PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, July 25, 1977

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_ percent oppostion,

Kitimat’s ©
- submission

The first formal session of Andrew Thompson’s

West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry was wrapped up-in
Vancouver Wednesday, less than three full days

after it started, Dr. Thompson and commission.

counsel Russell Anthony outlined the arena of
combat for pipeline detractors and supporters, but
beyond the formal presentation of

This will come in later sessions. For now, it was
acase of establishing the ground rules and, for Dr.
Thompson, an opportunity to feel out the relative
flexibility or intransigence of the contestants.

If the week proved less-than-reassuring to
observer's in the northwest, certainly the brief from
the District of Kitimat bears much of the blame.
Council’s submission, according to a number of
indicators, runs counter to public opinion here.

"The district says it supports the proposed Kitimat
oil port and speaks for Kitimat residents even
though: a poll by MLA Cyril Shelford registered 61
a Terrace Herald sampling
revealed a 14 percent anti-pipeline plurality, and
such mass-based organizations as the Canadain
Association of Smelter and Allied Workers, Kitimat
local, unanimously approved a resolution opposing
the plan.

A proposed oil port is not just another of a series
of half-baked, shot-in-the-wind industrial
developmen proposed for the city. Though
council doubtless recognizes that fact, its

submission suggests an attitude of just being one ~

more interest group presenting an opinion.
Unfortunately, the oil port’s extent and potential
repercussions are too vast for that appraoch.

Possible environmental and social effects are not .
abstract ideas to,be glibly, passed...over

but
important realities requiring-in-depth-appraisal.
Council’s mandate was to express, more. fully,

the deep-rooted feelings and worries of the.city’s »

residents. If enough funds were not alloted from
Dr. Thompson, then perhaps the district should
have made the money available itself. Instead, the

-counsillors rushed to judgement on a pro-pipeline

stand - Mayor George Thom saying that quick
intervention was demanded - only to produce an
embarassingly simplistic document that will shed
no illumination for Dr. Thompson during his tough

' deliberations.

The brief presented an argument devoid of the
kind of depth of perception or understanding that
one would expect from a community dangling on
the brink of possible dislocations resulting from
establishment of a major oil termiaal.

There was no comment, nothing incisive or
enlightening, about the feelings of Kitimat people
towards the oil port. The city couched its remarks
in the kind of institutional catch-phrases that so
often becloud important questions. It was classic
business clap-trap: an oi] port would provide so
much help for our industrial base, so much taxation
benefits, damage to our recreational resources was
not irreparable.

Thompson, in Vancouver, was told that the
district supported multiple use of the Douglas
Channel environment, for example, but council, in
Kitimat, did not explain what exactly that might
mean from day to day, or season to season. We
have long heard and expressed the justifiable
notion that local decisions are too often made by
southern power-brokers not attuned to northern
exigencies. But with its presentation, Kitimat
council almost begs Thompson to make the
decision for us. He was provided with little
information. . co

The commissioner will, unfortunately, gain no
insight into the thoughts or worries of Kitimat
residents from the eight pages of the obvious that
council submitted. There’s no feel, nothing
different or innovative, nothing local, about the
document.

On this important presentation to the oil port
commissioner, council ill-seryed the people of

imat.

LAFF-A-DAY - se >
es | si NG PERSONS
os BUREAU

‘phere I was talking away when I realized I hadn't
heard a single ‘yes, dear'!”’

S

Gover

Dear Sir: ; .

I have read with interest your
editorial in.the June 24th edition
of the Herald entitled “Falling
Prey to Pipeline Ploy”.

I can assure you that the
federal government is not, as you
suggest, falling prey to an
efforts to lessen the intensity wi

. which the proposed Kitimat to

Edmonton crude oil pipeline will
be studied.
Indeed, I would sugget that the

- widening of Dr. Thompson's

mandate ‘to explore the

gsibilities of other west coast
crude oi] terminal facilities, will
allow-us to gain an even better
prerspective of the. relative
advantages and disadvantages of

the Kitimat proposal.

With respect to that proposal, I

can assure you that the federal
government will continue to give
it a most detailed and extensive
analysis from environmental,
social, and economic standpoints.

Dr. Thompson - who recently
toured the proposed tanker route
along with the Honourable Romeo

-LeBlane, Minister of Fisheries

and the Environment: - will
continue to give it his thorough
attention.

The recommendations of the
Termpol Assessment - with which
Tam sure you are familiar - will
have to be responded to before
any consideration of approval of
the Kitimat
proposal is considered.

