Telkwa report

1

Uses of Northwest resources

March 1978.

This is the second
public report front the
Telkwa Foundation’s
Habitat North Project.
Currently funded by a
Canada Works grant a
‘ small group of. people is
trying to understand the
implications of the way
we use the natural
resources of the nor-
thwest, The issues are
complex and need careful
research from a broad
perspective to be
unravelled.

The concerns of nor-
therners are many,
Unfortunately they. are.
oiten felt and expressed
in isolation from the
activities that generate
them. Solutions are
applied in the same ad
hee, piecemeal fashion.
As our research takes us
deeper into these issues
we begin to appreciate
how many facets of our
lives are interconnected.

There are strong links
between our use of the
land, the stability of our
economic structures, the
satisfaction to he derived
from our daily work, our
personal investment in
community groups and
the depth of our
relationships with family
and friends. Together
these links form a net-
work of interactions. As
with all nets there is a
great deal of resilience
yet at the same time if a
few links start to break
the rest often follow in
quick succession.

The Habitat North
project is probing the
strengths and
weaknesses of the social
and natural networks
that make up the culture
of the northwest. In
particular we are
examining land use and
its impact on our
economic and social
institutions — for as the
Union of B.C. Indian
Chiefs put it — The Land
is the Culture,

With knowledge of the
network ties and the
processes that weave
them it is not impossible
for people make ‘the
choices necessary for a
stable, harmonious
communily. Education
- then ‘is the other side of

our research coin. In
school and college
classrooms, public

meetings, film shows and
newspaper . arlicles we
try to communicate our
findings. ;; The most
complete «source of in-
formation is the monthly
Telkwa Foundation
Newsletter, avialable
with a $5.00 subscription
fram P.O. Box 100, Telk-
wa.
Environmental ;
Education: Programme
The objective of the
programme is lo give
children the tools to
identify and understand
basic ecological .
processes. Much ot this is
taught through fieldwork
sospring is a particularly
busy time. At the high-

_classes,

- school and college level

the programme is ex-
panded. to include work
on natura]. resource
conflicts.

In March the project
helped with eight school
one college
course and six com-
munity group meetings.
In Prince George we
were able to provide
background on forestry
and fishery issues to a
regional meeting of the
B.C. Union of Indian
Chiefs,

A film and discussion
evening will be held at the
Chandler Park Theatre
on April 29th at 3:00 p.m.
The subject willbe the

. nuclear power industry in

Canada.

Telkwa
Newsletter

The newsletter serves
as the main way for
project staff to inform the
public of their findings. In
March 800 copies of the
Vol, 1; No, 7 edition were
mailed throughout the
northwest and other parts
of Canada. Another 150
were distributed through
newsstands or other
means,

The issue contained
articles dealing with wolf
control, Indian food
fishery, Skeena River
steelhead, Guide-
Outfitters
nuclear power, Hog-fuel
systems, the Seven
Sisters logging plananda
report on a Queen
Chrlotte Islands oil spill.
Industrial Alternatives —
Forest Industry

Basic forest resource
information is being
given to a number of
correspondents from
Ootsa Lake ot the Queen
Charlottes. In these
areas, as through out the
province, concern is.
mounting that there will
not be sufficient timber
reserves to carry the
present levels of cul very
far into the future.

Foundation

Discussion papers by °

project staff have helped
the Smithers Forest

Advisory Committee to..

formulate recoil

mendations to the “Ber:

Forest Service that if
adopted would enable the
annual -cut in- the
Smithers PSYU to reflect
the . economically
available reserves.
Community stability and
long-term _—_ industrial
viability are key ob-
jeclives of the com-
mittee,

Research is continuing
into two pecinical fixes’’
or

proposed
province’s troubled forest
industry.

Initial work indicates
the inlensive forestry
programme put forward
by Forests Minister Tom
Waterland to supply
more trees contains too
many unknowns about
the increased yields
expecled,. — its ap-
plicability to norlhern
conditions and, most
important, ils.cost.In any

event the results of such a .

Deportation
reprieve

A Chilean expatriate
facing immediate
deportation to this home-
land has won a short
reprieve to gather more
evidence proving his need
for political asylum in
Canada,

Immigration Minister
Bue Cullen said Monday
in the Commons that he
sees no-~ difficulty in
fiving the extra time to
Galindo Madrid, 22, who

jumped = ship near
Squamish, B.C., last
May.

Cullen was replying to
Stuart Leggatt (NDP—
New Westminster), who
said Madrid's lawyers
are taking his case to the
Federal Court of Canada

. anid need the extra time
to ‘gather evidence to
back the claim that their

- ellent faces persecution:

in Chile.
Madrid and another
Chilean exile, Luis

Sanchez, lost their appeal
last week against an Im-
migration ~ Commission
deportation order, lawyer
Ray Cantillon said
Monday.

