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Thursday, February 12, 1901

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THE
RULES
ARE:

VICTORIA (CP) —
The provincial govern-
ment has relaxed its
Mringent environment
protection regulations
to permit the multi-
billion dollar northeast
‘coal development to

~proceed on schedule,
letters made public
Wednesday show. . .
and Teck Corp. have
Signed agreements with
- Japanese steel interests
toship 7.7 million tonnes
of coal annually over a
15-year period,

stage en-
vironmental impact
report ‘--necessary
before any water or
pollution control per-
mits can be issued and
ever-all approval of the
project givenwas
rejected by the
government’s coal
guidelines steering
committee in January.
Teck has not even
mubmitted its stage two

report,
In a letter to. Denison
gated Feb. 3. and

released . Wednesday,
Environment Minister
Stephen Rogers easid j
that although’ major
. were found
‘is the company's stage
two report for the
Quintette coal project,
some permits may be
issued before all thoee
deficiencies are

Rogers said a fully
upgraded stage two
submission will still be
required, but if “details
have been finalized to
the satisfaction of
permitting agencies,
permits can be issued in
advance .. . if this is
Kecessary to keep on
schedule.”

The first coal is
supposed to be delivered
to the Japanese in late
on
“The decision to
overlap slage two and
stage three in this
manner should provide
the flexibility required
‘in the current
situation,” the minister

, Rogers criticized
; Denison for its siowness

. Vironmental studies.
“Very complex and
negotiations will now be
jthe required permits
“can be issued,” he said.
‘Ideally, these
imegotiations should

cwaneed at this stage.”’

The company was
: alto criticized by the
Steering committee in
’ its rejection of the stage

| , two submission.

New coal port |
can’t be ready
by 783 deadline

PRINCE | RUPERT, B.C. (CP) —-
‘chairman of the Prince Rupert Port
Authority says he doubts export facilities
in this northern B.C. coastal community
will be ready by the 1983 deadline to begin
shipping northeast B.C, coal tg Japan. ;

The deadline contained in the 15-year
deal to export 7.7 million tonnes of
metallurgical coal annually is more
“optimistic than realisiie,” Joe Scott said

‘hn an interview.

Scott said shippers face a penalty if the
coal can’t be shipped out by the fall of 1963
fren the Ridley Island coal terminal, but
he doesn't know what that penalty will be.

The National Harbors Board owns the
land on which the coal terminal is to be

. built and it has called for submissions
from companies interested in operating
and building the coal-lading facility.

Services to ghe site will be provided
under an agreement involving the City of

The

Scott said.a committee then will reduce
the. list of applicants to 4 short list and
interview final candidates,

He said once the successful terminal
operator is picked, “‘it could take up to 30
months” before facilities are ready’ for

Scott said the board and the provincial —
government have hada lengthy battle over

development of Ridley Istand and who will

spend what.

The harbers board refumed to have _
provincial observers on the Ridley Island
co-ordination committee, and conflicts
continued to exist until the - recent
agreement in principle, was signed bet-
ween a chnsortium of Japanese buyers and
Canadian coal companies, he said,

_ Ridley Inland also is the site for a
proposed grain terminal, and future .

Prinee Rupert, the harbors board and the developments include the possibility af a.
province. bulk loading facility. ~~
Companies wanting to buitd and operate Scott said he's bad “15 to.20 serious

the facility have until the end of March to

file their proposals.

- inquiries in the past six months: about

developments a Ridley Is Island"...

‘We’ Il. declare war

on province’

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’ Striking telephone workers
won't settle for anything

- Jess than conciliator Ed

Peck’s report when the new
federal mediator appointed
Wednesday enters their
long-standing dispute with
B.C. Telephone Co., union
Officials said Wednesday.
“We'll declare war on
this province,” sald Wolf
Tietbohl;' the Telecom-
‘munications Workers’

* Union northern strike co

ordinator,
“We'll tear this provine

‘ apart -from~ corner to

Bus boy, 23, held in fatal casino fire

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP),
— A 2year-old busboy
who told police he turned in
the alarm on the Las Vegas
Hilton fire has been booked
on eight counts of murder
in the blaze, which sent 4
colurnn of flame roaring up
the side of the largest hotel
in the United States,

Homicide detectives said
Wednesday night they have
arrested Philip Bruce Cline
after the room-service

‘busbey made “inconsistent.”

statements" about his role
in the biggest of the four

_ fires deliberately set in the

hotel, y night. .
‘The blaze — the second

“large and deadly hotel fire

in Las Vegas in three
Jmonths — killed eight
‘people and injured 198.

