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From the. KAMLOOPS TRIBUNE
Sometime in the near future elfher the federal
or the provincial government has to face up to
the fact that one of them Is responsible for ap-

‘proving or disapproving Alcan’s plan for in- -

creasing the power potential of the Kemano
generating station. Oo

At this point, spokesmen for both govern-:
ments are waffling, and If this continues, the
glant corporation: will look after its own needs
and the public will pay for it. ,

About a month ago federal fisherles minister,
Romeo LeBlanc, hedged when asked if the
federal government would hold an Inquiry into
Alcan’s proposed program to decrease the flows
of the Nechako and Bulkley rivers to the point
where they would no longer support salmon
stocks. LeBlanc replied, in the House that he'd
been given to understand by the B.C. Govern-

_ment that Aican had not made any application

for ithe increased water flow to the Kemano
plant. moe .
LeBlanc also alluded to a statement made by

provincial energy minister, Bob McClelland, —
that Alcan’s project. wouldn’+ be permitted

without a full public Inquiry. This statement
was made February 7. ,
Earlier, Premier Bill Bennett had stated that
Alcan had-the right to do pretty well what It
wanted in those specific watersheds by virtue of
an agreement signed 30 years ago.
_ LeBlanc Is also saying not to worry because
the federal fisheries act makes It mandatory for
Alcan. to leave .a sufficlent flow for the
propagation of fish stocks.
Alcan Is saying that they won't leave enough

water, for.natyralfish propagation, but this can
“be made up kp aria hatching and rearing |
“fac : drporation has also stated It Is

waiting. to hear from the newly-formed B.C. -
Utilities Commission regarding generation of |
hydro-electrical power other than by B.C. _

Hydro. ; .
Then Bennett announced in Vanderhoof a
.couple of weeks ago that no public Inquiry was
being considered because Alcan hadn’t made an
official application to Increase its power.:

_ The worrisome thing about the whole Kemano
situation Is that Alcan Is proceeding with its
engineering studies, sentor officers of 4 number
of government agencies are expressing alarm at
the consequences of the program, the public Is
asking both senlor governments to Intervene
and the politicians are avoiding the matter with

all the skills they can muster.

“Ata time when federal-provincial- co-

operation appears to be at an all-time low, the |

Kernano proposal would be an excellent un-
dertaking for beth governments to confront
together. Obviously, they’re both afrald of
Alcan, but by holding each other’s hand. the
confrontation) may not be as devastating as
elther of them Imagine. :

CONSUMER
COMMENT

iy CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS CANADA

Shopping for perishables need no longer be the
game of chance that it sometimes was before
the Introduction of durable-life dating. Now, if
you take the time to read the label, you can
avoid returning home from the grocery store
with such unpleasant surprises as sour milk,
stale bread, or mouldy yogurt.

Regulations under the Food and Drugs Act
provide that pre-packaged food products with a
shelf life of 90 days or less must show a date,
accompanied by the term “best before’’ on the
label, The date Indicates how long the product
can reasonably be expected to remain at- its
peak of freshness, taste or nutritional value
when properly stored. Itis a guideline, however,
and not meant to be a guarantee or expiry date.
Since the food could still be edible after the
‘best before” date, the retaller Is not legally
required to remove It from sale after the date
has passed— but you don’t have to buy it elther.

‘The name of the month shown In the “‘best
before’ date Is abbreviated to the first two
letters, except for March, April, June and July
which sre abbreviated respectively as: MR, AL,

Fresh meat, fish and poultry packaged at the
retail level must show the date they were
packaged, and a sign must appear near the
display counter explaining the recommended
refrigerator storage time of each product.

Canned or — frozen foods or other products
which canremain at peak quality longer than 90
days if properly stored, are not required to show
a “best before’ date, nor are fresh fruits and
vegetables.

YOUR OPERATION Ws A

UR OPERATION WAS A SUCCESS wn

The surveyors come through

By EARL HAMILTON (_
Seeing a provincial forestry deparment, truck

parked by where we launch our cahoe to cross. the
‘Skeena to our-home in Pacific on the West side, I
realized that the ‘engineering. people I knew were.
camped upstream had come to draw their lines for the

forestry road that apparently is going to open up our
quiet side of the river to logging trucks and other
traffic. . ;

unnecessary, wasteful, and a prime ‘example of the
type of development that ensures that we run out. of

_ timber'éven faster:thanforesiry: predict we will. The

surveyors.” .

