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THE GARBAGE GAMBLE

Playing
a waiting
game

By JEFF NAGEL —
r ~ HE KITIMAT-
Stikine Regional
District has waited
until the cleventh

hour to begin work on its regional

solid wasle management plan.
Over the next eighteen months,

- taxpayers will find out whether it

was a profitable or costly gamble,
All regional districts must sub-
mit such a plan by Dec. 31, 1995,
in. accordance with amendments
to the Waste Management Act
passed in August of 1989 by the
Vander Zalm government.

_ Regional districts that fail to do
. 80 face fines of up to $300,000.

- We're all Supposed to reduce,”
‘reuse and recycle in order to

achieve a 50 per cent reduction in
the amount of garbage flowing
into landfills by the year 2000.

'- After almost five years of doing

nothing, the regional district
board is now in the process of
finding a consultant who will.
prepare the plan.

~-They have appointed two com-

mittees-— a technical advisory
committee and a public advisory

committee — lo oversee things.
And project planner Bruce Len-
nox, hired last fall to work half-
time to coordinate the process,
has drawn up terms of reference

‘for stages 1 and 2 of the pian,

. Stage 1 describes the regional

:. district’s size, population, present
_ landfill sites, and sets out options

for reducing the amount of waste

‘entering landfills.

_ Slage 2 analyzes and costs out

._ the options and then recommends
“a system for the future.

‘The third stage is to actually
change

tions -and start recycling pro-

grams, -
The deadline for the yet-to-be-

named consultant to produce the

‘Stage one and two reports is June

30, 1995,
That will leave six months to
actually carry out the recom-

‘mendations and get Victoria’ iy 2P:

proval.*: :
* “T?s a tight timeline,”? Lennox
admits.

You might be tempted to think -
‘regional distric! officials haven’t

exactly embraced the idea of

- working towards a greener future.

But, in fact, reusing and recy-
cling is at the very heart of their

~ strategy.

They plan to learn from the ex-
perience of others and hire a con-

‘sultant who has already done

plans for other regional districts,
says Lennox,

- Tt’s also expected a consultant
who has done much of the same
work elsewhere will be able to
‘produce a plan for Kitimat-
Stikine much faster — and much

cheaper -— than happened with

districts that started earlier.

- “We've tried to leam from
districts what
they've done, what the pitfalls
are, and how to avoid the pit-

falls,’* Lennox said.

All well and good, but the stop-

watch is running in the Victoria

_CITY DRIVER: Bill’ Turner provides curbside service from the garbage ‘can tothe landfill. “Tipping :

fees, recycling programs, and other options could be in the cards io reduce the amount of garbage

entering northwest dumps,

office of Brian Grant, senior
analyst with the environment
ministry’s solid wasle manage-
ment branch.

To Grant, the Kitimat-Stikine
regional district is one of the two
Most delinquent regional districts

“We don’t want to get into the

position of having to charge a.

Tegional district for not complet-

‘ing a plan.”

One section of the amended
Waste Management Act indicates
an extension can be granted if the

“We've tried to learn from other regional districts
what they’ve done, what. the pitfalls are, and how

to avoid the pitfalls.”

out of the 29 in the province,

He won't say what Victoria will
do to regional districts that don’t
meet the Dec, 31, 1995 deadline.

**We don’t talk too much about
thai,”’ he said. ‘““We give people
as much encouragement and sup-
port as we can to heip them for-
mulate a plan.”’

Rupert, Charlottes
give glimpse of future

THE ONLY NORTHERN area
that has completed most of its
regional solid waste management
plan-is the Skeena-Queen Char-
lottes Regional District,
Taxpayers there have already
been paying for consultants to de-

_ velop the plan.

Now ‘they’re finding out how
much it’s going to cost ta actually

carry it out

“The final price tag for Prince

Rupert residents is estimated at

$240 per household per year 10
achieve a 40.5 per cent reduction
in {he amount of garbage entering

. landfills.

