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T his week:

ilton Jovial has every
Mine to. be pleased.
(Don’t forget, we made

this guy up.) Sitting in his New
York office, surveying askyline of
architecture he ‘imagines to be
northwestem .- British Columbia
trees, he mentally calculates his
profit and loss. -

He began with an idea, was told
originally his investment would
make him only a half million a
year, and through a little extra
design work and an extra $2 mil-
lion in cash he is now being told
he could multiply that half million

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Milton’ S in the

in profit by perhaps ten.

But Milton wasn’t totally

pleased. First of all, he wasn’t,

stupid. This value-added thing was
only going to up his annual profit
to about $1 million, not $5 million,

and there was something else
that”

nagging his principles
wouldn’t leave him alone. When
you invest a buck, you should
walk home with two. But there
was a part of this new investment
plan that wouldn’t work that way.
For every dollar he invested in
pulp chip production he would
walk away with only a little pocket

Letters to

Pulp and paper plant

‘To the Editor;

I have read the Orenda Forest
Products’ proposal regarding a
pulp and paper mill in your
‘paper and have serious concerns
about this proposal.

The Swan Lake area where the
project would be located is a
highly valuable area for wildlife
which likes Old Growth, refer-
ring to the existing stands of so-
called pulp-wood.

In particular, I feel that there
would be a disruption of the
grizzly bear-sockeye salmon
food web by interference by hu-
mans and human activities’ if
such a proposal were t0 go
ahead.

This disruption would come
about, it appears to me, by ex-
cessive road construction, large
traffic volumes, excess clear cut-
ting and cover removal over
broad areas, increased poach-
ing, and by anglers venturing in-
to conflict zones, garbage cans
and dumps, conflicts with
campers and tourists. This sen-
sitive ecosystem and the bears
cannot tolerate or long co-exist
with a development of this scale

in this area.

Additionally, I have reserva-
tions about the mill proposal
itself. It will not be as clean as
has been stated.

By using 20 percent kraft
pulp, the mill will be increasing
demand for kraft mill products,
a process which we are aware
generates many varieties of
hbighly toxic chemical contami-
nants like dioxins, organo-
chiorines, and resin acids, a pro-
cess which has resulted in the
closure of shell-fish fisheries
throughout the B.C. coast.
These kraft contaminants are
not restricted only to the efflu-
ents, sludge, pulp and air emis-
sions of the supplier kraft mills,
but will be entrained in the
finished products of the Orenda
mill by virtue of being in the
kraft pulp itself. Increasing the
market for kraft products is
against the best interests of the
Canadian environment. Regula-
tions in the works will not
eliminate the vast majority of
these contaminants, only reduce
them.

The form of energy provision

Bridge over Howe Creek

To the Editor;

_ We would like to notify the
public that there is a new bridge
across Howe Creek. To get
there, park at Munroe and Mc-
Connell and walk along the trail

Pifer —
Continued from page A6

mid-January—as a risky but
necessary move to divert atten-
tion from the questions about
the Premier, as well as to give
the Socreds a chance to try to
make villains of Moe Sihota,
Mike Harcourt and the NDP in
the Bill Reid/Bud Smith Affair.

The truth is that such a
‘plan’? would merely give the
New Democrats two kicks at the
Zalm and his lies about Fantasy
Gardens, et al—once in the
House, and once in the election
campaign. Not smart, not smart
at all.

‘Stay, as we say, tuned!

Be PATA ras Rae nIe pS

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to the west about 200 metres.
Continuing on this trail will land
you at the top of Lanfear hill,
where there is a very nice view of
the town,

This bridge was built by the
Caledonia Construction class
with donated equipment and
materials. The community can
be very proud of these young
people.

We would like to thank Don
Chesley and the staff of Skeena
Sawmills for their contribution
of all the lumber and logs, and
Steve Scott and the staff of the
City of Terrace for their dona-
tions of equipment and materi-
als. This project would have
been impossible without the sub-
stantial help of these people.

We hope that Terrace resi-
dents will enjoy this bridge for
many years to come.

Joe Murphy
Glenn Grieve
Terrace, B.C.

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“Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 12, 1990 A7

by Tod Strachan, in n consultation with Rod Amold and Doug Davies

‘change. And this, from an inves-

tor’s point of view, was sheer

folly.

Even though he had altered his
financial picture by including ‘a
value-added component to his B.C.
sawmill design, he was still going
to lose money on chips. True, it
was only going to be $1 million a

the Editor

year instead of the original $1 25
million predicted earlier. But his
Wall St. friends would laugh him
off the block if they knew he was
investing close to $50 million

dollars in a project he knew was

going lose a million dollars a year
on about one-third of it’s produc-
tion. A million dollars that woutd

plan raises concerns

will be by burning wood waste, a’

very dirty process which pro-
duces high levels of carbon diox-
ide, other noxious gases, and fly
ash waste, at a time when
Canada should be moving to
cleaner alternatives to comply
with international commitments
to reduce greenhouse gases.

