‘a 4 AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 15, 2006 ‘Shell wants to find solution to gas station dilemma. - | 3 Dear Sir: ~ Your paper has published _ @ number of stories involv-. . ing a local businessman and ’ Shell: Canada.» As .always, there are two sides to every | Story and we: believe it’s important your readers have the“ opportunity to know. _ about Shell’s Position in this “matter. _.,-Weat Shell Canada share the community’ S concern ° ' about this situation and we are doing our best to resolve . . it with the’ Party. directly it in-~ volved. Ate Shell, we are. clear 7 about our approach to doing . business. We act with hon- . CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD | e esty, integrity and fairness in . our work and we look for the same from those with whom “we do ‘business. Shell takes its environmental responsi-. bility seriously. In this case, Shell has’ put - forward \ various offers to try. to move towards resolution, which have been declined ‘or went without a response. e Mail Bag © il Indeed, we expected t to have - found a solution:by now but we remain committed to - making progress. Besides ,our ongoing ef-° forts: to. talk with those di- rectly : -involved, we have been ‘open .and straightfor- ward: about . this issue, -re- sponding to questions from community members, local -will continue. to do our part g government officials and the: : media. We believe . the parties a can find a solution: that is. fair.and equitable, and: we | to make it happen as soon as possible... Z ‘Dominic Michiels, 7 ‘Shell Canada Products, . . Calgary, Alberta : iberals don’t get it either a when it comes to the porn, Boo Dear Sir: a ~ "The Feb..22 headline, “Those urban folk just don’ t get it, ” over the: top of the Roger Harris, column caught my: at- tention: > _ ao Since Roger Harris and I have disagreed 0 ona few i issues sI _ had to'know just how it was that we were in incomplete agree- ; ' ment once more. ©: » Roger highlights . thie urban environmentalist. as the fo- ‘cus of his charge. that ‘those urban folks just don’t get it’ ” 2 found he may be only party right. . When Alcan threatened to shut down a pot line because ° of low reservoir water levels and the province offered cheap power to keep their pot lines running to avoided layoffs, the . southern columnists ‘complained :about. what a bad deal it a was for evéryone in the rest of the province. | i> They gave not a- thought t to the economic contribution of Fk the smelter jobs in Kitimat... Pog When the government supported the scr mill in the late size) mattress) setsim cs re ae “Made exclusively by. - ‘ y eee es oo Sfringwi: Wall oes SSR . 2 hee : - _makers of business ‘could not be subsidized. a ‘It would have been comforting , to hear. just « once from ‘: | Roger, ‘those urban folks just-don‘t get it.” e .. I would agree.with Roger a lot more if he, wasn’t so in- a consistent. If those communities. that have the resources, generate the wealth and are beyond Hope, must never rely — “on assistance from government, why: is it different for the... south? ‘Why is it acceptable to pass provincial legislation permit- f ting a lower level of government to subsidize a business? In. the rural areas any ‘assistance for a local mill for example must come from local taxpayers but it can’t come from pro-\ ~vincial taxpayers. - - The biggest provincial taxpayer subsidy to business is taking place in the Vancouver'‘area in the form of the con- - ‘struction activity around .the 2010 Olympics. Up here we - “must scrounge around for ways to benefit from the Olympics in Whistler. Now before people get.too excitéd,:let me say.” ©. 90‘s, the columnists down south and.the then leader of the . that I enjoy watching the Olympics, but itis a subsidy f for the a -~ Ay '” -* opposition, Gordon Campbell,.ridiculed Dan Miller calling” “area in which it is held. a vs TOTE NM F U RN ITU RE t ; ' him “Dan the SCI Man”. They called itascandal.. "=. ° So, I'don’t think itis just the urban environmentalist that : )) oe Po, ~ Then when Campbell had ‘the chance, he shut down: SCI. don’ t get it. . oo oe! . oo. SN, NAGED a & APPLI ANCE. 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