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TERRACE --. The Nisga’a
Fribat Council will ask its
” members, this ‘week how they
_ want to stop a proposed: $365
million pulp: and paper ‘mill
south of Meziadin.

Council executive . director

‘Rod Robinson said last week
there gre: too many. unanswered
questions about environmental
_and other effects of. the. Orenda -
: Forest Products proposal.

Jt'wants to build the mill: pro- -

~. ducing magazine-quality. paper
from wood ‘it already. has under
licence: in’ ‘the Nisga’ a land -
daim.

Although the’ ptoject is being

examined by the. Provincial

government,

” Robinson ° said
there isn't enough:time for the
tribal council to investigate its
implications and -that the pro-
cess isn’t rigorous enough.”

' “What we're saying is: we
want to be completely: satisfied.
Something like this; a majot
project, requires second, third
or even fourth opinion,” he
said.

Orenda submitted its project
to the provincial government
for approval in: ‘January. “Those
who wanted to comment had 30
days. to make submissions. ©

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the. process . ‘didn’t ‘give in-
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to question Orenda or the
resources needed for an ex-
amination, said Robinson.

* Orenda could hear this week
froni the province if its project
will - receive approval-in-
principle pending the issuing of
licences and permits or if more

‘detailed studies will be required.

A decision was expected
several weeks ago but a provin-

‘eal, cabinet ‘shuffle ‘caused a

delay.

:. ‘The kind of studies and pro-
cess:the Nisga’a want.are con-|

tained:in the province's review
process. It can order public
hearings to look at potential
problem areas.

Tomorrow's day
teachers take ©
their strike vote

TERRACE — Local teachers
are holding a strike vote tomor-
row, Follawing mediator Vince
Ready’s failed effort at solving
their contract dispute with the
school board last week.
‘We're going to give the
board another opportunity to
negotiate (after the strike
vote),’’ said Terrace District
Teachers’ Association president
Robert Brown. ‘Then we'll
consider our options.’ :
Ready walked out of negotia-
tions between the teachers and

i -the Schivetppatd Thursday; pay-

ing the two sldés, are
far apart’? .

“They’ re going to have to pet
closer if mediation is going to
effect a setilement,” said
Réady. He was called in after
the teachers’ union broke off
talks two months ago, saying it
wouldn’ return to the table
unless a mediator was there,

"You've got to be able to see
an area of setilement if it’s g0-
ing to be worthwhile continuing
talks, and [ just don’t see it
there now,” he added. ‘‘There’s
a whole host of issues outstan-
ding.”

Brown blamed the stalemate
on what he called the board’s

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project at Kitimat.

That -decision follows word
the federal government has
come up with a further $100,000
— it originally gave the district
a $1 million grant — while the
province has topped, up its GO
B.C. grant ‘by: $293,000 to $1

million.

Although the additional
grants brought the total con-
tribution by senior governments
to $2.1 million, that's still near-
ly $1 million short of the last —
estimated cost of completing the
project to original specifica

tions.

— The. Kitimat
Stikine regional district wants to
borrow another $200,000 to
spend on its MK Bay marina

“We've been worried that the
project is being fast-tracked.
We're asking what the rush is.
Why not slow down and look at
this carefully,”’ said Robinson.

“We're the people that live
here. If anything goes wrong,
we're the people that will be left
with it," he added.

Robinson declined to say
what kind of action the Nisga’a
might take but did note that the
council received a Supreme
Court injunction in 1988 bann-
ing pesticide spraying on its
claimed -lands because there
wasn't adequate or sufficient
public notice.

‘If we can get an injunction

refusal to budge from the com-
plete package offer it presented
March 1.

“That offer is worse than our “F

present contract,” Brown add-
ed. “It’s an affront. There’s
been no movement in the major
areas from their side.”’

“Ralph Elke (the board’s
paid negotiator) has been saying
-a Strike’s inevitable. Weil, it's
finally, coming true and thal’s
really sad.’”’

School board spokesman Kris
Chapman blamed the failure in

‘mediated talks Un the teachers.

She.said they have refused to
respond to the board’s complete
proposal and are persisting with
‘‘the same piece-by-piece
bargaining strategy they've been
using for the last 50-plus
negotiating sessions."’

“We have no idea what they
want,"’ Chapman said, ‘*1 don’t
know how you bargain when
one side puts something on the
table and the other side doesn’t
say anything or says '‘No.”" It’s
like negotiating blind.” _

“We still haven't seen any
will on their part to settle this
thing.”

No new bargaining dates have
been set and there are no im-

's cost
keeps going up

District chairman Jack

would be accompanied by a

restructuring of the existing
marina debt which will add
about five years to the repay-
ment schedule.

Extending repayment, he em-
-phasized, will mean ‘*The
(marina tax) levy will be the
same as it always has been.”

He said the extra government!
money plus the new borrowing
will allow the district to provide
water at the marina, “a simple

but adequate sewer system’? and
power to some, but not all of
the fingers and floats, _

The city of Terrace last week
gave its approval for the financ-

ing proposal.

Talstra said the extra borrowing"

on a pesticide spraying applica-
tion, surely a major’ project
such as this deserves -a full
public hearing,”’ he said.

The Nisga’a have already said
they oppose new: development
until their land claim is settled:
but have never decided -what
form that opposition might
take.

That’s the “question ‘ihe
Nisga'a will consider: this: week
during their annual convention
in the Nass Valley, said Robin-
son. °

More on the tribal council
and Orenda can be found on
Page A2.

Robert Brown
mediate plans to bring a
mediator in again. Chapman
said the board is adopting a
“sit-and-wait”’ approach.

“This really has us wondering
why they wanted him (Ready)
here,’’ she said.

Last week’s meeting was the
second time Ready has been
called in to mediate here. His
mediation of the school district
contract dispute here in 1989
successfully concluded an agree-
ment thal
teachers’ strike. That collective
agreement expired last July.

Teachers and the board have
spent the last I4 months
bargaining for the new contract.

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ended a 19-day.