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Falling prey.
to pipeline plo

==

The federal government's decision to expand
the terms of reference of the Thompson inquiry
‘to inelude all west coast oil port proposals is a

sound one.

. ‘The move was necessitated by the suspension

| -0€ Kitimat Oil Pipeline’s application to build an
ail port at Kitimat and their simultaneous
endorsement of the proposal to locate the port at

Cherry Point,

Washington.

The expanded Thompson inquiry, now named

the West Coast Oil Port Inq

uiry, will take a more |

general look at the problems related to tanker

traffic along

B.C.’s

west coast.

Certainly such an investigation is warranted.

However, it is clear

that because of the

broadening of his terms of reference,
commissioner Dr. Andrew Thompson will not be
able to take as close a look at the particular
concerns surrounding the Kitimat proposal.

This is of course fine if the Kitimat proposal is

it is?

Will Kitimat Pipeline Company be permitted ©

not resurrected at some future date. But what if

tg proceed on the basis of the new inquiry's
: Fecommendations - recommendations which will
be far more cursory in their treatment of the

Douglas Channel

and Kitimat area.?

This would be a serious mistake indeed.

__ The federal government should decide now
, tbat under such circumstances a separate
& “Thiguiry regarding Kitimat would have to take

place.

Many groups now fear that the federal
- government is falling prey to a ploy by Kitimat
Pipeline Company to divert attention from their

_& simple statment of policy from the
government would go far to allaying such fears.

LONDON (CP) — South Africa, which
recently announced increased uranium
production after a five-year slump, may
pose a political problem for Canada and

other producers.

R. A, Plumbridge, president of the South
African Chamber of Mines, forecasts that
“within two to three pears we shall again

0 peak annual
production of approximately 6,000 metric

Output jumped by 11 per cent in South
Atrios 1ast year, the first time there has
been any increase at all for five years.

The fact that the increase so far includes
no new production facilities, observers
here feel, may be significant if it means
South Africa is increasing output by mining

have attained our

rmer

produce.

Interpreting the news

Uranium gives South Africa clout

lower-grade ore which is more expensive to

MAY WIELD POWER ;
It could mean, they argue, that South

Africa is loofing toward the time when it

Observers

might have to use that production for
political purposes but has not reached the
point where it is ready to spend huge sums
necessary for new facilities.

Experts here say 1
attempts to ostracize South Africa—for
example, by driving it out of the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency—could
rebound against international efforts to
control proliferation of nuclear weapons, a
cause to which Canada and other countries .
are strongly committed. ;
fear that South Africa could

that United Nations

even initiate a twolier price structure,
‘commanding a premium p (
ernments that other countries are unwilling
to supply; countries not willing to agree to
nuclear inspection and safeguards. .

At the centre of this dilemma is the
Uraniuin Institute, which numbers four
South African bodies among the 37
members drawn from 10 countries.

Producer members are drawn from
Australia, Canada, France and Britain, as

well as South Africa.
CANADIAN INVOLVED

In addition, the institute, under chairman
John Kostuik of Toronto,
Denison Mines, has 10 big uranium cus-

tomers as members.

rice from

oV-

Currently, the institute is under fire on
charges that, in its efforts to ‘stabilize’
prices throughout the industry, it engi-
heered a huge price increase.

The United States, with no companies
listed ag members, has launched an anti-

trust investigation. _ 4

As Kostuik puts it, such circumstances
have made it more urgent than ever that.
the industry should jointly attempt te
forecast supply and demand to help

forward planning

president of

FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITORIALS

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
. ‘This is.a selection of edito-rials on current topics,
transtated by The Canadina Press from the French-

language press of Canada.
La Voix de

Granby

PEst: The progressive

Conservative party has just lost another of its members,
Jacques Lavoie, MP from Montreal Hochelaga, who
decided to cross the floor of the Commons to sit among
the Liberals as did Jack Horner previously.

Whatever

strategists may say, the defection is

important. Lavoie was one of the party's four MPs from
Quebec province and it was he who, during the October,

—D, FALLWELL

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By JIM BROWN

MONTREAL (CP)
Robert Boyd, vice-president
of HydroQuebee and
president of James Bay
Energy Corp., is not given to
truculence, but nuclear
energy is one of the few
topies that can move him to
harsh words.

