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Gaus Production Manager: |- Edouard Credgeur: — conn / VERIFIED |: 2 CIRCULATION CONTROLLED ERRACE STAND ART ‘Dabliah a - dell Nagel — News/Community, Malcolm Baxtar — News/Sporls ublisner. - Rose Fisher — Front Office Manager, Carolyn Anderson -- Typasetter TE Rod Link - “Arlene Watts — Typesetter, Susan Credgeur — Composing/Darkroom, : Special thanks to all { " ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1966 ae : dant Vivelros — Advertising Consultant, Sam Collier — Atvertsiag Consultant, our contautors jind - . “ Charlene Matthews — Circulation Supervisor . correspone ents for Editor: .. cea Registration No. 7820 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C., V8G 188 Rod Link i thelr time and talents. | EDITORIAL Let the sun shine in If rumours were currency, there’d be a lot of rich people in the northwest. But a rumour can’t be cashed at the bank and thase people are left halding the bag — the information bag, that is. The subject is the long awaited interim protection measures agreement that forms part of the negotiations leading up to the Nisga’a land claim settlement. Fancy words” aside; ‘the . interim protection measures agreement will give the Nisga’a a say in resource development, be it log- ging or mining, in the period leading up to. the final claims settlement. It’s important because it'll give an idea of the tone and substance of what could form the final settlement. After all, the negotia- tions are about power and control and authority. An interim. document will give | the public a valuable clue. as to. what the federal and provincial governments have established as their policy. And that’s about all anybody knows about the subject. Just as with the Get Smart television series, there’s been a cone of silence placed on the negotiations, a Some confidentiality is to be expected. But all three parties in the negotiations — the Nisga’a, the federal government. and the provincial | government — have been very reluctant to get inta specifics. It’s known, for instance, that the interim protection measures agreement was close to being signed-and released at the time of . the Niseaa | Tribal Council convention ia ea pay wil nail bes FA LS. ora se ae 4 ‘isher looks: 0, be a tight real mess. Al- lowing-native groups to take inland Skeena River salmon and sell them to coastal pro- cessars' is a: good: jdea..It creates another ~ economy and helps. .to diversify how people make their living. . The ‘schmazzle comes from the apparent lack of control and of planning for.all of this. fishery kind of trickled out. Not even. fed- . inland - native commercial 7 eral ‘fisheries Tegional offi cials. Indeed, ‘the announcement of this. April. But something mysterious happened and the document slid off the table and out of any chance of a look-see, The best information now suggests it is in the final stages of being signed and could be released soon, oo That, of course, means itis a done deal. There’ll be no chance for any kind of com- ment, either by the general public which will have to live with the deal or by com- panies that will be affected. This is a bit different than the province and the federal government were promis- ing this spring. After an intensive local lobbying campaign, federal and provincial officials did speak to local groups and to local government officials. A promise was then made for a more open information distribution process. But that promise will be hard to keep and it will be difficult to build up good faith with the public on the part of the negotia- tors based on the simple lack of informa- tion regarding the interim protection measures agreement. A cynical viewpoint might be that the agreement is ready but won’t.be released until some kind of public: event can be stage managed. This would be most un- fortunate. The negotiations < are already subject to a rigorous and controlled information release process. This is designed not so much to. let us know what is going on as it is- to o keep everything hidden. Rupert seemed to know what wa, going on. Oa And now there are reports of fish sales to ather groups than the processors. There’s - talk of fish being taken as food fish ard ~. sald to processors. Obviously some’kind of referee is needed before what potential good’ there is replaced by yet more ill feel- _-ings and anger. lf glue fits, wear it In this age of reduce, reuse and recycle, restoring my modest possessions to work- able condition gives me a lot of salisfaction besides saving me money. The price of even Bifocals no-name sneakers encourages me to repair them, if possible, so that [ get at least a sum- mer’ s wear from each pair. Through by Claudette Sandecki ] wed i ang our | Sonshine Sunsnine.., surstitie of li I... "could he excused for looking | ‘forward to a quiet weck. But ~ Currently I have two pair — of one brand Made in China pletely across the ball of the foot where'a wavy. cleat sepa- rates the front: ‘half of.the sole from the back“half.:The loose flap presented a: safety. | hazard. Stepping. ‘backward: oowas . similar: lo back pedalling, on - skis. - When’ ‘the first pair split, I set them aside ‘intending to loss then into the garbage after let- ting them . gather. dust for -a®. decent time. By. then I would: feel justified in throwing them away. For a hoarder, this “curing” interval is a vital link - in my conveyor: -belt to the landfill, _ Soon: after J begat wearing. ae new — pait of. ‘replacement sign Maw, the, fictory needs to pair of sneakers, the way as string of. aaa bi tree ets. through my glue collection on the chance one of the glues might hold the flapping sole in place. : My variety. of glues may be larger than most household's because of my type of work. I have glues for foam; tor vel- cro, for fabrics, for wood or paper, for vinyl to vinyl, for vinyl to steel, for wide ex- panses, for temporary basting, - and for permanent grip. At the bottom of the glue box was an unopened black tube of Devcon Rubber, "real rubber: in -semi-paste. form", made — in Peterborough, Ontario, pe I bought it years ago when, » faced with a job that