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PCP involved

TERRACE - _ _ Four a people who . ,

had bought a video ‘featuring
Donald Duck. in a Second’

World War propaganda. car. |
toon have returned their copies -

fora refund, says a Terrace Co-
op spokesman, a

Reg Piercey said one was
returned -prior to an ad saying

- the store would refund the pur-

chase price and three after,

He estimated 60-80 of the
videos were bought. There are
three other cartoons on the
video.

The cartoon, “Spirit of 743°,
features Donald Duck as an
American factory worker
wondering: if he should spend
his money or save it to pay taxes
for the wat -effort.

The cartoon depicted German
and Japanese warplanes and
ships being destroyed by Allied

- guns, It’s theme was that taxes

should be paid to support the
war effort.

Refunds are also being of-
fered by the Co-op in Prince
Rupert,

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TERRACE — Eurocan workers
have abandoned their appeal of
the pulp mill’s plan to burn
PCP-contaminated sawdust and
say they’re satisfied the burn
will be monitored and carried
out safely.

The union started the appeal
in March in response to concern
the proposed burning could
release dangerous toxins and
present a health hazard.

The waste comes from a 1984
PCP spill that was mopped up
with a ton of sawdust and
shovelled into drums.

When burned PCPs — pen-
tachlorophenates — can release
cancer-causing furans and diox-
ins, But mill spokesmen and
waste management officials
gave assurances that no con-
taminants would be released as
long as strict burning guidelines
were adhered to,

The restrictions include
monitoring of emissions, a burn
temperature of 1000 degrees
Celsius and a burn time of two
seconds per load. Waste
management officials said those
burn requirements would ensure
all carcinogenic byproducts are
broken down,

‘We feel that our reasons for
appeal have been met and we
will have our people in place ta

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abuse
found

TERRACE — A local man has
been penalized $6,102 for

fraudulently collecting almost

$10,000 in unemployment in-
surance benefits, says a Canada
Employment Centre in-
vestigator.

The man, he was not iden-
tified, collected the payments
for 36 weeks and was uncovered
through a regular checking
system designed to find such
abuse, said John Jack.

Although criminal charges
can be laid in such cases, Jack
said there were ‘'mitigating cir-
cumstances’? in this investiga-
tion.

In the three months. ending
December 1989, $131,000 in
unemployment insurance
payments were discovered that
should have not -been- made,
Jack said. ;

Investigators found 110 cases
of fraud or abuse and levied
$31,501 in penalties.

During the same period more
than 3,600 people from Stewart
to Terrace, south to Kitimat and
east to Houston collected $11

million in. unemployment in- .

surance payments,

New penalty regulations in- .
troduced last fall'call.for fines ©

amounting to 100 per cent of
payments made through fraud
‘or abuse on a first offence. ce

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monitor the burn,” said Bill
Whiity, a spokesman for the
Kitimat local of the Canadian
Paperworkers’ Union.

Whitty said the union’s main
concern was the concentration
of PCP in the sawdust —
originally estimated at 80 to 90
parts per million. That was just
below the 100 p.p.m. limit at
which the sawdust would be
considered a “special waste’’
and subject to more stringent
Tules governing the incinera-
tion.

But subsequent environment
ministry testing of the sawdust
showed the PCP concentration
was less than half the estimate,
“The results were way down,’!
Whitty said.

He said the union’s was also
concerned the burn could set a
precedent allowing pulp mills
across .the province to burn
hazardous waste in their boilers.
That could mean the province
might never get a proper hazar-
dous waste incinerator, he said.

He said that concern was
never resolved, but they are
satisfied the burn will be safe,

But new regulations introduc-
ed last August could deny the
union the right to appeal if the
incident ever repeated itself.

Waste management officer
Frank Rhebergen said the

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regulations — designed to per-
mit burning of scrap sawmill
wood that was treated with anti-
sap stain chemicals that contain

- PCP — could also be used to

permit burning of the PCP-
contaminated sawdust with few
restrictions.

Rhebergen said the new
regulations require a 900-degree
burn temperature and one-
second burn time, and because

no permit is actually required
there would be no procedure for
appeals,
* He said the regulation is in-
tended for scrap wood — not
Sawdust used to mop up a spill
— and it would only be inter-
preted that way on a case-by-
case basis.

Mill spokesman Keith Leech |
said no date has been set for the
burn.

Disaster subj ect:

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of meeting here’

TERRACE — Victoria has
reacted to last year’s California
earthquake and flooding in
B.C, by announcing a series of
public forums on emergency
preparedness.

-. The Terrace meeting has been
set for Feb, 14 at 7 p.m. in the
lecture theatre at Caledonia
Senior Secondary school, It’s
one of nine to be held across the
province.

The forums are designed to
make residents more aware of
disaster preparations made by
the Provincial Emergency Pra-

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