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with those ‘two. areas at $7. 5° because it says it Hl ‘be an open:
. million, a ing route,into the Iskut Valley.

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called a. provincia strategy by
native. groups this summer to
exercise ownership and jurisdic-
tion over claimed territories. :

You. can, expect. to: see all

sort.of things this summer. Dif-

“ferent groups will be doing dif-

ferent.things.to force the issue,"

Ryan, declined. to be specific

: but did-say people.can' expect to

see information blockades and
road closures and fishery. ac-
tivities. i

_ S*We're: calling the
homeland fishery, not 2 cam-
mercial inland fishery,'” he said

of ‘the latter. a

These types of actions will go
on despite the
Gitksan-Wet'suwet’en appeal

Of @ supreme-court decision this
” spring-which turned down their
‘bid for ownership and jurisdic-

tion over 57,000 square
kilometres of northwestern
B.C. The Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en
will file the particulars of their
appeal later this year.

Ryan* said the two-pronged
approach of court action and
actions on their territories con-
tinues.a strategy adopted long
aga. ©

“We'll continue to test
aboriginal rights and titles with
different initiatives,”* he said.

STANDA

Province turns

own housing plan |

FERRACE — Victoria won't
give financial backing to a plan-
ned new kind of housing here.

Premier Rita Johnston cites
budget restraint and the reces-
sion as reasons why the pro-
vince doesn’t plan to support
the Terrace Regional Health
’ Care Society plan, .

She said in a-letter to city
council last week. no govern-
ment money will go to what’s
called supportive housing until
a set of guidelines are developed.
later this year. .

The term is used for: housing
for people who can live on their
own but who may need occa-
sional assistance. :

The society's: plans called for
construction of a 40-unit

a. condominium m*style. develop-
RGAE “On ne “acres Of Ra aie “sin
ey, Lod

Fish harm cited

That means those in the com-
plex would be able to use the
facilities of the intermediate and
extended care facility.

The proposal to the health
and social services and housing
ministry would cost nearly $3
million and the saciety wanted a
loan: guarantee from the pro-
vinee,

“Tt really makes me upset,”
said Alex Houlden, chairman of
the Terrace Regional Health
Care Society’s supportive hous-
ing committee, .“‘What makes
me upset is all the time we've
spent on it."”

‘There’s nothing set ‘up that
can give us ‘this money,” he ad-

ded. “Both ministries say it'sa -

good idea, but there’ sno money

““Houlden: sald’ the ‘supportive

housing plan was to be part of
an overall plan when the ad-
ministration of Mills Memorial’
Hospital and ‘Terraceview
Lodge was merged. He said Vic-
toria suggested the move to save
costs.

“We've amalgamated and
done our part, but the
bureaucracy has not. They’re

‘still living in the past.””

He said the idea was. some
Terraceview Lodge seniors
could probably move to the sup-
portive housing units and ‘other
patients at the hospital might. be
treated at the lodge, freeing: uP
hospital beds.

 Houlden also nated the pro-
ject is just-an idea and already
J4-seni
tO. “get in. “They may: ‘have’ io
“wait a long: littie,”” he said.

Feds c dump on port plan

TERRACE — The federal
Depariment of Fisheries and
Qceans (DFQ) will black plans
to build a $63 million port at
Kitimat because the proposal is
“unacceptable,” says an of-
ficial.

An environmental assessment
of the port plan has concluded it

will destroy. important fish

habitat, senior habitat biologist

Lés f Powell said last week,

He “said . DFO’s comments
have been sent to the ‘provincial
government which is studying
the port plan, The agency has
the power to block or: restrict
development when ‘fish, spawn-
ing grounds are threatened.

“The curtent proposal is not
acceptable in terms of fish
habitat,"’: Powell said. ‘*The
basic problem is you're going to
fill: in 40ha. of foreshore —
~ which is: what the proposal call-
ed for in: -Greating the terminal
-and. the. ‘Sakseway to. “the ‘Ver
cminel. Moe,

“And he: said: port society pro- |

“posal: to -compensate ' the
‘habitat OSS — bia creating man-

deen p proposals,” ‘Powell

explained. “Compensation is a.”
to ihe ae You: don’ 't-go directly. -

somebody going to the doctor
with a sore on his feg and get-
ting the leg amputated. You
don’t do it that way.”

- The procedure is that alter-
native sites are sought, he said.
Failing that, the agency seeks to
alter proposals to eliminate
habitat damage. ‘Only- after

those . steps are followed - is.

habitat’ compensation con-
sidered.

The port plan and the accom-
panying habitat compensation
proposals don't fit DFO's

Jail for
assault

TERRACE — A 26-year-old
Usk man was sentenced last
Wednesday to three years in
prison for sexually assaulting 2
14-year-old girl.

Olaf Graham Karlsen. was
found guilty by Supreme Court
Justice Patrick Dohm on two

’ counts of sexual assault, which
took place near Usk last June.

Dohm rejected Karlsen's

evidence that the girl agreed to
aiency’ says the’ port!
ee Pat somewhere elses:
“+. gredible witness in all respects,’

the: Justice ruled she did not

» the acts.
Calling her “an honest and

consent,

Any belief by Karlsen that she
consented was ‘wishful think-
ing’ on his part; Dohm said.

on

policy of approving develop-
ment only when there is no net
habitat loss, Powell said.

He said the part prospectus
failed to mention a 1989 provin-
cial environment ministry paper
that identified potential sites for
ports on the west coast,

-“It indicales very clearly
where there is acceptable area
fer development,”’ he said.
‘And that happens to be south
of the Alcan termirial. Now why
that document was-not used in
developing the proposal, Idon't
-know,” :

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