DT eR oat ana ee a ee

sin Taal

_ .] in-Prince Georg ‘ge will a
| this -week after being’ c!

"|| area.

Pe ne

Maps began. returning “to.

~ Lang. blew -every chance

: “Demoerati Party leader,

oS By BRIAN GREGG
Herald stall writer

“Three people: in Edmonton tna one
court

conspiracy to sell hed galmon,
the unlawful possession of salmon and

: illegal sale of salmon. .
| The four men were arrested follo

‘an anonymous tip to the fish an

‘ palmon.. poachin operation .to.
‘discovered, .in nthe Scene Bulkley

According Don ‘Thatcher, --a

te ‘another, 8

" truck in the b
t Prince George, when he noticed some —

wildlife office in Prinee George which:
claims they. are part of ‘the biggest. ;

‘Prince: “George conservation officer,

icin had ‘been operating in tlie °
zelton area since June and had

. since thade ‘about $194,000.

“They ‘planhed -on. ‘operatin for
“to eight weeks. and: they
‘planned on making more than

0,000, " said Thatcher, —

“He said a logger was fixil his
ogee about 30° ng of

-salmon and: black ‘plastic garbage
-bags being thrown o -of a truck.

: The man immediately telephoned
the fish’ and wildlife office after
writing down the Alberta licence plate
‘Mumber of the truck

“Roadblocks were set up -to

apprehend the truck but they v were

” Nfted before the truck went through |

el it fos tzuck Waa

One: northwest resident was

business
Federal a, organize b have said
_ that poachers ‘are the

million dollar
that area.~The s ts were later to one source fishing * shoe recently when he watched an
apprehended in Edmonton’ while abuse is only the surface ofa greater. _ Indian gaff 40 salmon and only keep
apparently on their way | to Calgary. problem involving Indian land" three because the rest were salmon .
atcher said he also noticed a ‘claims, Corlservation officers often humpback salmon, a type of fish that spawning salm

match cover with the. address of ‘an
Edmonton motel, |

_ He said a poac r ad been
rating a poe Cale es

mroge and pathoel ridge, Alta, per

was buying fish from people at

, Hazelton to sell in Alberta.
" According to one source the .

poachers are 8 the fish to the

. Alberta traffickers for 50 cents to $1

per fist fish and thet fish are t are being sold for
That said about “e00 salmon

get the feeling that the Indians and
e wll se are using fish and . -
as the battleground for their,

Mite s source said: the conservation .
officers are fot happy by the abuse”

they get in the fic!

is not suitable for eating.

-The charges under the Canada
‘Fishery Act carry.maximum fines of
$1,000 or one year in jail.
Amendments to the federal .
Fisheries Act will increase the.
‘maximum fine on September 1 to .

$5,000.for.convicted poachers. Courts
respect Wille and ihe pales are also empowered to seize
often infer that we should keep of tthe | Poachers’ vehicles and equipment, Peon ple
‘Indians’ back, although they: would ._ Fedreal Fisheries Minister Romeo
never come out and Bay so,” the LeBlanc said recently that salmon
Herald 1 was told. ° Poaching in B.C. has become a

industry by catching
t are essential to

‘ensure future abundance of the fish.
Officers have recenly complained
that they are bi
conservation officers were | issued.
revolvers for the first time last year
but to date have not used them, .
Provincial ‘officers. can use
revolvers but have not been issued
them however, they too may soon
begin carrying them for protection.

shot at and federal

not understand the laws

of conservation and they think it is
- their-right to kill whatever wildlife
they choose to kill, ”’ one source said.

. oe -

Serving Terrace Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass

: Sens & VOLUME 71.NO. 68.

~ Price: 20 cents

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9,977}

- William Basaraba and his wife Helen are from St. Paul,
Alberta. Irene and Metro Basaraba, who stand on the
right, come from Edson, Alberta. These are only two of a

_ Party of five families visiting the area. Metro stayed

MPs RE TURN TO OTTA WA.

Pot rced end to air strik ce.