Cantillon, who
represents Sanchez, said

the decision _ means
Madrid could be deported

back to Chile almost im-

mediately,

Cantillon said he was’

informed Friday by the
commission's ‘special

review committee that .
on:

the: appeal
humanitarian “and
compassionate grounds
had been rejected with no
reason being given,
Both. Madrid and
“Sanchez have said they
would be persecuted for

their political beliefs by

the ruling military dic-

latorship if they were
returned to Chile.
| Madrid, who was

politically active under’

the
elected

Salvador
already has lost a hid for
admission as a political
refugee. He now faces

democratically-
regecme of

deportation ‘‘as soon as!

practicable.”

Sanchez, 24, a former
union activist, can still
apply as a_ political
refugee.

Madrid and Sanchez
came ashore lasl May
from a Greek ship after
having fled (Chile for
Europe.

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Inquiry, .

the.

Allende,’

programme will not show
_for another 80 or 90 years
— that is how long the
trees take to grow.

The other panacea

| often quoted is improved

logging and sawmill
technology, Our research
shows these technical
improvements require
high captial and energy
inputs, ‘putting them
beyond all but the largest
companies, Further we
find the fine technical
tuning only shows results

“if operated by skilled,
careful people — not.

often available in an
industry plagued by high
labour turnover and
alienating work  en-
virontments.

Northwest Eergy
Strategy
A preliminary report

has been complied by —
project workers on the
feasibility of using hog-
fuel (sawmill waste) to
provide for the energy
needs of Smithers’ mills
and residents.

Rough figures indicate
that while the two
Smithers sawmills paid

nearly $% million for gas °

and electricity last year
they sent over $2 .%
million worth of woad-
waste energy up in
smoke. Capital costs for
recovering this energy
are high but could be
easily justifiable if a co-
operative effort between
the’ two sawmill com-
panies and the
municipality can be
achieved. .
For indivdual energy
needs solar heating
appears practical — on

paper. A large number of
reports and studies sit on
our shelves but people
need a working unit to be
convinced.Pilot project
funds are available |...
the National Research
Council for con-
dominiums and com-
mercial establishments.
Amounts range from
$20,000 to $200,000 — any
northern businessman
that enterprising?

While the possibilities
of community and in-
dividual scale energy
sources grow more
promising, the con-
ventional suppliers
continue to be hit with’
rapidly escalating costs
and massive capital
debts. An analysis, fo be
published in the April
T.F. Newsletter, shows
how B.C. Hydro’s rate
structure encourages
energy waste rather than
conservation.

Social Impact of
Resource Development

As this is the project's
sole primary research
programme, as opposed
to the usual literature
search, results will not be
available for some time.

We are looking at the
social andfamily impacts
of changes in the nor-
thern way of life.
Problems of families in
small communities,
migrants from urban to
rural areas and new
arrivals in rapdily
growing single industry
towns are being
examined, Interviewing

continuues at the rate of .

two or thrree weeks along

with basic background .

research,

_Quebec strike

puts 12,

000 out

of work

— A feeling of worry and =

frustration pervades this

“northeastern -Quebec

‘Mining town, centre of a
‘strike that has, put” an
estimated 12,000 persons
out of work and bottled up
75 per cent of Canada’s
iron ore prodketion.
_ The strike is in its fifth
week and civic leaders
are concerned that there
will be an exodus if it
lasts much longer.

Some businessmen and
strikers suggest the Iron

Ore Co. of Canada wanted _

the strike because, of

present market condi-.

tions, The company
denies this.
Meanwhile, économic’

activity in Quebec and
Labrador remains
paralysed for 580 kilo-
metres-north of this ecty
which is 750 kilometres
northeast of Montreal! ‘on
the St. Lawrence River.
Layoffs among non-
miners are increasing as
the strike drags on, One
provincial labor
department official says
the strike by 9,000 miners
has put ,another 3,000
persons out of work.
Some of the strikers,

.who were among the

highest paid in Canada,
are cursing the company
and their union, the
United Steelworkers of
America.

“We're doing this for
nothing,” said one
strikar. “This is exactly
what the company
wanted.” .

PLANNED LAYOFFS

The companx
planned to lay off 350
workers permanently at
Labrador City in May and
another 4,000 for a
summer shut-down.

Meanwhile, the latest
round of. negotiations
broke down Sunday
because of difference
over worker health and
safety.

Less than a week afler
90 per cent of the
unionnmembers voted,
with.80 per cent of them
in favor of a strike, the
union took that action.
The conlract expired
Feb. 28.

“We're sure they're
hurling with $53 million in
debts,’’ union
representative:, Yvan
Giard says of the Iron Ore
Co. ‘And they could lost
contracts if they can't
deliver.”

