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folder given to the media last
Wednesday by the public rela-
tions men: for Orenda Forest

. Products, On the cover is a pic-

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ture of an old-growth forest —
an evocative image suggesting
environmental health and well-
being. ;
It strikes me that a clear cut
would have’ been. more. ap-
Propriate cover material, after
all Orenda is in the business of .”
liquidating old-growth forests.
But such is the slippery and
essentially dishonest nature of
sO many public relations and
advertising campaigns we see
today, I suppose I shouldn't be
surprised or even disappointed,
after all tffe S6ject of these exer-
cises is usually to sell you and I
something we neither need nor
want.

When [ open Orenda’s folder
I see they have pressed all the
right buttons: they will create

‘ull probe ne

jobs; businesses wilt benefit
from increased traffic; there
will be no dioxins and furans.

Zero effluent is the new buzz--

word. The impression left is one
of a clean, non-polluting pulp
mill. If a clean pulp mill sounds
like the stuff of fairy tales to
you, it is. :

As it turns out, there is lots of
industrial excrement from this
latest techno-marvel and it will
be. devilishly hard to get rid of.
There is no mention. of this in
Orenda’s promotional material.
’ My research shows that a
similar mill is proposed for
Chetwynd. There, the
Louisiana-Pacific Company
Ltd. is also, touting a ‘‘zero-
effluent’® mill which-also uses a
combined chemical-mechanical
Process,

What remains after that pro-
cess is an effluent full of wood
Sugars, resin, acids and spent
bleaching and. eooking

"The Skeena
_ Angier
__by Rob Brown

chemicals, if this crap were

pumped into a river, the river
would die, So, if you can’t put
this murderous liquid into a
river, what do you do with it?
In Chetwynd the company
proposes to freeze the effluent
and separate clean water from it

‘which ‘could then be recycled for

use by the mill, Wonderful, ex-.
cept this process will produce.

100° tons of concentrated
chemical waste per day. And
how do you get rid of this stuff?
Well, the Chetwynd mill pro-

poses the sludge be shipped to a

kraft mill in exotic Samoa

California where it is to be

eded on fairy 1

burnt. .

And what do you get when
you burn this vile junk? Just
carbon. dioxide, sulphur diox-
ide, nitrogen oxides, and ozone.
The first three are constituents
of acid rain, while carbon diox-
ide and ozone are building
blocks of the global greenhouse
we are presently in the process

of constructing. And if that -

were not enough, such burning
is likely. to produce traces of
zinc, lead and mercury.
According to Orenda’s pro-
spectus there will be airborne

. emissions from the proposed

pulp and paper mill. Even if

these emissions meet the present
governmental standards, they
cannot be viewed in isolation,

The proponents of the copper
smelter for Kitimat’ freely ad-
mitted that their most serious
concern flowed from the
modelling they’d done on air
emissions, Even though the pro-
posed smelter would contribute
significantly less than either
Alcan or Eurocan, the tote! ad-
ditive effect of the gases pour-
ing out of the smoke stacks of
all three facilities into our air
shed worried the men pushing
the copper smelter.

This is a critical issue. Acid
rain has already been measured
at the Terrace airport. The
potential acidification of soils
and damage to plants in our
area — including the merchan-
table timber — is simply in-
tolerable. We don’t need
another contributor, .

Also included in the Orenda
package is a map pin-pointing

PORTS NEWS

_. JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD

next week. -

TERRACE GOLFER Brenda De Jon

e cup

ig makes a nice putt on the first green at the Skeena Valley Golf
and Country Club on Saturday. it was the first day of the club’s ladies’ open golf tourney. Results

o> arm strength. “If
oo. they're interested.”
>" At-the Prince George camp is Bill Clark, the
= Braves’ scout who covers the area narth of
| California and west of Saskatchewan,
~ “It’s not a fun thing for the kids,’’ Fick said.
“This guy.is a baseball coach — when he yells,
you hear him. He works these kids pretty hard.’
~Terrace players at the camp are 19-year-old
“io pitcher’ Doug .Worsfield, 15-year-old pitcher
. Bryan Fick, 16-year-old second baseman Mark -
ij... Neeve, 18-year-old first baseman/centre fielder «
“"s.7 Brent Neeve, 18-year-old catcher:Chad Ziegler, -

Braves scout talent

TERRACE — A squad of local baseball players
are. in Prince George today to try to impress
talent scouts from the Atlanta Braves’ organiza-

tion.

Jim Fick, a local minor baseball organizer,
said the main thing the scouts look-for is speed.
, ... “The main criteria is being able to run 180 feet

in under seven seconds,”' he said,
'-: - For pitchers, the important’ thing is form and - -
you can throw in the 80s,

Clint Prest.

year, -

ships, and expect

. 18-year-old pitcher Gary Peden, 19-year-old
fielder and catcher Jeff Peden, 14-year-old
player Brett Kluss, and 18-year-old centre fielder

_ Also going to the camp is Hud Stokes — a
15-year-old catcher and shortstop from Kit-
~wanga. Wilf Wilson, a 21-year-old Kitwanga
" native, is also going to the camp, _
It's Wilson's second trip to the camp. He im-
pressed scouts there and was offered two scholar-
8 to take advantage of them this

Fick said the Braves were surprised by the
talent at the camp last year and decided to hold it
in Prince George again.