OTTAWA: (CP) =

Ottawa. Oy government
aircraft’Monday to debate
emergency legislation or- reg
dering the country’s 2,200 . The |
air traffic controllers back planned
on the job, the opposition
Minister Otto Lang, blaming
8 u 3
it all on him. ng a: ack
“That pig-headed Otto

: Otto.

there was to settle the thing
by | negotiation when he
ed his mouth the way he -

dd and.when he did,” said
Walter Baker, Progreasive
Conservative House Leader.
‘Ed | Broadbent,: New

: > Herald statt writer:
The. strike

ne ‘Kitimat, Terrace, and Prince

kesman for the Kinettes,

‘*. time ‘for various processes,

i> Elsie Preston told the Herald that the ‘clinie will
Red Crom ‘re-scheduled to late September. _ . .
a that the strike |
i may cause suppiles to-fall woefull low. right iow.
22, Bummer ia atime of difficulty in f olunteer, 40

the Red Cross depends on its trav clinic
*pedeive enough ble blood to meet needs during the Labor

organizers are worri

. Day holiday week end.

te ‘about! 400 pints short daily in
demands, P y meeting provincial

“The shortfall in donations, cotlpled with the heavy .
» 1, workload brought by the holida @ the source | fe
— exeaeern for the ed cron " pea te pedi .

ment ‘and -
government would ‘aet

ay crollers

utp aay
mi t Monday .
full-scale

night but s

’ strikes at

timatum
strikes: or face legislation
imvosing a settlement and.
_ ordering them back to work.
“Any people who had their.
plans .serewed dp this
- weekend,
easure, ‘can blame Otto
™ Baker said,
"Broadbent. told a ™

Strike postpones.
blood donor clinic: -

“alr - traffic ‘controllers: ‘hag' forced
cancellation of blood donor clincis planned this

e the ‘clinic, said. the’ strike. makes it”
impowss 8 for the blood to be shipped | to Vancouver in’.

anent clinics in Vancouver and Victoria fall

. page 3.

the
.hegotiations

‘had
rota

choice, -

. membership
reclassifica
pa categories,

business or

four days in town visiting a brother last year. “This year
he is spending ten days in the Terrace area. _ See © story

conference. the government
was not acting respons!
because for the’ firet time in |
wi
employees, it was trying to
two separate wage |
positions to the anti-inflation
rd and ask it to make a

include 4.6 per ceiit. for the
60-per-cent of.
set:
on into hiigher-

he. ‘government .has CATCA
offered 7.4 per cent, which it
says converts to eight per
cent when increments are—

oe
Now, bargaining

FOO THILLS PROJECT —

starts with U.S.

OTTAWA cP - The . federal government “has

fentatively backed proposals for a pipeline through the

thern Yukon to move Alaskan natural gas to United

. States markets, but whether the project goes. ahead

will. depend on negotiations with W

Prime Minister Trudeau, . {

ust. out-of a” ‘four-hour

cabinet session, said the $10-billion pipeline proposal
from Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd..can be built “under

and ‘economic im)

appropriate conditions and safeguar

: Negotiations on those -
s terms; which include a
7 - payment to:-the Yukon to

mpensate for the social

northerners wherever
possible: and ‘that
environmental damage’ be
reduced to. the Joweat t pos:
aiblelevel.-

i f repameneaden from Epe-

id reporters. ‘

- totes, they

eference. It on this
asis we are gong ‘to
proceed.” ,

Trudeau. said
-government

’ construction of a connectin

Pipeline into the Northwes

tories to move Cana-
dian gas when it is needed in
the domestic - market,

"gonna time between 1881 an
eS.

included.

“In my openion, the strike
was to
its’ Broadbent said,

He said the Canadian Air
Traffic Control Aisociation
(CATCA) negotiators have .
been willing to let the anti-
inflation board: decide

ibly

e early Sunday after seeking acontrallers: ‘are whether. the. 12:6-per-cent
Lang gave. them an ‘ul- ericent wage _ increase’ was acceptable.
to call - off the pecking a 12 ich ..wou. qd Maximums set by the board

this year generally limit
increases to eight per cent,
but there are exceptions in
the case of promotions with
extra responsibility. -

- argues the.
reclassifications are’
promotions and should be
‘exempt from the guides.