‘Queen © Charlotte residents
would face a total wasie manage-

" ment bill o£ $340 per year,

The plan wouldn't achieve the
province's announced goal of 30
per cent reduction in the waste

“stream by 1995 and a 50 per cent

reduction by the year 2000.

“<The reduction achieved would

come through 4 combination of
curbside recycling, backyard
composting, and landfilling.

~The plan for the Charlottes calls

for the closing of all: existing
~ fandfills, ‘and: the creation of a-

new regional dump near Port Cic-
ments.

Education and promotion is a
key to the Skeena-Queen Char-
lottes plan.

To promote reduction and
reuse, the plan calls for measures
including higher landfill tipping
fees, landfill material bans, limits
on the amount of garbage col-
lected per household, a surcharge
on commercial collectors, user
fees for residential waste genera-
tors, demonstration programs,
and various taxes and fines to
persuade residents to comply.

Recycling is ta consist of a
combined curbside collection and
drop-off depot system for Prince
Rupert, and drop-off depots for
the islands.

Composting would be en-
couraged by subsidizing compost
bins and setting up demonstration
programs.

Curbside garbage pickup will
continuc, but residents would ‘be
limited to a maximum number of
bags. -

The Skeena Queen Charlottes
plan has not yet gained approval
from the environment ministry.

environment minister ‘considers
it to be in the public interest and
is satisfied that a municipality is
making efforts in good faith’? to
complete a plan.

Grant noted. a regional district
that squanders three-quarters of
the ‘time allocated before starting
might not get an extension.

He also pointed out the amount
of money available for waste

management plan-related projects _

has dwindled in recent years be-
cause of budgel cuts.

**The more time. goes on, the
less money we'll ‘have to provide
in-assistance,”’ Grant said. ‘‘A
regional district that hasn’t made
any real effort to come up with a
plan is going to be at the bottom

"of the list for discretionary spend-

ing grants.”?

Grant. said, most regional dis-
tricts are iale in stage one or else
working on stage-two, Some have
actually completed plans,” ,

. Once’ an approved plan is in

place the regional district is
empowered by the province to
pass spending bylaws to carry out

the recommendations . without

going to referendum.

STACKS OF newsprint now ‘bound for garbage dumps will ba
recycled under a plan put together by the Skeena-Queen Char-
lattes ragional district, Final price tag for Prince mer residents
could hi $240 per.t household der year. a .

o _Natlve © BrOUups | will also get help under ert renewal pian.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 20, 1994 - AS

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Bag

Put an end to this

Dear Sir:

“Yes; I've known Ruth Hallock for a long time and she knows that
we love children. Mickey Bromiey’s business on Hamer Avenue is
the problem. He built his house according to the regulations for a
single family residence. This is fine.

Building a large garage attached to the house and constructing a
school, or.a large daycare facility is not acceptable in a single fam-
ily residential area.

He js trying, by using our love for children, to sct up a financially
profitable business, He did nat talk to us. We would have told him
that we would back. him with his plan for an 8 child daycare. We
would have welcomed him to our street.

He chose to go o the newspaper crying about the lack of proper
daycare spaces available, I almost believed him.

Then at a council mecting ago Lauric Monture presented a list of
legal daycare spaces available. I believe she found at least 11 spaces
in 8 legal daycares. Bromley chose to ignore this.

Several days later it was in the newspaper that the Kids Kastle had
2 new location and had many new spaces available, Also, Helene’s
Play and Learn has opened up a new facility in the basement of the
Knox United Church (where the Montesore Preschool used to be).

Again, Mr. Bromley chose to ignore this and began running his l-
legal daycare with 11 to 13 children. The city finally, after warning
him, pulled his business licence.

Thope the parents attending Mr. Bromlcy’s daycare read this and
look around, they will find that there are many well run and legal
daycares-in town. Give them a call, and help stop this nonsense.

a Wilf Haugland,
Terrace, B.C.

