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A few local residents recently took a

proposals for stringing a new power |
from the public meeting with a better

dvantage of an opportunity to examine B.C. Hydro’s

ine from Terrace to Kitimat. Hydro reps came away
idea of local concerns about the project.

} Burdett sees fuel
oil sales vanish,
auto products rise _

The Shell Oil Terrace bulk
plant has had their residential oil

almost 700 a few years ago!
Brian Burdett, owner, attributes
this decrease to increased costs

verting to natural gas.

by Betty Barton

have picked up considerably.
This is, in large part, due to the
increased traffic coming through
Terrace in all industries.

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TERRACE — B.C. Hydro has
to build a new transmission line.
from Terrace to Kitimat, and on
Nov. 21 local residents got a
chance to see Hydro’s plans and
tell company representatives
their views. i

The public meeting, held in.

the Oddfellow’s hall, was at-
tended by six Hydro experts,
-about 15 local people, most of
them from the Lakelse Lake
area where the new line will have
the most effect, and four news
reporters. a

- Hydro needs the new 287-
kilovolt line to carry the energy
it’s buying from Alcan as the
tesulf, of an agreement in prin-
ciple reached last month. Alcan
will Self the utility power from its
new Kemano II generating pro-
ject for 20 years for an un-

disclosed rate, starting in 1994.

when the project is complete.
Hydro’s schedule calls for

regulatory approval for the line.
in the first quarter of. next year,

engineering surveys and right-
of-way acquisition in 1991-92,
clearing in mid-1993 and line
construction in the summer of
1994, Dave Read, a public af-
fairs officer for Hydro, noted at
the meeting. that if, Alcan ad-
vances its completion date for
Kemano Il, Hydro would also
set its schedule ahead. _

The new lines, like the existing

ones, would be H-configuration

wood pole towers. ss.
Two routes have been iden-
tified as viable by Hydro, but
the company’s environmental
consultant, Mark Walmsley,
told the meeting that they
haven’t ruled out other possi-
bilities that may be suggested.
Route A would parallel the ex-
isting 287 kv line that runs
alongside Highway 37, and
Route B would take a new line
down the west side of Lakelse
Lake.
- It became apparent during the
course of the two-hour discus-
sion and presentation that
building the line down the west
side of the lake would have sig-
nificant. advantages from
Hydro’s point of view. It would

ost less :— an estimated $16:

million as opposed to $18
million for Route A — because
it is 12 kilometers shorter and

most of the corridor is already

partly prepared-by clear-cut log-
ging. Security is another factor:
4 catastrophic event like a land-

stide or avalanche on either side |

would leave one set of trans-
mission lines. intact instead of
wiping them both out.
Walmsley said Hydro is ¢x-
amining several categories of im-
pact that might be created by the
new line: fish, wildlife, forests,
terrain and soil, visual and
recreational, heritage, land use,
and socio-economic.
sultants have been hired to as-
semble studies and report to
Hydro on each of these concerns
for both potential routes.
When the floor was opened to
questions, the first thing Hydro
representatives were asked was
why the extra power from
Kemano is needed at all. .
Read explained that the
surplus generating capacity B.C.
has enjoyed in the past will be
gone due to rising demand
within the next decade and

hydro has to seek more sources

of electricity. The Kemano pro-
ject is one of those.
The question of exported

_ power came up, and Read re-

-plied that Hydro has a series of
exchange agreements with other
‘utilities that allows for out-
bound shipment of excess power
during periods of high water and
importing excesses from other
generating companies when it’s
needed in B.C. He said that
makes the entire system more ef-
ficient. B.C. has ‘firm basis
supply”’ agreements for relative-

_ Jy small amounts of power with
* Washington, he added.

The advantages and disadvan-
tages of both proposed routes
came under discussion. Doub-
ling the existing route would
have a higher visual impact
because a new set of lines would
have to be built on the upslope

side of the existing lines. To go |

down the west side of the lake

_ would alienate more productive
‘forest land, about 200 hectares
altogether. When asked about

stringing the new lines on the ex-
isting towers down the present
corridor, Read explained that
the wooden towers would have
to be replaced by stronger steel
lattice towers, a move that

would require the establishment —

of a temporary line for six to
seven months while the new
structures were being built. _

At the conclusion of discus- ‘4

sion, the Hydro reps asked for a
show of hands to determine the
mood of the room, They were

left with a perplexing message: -

the vole was almost equally split
in favor of the farrow-cortidor,

steel-lattice tower option, on
either route A or B. Read had
stated earlier that doing it that
way would just:about double the
construction cost.

Con- -

tive Dec. 31, 1990, Shell has
forged ahead with three un-
leaded fuels, more than one year
ahead of schedule. Bronze
gasoline is a. new regular un-
leaded gasoline, Silver a new
mid-grade unleaded and Gold, a

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customers drop to 50 from .
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Automotive sales, though, —

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new unleaded premium. The.

designation is determined by the
octane level in the fuel. The
the more.
‘premium’ the fuel. The
customer has to find what suits
his or her vehicle best. A pinging
sound in the engine indicates a.
need for a higher octane.
gasoline,

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‘Burdett Distributors sells first a

aid supplies and recycles anti-
freeze. In addition to being an
environmentally sound idea, this

‘service is a large saving to the
customer — 30 to 50 percent less

than retail. The anti-freeze is
cleaned, inhibitors are added
back into the anti-freeze. The
amount depends on the
temperature protection re-
quired. It is then sold as pre-
mixed anti-freeze (water does
not have to be added to it.)

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