- Atlanta signed Joey Potskin —~ a 19-year-old
native player from Prince. George — last year
‘with a $200,000 signing bonus, He wasn't on any
OF the advance lists for the camp, but just walked
on and impressed the scout, He's now playing in
rookle division in'Florida 3)... 0/07 .

Rosengren

FERRACE — Terrace golfer
Dan Rosengren cruised to a
13-stroke victory over his
nearest rivals in the Skeena
Valley Open men’s golf tourna-
ment here two weekends ago,

He fired a 206 10 iake the
overall low gross, beating out
second overall and champion-
ship flight winner John Yasin-
chuk’s 219. -

Ajter Yasinchuk, J.F. Malen-
fant grabbed second in cham-
piqnship flight,-and Pierre Butz
was third. -. 7

Ken Strymecki shot an overall
low net of 198, while Jim
Holland, Bruno Hidber and Jim
Rigler finished in that order in
championship flight low net
results,

More than 90 golfers par-
ticipated,

The rest of the winners in
each flight are:

Rider plan

TERRACE — He pushed
himself too hard and burnt out.

That’s Mike Christensen’s ex-
planation of what went wrong
for him this season in his quest
to make the national cycling
team.

The Terrace rider returned
home last week after a
disastrous series of provincial
and national qualifying races in
White Rock and Victoria,

He was gunning to be selected
for the Canadian national team
to the Pan-Am Gates, but
found himself still overextended
from a recent series of races in
Quebec and finished well back |
at the qualifier in White Rock, '

He had a good shot at making

the B.C. provincial team to the
nationals in Quebec when he
broke away from the pack with
a couple of top riders early in
the road race stage of the Vic-
toria races, But mechanical
trouble quashed his hopes when
his chain jammed on a hill, put-
ting him well back of the-rest of
the pack and effectively out of
the race.

“Times like that make you
want to throw the bike in the
ditch and do something else,’
said Christensen, who has been
doing major races every week
since mid-May, “I’ve talked to
my coaches and we've decided ]
should take some time off,
recharge and regroup.”

He took last week off —
riding only an hour and a half a
day that week — and says he
will return to serious trainin
again this week, ,

He decided not to go to the
nationals in Quebec this sum-
mer, ‘I'm physically and men-
tally not prepared to race it,’ he
explained,

Meanwhile, he’s going to be
racing in the Skeena Valley
Triathlon ‘here on Sunday. It’s

the first time he's had a chance -

Ast Flight — Low Gross
First — Gord McGreevy
Second — Terry Kruger
Third — Mike Johnson

Ist Flight -- Low Net
First — Chris Chicoine
Second — Tony Lopes
Third — Paul Duchesne, of

Kitimat.

2nd Flight — Low Gross
First — Rob Bell
Second — Paul Walker
_ Third — Dale Shoeweiler
wee 2nd Flight — Low Net. ...
~ First — Keith Soules ‘
Second — Dave Comfort
Third — Peter Hoy
3rd Flight — Low Gross
First — Ray Johnson
Second — Frank Hamilton
Third — Doug Jeffrey
3rd Flight — Low Net
First — Jim Lynch
Second — Harvey Horner,
Third — Bruce Carruthers

ning

_ Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 10, 1991 — Page B5

ale mill —

the proposed ‘site eight.”
kilometres. south of -Lakelse |

Lake, Js it a coincidence that the

map is simply a photocopy of
the industrial park concept pro-..

posed by the regional ‘district
Some years back? § think not,
The industry in Kitimat has long
threatened to spread up the
Kitimat-Terrace corridor. If one
mill is built it will not be long
before molybdenum roasters,
sulfuric acid plants, steet milfs

and the other industries adver- ©

tised on that old regional
district brochure take root,

The Orenda proposal is ex-
perimental. EXPERIMENTAL
— that’s the key word. Ap-
parently the Nisga’a didn’t want
to risk an experimental venture
in their backyards. We
shouldn't either.

At the very least, we need a
full-scale environmental review
by the federal government,
Let’s hear all the facts,

Dan Rosengren

or. en ye

omeback

“THE ROAD BACK. Mike Christensen attributes poor finishes recent

bike races to burn out. So, following his coaches’ advice, he's tak-
ing @ short break, at least until this weekend's triathlon.

to compete in Terrace’s run-
cycle-swim’ endurance test in
two years,

His: next. big race will be a
five-stage race — comprised. of

‘two road: races, a_criterium,. a

time: trial and a hillclimb — in

Prince George Aug. 2-5.

~ That's the :same.race where.

Christensen broke onto the pro-
vincial racing scene last: year
and he hopes it*ll be where he
makes his comeback from this
season’s doldrums. |

“PH be back,” Christensen

vows. “That's what I told my
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