. PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, August 10, 1977 a ae _ |. CNR WAREHOUSE RUINED $1 million inferno lashes Victoria port VICTORIA CP - City council will hold an emergency meeting today to assess the economic impact of spectacular . warehouse and wharf fire at the city’s waterfront Monday night. or Mike Young said Tuesday that the fire, which destroyed the large Canadian National Railways warehouse and dock, could mean the end of Victoria as an industrial port. The fire caused an estimated $1 million in damage. A fireman suffered a minor back injury Cause of the fire which was reported around 10:06 pin. remained unknown, but police were nvestigating reports that a couple of cars were seen speeding away from the dock moments before the 40 yard long warehouse burst into flames. The blaze, fed by newsprint and dried pulp, sent flames more than 100 feet into the air and the orange glow in the sky could be seen as far away as Port Angeles, Wash - 26 miles across the Juan de Fuca Strait. ~ Alderman Frank Carson, chairman of the city’s commercial and industrial development committee, said the main use of the wharf was for shipping pulp and there could be an immediate loss of that trade representing up to 400,000 tons of said the provincial government will move immediately to speed up talks with the federal government about the future of Ogden Point, site of the fire. awlf said that “destruction of the main ’ terminal building means several serious consequences for the Victorla area. "That facility was providing employment for upwards of 100 men,” he said, “and there is no other facility -available to pick up this trade on southern Vancouver Island.” Bawlf said he met Tuesday with Transport Minister Jack Davis and Economic Development Minister. Don Phillips to discuss the impact of the fire. About 65 firefighters from. three - departments fought the blaze from the land and were aided by Canadian Forces personnel and four fireboats. It was about two hours before the fire was brought under control. Fire department spokesmen said their men were hampered in fighting the blaze by lack of roper water supply to the site, a matter that had been raised in the past. Young noted that a nearby grain elevator was closed late last ear because Alberta Wheat Pool of Calgary was unwilling to spend the . $1.5 million HAROWARE STORES -GORDON& ff bringyou T.v. G '., _ ALL LISTINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE KING Wednesday, August 10 CFTK 3 (cer) BcTv ‘Gp.m, to midnight I ' q } : t i H ' ! the fire also destroyed arrival facilities -for cruise ships. mo ships were tied up at n the dock on Mo Recreation and Conservation Minister a year. necessary to Install fire prevention Pa Sadition to destroying the warehouse, facilities. Sam Bawlf, one of two MLAs for Victoria, control. Phillips’ RAILWEST Showering sparks started a small fire on the roof of a supermarket about a mile away. Officials said an unusually wind- free night helped keep the fire under touted project meant jobs for only six VANCOUVER (CP) — A union spokesman says workers at the Railwest railcar plant in Squamish rejected a short-term repair work contract because it contained no provision for job retraining. Michael Denton of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, which along wit the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union represents remaining workers at. the ‘sdon-to-be-phased-out plant, said the union was first given to understand that the contract would provide one month of work and job retraining for about 30 men. But there was no mention of job retraining in the contract that was eventually put forward, and it would ve provided work for only six people, said Denton in an interview Monday. The members would have been quite willing. for 30 senior workers to get the retraining and repair work, but decided unanimously they couldn’t accept a contract that would provide jobs for only six already- skilled men, he said. Denton’s comments followed a statement by Economic Development Minister Don Phillips in the legislature last week that a potential repair work contract for Railwest had -, not gone through because of labor union restrictions. Phillips said the board of derectors had considered repair work but decided against it because it would have been only short-term and cauld not have been done by members of the union at the plant. A BCR spokesman said later that Denton’s claim that the final offer was 30 days of work for six men was incorrect.and the job actually required 14 men for - one month, “They turned down the offer because the railway didn't go for a- retraining clause in the contract,” he said. “We were just tryin to give them as much Fork as possible.”’ owever, Denton said the spokesman was wrong about the numbers that would have been employed, unless BCR was countin; supervisors and staf because the contract would - have employed only six” hourlypaid workers. He said the original offer . was made about three months ago and was for reconditioning work on 46 | chemical ears for the FMC of Canada Ltd. chemical plant. However, the offer : was then cut down to a mere repainting job, which would have employed only six. alreadyskilled people. The Railwest plant is scheduled to shut down in mid-August. B.C. SURPLUS SALES U.S. utility protests price for electricity VANCOUVER (CP) — A spokesman for the Bonneville Power Administration in Wash- ington state says Canadians “right now are the new blue- eyed Arabs” because of the prices British Columbia Flights are off. VICTORIA (CP) -— AirWest Airlines Ltd., buffeted by employee- management problems, today abandoned its regular scheduled flights between Victoria and Vancouver and replaced them with intermittent service. - Members of the teamsters — wnion walked off the job 11 days ago to protest the firing of a copilot. Since then, Management _ personnel have attempted to maintain the regular schedule. * Although the harbor-to- harbor service has been brisk due to the national air traffic controllers’ strike, company spokesmen said the airline had to cancel the regular flights and simply fly whenever possible. : A spokesman said today’s flights were running ‘‘more or less" regularly, with passengers having to wait 30 @ 40 minutes, - The 95 employees walked off the job for a study session after the co-pilot was fired for failing a route check examination. ; | 7 . . | Hydro is charging Pacific Northwest states for surplus electricity. The spokesman said in an interview Monday that utility companies in the U.S. are not buying power from B.C. It is being bought on behalf of a United States federal agency and by large- scale industrial users such as aluminum plants. “Prankly, they (B.C, Hydro) are asking too much for it. You folks in Canada right now are the new blue- eyed Arabs,” he said. In a four-month period this summer, B.C. Hydro ‘estimates it will make more than $12 million in sales to the US., at prices 10 times what they were three years | ago. A spokesman for Hydro said: “You get the hest price you can ... the same applies when we require power from the U.S.” He said the price for each sale depends on the market value at the time, with a big factor in this being the availability of alternative sources. In addition to an estimated total of $12.4 million in sales of water- generated electricity from May to the end of Auvust, B.C. Hydro sold another $3.4 million worth of thermal- generated power in May, at an unstated profit. Pacific Northwest states are short of electricity because of the lowest rainfall and snowfall in this century. The shortage has’ béen cumpounded because of deals made last year in which a number of public utilities and industries in the Pacific Northwest agreed to sell power to California, which also has a drought. Utilities and industries which do not have enough & power for their needs have buy it where they can and the federally-operated BPA is frequently used as an agent in these purchases as well as transmitting the purchased electricity over ts grid system. . Another BPA spokesman said until 1974 the rate charged by utilities on both sides of the border for surplus water-generated power was 2.5 mills. The B.C. Hydro spokesman said prices at which it has sold since May © have varied from the present 23 mills up to 30 mills. Sales in May, involving thermal power from Burrard generating ‘station only, were at 25.3 mills and totalled $3.4 million. 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