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_ - committee will make Orenda act on them.

months. Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht
said the committee's scope of authority will
be to make recommendations to ‘the MPRP
steering committee, and if the recommen-
dations are approved then the steering

The monitoring committee will also
review a plan Orenda is® ‘to. submit for
housing workers during construction. - 7

In February the Haisla and Tsimshian
were provided with two studies, one on
groundwater and the other -on regional
fibre supply. The government ordered a [im
third study ‘as part of the approval-in- faae
principle, deemed to be a "socio-economic
management impact" study that will pro-

_ ject the impact the plant. may have on

lifestyles and traditional activities of the
two native: groups and identify ways to
direct benefits from the mill, including:
employment and training, to the Tsimshian
and Haisla. Giesbrecht said the. study will

be done by an independent consultant, with
the’ province and Orenda footing equal
shares of the cost.

Other conditions set out in the approval-in-

- principle restate commitments that Orenda made in.
its prospectus for the project with regards to environ--

mental technology and management. The company
will also be required to continue monitoring ground-
water for contamination from the ash and waste .
dump after the mill is decommissioned. The length of |
time will beset by the regional manager of environ-
mental. protection.

The announcement of approval-in-principle v was -
accompanied by the release of two reports, one on the
projected environmental effect of the proposed plant
and the other concerning its effect on the regional

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Parsons, Giesbrecht: Setting the conditions.

timber supply and the existing mills that use it.

The environmental ‘study, done by Wiseman
Associates of Prince George, concluded that the
technology for the mill as outlined.in Orenda's
_ prospectus will work but recommended more detailed .
- study of the site, particularly for groundwater flows
and wildlife impact. Orenda will have to do those ©
. studies, in conjunction with the Haisla and the

Tsimshian, before. the mill will be allowed to begin
operation.

The timber. supply study, done by Stewart and
Ewing Associates of Richmond, found that. the mill
will have no appreciable negative effect on the
regional fibre supply, mainly because nearly all of -

. the wood currently being cut in Orenda’s chart area -

. Capital cost, inillions of dollars, 1991 estimate: 365 |

. Full time employees needed to operate finished mill: 141

Construction time required, in- person-years: 571

. Annual production of magazine stock coated paper, in tons: 173,00 ©

- Annual consumption of pulp logs, in cubic metres: 183,000

"Daily water consumption, in cubic metres: 1,600

_ Area of Orenda’s North Kalum forest licence, in square Kilometres: 1 1, 600

Bioler ash mill will produce per day, in tons: 21.35

Logs sorted per day during peak periods for shipment from Orenda’ Fr Stewart sorting yard,

in truckloads: 100

~ Pulp logs to be delivered to new mill per week, in truckloads: 180
Hazardous material to be delivered to the mill per week, in truckloads: 4.53 -

In railcars: 3.19

Terrace Review — April 16, 1992