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* gornat RES we accept
anything less than Peck's
report. All we're asking for
is a signed contract.'*
Last fall the i1,000-
member union accepted

‘the Peck report calling for

a two-year contract
retroactive to Jan. 1, 1989
which would raise a
journeyman lineman's rate
to $13.75 an hour by July 1
from the current $41.15.

it was rejected by the
company which presented
a counter-proposal last
month for a one-time,
$1,400 payment prorated

Hospitals had said that 242
people were hurt, but of-
ficials later said that figure

was incorrect.

the week.

In the aftermath of the

.. Cline told the San Diego
Evening Tribune before his
arrest that he tried to put: .
out the fire on the eighth... -
floor with water carriedin
a trash can. When that. -
failed, Cline said be ran
down the hall, knocking on -

| doors to warn pests. -
The busboy also was
booked on one count of
_ amon. Officials had no.
explanation immediately |
for the three other fires. 7
Forma] charges will be.
filed at an arraignment,
which officials said wilt
take place before the end of

The company ahooffered 4
(wo-year. contract that
would raise the lineman’s _
wages to $15.52 an hour by
dan. 1, 1982.

Union - vice-president
George Yawrenko said the
company’s lmtest offer is
less than a previous offer
and is seen by the union to .
be inferior to. Peck’s

Fad os,

William’ Kelly, senior

+ assistant deputy minister,

. Wednesday to mediate

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District of Terrace public works drivers like
ow) are usually driving
snowplows, sand trucks or salt.trucks at this
‘time of year but the municipality decided to
do a little spring cleaning before the snow _
. Comes again. The trouble Is that the ‘street .

There's a
machine that
sometimes gets

things a little ‘inixed
up and that’s ‘the
horror of it all. Page

* nerrace district
residents would be
weil advised to seer
clear of any offers to

join a pyramid

scheme, Page 3.

Prarie Munroe,

dead 15 years, ap-
parently ‘wasn't an
illegitimate © child
alter all. See All
About People on
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INSIDE-

New York Yankee

he’s turied ‘singer

with the release of a

pew record. Yes, it

was THAT dull a day

in the world f sport.
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blaze, which Fire tied
Rey Parrish. termed
“definitely arson,” scorch.
marks scarred the side of
the Hilton's east: tower,
where flames burst from’
eighth-floor windows and .
shot to the top of the:  .

; storey building.

Guests who fled roorsia
the east wing,

in today to reclaim,

. abandoned sultcases and,

other belongings. «
Hilton officials: estimated

’ the damage at $10 million.” "
, but said the hotel could be ees
‘ “One of eight people ques:

reopened in a week |
because-about 3 3,900 of the

most. —
_ severely damaged in the *
’ blaze, were being escorted

2,783 rooms were: un- .

damaged by the fire. The
first-floor casing. was,

“Dust to dust and dust to dust 7

a a .

sweeper (above) usually u uses water’ to Kees '
the dust down as. At collects: the dirt. The 5; i}
temperature autside is cold enough to freeze. |
water so Cossett would have had to.eat his.
own dust if Hwere nator the mask.

- guests overcome by smoke
_ , wee singer Natalie Cole,
who performed at the hotel
“Monday,
i: Deputy Chief. Erie
q Cooper aiid Cline “had

Oe ast. ight (Tuesday) and
“gbother - statement : today
” (Wednesday) and: there.

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“given an initial statement.

were inconsistencies.”

tioned at the tcene of the
blaze, Cline “stated he was
the first one t discover the
fire,""Coopersaid.

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