’ gone: out-to choose: a-contractor .

"Kitselas'band,”
ame be. ele

for 100: 1 hoisia. rwnits:
effect, those first 20: homes fill-
ved on paper,”” he, said: ;

“McKenzie expects: ‘the tenders
‘to ‘be returfed with: three weeks,

“TERRACE = : Tenders have

-to build:20% new: homes for the.

' putting: up a satellite-Of
- S the-water: ‘mains:
, said, McKenizi : io
a The subdivision is ‘being laid ut
‘out to take 147 fhomes.: Prk,

a. contractor .

“The: project, ae gineering:

‘costs and: site: preparation; is | eX!
pected to cbst: approximately $2:

‘million.:

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work: in; ‘hydro’ s ie oma Tr

~ This year’s 20° homes and the

eventual 60. will be financed :
under a federal Canada: Mor-
_tgage and Housing Corporation

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i. -progtam. Tt gidtaviteds: a-con-
. [pone bank ‘morigage.’ -

‘People living. in’ the -homes
pay. rent, according ‘to. their in-

z come level, The federal govern-
ment: “also subsidizes the-reitt to
‘meet’ required: mortgage

ion after: its: ‘Kulspai- subdivi-

w: has. 29: ‘homes. a
3 McK nizié said the house con-

struction wilt: be ‘the first for the
-band since’1987."

Membership | _ ‘and housing

‘requirements’ — of the Kitselas
bend began to grow in the 1980s

. “Ki selas band ° ‘began
develop 4 ‘the Gitaus. subdivi-

sion: on. Queensway filled up. It ’

far this tourist iesorine that’s
+” ‘probably: becaise “it ‘was. open
limited hours i in the spring.’

hours a day uring the week ini
April and: one:

nly * four’

after federal legislation was

passed encouraging natives to

return to-their home areas. This -

legislation also encouraged peo-
ple, to seek membership in their
home bands. = _

McKenzie the Kitselas band's
population 0f.301 is expected to
grow to' 500 once membership
applications: have been process-

At. ‘the same time, band

“members. are ” ‘building new

homes ‘and renovating existing
ones'on the other side of the

‘Skeena River from Kitselas.

The’ band has been acting

with other groups to gain better

access to that area.

|. “wader the:-provinctal govern:
Y omment’s approval process.

‘race and. in Kitimat — wit
held aflet the company

— approval July 19. A da
“them. ‘has yet to be set. 7

- He added nat the: ope
house is not the kind of
‘public: ‘meeting require :

Those ‘meetings — in.

mits: its. plan. for proyia

Greenpeace s ship

sailing to Kitlope —

TERRACE — Greenpeace is
sending its flagship — the Rain-
bow Warrior ~- to the mouth of
the Kitlope. River at the end of
the month in the most concerted
political effort to date to block
logging i in, the 317,000ha water-
shed.

The environmental otganiza-
lion has used the ship in high-
seas protests. of nuclear
weapons testing and many of its
other environmental .. causes,
The origina! Rainbow. Warrior
was. sabotaged | and sunk in New

-Zealaid six-years ago bye French”

governritent agents,

The vessel* is “to arrive in

Kitimat July. 28 carrying a
member -of parliament ‘and
Green Party chairman. from

Finland - and several = Finnish
scientists, conservationists and.

journalists:
Eurocan holds cutting’ righis
to the Kitlope, but the company

Port study plugs

TERRACE — The provincial
government is still working on a
plan to include federal officials
in a detailed examination of the
proposed - public port at
Kitimat. :

Although. . federal: officials
have recommended rejecting the
project for environmental
reasons, the provitice wats
them included in public hear-
ings, says a provincial official.

Those hearings into the plan-
ned $63 million project will
come under a three-member
panel as part of the province's
Major Project Review Process
(MPRP).

What's proposed is having

’ the federal government’s own

environmental review blended
in with the provincial one, says
Frank Blasetti, the. provincial
official in charge of MPRP. '
“Federal staff have recom-
mended rejecting the project
but at the same time, for the
process lo. ‘be administratively
fair, we're looking at the Op-
tions,” he said. :
Planned i is two piers on land.

just beside the Eurocan docksin *

the Kitimat harbour to be built

by a provincial port authority

which operates Skeena
Sawmills here and a pulp mill in
Kitimat — is 50 per cent owned
by Finland’s: state-owned Enso
Forest: Products:

- David Peerla7 ‘national coor-
dinatof’**o ‘Greenpeace

’ Canada’s forests - campaign,

yakigfithe trip is to
Finiish govern-

ment to’ force Eurocan —

through Enso-'— to accept
preservation of the. Kitlope.

* “We've mounted a campaign
_in Finland disected at that j ‘par-
ticular mill,”” Peerla said;
important that. Finns know: the
activities of their state corpora-
tions abroad.”

He said the Finns knew
nothing of the controversy over
the proposed logging of the
Kitlope. - .

“LT told them about Eurocan's
‘compliance record on toxic

pollution, and about the Haisla

and then leased to a private
company.

Skeena MLA. and northern
development minister Dave

Parker has said the province

will. pay for about one-third of

the cost with the company pick-

ing up the rest, ~

But federal officials have said
dredging and dock construction
will harm fish habitat and that
measures to replace that habitat
aren't sufficient.

'-The plans have also been
criticized by the federal port at
Prince Rupert which says there
isn’t enough business to justify
the investment.

. Federal rejection came after a
preliminary examination of the
project earlier this year.

’ That’s when the provincial
government said questions
about the project justified the

more thorough parel and public
through

hearing method
_MPRP..

~ Port proponents —- northwest
“public officials assembled under
a society — had wanted con-
»Struction to begin this fall.
Blasetti said the province is

still ‘in the process of choosing .

the three people to sit on the

people’s concern and objections
to logging the Kitlope, The
Finns were totally unaware that
indigenous peoples were involv-
ed, that there was a land claim
that basically circumscribes the
same area as the Eurocan TFL
(tree farm licence), And. they
had no idea that grizzly bears
were involved." .

Peerla said he has sent
videotapes and -slides of the

‘Kitlope and of what he calls

‘“business-as-usual logging’* in

_athe Gardner. Canal. to major...
. “Ps hews organizations in Finland.

“You're looking at some
pretty. extensive -clearcuts and
practices that would be illegal in
Scandinavia,”’ he said. -

Asked what priority
Greenpeace put on preservation
of the Kitlope, Peerla respond-
ed: ‘‘When you have the Rain-

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along

MPRP panel and is still writing

. the terms of reference for a.

detailed study of the port Pro-
posal, :
“My instructions. are to set
this up as fast as possible. We-
don’t have a specific deadline,’’
he said.

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