A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 10, 2001
Review begins
Land use plan

goes to public

AREA RESIDENTS are being accepted until Feb,
about to be asked what 16.
they think of the just-con- The plan is the product
cluded Kalum land-use of nearly a decade of talks
plan, by a panel of local repre-
The document - which _ sentatives.
includes plans for new pro- It covers an area from
tected areas and measures the Kitlope southeast of
to protect grizzly bears ~ Kitimat to the Nass Val-
goes to public review later ley,
this month. Although table mem-
Kalum Land and Re- bers reached consensus in
source Management Plan the final round of talks in
organizers will answer December, they agreed to
questions at the Kitimat disagree on three unre-
city. centre mall Jan, 26th solved areas,
and at the Skeena Mall in Conservationists could
Terrace Jan. 27, not agree with forest and
They'll follow that with minning industry reps on
an open-house in Terrace whether to turn the Miligit
Jan. 29 from 3:00 to 8:30 Creek watershed and the
p.m. at the forest ministry’s Foch/Giltayees watershed
offices here on Keith Ave. _into protected areas.
There'll be a similar There was also dis-
open house at Riverlodge agreement on logging rules
in Kitimat Jan. 30. to protect the appearance
The land and resource of a section of the Douglas
management. plan’s com- Channel.
pleted recommendations The plan provides de-
will be available Jan. 15 at tailed rules on how log-
the Kalum Forest District ging, mining and other ré-
office on Keith Ave. source use will take place
The document is also to in the region in the future.
include estimates of the It also creates a special
various impacts of the grizzly bear management.
plan, including the effect area where hunting would
on forest industry jobs. be banned and logging
Public comments are controlled.

U.S. eyeing
dream railway

A RAILWAY from B.C. to
Alaska and possibly Rus-
sia got a step closer last ginning of a much grander
week after-the U.S. gov- scheme that could see a
emment pledged to put up 90-kilometre tunnel built
$6 million to study the across the Bering Strait
idea, connecting the rail system
It was part of the Rails to Russian railways across
to Resources Act signed Siberia or into China.
into law by outgoing U.S. Such a connection
president Bill Clinton. would allow rail transport
The act puts up money between North America
to study the proposal to and Asia or Europe.
link Alaska to the lower 48 B.C. Rail officials say
states by rail. they have no involvement
U.S. officials said Ca- in’ the idea, but proponents
nada wouldn't yet have to talk about various’ routes
put up any money, just through B.C.
agree to the concept of an One possibility is to ex-
independent joint commis- tend the end of the currrent
sion to examine e the propo- B.C. Rail line in Fort Nel-
sals. son up the Alaska High-
The idea is to lay 1, 440 ~ way corridor.
kilometres of new rail line. Another is to comple-
- about half of it in B.C. tion of the Dease Lake rail
and the Yukon — to con- extension that runs north-
nect the existing B.C. Rail west from Prince George.
system to- railways in It was abandoned prior to
Alaska. The estimated cost completiori in the 1970s.

Scams on the rise again

POLICE ARE warning the like these to convince in-
public to beware of inter- vestors that they are legiti-
national investment scams — mate,
that-are-on the increase in Though documents may
northern B.C. _ Tefer to “high yield invest-
There are several red ment programs” they rare-
flags to watch for that ly include information
could tip. you off that an. about how returns are gen-
investment program is a erated. This is one of the
scam. signs that the program is
The fraudulent invest- . not above board.
ment schemes use compli- The message here is
cated sounding. language . that if the investment pro-
in an aitempt to. befuddic © grams seem too good to be
would-be investors, true, they probably are.
Police caution investors Promises of unusually
to . beware’. of: official high returns and tax ex-
sounding language such as empt “offshore secrecy”
“prime bank notes”, prime are two more indications
bank debentures” and that the investment pro-
“roll-over programs”. gram is fraudulent, warn
The schemes use terms officers. .

is around $5 billion.
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