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' SALMON ARM — Hearings into
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build some 11 miles of a second
mainline track in the Tappen-
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1975—Page 12

mittee members with several
hundred pages of complex
testimony to sift through before
rendering a decision.

Hearings began last August,
were adjourned until November,
reconvened again in January and
adjourned again before opening in
March as CP Rail met a barrage of
opposition from local residents as
well as the provincial government
for its application.

Although several alternative
routes were available to CP Rail in
the construction of the second
mainline, the company has en-
deavored to -push through what it
considers the cheapest proposal
even though it would cut up several
local farms in addition to having
serious environmental con-
sequences. :

Most of those opposing CP Rail’s

application stressed that the

second track could be constructed
along the present right-of-way, a
proposal which CP Rail has stated
is impractical.

CP Rail counsel Ross Paisley
_also dismissed as ‘‘not germaine to
‘this hearing” *the environmental
and social factors involved and
argued that local residents’ in-

* terests had to bow to ‘‘adequate,

economic and efficient’ operation
of the railway.

Paisley did not attempt to deal
with a substantial body of
evidence, presented during the
course of the lengthy hearings,
which established that many farms
would be made uneconomic if the

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second line went through #7
proposed since they would: be cur
off from water as well as access |
In summing up the case agail® |

Whist, representing a number 0)
affected property owners, called |
for the dismissal of the applicat!
on the basis that the need for
second line had not been provel
and was, in fact, based on “¢
tradictory and evasive eviden¢
presented by the company.
- Whist also emphasized that
Rail could attain its objective
facilitate freight movement in
area without disruption of
livelihoods of area farmers.
Provincial government lawy
Mel Smith had earlier called
dismissal of the application 00 ©
grounds that CP*Rail had failed”)
substantiate its need. a

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