“T’m not mad at you’’, I replied, “its just that I want
you toknow that the work you're doing here is going to
have a very negative effect on our lives here in Pacific
as far as we are concerned”. re

So, that ended our conversation as she joined her

‘

: fellow workers and crossed the river in their rubber.

zodiac. . _ oo,
She was right; I though, but who can I get mad at?

_- Who'then am I to take my/concerns-to? Who will
enter into negotiations with'me and the rest of ‘the |
people on the West side of the Skeena to mitigate the-
effects of having the privacy and quiet of our homes -

exchanged for somethingelse? Why won’t forestry sit’

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of none. When I direcily asked him if he though the
logging along Riley Creek: in the Queen Charlottes
Islands was “bad logging”, he would not answer.

down and talk before they become economically.
committedemore and more to building the road?
The first argument against constructing the road is

. - that area already, is served by the northern spur of the.
_ transcontinental railroad. Indeed, Pacific exists
. because it used to be C.N.’s big town. Any logs cut on.

the west side could be transported by rail. In fact,

o

most of the timber cut on the West Skeena will be.

‘reloaded onto rail to travel to the‘pulp mill in Prince:
‘ Rupert. Or maybe they plan to send it to Kitimat to~..

facilitate fhe ‘expansion that: Eurocan is growling

-about. At any rate, it will likely end up travelling by

rail, The question is then; why build a road to serve an

area that is already served by rail? What fs the West.
' Skeena Logging Road really for? ta

FIRST OF A SERIES

Part of the regional district’s plan for the Terrace
area is an industrial “‘park’’ on the west side of the
Skeena near Kitselas. There Is no question that the
construction of road access to this land is necessary if

“itis to become an area for industry to locate. There is
_ no question that the land’s attractiveness is enhanced

It seems that no one | talk to about the West Skeena |

deveopment will tell me where: the road will go
through Pacific or when Iam going to get a chance to
register my opinion and enter into the “public input
phase” of the operation which has been promised by
Terrace Forestry officials for over a year.

Last summer I had gone to see Terrace Forester
Herb Quast in Terrace to talk about the road.

‘People are too busy in the summer. months,"’ he

told me, “The Terrace Public Advisory Committee .

will start meeting.in the fall,” he assured me. ‘You'll -
have’ your chance then to make your concerns
. own,’’ - my, ; ;

Well, there was one forestry PAC meeting in
Terrace last October, but it consisted of forestry

personnel, Vern Strain of Prince Rupert and Dave -

. Lawrie of Victoria explaining the West Skeena Access

Study. They were definitely not seeking public input. :
I clearing remember Vern Strain saying, ‘‘that is

your opinion”, whenever anyone tried to raise a point

against the road or against logging practicés.

currently sanctioned by Forestry. ;

. “Logging is not ugly’’, Strain: said when someone

spoke of large cuts across from Usk and at Chim- .

demash Creek. “There is nothing I hate to see more
than bad logging’’, Strain went.on to say, but when
queried for an example of such logging he could think

by the fact that the Skeena River is flowing nearby.

Big water, big industry. This equation is evident all -
‘across North America. ©.” .
- It-is no accident.that Alcan, the water gobbler, is:

sitting on two of North America’s richest watersheds,
Here on the Nechako and with Hydro Quebec at James
Bay. Many people in Terrace who. favour Alcan
believe that the industrial park at Kitselas will be good
for Terrace, but what about the Skeena’s water that

industry will use?

Kitselas is just upstream. of Terrace. | Maybe:

businessmen in Terrace will come ‘to. feel like
businessmen in Prince George and Vanderhoof do
when they realize that Kitselas is upstream on the
Skeena. Do they really want to see a copper smelter

there?
Sure, they can support Kemano completion project -
because it is not their water that is being taken, but.

perhaps they are enough like thelr fellows down-
stream on the Nechako to realize that B.C. is not really
being developed in their interests here either, when
they see the water they are raising their own families

on affected. That seems {o be the central thread .
- running through most of these northern developments.

‘They are not undertaken in the interests of the people
of B.C. Sure we get jobs for a while, but once we get
done, the province won’t much resemble the place that
many of us know and love and consider a fine place‘to
raise families and look ta a peaceful future.

Next: Reasons why the West Skeena Road is not in
the interests of the Skeena Region. - a

Last: How could the area be developed in a better.

way. ou.

\0 GIVE ANYTHING —
TO BE ABLE To SLIP
OUT OF PARK!

.

