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Ne y,

Let’s not rush
into judgement

Canada and the United States are about to
embark on a tough set of negotiations for overland
shipment of Alaskan natural gas to the lower 48

states. Prime Minister Trudeau announced
yesterday that the federal cabinet supported the
Alaska Highway route proposed by Foothills
Pipelines Ltd. President Carter is to state his
country’s preference shortly, perhaps as early as
September 1 . .

But the Americans have already made a few
points clear: they are worried about proposed
delays in the project, they have rejected a call for a
$200 million fund for compensation of social
impact, and they. are concerned about future
movement of Canadian gas from the Mackenzie
delta interfering with supplies to the states.

_ Also-clear is a growing concern that Canada’s
negotiators in Washington. were surprised by the
strength of the American argument and were
overwhelmed by the competence and depth of
perception of their adversaries. '

The United States has an all-American
alternative, the El Paso Natural Gas proposal, by
‘which the gas would be liquified and shipped by
tanker to west coast terminals. They’ve been
touting this option as the best and are bolstered by
the support of Alaskan state legislators.

Initial reports from Ottawa and Washington
indicate that Canadian negotiators are easing their
postures already, worried about jeopardizing the
entire project by not weighing American
considerations more fully.

But would it be so bad if we did not go ahead with

- the pipeline right away? Is it wrong to want to

ensure minimal social dislocation and
environmental disruption by taking our time,

assessing exactly what social and wildlife
ereources we have up there and possible effects on
ese? ;
We think not. Until the native land claim is
settled, a large number of Yukon residents,
certainly a majority outside the government town

of Whitehorse, are living in a period:of uncertainty.

The claims settlement would bring, finally, a better
grasp of exactly what kind of a land and economic
base these people will have. With it may also come
a start for a more meaningful role in society for the
Indian people. ‘

If we proceed with construction before that
important, indeed fundamental, issue is resolved,
we continue to erode the base. Wildlife values, for
example, will obviously be undermined as wider
corrodors are built.and new rights-of-way are
constructed to accomodate the pipeline. These
threaten wildlife habitat, open up new access
routes for hunters, tourists, and settlers, and while
there is a value, to many, in that, it is nonetheless
overruled by the native claims, in our opinion.

Fish and wildlife branch officials in the Yukon
were unable to detail the extent of game
populations in much of the area directly affected by

e Foothills project. They asked for time and the
Lysyk inquiry studying the project concurred with
this request.

Since Thomas Berger handed down his

. Mackenzie Valley report, in the process warning
against any pipeline development across the
northern Yukon, attention has shifted to the Alaska
Highway route. Berger himself had suggested that
the southern Yukon route would be less serious.

On the surface, that kind of judgement is
acceptable. But there remain a host of questions,
none of which has been suitably answered by the 90-

‘day flash commissions Ottawa has established
since Berger's study was released.

Still to be fully settled are the precise pipeline
route, the possible effects on wildlife, social impact
on native populations and small communities, and
ASSUFANce 0

our minds, that the Foothills project will be a net
gain to Canada.

Canada should bargain hard with the Americans.
Weshould be bargaining for time and we should be
bargaining for compensation payments that would
be made by the companies involved.

If the Americans persist in their intransigence,
then we would be better off to wait.

eventual Canadian benefits from the.
pipeline. In short, it has not been fully established,

’

By RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa - A new ‘book charging a
political conspiracy to use bilingualism in
transorming Canada into a French
unilingual state not only has become a
bestseller in Ottawa and i perhaps in othér
centres across the land, but a further
cause of controversy and confrontation in

the halls and offices of Parliament Hill,

Mermbers of Parliament and Senators
not only have been reading it - some

buying it for themselves and others
receiv it from constituents - but
- wondering, talking and arguing about it,

‘Some bookstores have run out and are —

reordering supplies, while others refuse to’

stock it at ;

Entitled “Bilingual Today, French

Tomorrow,” it was written by retired

_ Canadian Navy Lieutenant Commander

Jock Andrew, now living near Ferth,
some 35 miles from Ottawa, and has sold
in excess of 20,000 copies since going on

. duty” ins” } t
Canadians to “kick out.the French who

STTAWA OFFBEAT

IT if oP li t an.
‘Bilingualism today, Fren

, . The book is an “expose” of an alleged
“conspiracy” by Pierre Trudeau, Gerard
Pelletier and Marc Lalonde, supported by

- a smail dedicated band of Que

undermine the overcome the
‘ majority through. bilingualizing ‘the

_ - Few remain indifferent to the book.