A slim, 59-year-old man
with more grey than brown
in his thinning hair and his
bristly, trim moustache,
Boyd is normally the picture
of soft-spoken politeness,
whether defending Hydro-
Quebec in yearly a

committee o natural
resources or granting one of
his infrequent interviews.

Boyd spoke recently of
HydroQuebec’s plan to ‘ee
nuclear,” as they say in t
trade.

Or rather, he spoke of the
environmentalists who

oppose Hydre’s plan to.

move from its single nuclear
reactor to 35 or more by the
end of the century,

“You know,” said Boyd,
“there is opposition any
time there is a big change.

“In 1972 and °73, there was
opposition to the James Bay
roject. We were going to
ood 135,000 square miles of
land, we were going to
tisplace so many Indians,
ws were going to ruin their
..0 a life, we were going to
tharda 42 climate and
damage poiatecrowing in
Prince Edward isload,

‘The stupidities that were
said in those years... and all

and penple were against it.’’

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Nuclear Power:

James Bay now is irrever-
sibly on its way to

“Working in a
nuclear power
plant is no.more -
dangerous than.
sitting in front of
‘your color TV”

- BOYD

-developm:

pear- :
ances before the legislature’

- SOUFCE

completion, but the question
of nuclear development
aroused such emotion at

that En Minister Gu
Joron promised 4

chance to vote in a

referendum on whether
Hydro should go ahead with

. atomic power

At the same hearings,
former Liberal finance
minister Raymond Garneau

_voiced a preference for

hydroelectric power, &
clean, reliable energy
that at a presant
supplies 90 per cent of
Quebec's electricity.

Yvon Brochu,.a former
Creditiste who now sits for
the Union Nationale,
phrased his assessment of
nuclear power ia the
colorful terms of the ural
Zastern Townships riding of
Richmond which he
represenis. .

“it's as uf Gne power failed
is tay house during the
winder and I decided to light
a fire in one of the rvoms to
keep warm, knowing well
that my whole house and I

myself will eventually go up
in smoke,’’ said Brochu.
Meanwhile, the Quebec
Council on the
Environment, a group of
eminent scientists, cited the
high economic » and
environmental costs of
puclear power and asked for
& moratorium on
ent in favor of
more “rational use of
natural resources.”

OUT OF RIVERS

Boyd says he remains
unconvinced. Hydro-Quebec
is runnin

g out of rivers to .
dam, he says, and by the

1900s nuclear reactors will
be the only way to meat
Quebec’s energy needs.

People talk about solar -

as an alternative,”
oyd. “Well, unless
God ma he aun shine
more often in Quebec, solar
power is not going to
account for more about

cent of our needs,

the year 2000.”

‘or fears about the
of nuclear plants,
anys ‘‘there are
dangers in many Bass

“Working in a nuclear

lant is no more dangerous

an sitting in front of your
color TY all night. You don't
get any more radiation.

“Sf thare is an accident, of
nourse, fhat'y difforent. Buf
if your picture tut-e blows
up, you can get bumed bn
front of your TV.”

Staghig a referendum ci
nuclear power, however,
May prove as dificult as
ataging a referendum on

even
As

Quebec independence. .

Knelman, who

was
involved witha an

anti-

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1975, byelections, made Liberal candidate Pierre Juneau

bite the dust.

,

Laveie explains that his experience with the
Conservatives was a negative one and that the party
lacks interest in and understanding of his riding’s prob-
lems. He seems to believe that he will more easily be able
ta defend the cause of national unity with the Liberals.

If it is not surprising that a politician who has worked
for an opposition party for 20 years should one day be fed
up and want to savor the advantages of power, it is
legitimate to wonder about the leadership of Joe Clark...

The Conservative leader seems to be overcome by

nuclear referendum beaten
2 to 1 by California voters
last year, says it all depends
on how the question is
asked, .

