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A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 16, 1997

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Alcan sues
province

ALCAN is suing the province for the 1995 cancella-
tionof the Kemano Completion Project,

The company on Monday called a halt to accelerated
negouations that had almed at reaching an out-ol-court
settlement this.spring, Alcan officials said they'll now let
the courts decide how much compensation the company
should be awarded,

Alcan Spent $535 million on the $1.3 billion hydro-
electric project before it was cancelled. by the Harcourt
government in January, 1995,

The project would have diverted more water out of the _
Nechako watershed — threatening fish stocks there = (0
the turbines at Kemano.

“We have concluded that a negotiated settlement is not
possible. and have therefore decided ‘to put the matter
before the courts.‘’ Alcan president Jacques Bougie said.

Premier Glen Clark said thé province has 4 good case.
adding the project was “environmentally unsound and
economically unsound.” He said Alcan‘s court action
may foree the government to legislate a settlement.

The B.C, government wanted a deal under which the
province would agree to sell Alcan power and the com:
pany would agree to expand its aluminum smelting oper-
ations in Kilimal, créating new jobs.

“We entered into these discussions almost two years
ago. yet we find ourselves going backward rather than
forward with this process.’ Bougie said * ‘Unfortunately
those efforts failed to bring us closer toa solution.”

Bougie said Alcan will: reinvest in: B. C. any award
granted by the coun.

Alcan is claiming the $535 million it sank in the
ground, $5 million in-costs: fighting the cancellation,
accrued interest. special costs. and agerav ated and puni-
live damages against-the province.

Paul Ramsey. minister: responsible for Kemano, said
he's dissappointed by the move.

‘Alcan say's by this action it would rather pursue hun-
dreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money and
make lawyers rich rather than work with the government
to create jobs in the north,” he said. “And that’s a

shame.”

Workers protest
holiday shopping

RETAIL EMPLOYEES filed petitions with city hall Monday
night protesting a proposal to allow shopping on statutory holi-
days in the summer.

The initiative comes from the Chamber cf Commerce, which
says it has polled its members and found overwhelming support
among those who responded, Employees. however. said the
chamber doesn’t represent all businesses and most definitely
does not represent the desires of the workers, —

“Should it not be put to referendum for all citizens to choose?”
K-Mart employee Kim Holmes asked. councillors. “Or will it be
just a few members of the Chamber of Commerce who are going
to make this decision for us?”

The group delivered a L11-name petition to council opposing
the idea. Council will deal with the issue again at a future com-
mittee meeting. but several councillors say the employees have a
good point.

“Tf we can't get our shopping done in, 360 days of the year,
there's something wrong,” councillor David Hull said, “We're
not going to starve to death.”

Residents oppose rezoning

A STANDING ROOM only crowd of Mountainvista Drive
residents packed into council chambers Monday night to oppose
a rezoning that would allow an apartment building just off Kalum
Lake Drive.

The property at. 5230 Kalum Lake Drive would be rezoned
trom R1 single-farnily residential to R5 multifamily.

“We bought our home in an R1 zoned single-family area and
expected that would be maintained.” said Greg MacDonald.

Residents said the apartments would devalue and change the
character of their single-family home neighbourhood. -

Concerns were also expressed about slope stability and access
lo the property, Residents said the area has already gotten more
congested as development increases on in the Gordon Drive area.

Letters and petitions representing 108 residents oppased to the
rezoning were delivered.

Council will debate the praposed rezoning next Monday night.

But even if council votes for it. highways ministry officials say
they won't agree to the rezoning unless access to the property
comes via Floyd St, Ministry development technician Bill
Fairclough concluded it would not be sate to have an access
directly onto Kalum Lake Drive,

From front

Fees protested

resident licences sold,’’ he says. ‘‘And that translates to a
huge drop in tourist revenues,’’

Patrick’s store and mast other tackle shops in Terrace are
refusing to sell fresh water licences to protest the hikes,
The store owners say most anglers who come into the
shops are supportive of the protest.

But Tony Rutledge, wha used to host a local fishing
show here, says the owners are just making a bad situation
worse.

“Here they are hurting and they're pushing anglers
away. The average B.C. angler is the one getting the crap
end of the deal,”’ he says. ‘I had to go all the way to
Kitimat to get my licence." 8

Rutledge says that while he thinks the fees are too high
for Canadian residents, foreign visitors should pay more.

*T dou’t buy the story about the German eating Kraft
dinner for a year so he can save moncy to come to Ter-
race,”’ he says. ‘*But I do think Albertans and other Cana-
dians should gel a break,’’

Rutledge says what really irks him is that for all the
hoops he has to jump through with licences and fee In-
creases, he doesn’t think there will be any increased enfor-
cement measures.

Neither do conservation officers.

‘There is no way we'll get another CO this year,’’ says
conservation officer Ken Fujino. ‘If anything we'll be get-
ting cuts, but we haven't got our budget yet for this year so
it’s hard to say.”