Hey : :

‘ mother?"’ Was there a

- OTTAWA How. embarrassing, my dears,
horribly humiliating. ;

The ladies and gentlemen of Diplomatic Row

been caught with the goods. -
neases of Remy Martin cognac, Mouton Cadet
and Cotes du Rhone French wine, purchas

‘| ¢ax-and-duty-free by: their embassies and
~ bootlegged to cultivated palates at twice and

three times the price. ss,

This Is a very naughty thing to do, because the
privileged people whose working clothes are
striped pants, morning coats and gorgeous

wns are provided with this cut-price cream of —
|e ret bottle crop onthe strict understanding that it
' Isexclusively for their.own private consumption

and the entertainment of the lah-de-dah guests.
And here have been four of them, at the em-

-bassles of Zalre and Tanzania, doing a little

profitable business on the side, peddling these
precious potables to your ordinary taxpayer.

-" Teye, they were Canadians, employed by the

Embassies.

ear ihe RCMP have reported that the traffic
. Inembassy liquor is heavy and goes on all year ~

‘round, which could scarcely happen without the

knowledge and who knows, the permission of the

diplomatic bosses. ,

The Customs and Excise Branch of the RCMP.
has disclosed that they have been Investigating
the situation for “several years” and that these
will beonly the first of more arrests to come.

Embassies

: They are free and clear of all taxes -- from
‘Income, through the whole money-gobbling
maze to liquor -- and they enjoy that the striped
pants trade as‘ ‘diplomatic immunity” from

criminal charges up to and including man- |

slaughter.
Of the thousands of trafflc tickets issued In
and around Ottawa, only the British, Americans

‘and Australians pay -- the others laugh and tear

“them up... --
_- Some have been seen even to do It In the faces

of the frustrated traffic officers. ©

Abuse of diplomatic privilege Is an old story --
and sometimes funny. .
- ‘There was the day, years ago, when Mrs. C. D.
Howe, wife of Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s

Minister of Everything”, called an Ottawa

newspaper and claimed that her neighbor, a
South American ambassador -- from the

_ Argentine, In fact, she sald - each night the
“oon was full came out Into his rear garden an

héat his ‘dogs with an iron bar.
. The Ottawa Humane Society was called and
investigated, but because of diplomatic im-

munity, no official action was taken, although |

officers from External Affairs were sald to have
notified His Excellency that this sort of thing
really wasn't done In Canada.

But happily, that wan't the end of It. Oh no!

His Excellency, the Ambassador. from the

‘Dominican Republic, reading about It and being
a Caribbean hot-head to begin with, got all
steamed up. ’
Formally he issued a. allenge to a duel --
choose your weapons, sir -- to the offending
ambassador from South America. ,

‘Came the appointed day and oh, what fun and

frolic.

- The Dominican Ambassador was out on his

spacious front verandah with an assortment of

weapons laid out on a felt-topped table for the

pleasure of His Excellency from the Argentine.
Out, too, was the press. In force.

But before the Ambassador from the

Argentine arrived on the field of honor -- if In-
deed he ever Inteded accepting the challenge --
alang came the law.
’ Also In force.

They selzed the limos, sports models and your

every-day family car In the garage of His Ex- |

cellency from Dominica.
. They padiocked his wine and liquor cellar.

External Affairs officers showed up, too, and - -
. informed the Dominican ‘Ambassador he was:
* persona non grata and would he please leave the :

country at the eariiest possible moment.
What had the poor fellow been up to?
He had become and unofficial used car dealer,
buytng tax-free cars and selling them at a profit,

. and he had been selling all the tax-and-duty-free

liquor he cold get his sticky fin
denizen of Diplomatic Row. ¥ Magers on as a

(~ LETTERS TO
_THE EDITOR

Dear Sir,

‘Many of your readers will
be aware of the tragic death
of a Kamloops child and the
charging of the child's
mother with. second-degree
murder.

Many of us will be sad-
dened by this tragedy. My
question Is:. “What com-
munity resource was there in
Kamloops for a 10-year-old

Both the Childbirth
Association and Birthright
are staffed by volunteers.
Thelocal Women’s Centre no
longer receives federal
funding and has received
gifts from local community
groups. .

The work done by these
Broups have prevented
tragedies similar to those in
Kamloops, but society js

. strangel "
Childbirth - Assoclation, ‘was ngely silent when core

there a Birthright Chapter,
be there a Women’s Cen-

organizations dedicated to
. the well-being of families,
Each of us must examine
our own consciences and ask
if we have done our share to
prevent the’ repetition of
Marca’s tragic death.
In sisterhood,

Here in Terrace we have
all of these organizations but
they run only through the
determination of volunteers’

assist local wi
their families, “me and

; traditionally’ have been con-.
* temptuous of laws and taxes. :

funding is needed for.

. Marguerite Clarkson