Sludge incineration, if opted
for, is an unknown as far as
chemical constituents goes. We
simply do not know what chemi-
cals are generated or their fate,
beyond a few that have been re-
searched. Dioxins are reduced at
temperatures around 900
degrees celsuis, but we do not
yet know what other chemicals
are produced or their environ-
mental effects, at such high
heats. Consequently, this pro-
cess is filled with environmental
uncertainty.

The alternative — using
sludge as landfill — will lead to
toxic leachates being dumped in-
to the ecosystem. While this con-
cern isn’t insurmountable, it
adds to the overall concerns.

Drainages in the area also
have other high fish and wildlife

values. Species of anadromous
fish are known to be abundant
in local main rivers and good
trout populations exist in lesser
creeks. High demand for wood
could put severe pressures on
buffer strips along streams and
around lakes to log them or
make them small, the type of
pressure we are now seeing on
the Lakelse River. This, if it
comes about, would harm cer-
tain fish species and result in loss
of cover for wildlife.

There will be sewage and
waste oil, detergents, solvents
and other chemicals to be dealt
with from a pulp mill, and the
form of disposal hasn’t been
adequately dealt with, at least in
the press coverage. Will it ul-
timately go into the creeks and
rivers?

Clearly, these concerns dictate

against such a proposal in such a:

place.

Jorma Jyrkkanen,
Terrace..

_ Thanks for ‘support

To the Editor;

Members of the Terrace
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
would like to greatly thank each
of you in the community for
contributing so generously to
our 82nd annual ingathering
campaign. It is so refreshing to
see people like you who still care
about the sufferings of others in

this world by doing what you
can to help relieve their pain.
We, along with all of you, are
looking forward to that wonder-
ful day when Christ comes in the
clouds of heaven and suffering
will be no more! —
Pastor Ole Unruh
Terrace, B.C.

Athlete travel helped

To the Editor;

Thank you for helping us cele-
brate the tenth anniversary of
Special Olympics in B.C. by par-
ticipating in our Loonies for
Luck campagin. Jars have now
been collected from five loca-
tions and $39.62 has been raised
so far. This will be placed in our
athlete travel fund to be used in
1991 for trips to Prince Rupert
and Smithers.

We appreciate the support .

given to us by the local business
community and the public who
donated their change. We will be
announcing our total when we
collect the remaining coins from
McDonalds, but we did not want
to wait to thank you for your
assistance.

Joan Cox
Local Coordinator,
. Special Olympics
Terrace, B.C.

be subtracted every year 1 from his
annual profit on lumber sales.

Milton didn’t like the prospect.
He was "planning" to lose money,
and he couldn’t even explain why
to his friends. He decided his
on-site forester in Terrace, Herby
Squish, should be able to provide
both a reasonable answer and a
solution. So he contacted Herby
and expressed his total displeasure
with the pulp chip situation.

"The reason your going to lose
that million dollars on pulp chips
every year," Herby explained, "has
its roots in the history of the forest
industry in this province." A solu-
tion? "Yes, there is a possible
solution," Herby replied, “but it’s
about as evasive as the morning
mist. Pulp chips are worth about
$85 to $90 per cubic meter on the
export market, not the $35 we're
looking at now, but..."

Milton was beginning to regain
some of the excitement he felt
when he first took on this new
investment challenge. "Get me all
the numbers," he interrupted, "and
tell your government up ther
we're going to export chips. It’s a
part of our plan. We can make
more money, hire more people,
make more profit and pay more
taxes... They'll love it."

"Well, 1..."

"Do it," demanded Milton. As far
as he was concerned, the job was
done. He was going to make
money on pulp chips and his Wall

St. friends would sit up and take

notice.

erby knew the odds but
Hi began the necessary work

as ordered. Under the
present arrangement, and probably
the ultimate scenario, Milton’s
chips would be sold to the pulp
mill for $35 per cubic metre and
shipped by truck, at Milton’s cost,
to a west coast pulp mill. Milton’s
total cost would total $40 per cubic
meter for road building, logging,
hauling the logs to the mill and
reforestation, $.25 per cubic meter
for stumpage, $6.50 per cubic
meter for chipping, and $12 per
cubic meter to trucking the chips
to the pulp mill. A total cost of
$58.75 per cubic meter; a net loss
of $23.75 per cubic meter.

Herby noted he had forgotten to
tell Milton about the $12 shipping
cosi; he assumed Milton’s new
chips were sold F.O.B. destination.
Still, this would be countered to a
degree by the fact that about 20
percent of Milton’s saw logs
(slabs, ends, etc.) would become
pulp chips as well and the profit
from these chips would cover at:
least half the shipping cost to the

— Continued on page As.

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