Ia California, he
complains, voters approved
continued nuclear
development if certain
safety criteria could be
fulfilled, but the framers of
the referendum question
“knew full well no industry
in the world ‘could fulfil
those criteria.”

“T think the question is

acknowledges that inflation
has played havoc with the
site at Gentilly, 60 miles -
northeast of Montreal,
where Québec’s only
nuclear reactor stands and a
second reactor is under
construction. ;
Five years ago, the cost of
the second unit was
‘estimated at $315 million;

today the guess is about $630
million, ©

LAUNCHES. OWN
CAMPAIGN

But as critics rail about

The book catalogued some hair-

raising incidents...in which

radiation escapes and is

showered over the surrounding

population in deadly doses,

‘goods

how much ehergy you want
in the future, not whether
nuclear reactors are safe or
not,’ Joron says. “‘It's a
question of what type of
society you want.

“If you want to continue
living in a consumer society.
of waste and threwaway
and planned
obsolescence. then the
answer is yes, sou need that

additional energ: nc matter

what the cost, Bul TCuink is's
lene we lack the rusou ces
or the Financia! eapaesty ty
esntinue ta sbet qwecten.”
' Hydro sHficials deciiue 19
put 4 pee tag oun their
nuclevr yrogran, but Boye

the environmental and
economic cost of nuclear
power, Boyd seems ready to
aunch a campaign of his
own to explain Hydro-
Quebec’s side of the
que: ‘*5u,

Tie denies the charges cf
“corsa people” that nuclear
plants may hevame ‘more
aumerous than enagtla’ ly
the Quebec countes
aprareat referenc; tn
Joron, who wow ias ear
that “hefore 5 nian wh is 80
years old dies, there «iii be
nioce nuckear power stations
in Quebec than schools
heepitals and churches.”

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says, when nuclear power
will produce about one-third
of Quebee’s electricity,
there will be only eight or
nine plants. boy
Hydro-Quebec, he.adds, is
not opposed to a referendum
onnuciear development, but
it would like to see an
information campaign held
before the vote. .

“Let the people know the
dangers but also the
safeguards,” he says.
“Then, when the people are
properly informed, if the
government wants to hold a
referendum, OK.”

Fred Knelman, a

. chemical engineer who
teaches at Concordia
University in Montreal and

is a vociferaus opponent of
nuclear power, has heard it
all before, not only from
HydroQuebec but from
Atomic Energy of Canada
Ltd. (AECL), the federal
Crown corporation in
charge of atomic develop-
ment,

“These people have alan- .

guage of their own,” says
Knelman, referring to
advocates of nuclear power
in general.

“You know what they call
it when radiation escapes
from a reactor? Not an
accident. They call it an
‘excursion’. ”

AGAINST THE BOMB
Knelman’s credentials as
an anti-nuclear activist go
bach to the ban-the-bomb
aays of the 19508, when he
helped found the Montreal
Coramittee for the Control of
Hadiation Hazards a group
tonat numbered Vierre
Trudeau among its

y Tory defections are ‘Grits’ for the

events. He minimizes the
departure,

words of censure. He has only three MPs left in Qu

He believes the institute will be ‘‘:ble tp
compile useful market Information while
complying with the competition laws of all

_.. jurisdictions.” os 1

A
oe
ay

ood

effects of Jacques Lavole’s®’

but not without addressing Lavoie some’:

ebec—‘

Grafftey, Lasalle and Wagner. The last two cannot stand a
each other and the first insists on staying out of the dis:

pute, The party is déeply divided a

too well to believe he has

we know Wagner’

smoked the peace pipe with;

* Clark and Lasalle. Silence is kept, butnothing more...
The Conservative leader is making a mistake in’

running his

alone. We.admire his coura
efforts he makes to express

arty’s campaign in Quebec by himself and“

e, his determination and the "*
Ansell in French. But this is ’

not enough to raise within Quebecera a significant
interest born of a feeling of belonging and participation;*!

He must surround himself with tried-and-true Que

ers

and make as much room as necessary for them. .
If the Liberals, who already have wind in their sails
besides having a comfortable majority, can make
accommodations and welcome with open arms such
authentic Conservatives as Jack Horner and Jacques

Lavoie, one wonders how

Clark can do without them.