- Some; like Ottawa bookshop proprieter
Don Mozersky who refuses to’
dismiss it as ‘‘inflamatory racist and

fascist propaganda...the ; ‘possible
beginning of a whole new right win,

emist movement - that scares the he

out of me.” - “ ‘
Ohters like Ottawa salesman Sidney
McCatty are pushing it as a ‘‘patriotic
In” the, hope it will: persuade:

_were too cowardly to fight for the country
during the war and row want to destroy
i ” : . . .

A copy of it came through the mails to
-“Ottawa Offbeat” from . Eric, Young
of RR N. 5, Stratford, Ontario.
: “It frightens me,” she says, “my
eatgrandfather came to Canada from.
otland, and I don’t want to see his great

andle it, .

federal public service and

forces - the keys: to national power - and
erenchifying, as former Official
inguages Commissioner Kie cer | f ; oa
0] i But tack to author Andrew:. ‘In the 10
onee officially phrased it in his repor r the years:from’ 1988 to 1978, without firing a ‘
shot, Mr. Trudeau will
more of the earth’s surface for his race
than did Napoleon, Alexander the Great
esar combined:”’

In a letter to the editor of the Beacon-
Herald in Stratford he claims that the
head of the French Speaking
of Ontario - which enjoys an annual
$300,000 federal funding - has sworn to
“supp book,

e fears this federally-financed
suppression all across .

‘whole'country,

‘Deliver the Bovernment and the armed

n the education system),
goes the author’s proposition, and you
. deliver the whole apparatus. -

If what is happening in Ottawa happens
further and further afield -
Easter Ontario, formerly English-
speaking Western Quebec, and small
sections of northern Ontario - then French
not only: becomes arequirement of work
with: government, but a requirement. of .

forces, (and

work, period.

ch tomorrow’)
Bilinguals are not only preferred in
more and more jobs from
the executive suite, but prescribed.
The armedforces? 7
While yet there’s no public debate about
it, there have been unofficial questions-in
the armed litical offices here and in Quebec, that
fn the event of separation, which side
would command the loyalty of the French
Canadian unite?

ois, to
English

and Julius

as it is in

ress’ the

¢ shop floor to

have taken over

Association

the country.

-M.P.

had adjourned for the
‘summer recess, adn except
- for-a short return for a
debate on a_ northern.

pipeline . ,
arliament will not resume
_ until October. _

always his castle. nme
Sometimes your rights as a_ their right toe:
property owner are just not property. T

powerful enough to protect
ro

McKee v. KVP Company
case which reached the

courts in 1948. ‘The case down, in effect, since it Guring the day. Thus, he
involved riparian, or water, couldn’t operate without. foun a. compromise .
rights. fouling the steam, Anearby between the citizen's

sale late in March.

Different grant

ByIONACAMPAGNOLO, been a bus

number 0

The House of Commons B.C.
HIGHWAYS

Highway.

But this last week has Miller

one, with a
grants and
awards to northwestern

Two contracts worth over
$14% million were awarded
for construction of 27 miles
of the Stewart-Cassiar

Cartage

great Srandchildren losing it te the
nach," 7 : .

bridge at Kitwanga.

the hi
west of the existing hi

n contract, awarded to proceeding north. This job’
and

Contracting Limited of
Richmond, will cover 13
miles of the highway north -
from the Skeena_ River

