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Waste: it’s now or later |
It doesn’t take extraordinary intuition or exceptional
skills to forecast that Terrace and the surrounding

area will eventually run into a trash disposal problem.
The only question is when it will happen. oo
There is no question, however, that it will be easier
and less expensive to deal with if there is some ad-
vance planning done about solid waste disposal. The |
current municipal and regional district landfills can
continue accepting our debris for quite a while, and at
first glance there is so much unoccupied and unused
land in this vicinity that one could conclude the solu-
tion is to simply keep moving the dump site around.
A detailed examination indicates otherwise. Land-
fills can only be located in areas that fulfill certain .
very specific criteria, and in an area with heavy annual
precipitation, a lot of surface water running around
and widely varying soil permeability, site selection is a

major headache.

The B.C, Ministry of Environment, led by Prince
George South MLA Bruce Strachan, has taken some
commendable and progressive steps to deal with a
variety of impending trash problems in the province.
First came the Special Waste Advisory Committee
with a comprehensive plan to deal with the disposal
and generation of hazardous garbage (a convincing .
concept that has yet to be tested in the real world),
and now a discussion paper has been released and a
task force struck to confront the more familiar prob-
lem of the hundreds of kilograms of debris each of us
leave in our wake annually as we consume our way

through the good life.

Hearings will take place throughout B.C. in the
coming months, and if the provincial government is
offering some sort of a cost-sharing proposition on
solid waste disposal through a provincial network |
similar to the one being established for hazardous _
waste, then now is the time for the City of Terrace
and the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District to start

thinking about buying in.

-- Old and forgotten?

‘While paving a certain amount of our paradise is
necessary and commendable, does the modernization
of our city have to include turning our backs on the

past? Let’s keep one reminder of our roots, the

former police building, clo

city center.

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“A stronger motivation _

‘wondering whether this month

will be their last one on the
job.
Shields says he and chief

government negotiator Bob

Plecas get along well so it is
not a personality problem.
“The problem is that he is the
agent of the government’s
privatization plans. That’s. his.
Tole there.”” my
When it comes to solving this

, deadlock, Shields is not looking

by Victoria correspondent —
Mark Collins

One of the most frustrating
aspects of life in B.C. in the
80’s is having the British Col-
umbia Government Employees
Union conduct a strike vote
when so few, if any, of the —
members want to strike. —

About 800 members gathered
in Victoria to hear union presi-

_dent John Shields speak about
. the state of their contract talks

with the provincial government.
It was a sad speech, an admis-
sion that the negotiations had ..
broken off and failed to reach

‘a new contract. They need. to
take a strike vote, Shields says,
to get the government’s atten-
tion.. He compared it to hitting ©
.an unresponsive mulé between

-the eyes witha 2x4, -
-- go advertisement wilt be published which

47 don't believe in going on

strike either. If-they.doem-.. -

power the bargaining commit-

.& negotiated collective agree-
‘ment,’ Shields said following
If these talks were just ‘about
rates of pay they would have
reached'a settlement weeks ago"

‘but the privatization issue

makes it much more com-
plicated. Improving job sécuri-
ty has always-been an impor-
tant trade union objective but
Premier Vander Zalm’s govern- .
ment has decided that public

"servants should alwaysbe =

to a traditional ally like the
B.C. Federation of Labor. He’s
counting on the management
side of B.C. industry.

“*T don’t think with the ~
private sector having suc-
cessfully negotiated a series.of
agreements, that the leaders of
industry will stand by and let
Mr. Vander Zalm drag the pro-
vince into’ an industrial .

. dispute,”? Shields said. ‘‘I just

don’t believe that the economy,
private or public, wants to see
a dispute at this point. Nor do
I believe that the private sector

who have been able to success-
fully negotiate contracting out

language will be very tolerant

‘of the government bringing

them into a strike over its in-
tention to contract out all the

Cost overrun:

job cost $77,586 bringing the =

“The cost of last year’s airport

terminal upgrade exceeded the
contracted amount by nearly

eight percent according to.infor-
mation given to the Kitimat-
Terrace :and District Labour

Council by Minister of State for.

Transport, Gerry St. Germain.
And this, says Labour Council
business manager Paul John-
ston, is just one more example
of the fact that the lowest bid
isn’t always the cheapest.
According to Johnston, a
non-union company, . Tendev
Construction of Surrey, won the

contract with a low bid of.
$981,053, But: “‘extras’’ on the:

been signed,

government jobs.” ans
People leaving the meeting -
were very worried about being —

victims or used as pawns...

There was a feeling of helpless-
ness in the face of a process ~
they know is wrong but are.
unable to stop. That is the kind
of feeling that prompts people .
to form a union. It is a much
stronger motivation than
fighting for an extra 25 cents ._
perhour, =. -
~ One long-time government

employee said he had dedicated oo

his life to the greatest public

“good and achieving what’s best -.

for the people-of B.C. He said
he and his co-workers believe —
in what they are doing. He
described these contract talks
as a major turning point and.
said the provincial government
should-reveal more of its plans
so they could be carefully con-

sidered by the public.

BCGEU members have not _
been very popular during pre- ©
vious strikes but it could be
different this time if wide--
spread opposition to policies of

the Vander Zalm government re

translates into support for gov-
ernment workers. ; ne

total cost for the federal govern-

ment up to $1,058,639. The se-

cond lowest bid: however, was”
submitted by Terrace H & H

Construction’ and. was only

$1,025,000, says Johnston.

Department of ‘Transport’ : -
public affairs officer ° Judith. -

Smith says the cost overrun -. oe

would have occurred regardless | -

of who won the contract, She exe" =

plains that the cost for extras ~
was due to ‘site conditions”
and changes wére made by ‘the
architect after the contract: liad