16 Tericé Review — Wediesday, Aptil 15, 1987

se ch eme

TERRACE — A pack of
provincial and federal
representatives are.
presently at work forging
a plan in Ottawa to allow
the provinces to take over
collection of the 15 per-
cent export tax on Cana-
dian lumber shipped to
U.S. markets. .

B.C, Minister of Forests
and Lands Dave Parker is
reported to have said
recently that he opposes.
an escalation in stumpage
fees to replace the tax, but
he subsequently stated the
position is a personal
view.

‘‘I found out I’m not

-Newhawk gold mines set to
_launch two-stage thrust —

“The: ‘Sulphurets gold
discovery north of Stewart
- will e the scene of inten-
sified activity this year as
Newhawk Gold Mines car-.
ries out a $5 million
development program.

Newhawk president

Don McLeod recently
stated the first stage of the
program will begin soon
with the construction of a
tote road into the property
from. n Highway 37, follow-

Spring Counterattack roadblocks planned |

TERRACE — Again this
year, Terrace and area

residents will experience -

Counterattack road-
blocks.

by Ewen Harvie,
Terrace RCMP
Crime Prevention
Coordinator

In 1986 we arrested 287
persons for impaired driv-
ing and related offences.
With changes in the crimi-
nal code for drinking and

driving, penalties have in- .

creased. Also, with Spring
Counterattack, your
chances of being detected
have increased.

With the implementa-
tion in the Terrace,
Kitimat and Prince Rupert
‘areas of the roadside
breath analysis unit, or
A.L.E.R.T., the chances

‘ing a -Sikorsky

er.

allowed to have personal

opinions,”’ the recently- —

appointed cabinet minister
told the Terrace Review.
Parker said the group
has to come up with a
system for each province
to collect the tax, current-

ly being administered by

the federal government,
that will be acceptable to
U.S tumber interests.
Deadline for the new
systems to be in place is
June 1, ¢

‘“We have good econo-
mists and good financial
people working on. this,
and we're hoping for some
useful solutions,’ Parker

ed by the establishment of
a permanent camp at
Sulphurets.

- McLeod said the joint
venture currently has a
crew of eight professionals
based in Stevart, but the
company is ‘just gearing
up to'go”’ into an expan

‘sion. phase. He said the

company is presently us-
8-61
helicopter for access into
the area.

of further convictions has
increased. These units are

put into place for use not -
only during Spring:

Counterattack, but also

- year round. This: instru--

ment, along with the
breathalyzer and blood
samples, now makes being
caught and convicted that
much more of a reality.
We are interested in
making the highways safe
all year round and so the
stepped-up Counterattack
program not only takes
place at Christmas, but
also at this time of year as
well. Road checks will be
set up day or night and at
different locations

throughout the area. We
-are concerned about the

number of unnecessary in-
juries and deaths that oc-
cur every year in our high-
way area.

Hockey players lose

. The Terrace Timbermen
went to Prince George for
a 26-team tournament on
the April 4 weekend, but
some members wish they
hadn't gone.

Organizers . placed the
Timbermen in the four-
team ‘A’ division of this
oldtimers hockey series,

meaning they’d play

against the best three
teams in a round-robin.
The Terrace. team was

defeated 13-1 by Fort St.
James Trappers in their
opener. Then they lost 6-2
to Prince George Recs.
Their final outing was a
7-2 loss to Prince George
Mohawks,

Essentially this ends the
Timbermen’s season, al-
though they are working

on attending another tour-

‘nament in the over-40

- category in the United

States.

: reple

-Feported. problems
transportation into their:

said,

The B.C. forest in-
dustry is opposed to.
replacing the tax . with
higher stumpage rates
because stumpage is ap-
plied to all timber cut In

B.C, and consequently af-

fects the price of all forest

products regardless of.

destination. The present
export tax will cost the

forest industry in B.C. an

estimated $350 million this

"year, but raising stumpage

to add. 15 percent. to

U.S-destined products and -
‘applying it across the

board ‘would raise the an-

Although Stewart is
presently being used as an
operations base because. of
its proximity to: the mine
area,. McLeod said
‘Newhawk will eventually
use Terrace or Smithers as
a staging area when the
mine approaches the pro-
duction phase in fate 1988.
sources, who recently
‘with

THE COUNTERATTACK
PROGRAM
. In 1977, the province

launched an. all-out cam-
paign against the waste

and tragedy caused by the

drinking driver. Co-spon-
sored by the Ministry of

Attorney General and the
Insurance Company of
British

at reducing the number
and severity of alcohol-re-
lated traffic accidents on
B.C.’s roads. —

1987. marks the tenth :

year of the Counterattack
Program. The. 20th -an-
niversary. ‘‘A - Decade
Down a Safer Road’’, re-

flects the success of this

average $55 per cunit..