Environmental and marine .

analyses - such as the recent
$491,000 contract to Dobrecky-

to’ Edmonton .

Voice of the readers — _ |

nment not falling pre

Seatech Limited

oceanographic research in

Douglas Channel - will be.

continued.

And I can assure you that I, as
Member of Parliament for
Skeena, will continue to follow
this matter most carefully, in

order to ensure that decisions are -

not made affecting our area

which do not properly take into.
account the needs and concerns of -

those of us who live here.

You ask in your editorial for “a
simple statement of policy. from
the government”. In
would refer you to the statement
by Mr. LeBlanc in his news
release of June 16th, in which he

said “It’s important that the -

inquiry continue in order to insure
that decisions - concerning the

for

state that the purpo

’ marine tanker route é
- eonstruction of a marine terminal
isregard!{ -

shigimento oilin waters adjacent
to

ianada are made on the basis
of best possible information and
full public participation”, and

atso the terms of reference of the

which. still
se of the
inquiry Is to “inquire: into the
concerning and to report upon {i)
the social and environmental
“impact regionally (including the
impact on fisheries) that could
result from the establishment of a
an

Thompson inquiry,

(deep water oil port) at Kitimat,
B.C.” and to [report upon
representations made to him

‘concerning the terms ‘and

conditions which should! be
imposed, if authority is given to
establish a marine terminal at

y to ploy

A.

Kitimat, on the size, construction
and operation thereof, and on the
size, construction and operation
of tankers in the approaches
thereto”,

1 would suggest that these
represent as clear as possible a
staternent as can be made by the
federal government:,on, this
subject, and clearly indicate jts
desire to ensure that decisions are

‘not made with respect to. Kitimat

which do not properly take into
account al) relevant social,
economic, and environmental
considerations, as well as the
views of local residents.
Trusting this will help clarify

this important issue for you, I
remain,

Yours very truly,
* Yona Campagnolo

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“overview” .
‘briefs, there was little exchange of opinions.

of

Budworm infested tree

Lillooet and Pemberton areas are being .
devastated by the’ western spruce
budworm. ,

ejob. §. |. . .

Hundreds of thousands of acres of dead
forest are thus created.

These tinder dry, dead forests are
‘extremel
when wild fires strike, they are difficult to
contro}, ; .

Nature has taken its course in the past

southern

Dear Editor: . *

The forests of the Fraser Canyon,

British Columbia:has probably in the

past exprienced infestations of this
‘ ‘Mmagnitude, but not in the recorded history

western Canada...
Because modern man was not here to

control such.infestations, nature took its
_ gourse and the infestations did come to a

natural end. ae
What is nature’s course? Budworm
infestations are followed by altack by
bark bor!
by the budworm, the bark beetles finish

‘beetles. If trees are not killed

susceptible to wild fires and

‘August, the damage

to

q Spruce budworm ruins
7 B.C. forests

and evidence of this is the many uniform

: ane stands of forest which over hundreds
o ;

thousands of acres in B.C. - 4
During this time of year, July an
8 eaused. by the
budworm is most visible. [ask those who
oppose the Forest Service efforts to
rotect the forest environment to travel to
the infested areas and see for themselves
what is happening. .

Our forest resource base Js very
ortant to British Columbia. Not only
the economy of the forest industry, but .
to the aesthetics of this beautiful
province, to wildlife habitats and to the
quality of our water and fisheries. — -

Will those who think we ‘should allow
nature totake its course seriously think of

the consequences of natvre’s control

" measures? a

-” Will those who donot wish our forests to

: be protected please have a look at what is
happening?

T.M. Waterland, -

‘MINISTER OF FORESTS _

Waterland’s enemy

- Lefebvre:candidate for

VATICAN CITY (AP)

ultimate penalty of schism. Oo
-_ A. silver-haired | excommunication, ‘. The attention ...the
archbishop, now touring Why is the Pope so archbishop has . attracted

South America to line u
support against Vatican at-
tempts to modernize the
Roman Catholic Church, is
i the most serious
reat of church schism in a
century.
Archbishop Marcel

worried about a 71-yéat-old
bishop .who says a ‘“16th-
century mass now banned
by the Vatican?

Those who view the
church as too restrictive in-
its sexual
conservative in its social

~ Man in the news

has helped him -win a large
base 9f support in France-
and , Swi zeriand, but
evidence of more
widespread sympathy can
be seen in the success of his
irips recently to the United
States, South America and

codes, too

last year.

