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Anti-pollution standards not high enough to save fish

- VANCOUVER (CP) —
wise branch fish and
branch says that
even the toughest

. existing pollution stan-
‘dards for the mining in:
dustry are strong enough
‘ to prevent fish from being

The branch also wants
cumping of mine tailings
or salt water to

i ina brief prepated
a brie prepared
the branch

tation next Neck at

ublic inquiry into

ool ution control ob-
tives ees as

permitted in water under
existing Pollution Control
Branch level ob-
jectives, fhe highest

standard, “are harmful

to A atic ¢ organi.

branch says at for for
ammonia, the. level A
objective is no more than
concentration of only .0
is lethal for trout fry..
It gives 18 other similar
examples for substances
ranging from mercury to

poll recommends that the

oebsaitiven® the lowéat

malting dustrl BEd LOR. O¥OF
ting industries mi polt * y

lumbia.
ie inquiry opens
Tuesday in Victoria and
M4 briefs will

Pesuaan control ob-
jectives for all B.C. in-
“dustries are reviewed
4 . The last re-

ing in-

“MORE STRINGENT

: The wildlife branch
brief asks that standards
be made ‘more stringent
because most of the
! Taineral concentrations

be be

should be a concentration harmf
“lower than the lowest
concentration known to
toxic _ 2 aquatic
8. ?
one wildlife branch
asks that' mine ta

in - fuure
discharged ' land

because “the che, present

cy of discharge of
fa 3 to salt water -is
unacceptable.”
DUMBING CHEAPER
It says developers
usually find it cheaper to
dump their tailings into

parts a million but a i

water so that land
alternatives are not
pursued vigorously.

“JE disposal to the
aquatic environment is
unavoldable, ‘rates of

tion should be suf-
ficlen ently low that there is
no discernible cha
receiving water ty,"

t says.

The branch says there
is evidence in Canada to
show that mines

under existing

ndar S may cause

‘gublethal effects on
aquatic ecosystems”’
even though direct fis
kills cannot cannot’ be ‘proved.

‘Tt says ‘there are“many
gubstanices fie ee taly

that are
not Covered by

existing
Standards but Y nould be

The brief says that
abandoned mines cause
Water pollution, photing

ge tailing 5 a
Princeton, em which
are ‘a constant source of
wilt into the Similkamean
River,” and recommends
that the board find a way
to solve the problem.
TOUGHER FOR LARGE

The branch says air
pollution standa

-Sun Life Co. Answers
-P.Q. Finance Minister

; MONTREAL (CP) —
- Sun Life Assurance Co. of

‘Canada has denied it”

‘invested a. sum of $400
‘million collected in
: Quebec outside of the

we a are not: ‘holding

‘outside the rovince ny
such cum at coul
related t ae
eybolders;” ” president
omes Galt said. in a
statement released
Follywing Sun ‘Life’s
announcement | Fri

that it would move head
office.. operations to

Toronto from Montreal, .

Finance Minister —
Jacques Parizeau

charged the company had
invested 41 cents of every
dollar collected in Quebec |
outside the proviace,

The minister said he
would consider
legislation to force Sun

Lite to invest $400 million

the province.
(puebecsne hold about $1
billion worth of life in
surance policies with the
company.

Parizeau seems

Sun Life last year
reported worldwide
premiums of $617 million
iad worldwide payments
oticyholders of 480

aT " ahould be clear
from this that asset
growth should not he
related to premiums
collected,” he said.

“Sun Life has. always a
invested very ,
stantially in the province

to be comparing assets to. of Quebec

premiums collected, but

day of course allowance must

be made for the payment
of benefits to icyhol-

dere and expenses,” Galt”

REPORT PREMIUMS

: UK Kids Invent

“CREDITON, England .
(AP) — Two ‘\e-year-old

British schoolboys have

designed an. electric
trouser suit to keep old
people warm.

’ Paut “Longthorpe

the same sch

Devon ‘County town, sald
ey got the idea when an

cle y local woman died

othermia—low
body te

emporature—a
that often af-
flicts the old.

‘gontrolled by a

It coaté about two cents a
day to run, they said.
The power supply is

tran-

sformer and an

automatic - switch
q. operates when the body

Peter Comont, pla at temperature rises or fall

beyond a certain
fgttorpe bald,” "The

safety.
' “The advants

t

2 of the

sui that heat is con- f
cemmmmed . da

where Jt is.
most wanted,"

Using the suit restricts~

& person’s movements, |_

but the inventors believe

ft is practical ‘because
wire relatively ‘immobile pe
_-tods are when

switch can alsocut out for

. “In September, 1877,
our. Quebec investments.
amounted to about $680
million. This was an
increase of $58 million
during the first . nine
months of 1977.”"

Hotsuit

sus oa to nye.

boys sald they
me about $11 to make
the suit, Ayre hes been -
worn. and tested b
old person.
’ They also aaid General”
Bloctic Co, is vockiag, at

y one

The most srimnitive modern
flowers are members
of the buttercup order.

‘discharge,’

large’ operations should
be more stringent than
for small companies.
The Wildlife
Federation rif backs w

- the branch in its propos

that tailing waste’ solids
should no longer be
dumped into water.

The federation also
wants the board to take

‘effluent samples before

the wastes are diluted by
water.

’ “Before any. set of

standards is established F
we feel there should be.a |
commitment from. the ©

Spit be devo levels

federation - president R.
A. Cole. .

He also urged that the
province pave standards
similar -the federal
fisheries service, and
emphasized that

for .

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THE.HERALD, ‘Monday, Janvary % 1978, rae. 1. ‘

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As more and more
cities in Canada f
bulldozers and

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that have
rs and

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buildings
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been proud la rks on oe
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ca astng Senay aed

most fornis of tot, -
brick walls, brick walker |
brick anything-is| now .
sought after for ita -
warmth and ‘colcur, Old -
brick has taken a sharp.
increase in price. Before, .
’ where newspaper once

‘advertised for 4 .to

barn
boards, ald bottles and oy
mirror-glass, old. mild ,
cans, and par Hoularly ald
fencing. -

Now docrways are
to have an art

established, they must be
—_

The brief . from the
Canadian Coalition for
Nuclear ibility,
Vancouver c ey ig

concerned sole mney with tire weer, be sere replacement

uranium

complains “that existing sect wiiceome with yas cu,
tions for this in- the Robber Menufectures

dustry fait to protect the Assatietion, Tees of different

environment, the public, .

the water or the miner.

“+ exbe, Ha hast tainda tires of tha.” 4
+ peme constriction oe all fowr

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