_. everyone.
Unlike Skyline Re- |

Columbia,
‘Counterattack is a crime |
prevention program aimed |

of about:
. damage “accidents, 3,500
personal injury accidents,

nual cost to $900 million.
Parker said an examina-

tion of the stumpage
system commissioned |

under former forests
minister Jack Kempf will
continue independent of
the export tax situation.

B.C. stumpage. rates,

varying between $1: and
‘$12 per cunit, are the
y.

lowest in Canada.
comparison, stumpage
rates in New Brunswick

A cunit is equal to 100
board “feet of solid.

‘lumber, or 2.831. ‘cubic

meters,

remote strike near Snip-
paker Mountain, McLeod
stated the Newhawk devel-
opment is
smoothly. -

“We have no concerns

at all,” McLeod said.
‘“We’ve had excellent
cooperation.
_ Arrangements
have been made with the
government to do survey

_ work ‘for a permanent

road into the site;

public education, enforce-
ment and community-
based program, Since

. 1977, alcohol-related traf-

fic-accidents have been re-
duced by 50 percent. This
means every year Counter-
attack helps save an aver-
age of: 30 lives, 850 in-
juries and $13 million.

DRINKING DRIVING
“STATISTICS |

In an average year in
B.C. alcohol is the cause
4,500 property

200 fatal accidents;

Jn which 7,200 people |

are injured, 250 people are
killed.

aa a

progressing.

from

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REGIONAL
DISTRIBUTION . PRO-
POSED ~

A recent -yesolution

‘passed by the Willlams .

Lake city council calls for
the export tax revenues to
be returned to the regions
from which they are col-
lected. The resolution
argues that the tax money

should be. redirected into —

forest-related programs

_.. rather. than being dumped —
into general-revenue, and —

that those areas generating
‘the most taxable products

- should receive the highest

everything is going
according to plan.’” —
Further work in the first
stage scheduled for this
year includes a drilling
program in the Brucejack
area of the property to
upgrade an inferred ore
tonnage of 1.5 million at
.332 ounces of gold per
ton to the category’ of
proven reserves. —
Target completion date
for Stage I is May 15, at

ince-wide Christmas .

-Counterattack Roadcheck
Blitz, there were: 272,000
vehicles checked, 250 peo-
ple were killed.

DRINKING DRIVING.
COSTS

Insurance: About $60
million is spent repairing —
the damage done by im-
paired drivers.

' Tax Dollars: Over $130
million is spent on en-
forcement, court, medical

ding.

_— - Terrace counell ‘review- oO
_ ed a copy of the resolution
ata recent meeting and
“elected to receive it for in-
formation and take no im-
mediate action: Ald. Bob_

Jackman observed that
the resolution will arise at
the North Central Munici-
pal Association meeting in
May.

The Kitimat- Stikine

Regional District‘also had

the resolution: on a recent

agenda, but, like Terrace
council, the board took no
action on it, - .

which time ‘the joint’ ven-

ture partners, Newhawk,
Lacana and Granduc, will: ;

have 14 days to elect for
participation in Stage Il.
Stage II is expected to
begin in June with
program of surface. and
underground drilling,

underground development -

and exploration of identi-
fied mineralization in the

West Zone of the Proper-
. ty. om ,

services and other: : Sate oO

_ Justice System: About

one third of alt:people'in -

B.C, jails are there for im-
paired driving convic-
tions. One third of “all
cases heard in ‘Provincial

Court. involves drinking -
driving. About $20 million

is spent on charges alone.
‘Health System: Drink-

_ ing drivers are responsible
‘for 40 percent of all driver

fatalities. They send over
8,000 people to hospital.

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