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per cent,” said Foster, .
That means the 173 ,000 tonne
a year production design will re-
‘quire only 183,000 cubic metres
of pulp, he said,
~The mill will also employ a.
dlased-loop system in that water:
used in the grinding process will’
be” turned into steam, have
waste particles removed and the
‘ steam cooled into water for use
again.
_“This will be a zero-effluent
mill,” said Foster. “Waste will
be burned as hogfuel. In fact,

‘per cent recovery rate and only —_ we'll have to buy hogfuel from
other mills to meet our (energy)

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| TERRACE — An agreement

- has been reached to create a
20,000ha Class A: provincial
park to protect the Tseax lava
beds about 100km north of Ter-
race.

Skeena Cellulose gives up the -.

cutting rights to 2,900ha of

- timber under the agreement the

and last’: seat.

company reached with Nisgd’a.’

Tribal Council and parks
ministry negotiators. : .
The park is to be called
Nisga’a Memorial: Lava Bed
Park, in honour of the more
than 2,000 people killed when
the lava flow buried at least two
native villages .:-in the Nass
Valley an estimated 250 years
ago.
Parks ministry . -planning

manager’ Mike -Murtha © said -
ost of the'timbér‘deleted. from.

 Skeetia. ~Cellulose’s :treé® “Farin
licence tinder the agreementis-in
a’ valley! east “Of "Lava | Lake,
.. where:the lay ‘flow originated.
The agreement bans logging in
the upper: Tseax River watersh-

ed’ — where the lava flowed
from two ‘volcanic cinder cones
— to keep clearcuts out of view
of people hiking there.

The park boundary includes
that valley, thé entire lava flow, -
Lava Lake, and a mountainous
area southeast of Aiyansh, ‘The .

flow enters the Kitsumkalum—

Valley at the north end of Lava

Lake and goes north to the Nass .

Valley where it spreads out to
the west, .

' Nisga’a Tribal. Council
spokesman Harry Nyce said the

requirements.”

The wood will come from
Orenda’s 360,000 cubic metre a

year, forest licence in the north.

Kalum, atea near -Stewart first
given. in. i985. la
us until? now, the company

‘been “gelling pulp and.
saeices to domestic and foreign :
markets. -. . .
" -It'expects to continue to sell :

sawlogs here and in ‘other coun-

tries: -and. there'll be a much
; greater utilization of pulpwood

— if makes up 70 per cent of the

‘cut — because of the mill’s

design, said Foster, os
“We'll be able to use (pulp)

park is to be jointly developed
by the Nisga’a and the parks
ministry. Plans include view-
points, hiking trails, picnic
sites; and campgrounds at both
ends:of Lava Lake.

In addition to jobs for natives
as park rangers, Nyce said the
.Nisga’a expect the park to be a
key to their plans for increased

tourism and economic develop- .
. Ment in the Nass Valley.

‘“As we go along it will
benefit not only the Nisga'a
communities, but Terrace as
well,’? he said. ‘It's going to
pick up the economy. for the

who est.'”
TEMA oa also: bolster

Nisga’a calls fora: paved Toad to

‘the. Nass, Nyce added,
Parks ministry officials must

how draw iip.a legal description

fof the botindary and submis.the -
proposed park to eabi ie for
approval, Bh eRe
Skeena Cellulose spokesman
‘Dan Tuomi said the company
‘gives up the rights to 1.3 million
cubic metres of timber under
the agreement. ‘That’s. early

two years of the company’ San- -

nual cut, representing a gross
value as raw logs of: around. $30 -
million,

“We consider it a : significant
_reduction, but we feet it’s wor-
thwhile,” Tuomi said Friday.
“Our feeling is it’s probably
park: than as

“"Onlike | ‘other areas . in B.C.
where logging has been halted -
to create parks, He said the lava

Hallock leads
council votes

TERRACE .— Veteran alder-
man Ruth Cooper led the voting

and newcomer Rick King placed ©

fourth ‘as all six council seats
were. up for. grabs during
municipal elections Nov. 17.

The upset of the day was the
defeat of alderman David Hull
who placed last among the eight
candidates for, the ' ‘six seats.

rlie

was held to‘detérmine if alder- .

man . Darryl: urent or first |
time candidate Adrian Van De
Mosselaer’, -taptured the sixth

As of. Saturday night,
Hallock’. ‘Teceived:” 990 votes,
alderman "Mo... “Takhar 905,

alderman Bob Cooper 821,
King 801, alderman Danny
Sheridan 780, Laurent 775, Van
De Mosselaer 766 and Hull 704,

“A turn out of just over 1,420
was 24 per. cent of eligible
voters.

With nine of 11. polls repor-
ting Saturday night: in the

Kitimat-Stikine regional district _

Area C race, -:firsti time can-
- didate Sandy-Sandhals was in
the lead. over sitting director
Gordon Robinson. - oh

Sandhals. had’ “145 ‘votes,
Robinson 114 and the third can-
didate, Bill: Hayes, Fecelved 60
ballots. moe

logs as short: as. five feet, . three:
inches. It’s too short: for. the :.

woodrooms in other-mills tobe:

used efficiently," he said...
And that capability. will also

return. as trees’ can be better:
ulitized, Foster. continued.’
- As well, he said: ‘Orend

trucked ‘to Stewart: and ut wil _

through the port for overseas:

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Harry Nyce

beds park will be easy to reach,
‘This is going ‘to be heavily
used,” he said, “'The people ‘of
“B.C. will indeed get-a- benefit
aut of it’-— notjust a few people ©
but a lot of people.”’
A buffer zone outside the .

park boundaries. will be jointly -

managed by a committee with.

Nisga’a representation, Tuomi® ;

added. Future cutting in that
area — which has already been
extensively logged — will ‘be,
done with smaller cutblocks and”

- landscape logging techniques _ ;
wherever possible to reduce the ~

impact on views, ~
Nisga’a stories describe how.,

the lava flowed north and hit t

the Nass River — which Olice -
flowed on the south side of the -
valley — and pushed it’ aCToss |

the valley to where it flows to-

day,

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