AS Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 20, 1991

Open letter to the Major
Project Review Process;

' Re: Orenda Forest Products
pulp mill proposal: Meziadin
area.

I have now had a chance to
peruse the prospectus and havea
number of highly preliminary
comments and concerns pertain-
ing to the proposal.

First of all, there is the de-
mand on local timber. This de-
mand will be high and I note
that close utilization to very
small tops is indicated, to meet
fuel requirements of the main
boiler.

Such close utilizaion is in-
creasingly being thought of as
unecological and unsound forest
management practice. We are
discovering (ex: Chris Maser-
Oregon) that there is a strong

need to maintain symbiotic”

fungi in settings in order to
facilitate good regeneration of
conifer seedlings. I have noticed
in a number of restocked set-
tings in the Meziadin area
chlorotic seedlings for no ap-
parent reason, and this could in-
dicate dead symbionts for the
above mentioned reason.
Excessively hygienic clearcut-
ting and close utilization is also
-being found to be attributable to
decreases of beneficial micro-
tines and reduction in those
animals, both avian and.mam-

Letters to the E

malian, which regulate the
numbers of harmful ones.
Pulpwood is commonly pre-
sent in areas where soil-forming
processes are very often slow,
for example north aspects, up-
per slopes and wet sites, com-

‘Clean’ Orenda mill may still have adver

Canada’s international commit-
ment to protect the Earth’s at-
mosphere and towards sustain-
able development. This, at a
time when so many mega-pro-
jects have been approved in
Canada, is irresponsible.

mon in the Meziadin area, to an
undetermined potentially large
but important extent. For this
reason, a great deal of debris
and residuals and wildlife trees
and snags should be left in the
settings to facilitate soil regener-
ation. If this were done to pro-
tect the sustainability, there
might not be the volume re-
quired to run the mill without
excessively clear-cutting in ex-
cessive logging pressures. This
would be harmful for both fish
and wildlife habitat, as would
burning and herbiciding for
brush control in marginal areas.

With these ecological consid-
erations, I don’t think that there
will be the fuel or wood supply
available which the proposal
seems to need.

Powering such a proposal by
burning wood also contributes
to the greenhouse effect by
discharge of carbon dioxide and

_ cannot be justified in the light of

Women’s Centre
clarifies stance

To the Editor;

In a recent edition of your
newspaper a letter was sent to
the editor by William Buck, ac-
cusing the Women’s Resource
Centre of being an ‘‘abortion
store’. Mr. Buck is misinform-
ed and sadly in need of informa-
tion. The Terrace Women’s Re-
source Centre has never per-
formed an abortion. There are
provisions in Terrace for this
procedure. The Women’s Re-
source Centre déals in informa-
tion. °

When a pregnant woman
comes to us having decided to
keep her baby, we respect her
decision and give her informa-
tion about resources available in
the community, direct her to
doctors who help make birthing
a positive experience, and some-
times even supply labour sup-

port.

When a pregnant woman
comes to us having decided to
have an abortion we respect her
decision, give her information
about procedures which must be
followed, and provide her with
non-judgemental support and
understanding. In all cases we
respect the right of the woman

~ to make her own personal choice

regarding her life and her body.
We respect the right of the in-
dividual to have access to infor-
mation so she may make accur-
ate and informed decisions. We
expect the community to respect
our commitment to the in-
dividual.
Karla Hennig
‘Coordinator
Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre

Port Edward plans
summertime reunion

To the Editor;

. A Port Edward Reunion is
' planned for the weekend of June
28, 29, and 30 for all those who
have lived or worked in Port Ed-
ward, which includes Inverness,
“North Pacific, Sunnyside and
Cassiar Canneries.

We would like to contact as
many former residents as possi-
ble from the fish canneries,
RCMP detachment, school

teachers, and the many others
who have lived here over the
years, and invite them back for a
weekend to re-live, enjoy and
share the many memories they
have of their days here.

Please contact us at the Port
Edward Reunion Committee,
Port Edward, B.C. VOV 1G0.

Barbara Sheppard
Port Edward, B.C.

There will be air emissions.
These will be acidic in nature
due to nitrogen oxides, sulphur
oxides and volatile organic com-
pound discharge. Because of
high cloud cover in the area, fre-
quent calms and inversions,
photochemical smog will devel-
op and sit in the area for long
periods of time. This will enable
peroxides, both natural and gen-
erated by the project, to interact
with burner emissions to gener-
ate acid conditions (and ozone)
which will then accumulate on
the snow locally, to be discharg-
ed as a sludge during thaws.

This toxic runoff will harm
local streams and lakes and their
attendant biota and may have
more indirect affects on the
ability of the local forests to
regenerate themselves. [t will af-
fect wildlife including the grizzly
bear, and will certainly alter the
ecology of the area. It will also
mobilize. toxic: “metals
bound tightly to the soils. The
Meziadin area is well known to
be very rich in metals in the
soils, with potential toxic im-
pacts. It may affect the Nass
estuary in spring.

The smog will also, due to the
inversions and frequent calms

and the proximity of early morn--

ing Nass river mists, sit over the
highway and cause harm to the
tourism industry and may con-
tribute to highway accidents, of
particular concern to truckers
plying these roads.

There will be sulphur smell,
and this will harm tourism, and

sulphur will contribute to can- — |

cer, heart disease, asthma, and
chronic bronchitis amongst lo-
cals. VOC’s and dioxins will
probably be generated in the
process, and issue from the

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stacks, from the main power
boiler. I saw inadequate discus-
sion of their impacts or antici-
pated levels in the Prospectus.
The dioxins would form from
inorganic chlorides: being
scavenged by phenols and then
being reacted in the fly ash. No
discussion was made of this.

I don’t feel that ozone genera-
tion was adequately dealt with.
We have found that this issue af-
fects regeneration of forests and
seedling survival as well as hu-
man and other species’ health.

I note that there are eight
drums of biocides being stored.
What are the names of these,
what, will be their rate of ap-
plication, and what are they go-
ing to be used for and what will
be the destiny of the chemicals?

The North Kalum Timber
Supply Area is important for a
relict band of caribou which I
have confirmed from tracks and
droppings, and also for a large
population of wilderness-loving

se effects

grizzly bears. It is an area prized
by tourists and hunters and
mushroom pickers and campers
and fishermen for its raw beauty
and these wilderness creatures
and other values.

I do not personally feel that
this site is a good one, or that
conceptually the proposal is as
sustainable as has been propos-
ed, given the sensitivity of the
area in question, one with which
I have a great deal of first hand
ecological experience. The con-
cept is interesting however, and I
would think that a scaled-down
yersion employing hydroelectric
power would be more support-
able, given a more feasible loca-
tion. Hydroelectric power gener-
ation would be cleaner and I

' think that they should purchase

‘this from the B.C. grid if it goes
ahead.
Jorma Jyrkkanen
Environmental Biologist
Former/Fish and Wildlife
Habitat Tech, Terrace.

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