Future fibre supply plays
a role in mill’s approval

TERRACE ~— The native
review of the Orenda proposal
is examining the question of
pulp mill fibre supply in the
northwest,

At issue is the debate over
whether there is enough fibre 1.
Justify building the Orenda mill
and to supply existing omer.

it's a question that wasn’t 4
direct part of the review into
Orenda’s proposal but one that
has come up regularly, says the
provincial official in charge of
the review process.

“The Forest service felt there
was no problem but we're now
asking for an independent con-
firmation of that assessment,”’
said David Parsons.

That forest service opinion is
based on the emount of and
kind of pulpwood Orenda
wants to use and on ihe rated ef-
ficiency of the mill, said a forest
service official in Smithers.

Regional timber officer
Graeme Hynd said Orenda
won't use a lot of wood com-
pared io existing mills and that
ivH use wood now going io
waste or wood for which there is
no market.

The Orcnda plan requires
193,000 cubic metres of fibre a
year 10 produce 173,000 ionnes
of paper. It will also need
23,000 tonnes of traditional
kraft pulp.

“Based on that kind of
volume of pulpwood, we see
that as being = clearly
sustainable,” said Hynd.

Yet those with questions
about fibre supply don’t want
to have the Orenda mill built
and then discover there isa’!
enough fibre for it and existing
mills.

The Nisga’a Tribal Council
questioned the overall fibre sup-
ply fast year when Orenda

waned 10 build the mill south
of Meziadin Lake.

It said there wasn't eaough
information on existing sood
supply to approve construction
of the Orenda mill.

Aad the Haista from
Kitimaat also wart to make sure
arn additional mill won't put
pressure to log areas it feels
should be protected.

“We don't want an
overdevelopment of plant
facilities, Areas such as the
Kitlope are important to us,"*
said Kilimaal band manager
Ken Hodgins of an area the
pand wants preserved.

Don Ryan of the Gitksan and
Wet’suwet'en said the idea of a
secure regional fibre supply is
highlighted through Repap’s in+
tent to purchase one of twa
Westar wood cutting licences in
the Hazeltons.

Report attacks mill plan

TERRACE — The proposal by
Orende Forest Products to
build a pulp and paper mill
south of Lakelse Lake should be
rejected, says an independent
assessment,

It will pollute, the provincial
review of the proposal is flawed
and it isn’t known if there will
be a secure and continuing
wood supply for the mill, says
Jorma Jyrkkanen of Jyrkkanen
Environmental Consulting.

Speaking last week, Jyrk-
karien said effects of air emis-
sions from the proposed mill's
waste-fucled boiler weren't
studied closely enough,

“The real killer here is acid
tain. Another source of
acidification will ruin the waters
in which the coho and dolly
varden spawn — the liule feeder
streams," he said.

‘What he fears are the effects
of another indusiry on top of

existing ones he says already af-
fect the environment in the
arta,

Jyrkannen also said there
wasn't 4 sufficient public review
of the proposal for cither the
mill itself or on the demands it
will place on the area's wood
supply.

Approval of the mill now
before reviews of the area wood
supply is wrong, he adds.

“Tt haa been

management decisions will be
severely constrained by adap-

sills are mostly in upgrade right
now, it will be same years
before this process is Finished,"”
the report states.

Jyrkkanen originally intend-
ed the report as one commis-
sioned by the Haisla and the
Tsimshian as part of a native
review of the project. But the
provincial government, which is
financing the review, turned
down the idea of hiring him.

Jyrkkanen at one time wark-
ed for the environment ministry
but was fired when he revealed
that young trees in a plantation
were heavily damaged by an

dion of the Orenda {wood)
ilccation,”” says 5

report.

He's also critical that the
pollution generated by the tradi-
tional kraft pulp Orenda vill by
from other mills and blend in
with its own isn’t being laken
into account.

_J¢While it is true that these

herbicide
Now working as a private
consultant, Jyrkkanen un-
sucessfully appealed his
dismissal,

“*& lof of people were surpris-
ed to Jearn that the Repap milt
in Port Edward relies on the
Hazelions for 30 per cent of its
chip requirement," be said.

The calculations on fibre sup-
nly also don’t take inte account
other competing interests,

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