_ the maverick prelate, as an
archbish
other bishops, raising the
threat of an ecclesiastical
hierarchy outside Rome’s.
His followers might even
draft Archbishop Lefebvre
as: an antipope. At that
point, excOmmunication

anti

Besides ordaining priests,

, can consecrate

a split. would

Paul.

blow to the papacy of Pope

-pope?

. a
schism of King Henry VIII
of England. But it might
woduce an internal split

‘like that of the

Catholics” who refused to
accept the doctrine of papal

ibility after the first
Vatican council in 1870. Such

inthe way it worships and in
its relations with non-
Catholics and. the secular
world. 7
Archbishop Lefebvre
accuses the council of
having made “false
compromises with liber-
alism,. modernism and
communism,” He extends
his criticism to personal

“Old

be a major

Lefebvre of France, leader
of a traditionalist movement
claiming followers
throughout the world, has
been admonished by Pope
Paul in public speeches and
private letters, suspended
rom his priestly functions

-and threatened with the

views or too regal in its
hierarchical structure often
wind up ‘“‘dropping out” in a
kind of personal schisin.

But Archbishop Lefébvre -

and his followers, thdugh
probably less numeétpus

an liberal dropouts, pose a
threat of formal group

Rome itself,

He' has set up an
international seminary im
Econe, Switzerland, where

he trains his own priests to -

reach the traditionalist line
in their homelands. This led
the Pope to suspend him
from his priestly functions

would be a mere formality —

and the schism wauld he a
reality. .

Given the secularism ©!
the modern state, there is no
chance such a move would
have the impact of the great
Eastern schism of -1054 or

‘the i6th-century Anglican ‘

It was the the second
Vatican council of 1962-65
that pushed Archbishop
Lefebvre into rebellion.

Initiated by the late Po
John XXIII to modernize the
church, the council
approved reforms in the
way the church views itself,

attacks on Pope Paul's
leadership. . .

“Itis not we who have en-
tered into schism,” the
archbishop said in one
interview. 'TIt.is the Po
who causes schism to the
extent to which he breaks
with the church.”

wt

‘Darling

not afraid

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

By RICHARD JACKSON .

Ottawa - Stan Darling, MP for Parry
Sound, is not your ordinary Conservative
backbencher.

No socialist-leaning Red Tory he.

“Stan” rather than the more formal
- “Stanley” in the Parliamentary Gulde,

change Old Time Tories.
Outspoken Stan Darling. - he-has a low
- boiling point - is a Conservative, like his
riding, of many parts.
ar

Toronto’s summer playground, the

to SO@ak OUt Hime tite ts 5 big part of ato

_> “Cottage Country”, populated by Albany

(° Club millionaires in their Georgian Bay

Honey Harbor snuggeries and by hell-

. raising motorbiking nomads making life
° miserable in the holiday campgrounds.

Nor is Darling, who calls himself plain -

one of those face-firmly-set-against-—

Sound-Muskeks is an urban-rural -

Those are Stan Darling’s “summer

ople”’, and some of them have votes, a
ew including shack-cabin residents in the
riding itself. ;

His ‘year-round’ people are small

professionals, and the usual mix of busy,
productive peeple who keep the country
going despite the drag of public servants
rE tha it youre
arling though is not your every-

day: party-lining polician y y
‘He speaks for himself gnd his people
_And in s0 speaking he can and does
break: many of the rules ‘of this
“gentlemen's club” of parliamentarians,
the first of which is that once the House of
Commons .makes ‘up
majority shall rule: and the -ruling: be

accepted arid supported by all as the -

common, considered judgement of the
representatives of the people. =
One of the rules which. still stands’ and

‘businessmen, tourist operators, farmers,

its mind, « the’

must. be honored in the name of the
majority is that Parliament supports fully
- and without qualification bilingualism for
‘Canada while meekly accepting French
unilingualism for Quebec.

Be nice to Quebee and.maybe it won't
destroy the country, goes the current
wisdom. Take any affront and turn the
other cheek. ;

But not Stan Darling.

He's fed up with the rule sof the
gentlemen’s club” that, with good
manners, does what it’s told to do.

On the big bothersome issues, Stan
Darling wants his say - wants his people to
have their say - in fact, wants the whole
country, to have its say.

.,dustead, he, his people and the country
just get things rammed down our
throats,”

He wanted a national referendum on
bilingualism ‘and look what we gat, two
languages in One part of the country, one
in the other,” a

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