Page 2, The Herald, Monday, February 2, 1981 . f— —— . TERIEACK-RELIV AE General Office-635-6357 Putilished by | - Circulation - 635.4387 Sterling Publishers Publisher — Garry Husak Editor — Pete Nadeau CLASS. ADS. - TERRACE - 635-4000 CIRCULATION - TERRACE . 635-6357, of police Ae Published every weekdaf Terrace, B.C. Authorized postage guaranteed. Reproduction 1s not permit Registration number 1201. Postage paid in cash, relurn NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT , The Herald retains full, campiele and sale copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content’ published ‘al 3010 Kalum Street, as second class mail. In the Herald. fed without the written “VANCOUVER (CP) — Moat Canadians are less fearful than Americans of authorilative bedies such as police forces, says Chief Justice Allan McEachern of B.C. Supreme Court. McEachern told a coo- ference on police ac- Grant sald ‘all’ potice |. examined, “Most policemen spend. their careers pursuing . overt, predatory crime of a relatively minor nature,” he said. “And most de \, permission of the Publisher. | a Es countability the U.S. is tectives spend moet of their .: 2 primarily concerned with time on cases which ex...” . | + = protection of citizens’ perieae shows will not be. : ights, even if that cone ved.” ote te C | Car ee restock the nity. Grant also said thereisa. . . For example, the U.S. lack of higher education , . constitution forbids use of among police chieds. -expansion improperly obtained evidence in a criminal But Vancouver Police, . Chief Bob Stewart, who +! said he would be to. trial, while Canadian : : courts allowsuch evidence. outsiders controlling the , This concern for citizens’ "good order of his force,” . rights, he said, springs wasn't intimidated ‘by - from “‘aninnate mistrustof Grant's remark. authority” in the US., “J got my doctorate in sree barely breshing River, Ont. ani expand it while the Canadian ap — theschoolof hard knocks,” companies barely breaking —_River, Ont, and expand its proach Is based on more — he said, to loud applause even would be reluctant to existing refinery at Port trust of authority. from an audience which leap into a $250-million Hope, Ont. . Commenting on the included many policemen. . expansion program, but Those investments plus a proposed charter of human Toronto lawyer Morris Eldorado Nuclear Ltd, isso new office in Saskatoon, rights and freedoms which Manning criticized the; sure of the world uranium market that It Is aggres- purchase of a 737 jet to ferry mine workers and the federal government wants to enshrine in the Supreme Court of Canada | for allowing statements. sively seeking big-league supplies into Uranium City constitution, MecEachern improperly obtained by. . status in the energy suppl in northwestern Saskat- said =the provision _ police. : ca field. ' chewan and renovation of guaranteeing fundamental "'t have fear when judges The federal Crown themine and mill there add justice may not affect of the Supreme Court of ~ corporation minesand sells up to well over $250 million. admissibility of evidence. Canada have the op- | uranium in various stages Yet Eldorado barely His comments came ata — portunity to control the | of processing for electrical squeaked into the black in conference at which abuse off police power and companies arcund the 1979 and Ediger said he speakers complained that ‘don't doanything about it," world to fuel nuclear reac- © expects the annual report police in Canada aren't he said, noting that tors. Uranium prices may be down and the future of nuclear energy in question but Nicholas Ediger, Eldorado's president, isn’t worried. “Utilities, once having committed to a nuclear program, not just the “Coats have gone up, ; Alan Grant, an Ontario than the adequate protec building of a nuclear productivity hasn't been as J law professor and former tion of the country i reactor, are committed to high as we had hoped and Police inspecter, said reasonably requires. ‘ billions and billions of dollars of outlay over a falrly}long period of time. . “Therefore, what they — are looking for is secure — supply and they enter into contracts with companies that have a proven track n ack small potatoes to Eldorado. vestigating a suspected record and the ability f |i, supplying natural lice force. - murder. mpply overalongperiodof ranium for Candu ‘ . e.”” . . ied Kado eta. "AEM EMT’ TO) SUCCEED ae qualifies, Ediger inan -sichment and use in nd. —_—1__1 - | . wh Purchased by the federal reactors Produced by other bs . ‘ih - moto rio coomen (QnAdIAN nuciear inaqustry MUST GO uranium was a strategic pore ig getting desperate j “ : ; : wartime material, for orders for new reactors. ‘ ‘ ; . . ; : pearantaertasiet ae Ediger sees the day when © OTTAWA (CP) — The © He remains hopeful, criticized for doing that received of fleeting vinits,- fuel doesn’t need heavy the Canda reactors are hes mined uranium in Co2dians will be building Canadian muclear industry, | however, that a Romanian poorly. : often on short notice, by water for theheat-creating safe. bo q an for reactors to generate welled by a series of sale can be concluded this A recent study by constantly changing reaction to take place, but But in Ontario an over- ey tchew _ G@eetricity in advance of successes in the 1970s, year and that opportunities © Toronte Management = personnel who may or may it also is expensive io supply of electricity, more hun 2 years. domestic. need and using faces disasterifneworders in Mexico, Korea and consiltantasaidARCLwas notbe qualifiedtocarry out |= manufacture.- caused in part by alumping Ediger wants to see the company grow much larger. . “On the supply side, for 1980 to show. it just broke even. “This trough in our profits was always predicted In terms of our ' five-year forecasting. We didn’t expect the trough to be as deep. prices haven't been as strong as we had antici- spaed.: o> pee » .