A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 17, 1994 TERRACE STANDARD - Business REVIEW Mill happy with test BUOYED BY the results of its first commercial thinning in the Alice Creek area, Skeena Cel- lulose (SCT) will be going back in there this fall. Rarlier this year SCI brought 1,500 cum. of 40-year-old trees out of a i5ha cutblock 20km north of Terrace... That wood has now been pro- cessed at the company’s Carnaby mill and SCI forester Kevin Derow is pleased wilh the results. He said there had been a 35-40 per cent recovery rate of what’s called pallet grade wood, a ‘‘quite high quality export grade”’. “It bodes well for. the future,”’ he said, adding lumber prices were up to three times higher than that for pulp chips, Derow said SCI would carry out more commercial thinning in the Alice Creek area in Septem- ber over a 20-30ha area. Logged between 1954 and 1958, the Alice Creek cutblocks were left to regenerate naturally. Seven years ago the company | carried out what’s called pre- commercial thinning or juvenile spacing to reduce the number of trees to 1200 per hectare. This year’s commercial thin- ning test cut that figure in half again, the idea being to remove the smaller diameter trees that would have died over the next 30 years as they lost the battle for moisture and nutrients. Derow said the company hopes to answer several questions about commercial thinning, including: * what are the limits on the ma- chinery used in the operation? * can the work be carried out without damaging the site in terms of replanting? * what’s the effect on the rate of growth for the trees left be- hind? and * is commercial thinning eco- nomically viable both in the short and the long term? Although thinning was slightly more expensive than conven- tional logging, Derow anticipated the costs could . be’ reduced through, for example, more train- = One, two, three THAT'S DAVE Edgar counting traffic at the north end of the Sande Overpass. It's just one of several locations to undergo a biennial count as the highways ministry up- dates Its records on busy stretches of road and highways. Here today because we're The Canadian needed...’ cue National Here tomorrow because you _ fortheBlind. = care. — BC. - Yukon Division Now is the time to buy. Come on in and make your best deal on any new mazpa and WE PAY THE GST! r™% One of the Best Warranties in the Business F Leo DeJong Brent DeJong Larry Dodds Gayton Nabess Thornhill W. otors “The Dealer Who Cares” Dealer #7041 3026 Hwy 16, Terrace 635-7286 & ing for machine operators. However, he emphasized the main goal of commercial thinning was improving the quality of the stand of trees in the jong term. To a silviculturalist, ‘‘the stand is the finished product, the lym- ber is just a by-product,’” Derow added. SCI estimates it could be com- mercially thinning as much as 1,000ha annually by the year 20L0 as other second growth Stands reach the right age. Tt has passed on the results of the Alice Creek pass to the local Fovest Service district office. ANEW company offering freight and charter aircraft services went on its first revenue producing flight 10 days ago. Hawkair Aviation Services took up a load of fuel and steel to In- temational Skyline’s Johnny Mountain mine in the Iskut Val- ley and returned with an Interna- tional Skyline pickup truck. The company made the flight almost immediately: after receiv- ing an operating certificate from the federal government and thena licence to conduct an air carrier business. It’s Oying a Bristol airfreighter leased from a British company which bought it and two others oul of bankruptcy when Trans Provinclal Airlines went out of business last year. Tronically, Hawkair’s principals are former Trans Provincial em- ployees who serviced and flew the Bristols. A second Bristol is also air- worthy and its British owners are planning to fly it to England in late August. , * kakkk Neid Enterprises is going lo combine its welding shop now oul on Queensway and its Keith Ave. RY sales location under one roof, A 14,000 square fool steel structure is going up right beside its RV sales location, ‘'We hope to be in by the end Out & About of September,” said company owner Jim Neid last week. Having all of. the company’s locations under one roof will make its operations more effi- cient, he said, An outside company is going to do the steel structural work while other contracts have gone to local companies. ; kok ke tok A Terrace company has received a $92,000 contract to fix a choke point at Telegraph Creek. Bud’s Trucking and Equipment Lid. is going to put in a 30-metre archspan to replace a section of pipe. that now clogs up with debris during spring runoff. The result has been flooding and road closures. The archspan will have an open bottom to keep the stream bed - nalural and so provide a better en- vironment for fish. Completion is set for the end of October. KaKKK Local businessman Gerry Martin has become a member of the Forest Alliance of B.C.’s Citizens Board, Martin, a partner in Northern osy AUGIES S DINNER SPECIALS Monday........ Shrimp Fettucini Tuesday.........New York Steak & Caesar Wednesday... 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Martin is also a new member of the alliance, adding that alliance president Jack Munro asked him 10 join. f “ JUST MOVED? Phone Elaine 635-3018 ‘Diane 638-8576 Kally .638-7797 Glillan 635-3044 Our Hostess’ » Gifts and Information are the Key to Your New Community Facts about KCP The $1.3-billion Kemano Completion Project, half built when Alcan. ..... . halted construction in 1991, is on hold pending the outcome of a public review by the B.C. Utilities Cominission. This series answers questions received at KCP information centres and called t toour i- 500 toll-free information line, aa How can you meet your commitment to supply more power to B.C. Hydro? As you don’t have any output from KCP to make up the difference, will there be less power for aluminum production - “ ‘and layofts | in Kitimat? We are under contract to start delivering on a long-term supply of power to: B.C. Hydro on January | of next year. We live up-to our obligations, and . that’s what weil do in January -- even.though the: delay to thé pr oject means that no power can be expected from KCP for at least three years. . ~ Our contract is an integral part of KCP, It is a major factor in financing the project, as it enables us to add generating capacity now for future expansion of our operations in B.C, when aluminum markets improve. To meet our "commitment, we will certainly use all our existing power surpluses before we - consider other sources. This accounts for more than half of the power due : for delivery on January 1, 1995. —Tfwe have to deliver all of the contracted amount so as not ta be in default, ~ that might require some cutback in production at the Kitimat smelter. But at Alcan’s 40th-anniversary celebrations in Kitimat this month, employees were reassured on this subject by Claude Chamberland, president of Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Lid. ms "In the unlikely event that we have to curtail production at Kitimat in the short term. no one currently employed full-time at Kitimat Works or Kemano Power Operations will lose his or her jobas asa result. "he said. | ‘The president added that he knew his announcement would come as no "Surprise to the people of Kitimat in the light of Alcan’s "track record for considering the needs of employees and the communities in which \ we operate," The Kitimat Information Centre The Kitimat Information Centre is open Monday, Wednesday. and Friday: from 10 a.m. tod p.m. Drop by the office and we will be happy to 0 discuss any questions, you may have about Kemano Completion. ae Another way to get the facts People throughout the province can find out more about KCP by calling o our: ‘oll free line. 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