a
human skull. Terrace coronor Jim Lynch says information ‘is .
sketchy at this point and it hasn’t yet been determined how old the
remains might be. An investigation Into the discovery has been

Started.

Terrace RCMP as of yesterday afternoon said they were not
aware of the report, but added that: ‘they: hadn't examined all files

from the weekend at that time.

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