LABOUR. =~
LISTENERS |

The advisors to the govern-
ment who are reviewing B.C.’s

-Industrial Relations Act will hold —

a public meeting in Terrace April
27 to gather. suggestions on how
provincial labour law canbe
improved.

The three-member panel is
receiving written submissions on

the subject up to March 31. They
were appointed earlier this year
by labour: minister Moe Sihota,
the first step in delivering on an

NDP election promise to scrap the .

Industrial Relations Act and

replace it with new legislation.

Panel members are John Baigent,
Vince Ready and Tom Roper.

A labour ministry representa-

tive said the meetings are
intended to ‘provide the panel
with information beyond the writ-
ten submissions, but the meetings
won't be open-mike free-for-alls.
Anyone.wishing to speak to the
panel is required to make an
appointment through Terrace
Employment Standards Branch
representative Roger Davis. _

The time and place of :the
Terrace. meeting will be
announced later. -

'SMELTER
DREAMED OF

“added “attraction - into the Brad-
. field Canal road proposal last
' month with the suggestion that a

lead, zinc, and silver smelter —

would fit nicely into the economy
of the Wrdngell area.

U.S. Senator Frank Murkow-
ski was cited in the Feb. 20, 1992
Wrangell Sentinel as saying a
smelter ‘could be the next step in
Wrangell’s economic development,
as well as providing another
rationale for the road, proposed
for construction over the Craig

_ River pass into B. C.’ 8 Iekut River |
a : valley.

| The © Bradfield road ‘would

7 “provide an overland alternative
_ for mining operations that are
likely to develop in the valley.

The B.C, government, in a joint

venture with Prime Resources, is
currently building a road easi-' —-

ward from Highway 37 into the
Iskut. It-is scheduled for comple-
tion this year. The B.C. govern-

* ment has been less than enthusi-

asti¢ about the Bradfield idea
because it: would probably draw
mine servicing business. away
from northwest B.C.

Murkowski claims that. a

Wrangell smelter could provide
. processing closer to the mine sites |
for both northwest B.C. and
Alaskan base metal operators. He
said ore from Alaskan mines is |
currently sent to Trail, B.C. and

another smelter in New Mexico,
which means a smelter at Wran-

gell would be competing for busi- .

ness with the Cominco operation
in Trail.

Murkowski believes the
smelter idea is feasible because
the nearby Tyee generating sta-
tion has more than enough sur-
plus capacity to power such a
plant.

BIDS .DOWN |
THE ROAD

The Ministry of Transporta-
tion and Highways is calling
advance tenders on $56 million
worth of road and bridge rehabili-
tation projects, the first phase of
the ministry’s overall rehab plans
for 1992,

- Two of the projects are in the
Terrace area: a railing replace-
ment job for the Deep Creek
bridge, and paving Highway 37A
from Bitter Creek to Hyder.

Advance tendering was insti-

tuted to allow contractors better”
advance planning for the con-.

' struction season.

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Terrace Review — March 27, 1992