Unless he wants absolutely to ensure the re-election of
the Liberals.—Valere Audy (June 16) ta

kkk :

Montreal Le Devoir: Spain probably exper
longest day June 15, and not only because o
in counting votes. While resisting the temptation overly “

“to ‘schematize, one can nonetheless’ draw from

oH
ienced its!°
the slowness **

™

Wednesday's elections a compact, short and clear inter:

pretation which will serve

as an introduction to a more’

elaborate effort to understand this historic “first.” Thus, *

one can say that the 23.5 million Spanish ;
ed themselves massively in favor of stability

thin change...

Communist leader Santiago Carillo may be righ

voters’:

t in

emphasizing ‘that 40 years of anti-Communist
propaganda cannot be erased by simple legalization...

And it is in this that the dimension of ‘“‘cha

e” can.be

discerned in the June 15 election. At the first level, the
will for change resides in the victory of the coalition led

by Adolfo Suarez.... In the ing ides
nai petit the" Spanish
Socialist Workers party..., The relative victory of Felipe
Gonzalez’s party in fact confirms the desire for ¢
which is conditioned by the stability recognized
UDC centralist coalition... :

If the Spanish gave Adolfo Suarez a. victory,
certainly did not accord him a triumph which c
been too easily interpreted as a blank clx bess af
probably accelerate Madrid's...

mainly’ itt the excé

This . election wi

ondary l¢
rice

in the

i q
they.

dhave.
cheque ‘

progress towards NATO and the European community...

But meanwhile, the mandate of stabilit

within change :,

must be taken up. Although interaction between the two

So eS

fine friend or Frankenstein ?

= SS MATS

is obvious. —Georges Vigny (June 17) : woo

directors.

Knelman laid out the

argument against nuclear
power ina 1976 book entitled
Nuclear Energy: the
Unforgiving Technology.

Lambasted in reviews by.

nuclear scientists, praised
by environmentalists, the
book catalogued some hair-
raising incidents in which
reactors in Canada, the
United States and Europe
narrowly missed what some
engineers call a “maximum
credible accident’—a_ dis-
aster in which radiation

_ escapes and is showered

over the surrounding
population in deadly doses.
ince scientists cannot
agree among themselves,
Knelman said in a recent
interview, the nuclear
debate resolves itself into a
question. of economic and
political choices, or what he
prefers to call ‘ethical’
choices. °
‘'*‘The

federal
government,” he says, “has —

“The only
exception | know
was in B.C. where
the NDP under
Dave Barreit...
Said: ‘NO...”
KNELMAN

*

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sg

ote

, at §
technology and reactors to:
other countries. :

‘ at

INDUSTRY USES:

PRESSURE : if
, a}

“There’s tremendous:
ressure to use that:
hnology.” 7h

In addition, AECL finds a:
ready market for its'
reactors among provincial:
utilities which have. “an‘j
internal dynamic toward

owth, centralization and:
ureaucracy, ary

‘“Hydro-Quebec is"
particularly bad,” Knelman °
says. “The situation is like%
some countries where the:
army is not under civil.
authority. “

“But even in Manitoba,
where you have what might:

¥

ur;
be called a ‘socialist’ utility...
under the New Democratic ;;
Party, it acts exactly the

same as other utilities,

“The only exception’ I!
know was in British”
Columbia, where the NDP"
under Dave Barrett”
overruled B.C. Hydro and’.
said: ‘No, we're going to”
rely on coal for energy, not’
go nuclear,’ ” ma

Energy Minister Joron,;
for his part, admits he does,
not understand the selentific.;,
arguments for and against
nuclear energy,

“I'm not 50 presumptuous
as to say I should be the one;

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Spent millions of dollars
rough SECL, El Dorado
Nuclear, and so forth, to
build a Canadian nuclear
industry ead to export

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SSR pata CR SiN NUMMER LM
:

todecide,” says Joron. ‘‘The
people themselves should
decide ... that's why I sald I

Would: recommend . to -
cabinet that a referendum ;
beheld”. -' “