With an upturn in the
United States steel
market after settlement

of: that country’s coal.

strike, and a favorable
exchange rate fornsales
ofniron ore

to settle, ;

- Cabaret owner -

Joe Philliponi, owner? of
the Penthouse Cabaret,
said Monday he collected

unemployment insurance :

intermittently for 48
weeks, after police had
closed down his local
cabaret on morals
charges.

“Sure I did. I was
entitled,” said Philliponi.
“[ paid premiums all
those years ‘just like
everybody else and |
eollected just like
everybody else when - |
was out of work.”

. Philliponi’s cabaret
was tlosed Dec, 31, 1975,
by city vice squadn-
deteclives after a lengthy
investigation. Philliponi
and three associates were
subsequently charged

~with conspiring to live off’

the avails of prostitution,

A B.C. county) court
convicted Philllponi and
his associales May 11,

collected UIC

1977, on the ‘charges,
however the’ conviction
was overturned Dec. 20,
1977,nby the B.C. Court of
Appeal.

The Supreme Court of
Canada refused Mar, 7 to
hear a Crown appeal of

the B.C. Court of Appeal’

decision. - ;

Philliponi'- said he
applied “for °Unem-
ployment. Insurance
Commission * benefits
when lifting of the club's
cabaret and liquor li-
cenees forced closure.

“I needed the money
and so did about 100

people that were affected -
-by the club's closing.

That closure created an
avalanche of unem-
ployment and we all wenl
down lo UIC to file for
benefits,""he said,

” He said he applied for
more than 30 jobs. while

his case was before the

courts.

had -

in U.S. —
dollars, pressure may.
develop for the company:

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THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 12, 1978, PAGE 3

uide denies

improper license issued

A retired inspector for
the fish and wildlife
branch told a provincial
inquiry into the licencing
of guide outfitters that his
colleagues gave him a
trapline when he retired
in 1966,

But Walter Gill, 72,
denied that he had been
improperly issuedna

guide outfitter’s licence, .

as the inquiry heard in
testimony last month.
Gill said that several
months after his
retirement he moved to
the Vanderhoof, B.C.
area and applied for a
ide outfitter’s licence

_ in a territory where the

previous guide had died:
He said that normally
‘an applicant for such a
licence had to have held
an assistant guide’s
licence for three years,
which he did not, but that
the branch director was
then allowed under the
game regulations to
waive the three-year
guiding requirement if he
felt the applicant had
sufficient experience. -
Gill said he took out
very few paying hunting

. parties but in 1971 branch

director Dr. James
Hatter told him that he
must turn in his licence
because it had been
improperly issued. He
said two memhers of the
branch staff arrivednat
his house to pick up his
licence, which he handed
over after much
Argument. ,
BECAME INVOLVED
Mabel Rogers, of
Tacoma, Wash, told the
inquiry how she became

involved in a real estate

deal in Vanderhoofin £968
involving Arthur
Balcombe, a former
branch employee who
was then the local con-
servation officer,

Mrs. Rogers testified
that H. H. Whitehead,
also of Washington, told
her she could buy a
fishing iodge near
Vanderhoof for $40,000 if
she paid $10,000 down.
Whitehead was to be the
suide.

“Mr. Balcombe said to
save us money he would
give Mr. Whitehead a
Guiding licence,”’ said
Mrs. Rogers, “I was not.
familiar, with Canadian
law and I thought he was
doing us a favor.” n

She said she- thought
Balcombe’ owned the
odge so she agreed to
send $5,000 to a bank
where his wife worked
and the money would he
held in trust until the

Assault
charge

PRINCE GEORGE,
B.C, (CP) Grant
Williams, a member of.
the Prince George
Mohawks intermediate
hockey team, has laid an
assault charge against
Peter Shmyr, coach of
North Vancouver Hurry

Kings, after an incident |

at a cabaret here Friday
night. Williams, an
employee of the Simon.
Fraser Inn, laid the
charge after a fight at the
inn. Police were called in
to restore order. .

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purchase was completed.

Mrs. Rogers said she
sent the money, her
cheque was cashed and
she did not find out until
later that the ledge was
actually owned by a man
named John Ehly, now
dead.

She said that shortly
after she paid the $5,000
she got a letter from Ehly
asking forn$10,000 more.
WANTED TITLE

She said she then asked
Balcombe for the title to
the property but her
name was not on it so she
consulted a lawyer and

visited the head office of

the bank where the

cheque was cashed to
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“But I didn’t get my
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time,’”’ she said.

Balcombe testified that
all he did was to in-
troduce Mrs. Rogers,
Whitehead and Ekly. He
denied that he asked Mrs.
Rogers to send $5,000 and
said he had nothing to do
with the money.

Gary Moore, ot Dawson
Creek, B.C. told the ~
inquiry that he has had
guide outfitters’ licences
in B.C. and the Yukon,

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