* ‘The .Ganadian: market, with 10 reactora operating in Ontario and 14 more under construction, is the surplus to export to the United States, just so the | industry will stay alive. SK : os aX Wy, ae = ne Oss X'S EN \? KS oN ANAS for the Candu reactor aren't landed soon, says the president of Atomic ' possibly Argentina will materialize. He also muses about building reactors in seen as 'unaggressive and not commercially ori- ented’ in international the marketing function." If the orders don't pick up, AECL won't be able to fully accountable to the citizenry. One solution suggested was to form community policing advisory groups to which police would be accountable. existence of RCMP in Many provinces results in an accougfability gap, Ha, ,.. province as municipal - police on contract, but retain all the federal trappings of a national po Sofar, AECL has sold six Candus outside of Canada — two to India and one protections in the existing Bill of Rights aren't upheld. Lawyer Alan Borovoy, general counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said police in =“ = Canada have more power He sald RCMP, with writs of assistance that ~diminabe weed. for proper ..76q said RCMP, come, into. the . .- search, warrants, have ‘uti more power to search -*+~ > premises for marijuana than they do when in- demand, hes made it unlikely that new reactors will be needed. we're one of the oldest _/nere’s also talk of a Energy of Canada Ltd. this country before they nuclear markets. sustain its own level of - each to Pakistan, In terms of world elec- uranium companies. We're reactor to provide elec- James Donnelly, .in- are needed, perhaps with Information qn Canadian engineering, private Argentina, Korea and trical production from a amall player in Canada tricity to olisands plantsin = terviewed at the federal the help of federal money, reactors is difficult to get, © engineering firms will go Romania. In Canada, reactors, CCandu but we teally are headed northern Alberta, which © Crown corporation's, head © tomakesureengineers and the Canadian demand for — into other fields and com- © Ontario has 10 reactors represents about seven per for the big leaguesina v. use huge amounts of officesaki the industry companies manufacturing siiff nonproliferation ponent manufacturers will generating about athird of cent. But in terma of coun: aggressive wa: Y — mergy. _ must sell two reaclors & = reactorcomponentsstayin safeguards is seen as an go. out of business. Once all its electricity and is tries not already com- "On the refining side, In the heyday of spot year, eiffier inthedomestic —_—the industry. ' afiront and Canada doesn't that expertise is lost, it will] building 12 more. There's mitted to their own similarly, we're the oldest T2tltm sales a couple of = market or in cut-throat —--Hesaldthereisenoughof cffer- the trade and fi be horribly costly to one non-functioning systems, Donnelly reckons and we have an aggressive years ago, prices went up = qverseas competition, to a -patiern among those nancing packages many recapture. - reactor and another under © Canada's market share at expansion program #0 that to $50 a pound, But they survive. already committed to the countries need to help them What's more, utilities in construction in Quebec and about 10 per cent, by the end ite 1990s we'll have since fallen to a low of Already 1960 has passed = Candu system to be sure afford reactors. ~ other countries would not one being built in New That, be gaye, is not bad, have a significant amount about $23, prompting anti- without an order from any = AECL’s high hopes are not ‘Too often, the report want to get stuck with Bruntwick, considering he's up against of further processin nuclear activists to call the = utility. wanting a Candu, delusions. said, Canadian salesmen | Canada’s system if the reat Domestic orders have four American firms, capacity." 6 industry a white elephant. which uses natural == ““Buteventhenit’s going don’t seem sure of what Of the world was uring been slowed by sirong France and West Germany Re expects'to have more Eldorado doesn't sell uranium fuel to produce to be tough to get them they are trying to sell and * another design. opposition from groups in international markets. uranium (o process beyond -‘Uch.on the spat market, =the beat. that will turn (reactor orders) because don’t pay enough attention The Candu uses natura] —«Titicizing the safely of the The price, he says, Is the vyelloweake all maining but Ediger sald that steamdriven turbine — the competition is fierce. to the customer's needs, | uranium and heavy water ‘reactors, especially since shout the same — about ra firms turn out from their market influences the - generators and create It's going to be very hard to Although it noted there + while most other systema the incident at Three Mile billion— but the Candu has mills. Eldorado has a one. “male in negotiating long- "electricity. get enough beyond thafto have been improvements, use enriched uranium and —_ Island. "a better record for unin- ‘erm contracts. Prices in “Tf we don't get any in keep securing the twd a the report said AECL Is — conventional water. Heavy That issue was dulled terrupted operation. depoeit in Boskatvheven a those agreemenis, which the next two years, then we . spreading its marketing water has a higher somewhat last year when Because the Cand uses fect expected to turn -average 10 years, are will be three years without Part of AECL’s job is resoyrces too thinly and hydrogen content and Is an Ontario legislature readily available natural i toone like three biggest wually negotiated several = ordersandicantellyouwe selling the reactors has. no apparent marketing expensive to manufacture © committee decided that uranium, itoffers countries Uranium mines in the times during the life ofthe will bave a terrible overseas. The corporation strategy. but remains withthereac- despite mumerous the bonus of independence world. contract. problem,” Donnelly said. has frequently been “The impression was tor permanently. Enriched © Problems in the industry = of fuel supply. i anette it's weaee Pei vad | me bad od . oles at are tigi va te . ‘eoatern “YOU KNOW. DUKE ONDAYS BUT THIS WEEKEND | e stage of targe cont a oe . 4 vee VY. \ I 0 son terefning se, eye mae ARE SUCH A DRAG i WENT TO THE OPERA MEAN Werte — “PROFESSOR! Are Such A r Nee . / LETTERS WELCOME | The Herald welcomes its readers’comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letlers on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. Al letters 1o be considered for publication must be signed. : _ dif. ( ay ee fp EE a te # — HATE Davis