32 Terrace Review —. Wednesday, October 9, 199]

Festival of Forests brings -
teachers to Northwest woods”

Next week 20 teachers from the
lower mainland will tour Terrace
and other parts of the Northwest
under a program conceived by the

Festival of Forests committee.
~ The Festival of Forests (FOF)
was formed in 1966. It is a non-
profit society comprised of pro-
fessional educators and people in
the forest industry. Its two main
activities are setting up Forest
_ Environment Tours each spring

and fall by teachers and foresters,

and the promotion and organizing
of Loggers Sports Federation.
The purpose of the teachers’
three-day visit to the Northwest is
to gain a greater awareness of the
forest industry by seeing different
aspects of the forest industry: tree
nurseries, woods operations, mills

(saw and pulp) and heating guest

speakers within the industry.

Skeena Cellulose is hosting the
' group’s visit to the Terrace area.

With this first-hand look at the
forest industry, explains Linda
Coss of the Council of Forest
Industries of British Columbia
(COFT), it is hoped that the
teachers wili then be better able to

teach the forestry components of
their curriculum,

In order to become a part of the
Festival of Forests tour, teachers
apply through their local boards.
FOF attempts to choose an equal

number of men and women, in
both elementary and secondary
education, who teach subjects
related to the tour themes. Festival
of Forests funds the tours, with
most of the money coming from
government grants. ©

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make a flat statement that every-
body is going to meet this standard
or another standard. Each issue has
to be dealt with on its own merit.”

But first we must focus on what
he terms the real issues, Parker
believes. As an example, he talks
about the dioxin issue in kraft pulp
mills. "Everybody is very con-
cemed about dioxins," says Parker.
"And it was Greenpeace, I believe,
that flagged the Crofton mill about

‘five years ago as being the biggest

polluter. And of course Crofton
has spent close to $100 million
improving the effluents. Not just
the liquid effluents... but air
emissions as well. And it’s a very
clean mill now."

Even before this massive clean-
up job, Parker says, both he and
the Ministry of Environment were
told by a ministry chemist that a
single cigarette was creating more
dioxins than a bleach kraft pulp
mill like Crofton was in an eight
hour shift.

"That sort of puts it in perspec-
tive," says Parker. "And I think
people should pay attention to
things like that. There are far more
dioxins coming out of little fire-
places than are coming out of most
industrial establishments.

"So it’s a matter of perspective.

__ It’s easy to point the finger, but if

you’re using household bleach in
your laundry you are putting a
certain amount of dioxins into the
sewer system or into your septic
lank. So a person has to really
focus on what the real issues are."

He continues by saying everyone,

both the government and the gen-

eral public, must deal with the

facts, not perception. Every indus-
trial establishment, whether it’s a
feedlot, pulp mill or guto body
shop, must be examined on it's
own merit. "We have gone to great
lengths to put in reasonable and
realistic pollution standards,"

explains Parker. And, “We have

gone to great lengths to deal with
hazardous waste issues,"

On the topic of hazardous wastes,
Parker says the cancellation of the
HazMobile proposal was a wel-
come event. "I have argued at the
Cabinet table every time this issue
has come up," says Parker, "that if
we create special wastes in our
back yard, we dispose of them in
our back yard. We don’t shoulder
them off to some other commun-
ity."

And that, he says, is now the
main thrust in deciding how to
deal with the disposal of hazardous
materials: creating a system of
regional disposal facilities to deal
with the problem at the point of
origin rather than developing a
centralized facility.

"I would rather not see these
items transported great distances
through the province," he explains.
“And I don’t think Terrace should
be taking Vancouver’s special
wastes. Because you can bet that
Vancouver is not the least bit
interested in disposing of its wastes
in ils back yard... It wants to do it

in your back yard. So there have to .

be regional disposal units and I
think that’s a_ responsible
approach."

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1991 the

_ 1n 1986 the people of Skeena said they

ft wanted someone who would do the Job.
He Did.

ople of Skeena want
someone with vision who will continue -
to open doors fo opportunity. —

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