oa Edmonton to, Ocelot TERRACE*"—. Thé Ocelot petro-chemical plant: in Kitimat ¢ will become the storage and ex- + port: shipping point for a “gasoline! ‘additive produced in “Ocelot, ie ‘now (manufactures methanol from:-natural gas, will take the additive produced through a joint venture between ‘Petro. Canada and a Finnish company is:expected next week. © The"MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) : product replaces ‘lead as an additive to gas to give - ‘a high, octane burn, elt’s . described: as. an: -en-- vironmentally friendly octane booster to meet. low. harmful ‘eniission regulations from vehi- ‘cle engines now in effect, ‘Petro. Canada: spokesman Judy Wish said last week it and its Finnish partner, Neste Oy, already have a letter of iment’ _ -with Ocelot, Ocelot ‘will spend ; Approx:. “imately $15 million on increased :. ‘storage tank capacity and shipp-: - ing facilities. Construction will result in 25 employment years . and -1S full time jobs are ex- ‘pected when the project is com- plete. . ‘Wish | said discussions ‘are underway with CN for it to be the shipper, in- tanker cars, of MTBE from Alberta to Kitimat for shipping by sea to eventual - _markets on the American: wesl coast. . She said Ocelot was chosen because it already has facilities to handle the kind of product Petro Canada and Neste will produce. “They have the experience innouncement -whereby " vironmental for all major developments and ‘duces ‘the product: and expertise we were looking for,"’ said Wish-in adding Van- couver and Prince. Rupert were. also looked at possible export locations for the American west coast. : : Wish. said the project is not tied. to the provincial. govern- nient “initiative to expand port facilities al Kitimat and that im- provements to the CN line bet- ween Terrace and Kitimat are “not needed. ee * The project is subject to en- reviews standard public information sessions are ‘planned. The quantity 16 ‘be shipped lo Kitimat isn’t yet known, Wish continued, ‘because sales con- tracts aren't yet signed. MTBE will be produced at an Edmonton’ plant now ‘under construction and scheduled to. _., be finished next year. The pro- diction” capacity is listed at §30,000 tonnes a year and the plant will cost $350 million. The joint venture between Petro Canada and Neste Oy, a Finnish-state owned : petrochemical and oil company, arises from the former’s ability to provide raw material and the latter's expertise in MTBE, Neste spokesman Risto Nasi said last week the company pro- in Saudi Arabia,‘ Finland and Portugal and is developing a plant in Malaysia. “Our initialive is to involve ourselves with strong, lacal ;partners, Here in Alberta, there is a lot of reasonably priced raw material, " said Nasi. ~ MP Fulton gets - pay increase At the same time, Revenue — TERRACE — Skeena NDP “<° Member of Parliament received a raise Jan. E. He now makes $91,700 a year, a 3.78 per cent increase ~ over 1990. _-That figure includes a tax- 2. free expense allowance’-of ~ $21,300 and a 1, $6,000 howsing allowance, - es Try a hearty Stew tonight 4.37 /kg Canada has said MPs won't be paying the new Goods and Ser- vices Tax on office supplies. A spokesman forthe govern- ment department said’ charging ‘the GST would simply have meant -transferring -government money from one account to another. t site of ft Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, January 9, 1991 — 7 NIGHT. CRAWLER. A frequent sight on city streets this winter pe ome. has been this self loading scraper, used to clear snow banks plled up in the middle of the road. Although not a new piece of equipment, many residents may not have seen it in actior: Snow clearing is costly TERRACE — The final figures for the city’s 1990 snow clearing costs are now inand they show even the ad- ditional $60,000 thrown into the budget late last year was not enough to cover expen- ditures, says its engineering director, Stew Christensen said the ‘original Budgel had been set . al $229,000. That figure was topped up twice — $50,000 was added following heavy snowfalls last January and February and $60,000 after December’s snowstorms — for a total of $339,000. However, Christensen confirmed last week, that still fell short of the approx- imately $345,000 it cost ta clear city streets in 1990. ‘He said the original budget figure of $229,000 had been based on 1989 snow removal costs ‘"plus a bit’’ and was in line with costs for the previous three years. With preparations of the 1991 budget now underway, Christensen conceded the problem now was to assess whether 1990 was an anoma- ly or signalled a longer term change in winter weather pat- terns. : kkekkkk Although unable to tackle all the focal improvement projects planned for 1990, the director of engineering has. confirmed those com-. ~ pleted- came in under- budget * before because it usually worked only the graveyard shift fast year. However, this sedson’s heavy snowfalls have forced it out into the light of day. The operating cost of the machine is less than half that of using a loader and dump trucks. overall, In a report to council, Stew Christensen said only one of the six projects carried out last year cost more than original estimates, that being the Halliwell Ave. upgrade. However, at $417,712, the final figure was only $351 over budget. On the plus side, the ‘Reefer (3144), Braun ($1,794) and Lazelie ($15,282) ‘road projects ail came in under projections and installation of asewer on Griffith cost nearly $5,000 less than anticipated. The overall result for the ‘city was to reduce projected | capital budget expenditures . by. alrrost $17,000, Although the savings also benefited some local residents — land owners pay a share of the cost based on property frontage — Lazelle property owners’ contribu- tions remained unchanged. 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