- the
~ for:

_- Carter has "told:
~ Bevernment

US. president Jimmy

-his’  ad-
ministration is 5 prepared to

open ‘negotia ons‘ in an
“a tempt to determine
‘whether a basis can be
reached for agreement on
_the pi

negotiated are: the recise
. route for.a pi
the Southern ' ukon, timeng
ofits construction,

.of the connecting

to ensure that t canstruction
and operation of
will ‘not prejudice. native
land claims settlement; tha

social and economic ihinert .

be kept to a minimum and
adequate compensation be
pald -where it is not; that

pipeline benefits go ‘to

the -
favors. in-

the .

the pipeline. items Trudedii ”

says- will have to be -- Market as soon as

ough |
ovision.
into. -
the Canadian north and the |
financial feasibility of the .
Proposal Ottawa also wants. ’
pipeline —

t. Tuesday:

cial government-ordered in-
‘that compensation

a) ould amount to $200

million and the route be
changed to accomodate the
Canadian spur line “‘will be

is is unhappy with both
recommendations on the-
‘ounds that it will’ add to.
e cost of the Alaskan. gas
sold to. its consum mers.
“Washin, ton also ‘is
concerned” © over :
recommendation
ipeline construction. ‘be
layed until ed .b
i now propos y
epee After
eriencing crippling
al gas shortages in:
eastern states last winter, it
want ‘the gas brought to
e
But Energy inister
Alastair mu mug said..the

t_ consider
Boies additional gas to

e U.S. from Alberta now, -

is available, - or
up the delivery of
Certae ge already,j sold
upder contract -to "a. S.

Weather.

| High 25
_  Lew.l6é
‘Cloudy in the morning
with afew sunny breaks
inthe afternoon. Dh

during:

and autonom
' British Columbia.

_ Hugh

Chiat _ St ber (NDP- i
. Victoria) told the legislature
. debate on second
reading of the: amendments
.that the changes amount to |
“an attack o othe integrity
.of municipal
and regional government in

All three oppostion
oppose the amendments
' because they would give the
- minister power. to rewrite

-LEA’S CHARGE

. "| VICTORCA: (CP) .-—-- ‘part or all or any inimict al
Opposition members or regional district bylaw
week nday- accused Municipal which he feels. is-“‘contrary .
tert. ae Affairs ilnister a to the public interest.”
urtis of making an
group -co- ... “unprecedented grab for qaene: only. appeal to his
sonal thro decision would be to cabinet.
= ed, anges hrough Curtis said the minister’s
. Munic tn ge "power would only be used in
‘exceptional. -

circumstances, ‘and only
where ‘other remedies. had
failed,” a that there is |
ample prec ent for this
type of legislation in
- Ontario, Manitoba . and
‘Saskatchewan. .-

But Barber said that while
currently only the B.C, Su-
preme Court has the
authority: to uash

rties

would place all that power in
the hands of one man,
“It is a-massive and dan-

gerous conceit that one man -

alone can ‘determine | the
public interest as this bill
would allow,” Barber sald.

“tt is an attack on the
integrity and autonomy. of
municipal and regional

‘government in B.C. It is an

unprecendented : grab for
sonal ‘power."
Progressive | Conservative

‘leader Scott Wallace said he
bill _,

would oppore the
becaiise pro)

minsterial powers, which he
said were a ‘‘flagrant
contradiction” of the al

Curtis: supermeyor”

bylaws, ‘the: amendments

promise of local. autonomy.
Liberal leader Gordon
Gibson ose proposed
rocedure "
window dr dressing ” because
the cabinet would. be
unlikely. to overrule one of
its members.
Graham Lea (NDP-.
Prince Rupert) accused the

, government of trying to pay

off cam ts and
“trying ha guarantee funds
forthe fu
Ht fs a developers! bill. It
‘ta s tyranny. and it takes
‘from democracy.

mt minister is now the
mayor and counccl of every
municipality in the province
‘of British Columbia,” Lea
said. ‘He :is supermayor.”

municipal and. regional.

Credit party's campaign...

important elements” —
The U.S. already. has said”

that -|
1881 from the ©

‘Trodeau was
Bennett said:

this week to

Board (NEB).

