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Some Terrace city aldermen feel
the current zoning on Keith Ave.,
from Sande Overpass to a little
east of Cramer St., might allow for
the development of enterprises that
are incompatible with current
businesses there. These alderman
want city planner Marvin Kamenz

to examine the situation to see if }-~~

the area can’t be guided more

towards retail than light industrial |.

development.

But there is ancther city alder-
man who thinks this is sheer folly,
citing an access problem on Keith
Ave. that’s already acute, a prob-
lem that more retail development
would aggravate. As always, how-
ever, one side had greater numbers
than the other and fine tuning of
future development on this seg-
ment of Keith has begun.

Debate on the issue Monday .

night was hot and heavy at times.
Danny Sheridan made a motion
authorizing the city planner to
investigate rezoning the section of
Keith. "The whole area needs
refinement," he explained. - But
Ruth Hallock fired back:
“Changing from light industrial to
commercial in my view is fine... If
you have addressed all the traffic
difficulties. Have you done that?”

Sheridan agreed that an access
problem has been "created by the
province". And Hallock added
more: "We have a major problem
on Sande Overpass which the
province may or may not solve in
the next 20: years," and, "We have
complaints on the Tetrault-Keith
_ intersection."

Sheridan stood fast, however.
Keith Ave, is the entrance to our
community and zoning there is out
of date and out of whack. Com-
mercial development

industrial development would

‘detract from it. But Hallock wasn’t

out of ammunition yet. "What's
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1990
Vol. 6, Issue No. 35

Phone 635-7840 :
Fax 635-7269.

would:
enhance the area, he insisted, while

WHILE IT’S BUSINESS AS USUAL at the Skeena Cellulose log yard, a movement is getting under way
in Europe that could have a crippling effect on the primary industry in the Northwest. A boycott of
Canadian forest products is being proposed, and the industry is taking the threat seriously.

Boycott forming in Europe could
threaten local forest industry

by Michael Kelly

A movement afoot in Europe to

start boycotting Canadian forest

products could have a devastating
effect on the economy of the
Northwest. If the boycott has an
impact equal to the one carried out
against the fur industry, three of
the largest sawmills in the North-
west could be scrambllt{@ to ffrid
new markets for 50 percent. of
their production. 7 .
Westar is the marketitig agent for
the entire production of the Skeena
Cellulose mill in Terrace, Westar’s
Carnaby mill in Hazelton and the
Repap mill formerly owned by

Groot in Smithers. David Mitchell,
Westar’s vice-president of export
marketing, is taking the threat of a
European boycott seriously.
Mitchell says the movement is
part of the increasing global con-
cern for the environment, a con-
cern that appears to be greatest in
Europe and the United Kingdom.
"They (European consumers) are

very ‘sophisticated and  well-

infornied on these issues, but there
is some serious misinformation in
the marketplace about forest prac-
tices in North America.”

That misinformation, Mitchell
says, has resulted in a close com-

parison being drawn between

Canadian logging activities and the
destruction of the rain forest in the
Amazon. Mitchell thinks that com-
parison is unjust, and Westar has
recently started what he calls an

aggressive marketing campaign in

‘Europe and the UK.

"We're letting the market know,
Tight from the retailers that carry
our products down to the cus-
tomers and end-users, _ that
(Westar's) products come from
well-managed forests." Part of that
campaign will be a bright green
stamp appearing on every piece of
lumber Westar ships to that mar-
ket, a logo suggesting a forest
planting and renewal cycle.

‘Nieghbourhood pub licence has no opponents — page A3__

Mitchell is concerned because the
boycott movement apparently
doesn’t distinguish the difference
between tropical and temperate
rain forests and forest management
based on sustained yield and
renewal and the outright destruc-
tion taking place in the Amazon
River basin and other Third World
areas. "The forest industry has a
job to communicate. We're not
always perfect, but today we're
absolutely commitied to managing
forests on a perpetual basis."

Mitchell says some of the indus-
try associations in Canada in con-
junction with the federal govern-

— Continued on page A2

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