The increases in licence and guiding fees are also sup- .

posed to fund a new River Guardian program, which pays
for more people to patrol B.C.’s classified waters and en-
force regulations.

But even though the majority of classified waters are
around Terrace, this area won’t see any River Guardians,
at least not this year.

“This is a start-up program,” says provincial regional
biologist Bob Hooton. ‘*This year it will start on the Bulk-
ley, Kispiox and Babine rivers. But it will be expanded in
the future.’’

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Neighbours target
area drug houses

RESIDENTS OF the 4800 block af Seat
Ave. say they want the police ta close down a
Suspected drug house on their street.

In-a ‘meeting Monday night, residents said
they're tired of the traffic. noise and garbage
generated by the house which is close to
Skeena Jr, Secondary and Caledonia schools:

“These people know that kids are their best
customers sa they Iry 10 set up as close to.
schools as they can.” says Carol Wall. who
lives on the street and who was one of 16 Peo-
ple al the meeting. - ;

Wall.says a house close t to hers is one of

“several problem residences in the urea, but is

probably the busiest.

"Traffic is a real problem,” she says. “y
have taxis turning around in my driveway and
cars speeding around. all the time. And the

kids are so blatant. They'll buy drugs at the ~
_ house and start smoking them befure they get

back in their cars.”
Wall says word spread quickly about

Monday’s meeting, which was attended by
parents. neighbours and twa school
principals. / _

“All the neighbours are worried about it,”
she says, “One person said he found drug par-

~-aphernalia in his yard."

Wall says the group is planning several
ways (0 tackle the problem. One is to make a
record of all the activities around: the drug
house; including copying down licence
numibers and culling the police every time

: there i is any obvious drug use.

“We want to make it as easy as possible for
the police to press charges.” Wall says,

She said neighbours have also talked about
marching to problem houses en masse and
telling residents they want illega} activity to
slop. And Wall says the group plans on lobby-
ing the government to increase the penaliles
for selling drugs near schools.

The neighbours will hald another meeting
next Monday with the police.

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Now that spring hos sprung we
northerners will be coming out of our
awn self-induced hibernation, We live in
one of the most beautiful orecs in the
world ond when it’s no! fifty below, many
of us like fo get out of town and check #
oul. This is aso the time of yeor when
mony of us gat sick from these sensanal
exposures. There ore certain health risks
thet you should be cware of if you intend
on getting bork to nature.

Drinking Water

There's no gutraniee that o beor
didn’t just do his business upstream in
that pristine mountain weter. We have
very elevated roles of Giordin (Beover
Fever) ond this is one of the reasons. All
surfoce water shovld bs considered con-
laminated with Giordio and
Cryptosporidium, hwo parasites capable of
tousing diarthea, obdamina’ cramps,
nouses vomiting, weight lass and fatigue.
Bears and beavers aren't ihe only cul-
prits. People shauld be awore thot their
unhealthy backcountry hygiene could
offect athers, If proper facilities oren't
avalloble, human wastes should be
buried, well away from bodies of woler.

Backcountry travelers should always
boil woter for ot least wo minutes before
drinking Ht or using it to brush teeth.

Wild Animals

Lost year a coyote had to be put down
because people were being bition while
trying to feed it. Always remember that

wild onimols, like stop, con comry 9
variety of disecses, Hikers should not
attempt to approach or feed strange or
wild animals, If you are bitten or
scratched cansull wilh your physician
immediately.

“Doug ¢ Quibell
CPHL, REH.O. |

. Environmental Health

Officer. for Community”
‘Health Services |

Because bats in the Pacific Northwest
are more likely to be conrying robies, il is
especiolly importent t0 see o doctor
promptly if bitten or scratched by o bt.

Recreational Water

Lokes and ponds thal ore frequented
by mammels ond wolerfow! often contain.
the “Swimmers lich” porasile. The itchy
rash is coused by a worm that lives port
of its life in soils, then moves on to

mommal: or waterfowl, If we ore unlucky
enough fo gel between them and the
mommels or birds, they busraw into our
skin causing the distinctive red bumps. It
takes o few minutes for the warms to
penetrate the skin, so the best way to
prevent the rash is to fowel off thorough
ly ond get out of wel bathing suits.

Alwoys check to see if signs hove been
posted warning of swimming hazards or
bacterial contomination.

Fleas and Ticks

There ore a number of fleas ond ticks
in the area thot are capable of spreading
infectious diseases like lyme disease,
When they bite or burrow into the skin
they inject whotever they happen fo be
carrying.

If you find a tick embedded in your
skin, the best woy 10 remove it is by
grosping and pulling it, gently, straight up
and oul with o small pair of tweezers,
and disinfecting the site with rubbing
alcohol. You may wish to save the tick in
asmall plastic or glass container for later
inspection by your docter, espexially if a
fever develops, or the area around the
bite appears to be infected.

Ol course the best defense is to keep
them off by covering all exposed skin
toming in contact with grass or leaves
and, after the hike, giving your hiking
pottner a quick theck over for ony

hitchhikers,

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