The second contract is for.
reconstruction of 14miles of.
way, begi 200
way
- at Derrick Creek, and

as been let to Emil

’ Officers
_eustoms service to tourists
and travellers, as‘ well as

Report from Ottawa

s for Skeena co

Anderson Construction Ltd.
of Hope, B.C. . ;
Both contracts will begin ©
shortly, and will employ
about 135 workers.
atlin- TELEGRAPH
CREEK |. _-
In other areas, I am
eased to report that Mr.,
eorge Shaw and Mrs.
Pauline Meadows . have
become Acting Customs
Enforcement Officers in
Atlin and Telegraph Creek.
The new Enforcement
will provide

local residents. in these
rather isolated ‘portions of

“<~ gur area. Previously, as you

know, persons needing
customs service in thes
areas had to deal with either
Prince Rupert or
Whitehorse, Yukon.
NEIGHBOURHOOD

Ss - IMPROVEMENT: -

“The communities of Burns

- Lake and Smithers have

_-. YONDON Reuter - The

Queen sets out this week on

"what might be considered
- the most dangerous mission
- of her 25-year reign - a yisit

to Northern Ireland.

: The tour has touched off a
furor © among Trish
republicans who see. the
Queen as a symbol of British
colonialism and
resentative of the pro-

Wg
Batish Protestant majority

in the Northern Ireland.
But .advice from those

concerned for her safety has

never prompted the 53-year-

_old monarch to cancel

scheduled visits, except on

.2 >. two occasions - Ghana when

“. ‘ghe became pregnant and to.
~ Nigeria when she would
have arrived in the wake of
“eo @icoup.

; '2) "Phe Queen has ignored

~ Others have right to foul your lan

by GORDON HARDY

A man’s hom eis not

our property m damage
y pollution.

A good example is the
decision shut

cKee ‘was an Ontarion

McKee anf friends took
the pulp and pa
to court, argu
common law should protect i:
joy their own

e

[hg that the

. judge,
ooking at the precedents,
agreed and forbade the.
company from continuing to
pollute the stream.

Unfortunatel

town, dependent on the

-

decide between ‘a man who
complained that a nearby
gravel pit was disturbing his
his own land, and the
community for whom the
gravel pit meant jobs and
money, The judge ruled
that the gravel pit had to
remain shut down during
the judges thenight and the man had to
e@ company

common law property rights

threats by
': separatists, republicans and.

peace and quiet on.

put up with the nuisance’

Herman
page 7

tourist camp operator, and
he and his neighbours
depended for their
livelihood on the good
fishing and clean water of a
stream which ran through
their property.
Thier livelihood was
threatened when the KVP
Company, a pulp and paper
company upstream, began
to pollu e the stream. The
fish began dying. The water
became undrinkable.

4

company for jobs, was in
erisis, Finally, the Ontario:
government intervened,
setting aside the common
law decision of the judge
with a piece of legislation,
- Usually, however, judges
are “less scrupulously
concerned about the private
citizen’s interests. They
often take into
consideration the interests
of the publicat large as well.
Recently, a judge had to -

and the publle interest, |
This tendancy to
compromise away the rights
of individuals has come.
under attack. Vancouver
lawyer Ti Tim Mackenzie
claims that, in ‘general,
“The courts are bound by
tradition and training to
place a value on everything
according to the rules of the
marketplace. They rarely
recognize the losses causes
by a worsening in the

rebels,
ists throughout her

. n.
eee mmenting - on.
republican guerrilla

. Environmental Law/A Series

quality of living as a result
of the ‘spoiling of the
environment,
Mackenzie adds, “They
have difficulty balancin
the loss of recreationa
areas, impairment of
health, and unpleasant
changes in lifestyles against
the. -employment-creating
and .income-generating
benefits, so-called, of an
industrial society.”
‘Aside from environmental .
damage to private property,
pollution is caused because
environmental

considerations . generally

take a back seat to: short.

term economic advantages. -

As the West Coast
Environmental Law
Association tersely puts It,
“The present system tries to
measure environmental
quality in terms’ of dollars
and cents.”

A report of the association
claims that, "Itis a common

- argument that. shorf" term

sensitive’ time mi

been designated under the
Neighbourhood .

Improvement Program and
will receive a total of
$420,000 to improve and
upgrade homes and
community facilities. _

Two thirds of this fundin
is provided by the feder:
government, with the rest
coming from the province of
British Columbia. .

