Page A12 — Terrace Standard, Wadnesday, May 13, 1992

from front

Alcan holds off —

dough," said Skeena MP Jim
Fulton, adding that the ruling will
affect similar projects across the
country.

"T don’t think there is any doubt
that Quebec will ask for an ex-
emption of the James Bay pro-
ject," be said.

The Kemano Completion Pro-
ject involves the drilling of a sec-
ond 16-kilometre tunnel through
the coast mountains to feed addi-
tional water from the Nechako
River watershed to the power-
generating turbines at Kemano. If
it goes ahead, water levels in the
Nechako will fall to about 12 per

cent of pre-1950 levels.

Ali of the power to be generated
by the project -- an additional 540
megawalts -- is to be sald by Al-
can to B.C. Hydro for export to
the United States.

"We're very pleased," Rich
said. “It's been a long discourag-
ing process al stages, but it is a
vindication."

"This is a project that was
designed and approved and large-
ly built 40 years ago."

Rich said the company won't be"

restarting construction —_until
there’s no threat of further ap-
peals or court action from the na-

Union vote today

TERRACE -- Votes are being
held today and tomorrow to see if
workers on a consiruction project
here want to become certified
with the carpenters union.

Naikoon Construction is build-
ing the new B.C. Buildings Cor-
poration office here.

Enough of the company’s
workers have signed union cards
to hold the vote,

Voling will take place here and
on the Queen Charlotte Islands,
where the company is located,

The carpenters union has al-
ready filed two unfair labour
practice charges against the com-
pany.

Union spokesman Paul
Johnston said it feels one person
was wrongly laid off and that the
company wants people to vote
who should not do so.

That means there will probably
be a hearing conducted by the In-

- dustria! Relations Council before
the vote is counted.

Local carpenters business agent
Dan Farrell said the situation
points at changes the union wants
made in the way workers are
organized,

He said there should be auto-
watic certification if a simple ma-

Women’s”

minister

4 An Wor

coming

TERRACE -- Minister of
Women’s Equality Penny Priddy
will be in Terrace May 23 to ad-
dress the annual general meeting
of the B.C. and Yukon Associa-
tion of Women’s Centres
(BCYUK).

Members of each women’s
centre. that is a member of
BCYUK, and potential members
of the organization are coming to
Terrace for the conference.

‘The conference staris May 22,
and is open to ail women in the
region who wish to attend, The
topics to be covered on day one
include racism, homophobia and
disability. " There will also be
workshops on: violence against
women in immigrant com-
munilies; new reproductive tech-

“nologies; lesbian legal rights; and
private prosecution for ddult sur-
vivors,

The next two days of the con-
ference will be devoted to the
general meeting of BCYUK.

Women's centres which are
members of BCYUK recently
received a one-time stabilization
grant of $15,000 from the pro-
vince and wiil be receiving an an-
nual operating grant of $37,500 in
fiscal year 1992/93.

"We're hoping the minister will
speak about the direction she
wants us to take with the money,"
said Meera Nair, co-chair of the
BCYUK.

Women’s centres also receive
federal money, and a representa-
tive from the federal Secretary of
State will. be speaking about the
future of this support.

Anyone interested in attending
the conference may contact the
local women's centre. There is a
$25 charge for the conference,
and a $10 charge for the garden
patty to be held on the night of
May 22..

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jority of workers want to become
members of a union.

A two-step process of first sign-
ing cards and then having a for-
mal vote gives time for an
employer to change the minds of
its workers, he said.

tive and environmental "groups

thal oppose the project:

"We have to be completely
salisficd (hat there ‘are no more
remaining - uricertainties,"- Rich
said: "We dan’t want to have this
tragedy revisit itself yet another
time on the people working on
this project, We don’t want to get
blind-sided again."

Rich said he believes the com-
pany’s million-dollar-a-year pro-
gram for fishery enhancement
aud habitat - development will
make up for any damage caused
by the drop in water levels.

"lm proud of it," be said. “I
think i's a very responsible pro-
gram.

"Fish don’t know what water
was there 40 years ago,” Rich
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you've got the money ta doit you
can take a machine and some
gravel and put in a water pipe,
you can create ideal conditions
for salmon. It’s not recket science
-- a lot is known about this."

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