Silent on Easter

Dear Sir:

Easter has come and gone. To people of many faiths, it was ob-
served ina variety of worship cxperiences and joint ecumenical ser-
vices. The observance of this Holy Week in the Christian calendar
has historical roots since the events surrounding the life of Jesus,
unfolded two thousand years carlicr. .

Both the Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches have
embraced the significance of death and resurrection in Christian
doctrine that gives credence and affirmation to their respective
faiths, .

Strangely, the Evangelical Church, with its foundations in
Protestantism has grown silent in observing the significance of
Good Friday. The Atonement - central to the theme of the Cross
and the Christian Church has become lost in the ever increasing
secularization of the modern church.

Surely, the Biblical accounts of the events that surround the
crucifixion and. death are of equal importance than the mere
celebration of one event only, the bodily resurrection of Jesus!

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the great communicator in the Roman
Catholic Church who died in 1979 often stated, “one can never
celebrate an Easter Sunday without first observing a Good Friday.”’

Why then have the various evangelical groups including the Al-
liance Church, The North American Baptist Fellowship, The
Evangelical Free Church, The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
and the Full Gospel Christian Fellowship - to name a few, become
silent in observing Good Friday?

Few, if any of these churches gathered their faithful to observe the

«iMost ‘significant.day, din the. Christian Church, ithe: suffering: of ihe
Christ’on the cross, This phenomenon is not exclusive to one area,
rather a growing trend in every city. The scriptural account of this
day indicates that the world was plunged into darkness, the earth
shock, rocks split and tombs broke open with many holy people
raised to life.

The centurlon guarding the Cross, exclaimed in a terrified voice,
“Surely he was the Son of God!'’ Has the modernity of evangelical
thought dismissed these events as historical in nature, unworthy of
our remembrance?

Evangelicals have been quick to dismiss the significance of the
liturgical and confessional church in their observance of events cen-
tral lo the themes of the Christian faith. Sadly, they have negated
their witness in not offering an alternative.

Evangelicalism in its piety has trumpeted issues such as scriptural
inerrancy and salvation by. grace that have influenced the entire
Christian Church,

It, too, needs to observe and learn from the orthodoxy of mainline
Protestantism in the imporiance of remembrance in the sufferings of
Christ who gave His life so as to bring life and hope to a shattered
world.

This Good Friday we joined worshipers for two unique oxperi-
ences worthy of notation. The Christian Reformed Church observed
a service of Word and Sacrament on Good Friday morning. In the
_ evening, I joined parishioners from St. Matthew’s Anglican Church

and Knox United Church in a trilogy of worship experiences that -

covered Maunday Thursday to an Haster Vigil Saturday evening.
The Presiders, The Rey. Dean Houghton and Rev, Michael Hare,
musi be commended for the thoughtful and creative worship oxperi-
ence that centered around the we subfering of our Lord Jesus Christ.
. Bob Petras,
Terrace, B.C.

THE START IS FOR PEOPLE LEARNING TO READ

The Start

Lots of money

A MINING company is going to spend a lot of ‘money
looking for gold.

The company is called Lac Minerals, It thinks it has
found a lot of gold near Stewart. The place is called Red
Mountain.

The company plans to spend close to $20 million this
year. Il spent more than $10 million last year.

Ef all goes well, the company wants to build a gold
mine next year, But first the company needs the provin-
cial government to give the OK.

The mine will provide a lot of jobs. This will help the
town of Stewart.

More trees, please

THE PROVINCLAL government wants to grow more trees, i says
there will be jobs for forest workers.
So the government has come up with the Forest Renewal Plan, It
wants to spend $2 billion over the next five years,
__ The jobs will be for people who ‘used to log and work In mills.
Some have lost their jobs because there aré not enough trees fo. cut.
If mote trees are grown, more people will be put back to work,’
Forest companies wili pay more taxes to pay for-the plan, Forest
_companles say they like the plan. People who | are worrled about
logging say they also like the plan.-