Smithers will receive
$270,000 and Burns Lake,
$150,000, -

I am very: pleased to see
these grahts go to these
communities, since, by
rehabilitating older houses,
improving municipal
services and public utilities,
and improving social and
recreational amenities, the
values of older community:
areas will.be maintained. It
really means a_ higher
general quality of the urban
environment in all cities and
towns involved in the.

_ program.

ULSTER, VISIT.

SOCIAL SERVICE
CONTINUES IN. QUEEN
CHARLOTTE :

In the far western portion
of our area - the Queen
Charlottes, a Health and.
Human Resources Society
will expand its yout!

ograma with the ald of.a

000 grant from the federal
Secretary of « State
Department. i

e grant is in addition to
evious Secretary of State
of $5,486 this year.

All indications are that ,
this project is an excellent
contribution ‘to — the
communities on the Queen
Charlotte Islands. The
group plans to use the grant —
fo hire three new stafl
persons in Skidegate,

set and Queen Charlotte
City area.
. Ifyou have any comments
or questions on these or any.
other matters, please write
to me, care of House of
Commons, Ottawa K1A 0X2,

‘

. ‘
eeoving galjacn Sed VP dle, NJ

takes a chance |

statements in Northern
Ireland threatening, the
Queen’ life, a Buckingham
Palace spokesman said
during the weekend: ‘Her
majesty has given it a lot of
thought, but the visit goes
ahead.” - *

The British news media
have been critical of the
timing of the. visit, which
comes during a week when
sectarian conflict is
underlined by anniversaries
of internment without trial
and the Protestant
resistance to a Roman
Catholic seige 3) years ago.

The Times said “a less

been chosen,” but ‘agreed -
that calling off the visit
might be interpreted as a
surrender to the guerrilla
Trish Republican Army IRA,
which is fighting for British
withdrawal from Northern
Ireland.

When the Queen arrived in
Northern. Ireland on

Wednesday, it will.

benefits such as jobs and
profits must outweigh
environmental

considerations that yield no
tangible financial benefits,

“The majority of political —

leaders campaign on the.
basis Of more jobs, more ,
industry, more growth’
often ignoring the social an
environemtnal costs - of |
technical expansion.
Concern for the

‘environment seems to be

ainking some headway in
the B.C. labour movernent, -

{ have - alarming

remembered thet 11 years

0 she narrowly esca|

death in Belfast,

young IRA guerrilla hurled
errilla hur

a 12-pound Foncrete block .

from a sixth floor window at

the open car in which she

was riding with Prince

Phillip.

The solid block struck the
front of the car, Her only
comment, as she inspected
the damage later, was:
“They are strong cars.”

The 17-year old guerrilla
was jailed for four years.
after being charged with
intention of injuring and.

the Queen and ‘to .
break public peace.” =

Plants circulate water
from their roots to their |
leaves, where it is then
transpired back into the’ at-
mosphere, ‘The leaves of a
single apple tree can move
1800 gallons of water into
the air in a‘six-month .

growing season. \.) 0°.

a Nee {
puverywhere we look in.
B.C, there are signs of
serious environmental
damage which has. occured
in the past ‘dozen years:”’ '

The brief, hostly contested:
even within’ the Jabour
movement, : calls for tha
postponement .or
cancellation of the Kitimat
oil pipeline, ‘citing. the
possibility of ‘immense
environmental ‘damage.
The federation also wants .
the government to stop the

lanned diversion of the

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4

. Federation of Labour asked

‘Patterson writes,

Earlier this year the B.C. McGregor River \ near
Prince George and. strip
the provincial government mining
to half or postpone three bi
development projects worth
thousands of jobs for the
sake Of environmental
protection, : -
In abrief submitted to the
overnment hb the
ederation’s pollution and
environment protection
committee, -: James

the value of the.
industry

often a conflict of interest
between profits and - the
environment, we
‘Still for some within. the
labour. movement, |. it’s
economy over ecology. -

4 .

in the= East
Kootenays, .- 9). 0033
' While it says it recognizes

mining

the. ‘labour .
federation claims there. is