“finally ‘been told

$365: million’ pulp and paper
“mill is unsuitable,

cout last week.
rms, after months of

~ -vincial: government ‘to Orenda
that“its site south of Meziadin
~ wasn't suitable because of the
 ,@istance:to a’settled area. L
Orenda announced ‘last

‘month: it was acting on those
“suggestions . by -looking
- elsewhere, Two weeks ago, it

~location’south of Lakelse Lake.
“ho Prank. Blasetti, @ government
= fficial-i in charge of the govern-
" Ment’s review process for major
~ ‘projects, said the letter: noted
-““abjections. from the. Kitimat-
- Stikine regional: district about
~ the site.

“There would be pressure for

ise Fores

tb Provincial government |
“that its first site for a planned.

letter: from : the cabinet .
: mumnittee: ‘which examines. ma-.
development Projects went :

elay’ ‘Suggestions: by’ the: pro- :

nounced it had chosen a new ‘

a. ‘new,  -eorimutity.. ‘and: that

would have substantial. costs.-It

_was felt the commuting distance
from Stewart would have been
too great,’’ he said.

“The concerns were that the
distance from. Stewart could
‘also lead to alot of turnover (in
‘the workforce),”” Blasetti: ‘add-

Orenda filed. its initial pro-
posal to located its planned mill
south of Meziadin in January.

The letter from the cabinet
committee on. sustainable
development’ officially marks
the government response to the
proposal and to questions raised
by groups and individuals.

Blasetti-said the letter also.

told Orenda there was a need

_for more contact with ‘native
and other groups about. the pro-
ject.

’ “On the technical aspects of
the mill, the responses were fair-
ly good. The review by agencies
was that they felt quite comfor-
table with the mill,” he said,

Orenda wants to use large

‘rollers t to grind wood | into pulp. a
to. amiake paper. It.will employ .- '
“what the | company calls'a “‘clos-

ed loop” system to recycle

waste.water by turning it into:.

steam and then cooling it down.

Sludge from the pulping pro-
cess. will: be. burned but review

agenciés felt ‘there would not be:

a lot of:concern over resulting
air emissions, said Blasetti.

The letter also referred to the

.availability ‘of secure hydro

‘power at the site, It was a worry

‘point ‘for Orenda because it

needs sufficient power to start
the large rollers which will grind
the pulp.

“<The
availability “of power was
something the government —
actually B,C, Hydro — told the

company it would have to five .

with,” said Blasetti.

“Our view was that if there —

were drops in the line, the town
of Stewart would come first and
also the mine at Stewart,’’ he
said.

“Alcan loses on attempt

to halt Kemano review —

TERRACE — A federal court
of appeal justice last Friday re-
jected Alcan’s bid for a court
order to block a federal en-
vironmental’ review of - its
Kemano Completion Project.
That review was called for in
an earlier federal court decision.
Alcan had asked the court for
a temporary block of the review

until its request for a formal.

stay of execution is heard this
September. ~~
The federal court justice last

_ from front front

week said such orders are
granted only in “extraordinary
circumstances” in throwing out
the company’s request.

The stay of execution request
is one of two legal routes Alcan
is taking in response to a. May
16-federal court decision which
ordered the review. °

The second legal route is an
appeal of that decision. No
court date has been set.

Justice Allison Walsh this

Rainbow visit

bow Warrior and you have’ the’
whole Of British Columbia you.

can take it to, if you. decide
that's going to be the central
part of the tour for your na-
tional campaign, that gives you
some sense of it. It’s central,’’-

“We're supporting the Haisla
people’s demand for preserva-
tion,”’ he added.

Peerla said the area would be
difficult to log without serious
environmental impacts.

Logging in the valley south of
Kemano — estimated: to hold

7.4 million cubic. metres of:

harvestable timber.— has been
deferred until next year. The
company had already postpon-
ed until 1994 its plans to log
about three per cent of the
valley over the next 60 years.

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bare

TERRACE

GORETTE BARBOSA IS THE HALLMARK MERCHANDISER AT NOR-
THERN DRUGS IN TERRACE, CORETTE THINKS THAT TERRACE HAS A
LOT TO OFFER ITS RESIDENTS AND THAT WE LIVE IN A BEAUTIFUL
COMMUNITY WE CAN ALL BE PROUD OF,

"The Kitlope was the largest

area inthe province deferred:

from. logging by the forests
ministry this year.

Company spokesmen say
moratoriums on it and several
other nearby valleys threaten to
eliminate more than half a
million hectares of land from
their tree farm licence.

The company says preserva-
tion of all of those areas would
force it to lay off nearly a
quarter of its local loggers — a
‘loss to the northwest economy
‘of as much as $19 million a
year,

Thirty local forestry and
silviculture jobs would be lost,
as well as 36 more jobs at
Skeena Sawmills’ Terrace mill,
the company has said.

MEL fe ers

"SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF TERRACE”

spring found in favour: of the

Rivers Defence Coalition,
ordering the $1. billion
hydroelectric diversion - project
to undergo a full federal review,
Federal government ministers
last fall decided to - exempt
Kemano fram that environmen-
tal review process. Walsh also
threw out a Sept. 14, 1987 deal
with the federal government on
how much water Alcan would
be allowed to take aut of the
Nechako River watershed.
. The project’s 540-megawatt
second stage — started three
"years ago — was to be com-
pleted in 1994,

Meanwhile, Alcan’s decision
to halt new work on the project

has resulted in layoffs to more | *3¢
than 500-of the Project’ § 840 oo

workers,

_ northwest. .

173,000 tonties a year — ~ balance.
ed against its licence which per-

. year. won't Place other users in

plications on forestry and the

demand for’. pulp fibre. i in the 9 of bargains.

But Biasetti said. the. govern-

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