defied “every glue [ tried, I blitzed the “glue “section ofa hardware siteakers, their ‘soles sptit in. : exactly.” the: same. way - and. place. ‘That. upset me. Clearly this W-patterned sote is'a de- . store ‘and - bought one tube or “can of évery kind of ‘glue of- fered for: sale. Guess | solved my problem before [ opened | “the Devcon Rubber. change. Ot they should sell a iube ‘of ‘tepair glue’ with ‘each’ - This tube was so old ils in- structions ‘for-use could have been written in Sanskrit. The : transparent : amber - goo “ squeezed from the. tube in a 1". gelatinous tibbon. that stretched. unthanageably. “Holding - up’ one’ foot lke a - “horse being shod, T squeezed a ' dollop of glue under the flop- ping sale, smeared the glue about with the flat blade of a screwdriver, The glue refused to separate. Finally ] pinched off the glue with the screwdriver blade. That stil] left.a blob bulging from the neck of the-tube, sure to weld the lid so. it could never be removed again. A tug “on the emply bottom. of the tube, though, neatly retracted the glue. I stood on my Loot applying pressure tothe mend. Immedi- ately, the sole was adequately “anchored. It still is. Thanks.to-a few cents worth of Devcon Rubber, I now have two pairs of sneakers restored to. wearable candition. I Feel so.lhritty. No need seen for: : self-inflicted injury VICTORIA -- The session was over, a motley crew of en- vironmentalists had just given up their "Ancient Forest Vigil" beside the Parliament Build- ings, and Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition was no longer snapping at Dan Miller’ s. heels. ‘What with the pulp mill F strike and the going over the . Liberals had given the forest inister. during the debate of... is spending estimates; te things didn’t work out that Wily. For some months, a Nanaimo-based consultant had ; been investigating how well forest companies were manag- | ing their tree-harvest areas on — Vancouver Island with partic- ular reference to fisheries guidelines established four years ago, after more than 15 years of research on the Pacif- ic northwest coast. The guidelines are to provide a common basis for improving the performance and effective- ness of fish-habitat protection and coastal farest harvesting operations... E should also mention that the guidelines were drawn up with the full participation of the Council of Forest In- dustrics, an organization that - represents British Columbia’s forest companies, When Miller received the consultant’s report, his week was shot, "J am absolutely ap- palled by the findings," Miller said. "This is completely un- acceptable." What Derek Tripp of Tripp Biological Consultants Ltd.. found.oul was, indeed, dis- turbing. Tripp surveyed 21 cut blocks contained in nine tree farm li- censes, cight forest licenses and four included in the Small Forest Enterprise Program. In all, Tripp examined 53 stréams. . Of those 53 streams he sur- veyed, 34 were affected ta some degree by either debris torrents, stream bank erosian, or debris loading. Of those 34: $ From the Capital by Hubert Beyer streams, 12 had been subjected lo major impacts, nine had moderate/impacts, while: 13. i: had minor problems.2.)201) 000: Tripp concluded that more | than 90 per cent of the prob- _- lems could have been avoided. He attributed the problems to excessive debris loadings in. steep gullies, failure to fall away and yard away, and [ail- ure to clean out debris in gul- lies and streams. . To say Miller was angry would be an understatement. Furious would he closer, Within days of receiving the report, he summoned repre- sentatives of the forest indus- try to his oftice in Victoria and fead them the riot act. When some company repre~ sentatives suggested that their firms hadn’t performed quite as abysmally as some others, Miller replied that he didn’t give much of a damn about the degree of neglect shown by ihe companies. Until the in- - dustry as a whole cleaned up its act, he said, all companies would all be tarred by the same brush. Nor did the minister waste any time prescribing a remedy, and tough medicine it was. He gave the companies 30 days to * come up with a detailed plan for cleaning up and rehabilitat- ing the damaged streams. After the plans have been ap- " proved by the forest service, the companies will have 60 days to complete the rehabili- tation work. Meanwhile, Miller has directed the forest service ta work with the Ministries of Environment, Lands and Parks and Attorney General to de- velop, also within 30 days, op- tions for enforcing compliance with the guidelines and penalties far non-compliance, Ye eGS 44150. 5 — oe "T want them to look at penalties, such as suspension of.cutting- permits-until. 3. +. remedial:measures. are: come. pleted and using bonds ‘posted by companies to pay for ' cleanups," the minister said. Having been confronted with. the dismal performance by the industry, Miller also announc- - ed expanded audits for Van- couver Island, the Queen Charlottes and the coastal mainland. The results of all audits will be made public, and Miller promises lough ac- tion whenever problems sur- face. It's a refreshing appreach; and considering the serious- ness of the problem, an impor-- tant one, What’s mare, the in- dustry can hardly complain about the thrashing it received at Miller’s hands. Not only did the industry help draw up the °- guidelines that are to protect. - fish habitat, but implementing them isn’t an undue burden on - _them. When the guidelines were ” - first adopted, an extensive . training program for loggers “-was launched, In the fall of ©: 1987 and the spring of 1988, 1,500 people in 15 com- munities were familiarized: with the new guidelines. . © Some compaiy representa- — lives have now admitted that the training program may not have been good enough and promised to provide better training for their loggers to make sure that the guidelines are adhered lo. The forest industry has enough problems that it can't do anything about, including - depressed markets and the U.S. surcharge on softwood -lumber imports from Canada. ‘Itdoesn'l need wounds it in- flicts on itself. Not THIS ONE!