‘hands of the NEB," he

presented any propos

lines of communication,

government,

ho ed it wasn't too late.

with

the feder
. Highway route.

coutenma astair G

doesn’t like
. Davis ‘said he

ressure.

such rr
| BC, la

: peolect

decision to back the Alaska

expected B.C. 's position’: in
“negotiations with the federal government to include —
ests as use of B.C.-manufacturedproducts,
or, and .B.C. Railway aa a source of .

_ fransportation for the B, C, and Yukon sections. of the

: Ca bi net bi ac Ss
Alcan pipeline

PIPELINE CHOICE
PLEASES BENNETT

VICTORIA. (CP) —~The federal government's
Highway route for a natural —
gas i pipeline from the North was welcomed Monday by...
ritish Columbia government. :
se remier Bill Bennett and Energ
Davis said-in separate interviews -
‘ announced earlier in the day
ood news for
earlier this. year that the Alaska.
i hway route, which would cut through
~ would bring more than $1 billion of business to the

provin .
He ‘said Robert Green of thé B.C. Ene By

Commission, the co-ordinator of a B.C. inter-
isterial study pee on the pipeline, would be in Ottawa
the ground work for talks on the

province’s involyment with the project... ..
Bennett said he wasn't surprised that the government
upheld the recommendations .of the National ° Energy .

t the decision

Prime Minister Pierre.

e province.

northeast

* “After’all, ‘since the’ 1950s,.the granting of pipelines
‘dhaieben “out of the- Rene of ee

Davis said that et ie fewer “environmental .
‘Tete with the highway route than with one through
e Mackenzie Valley and that it was the best decision.

Ohariler ‘in the legislature, Liberal. leader Gordon
" Gibson urged Bennett to move spells rater set up '
‘communication with Ottawa on th

Gibson. also asked Bennett. if the
als yet to the federat government
a8 it indicated it would do last May:
’ Bennett said no representations had been made, but |

he accepted Gibson’s suggestion to immediately set up

Province | Sd |

y to ensure.that the

Alaska Highway be paved with the help of the federal

_ Gibson said outside the house that he was astonished
. that there had been no communication, and - said he

_. Bennett said later in an interview that “it would hay have
‘been difficult to have discussed it. before . today
(Monday) because there wasn’t‘ ‘anyone to discuss. t

; Davis aaid in a prior interview. ‘that: discussion’
. between NEB and the B.C..Energy’
been tera on regularily and there was no doubt that

government | ‘knew B.C, backed the Alaska

Commission has.

He said he he personally ha had talked. with his federal

ie—but that the provincial.

cabinet Pouldart directly approach the NEB because “it

‘the |

Minister, Jack 1

conditions to. .

Tough talks
ahead. on pipeline

WASHINGTON to) -
Despite President Carter's
expressed 0. dette over.a
proposed S.-Canadian
natural. gas pipeline,

American official "said”
.-Monday: the. two ‘countries '

face -hard, intense negotla-
tions over the northern
pipeline issue.
‘Commenting on
Canadian cabinet's decision
to approve an Alaska

highway route for the

natural gas sin from
Alaska, : wit bignificant
benefit
Canada, the official sald the
next step will be for the two

countries to set up special.

ne oD be teams: got
going be tough, I don’t

ink there’s any question
about that.”

Canada, he said, has

many specific concerns it

wants met while the United’

compromise
‘accommodation on: both

the

States -wants the cheapest
ble delive:
e Alaskan natural gas.
cits going to requite
an

sides and ever or tke time you get

that your

lower e chances, of
acce

Pn Plains, Ga, Carter told

reporters. oe hy is optimistic
that U.S. negotiators can
reach ‘‘some degree of

ent’ with Canada in

‘time for ‘him to meet ‘his
Sept. 1 deadline for choosing .
between the Alaska highway ~

and El Paso alternatives.

Carter said he talked with
Canadian Prime. Minister
Trudeau earlier Monday
about the

rd that he thanks baateral

negotiations .will start
within about a week “if. all.-
goes ..
schedule.”

system for

according - _ to

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