THE DRIVER of this logging truck was slightly injured when it flipped 0 over 1 after
failing to negotiate a turn on the Kalum Lake Road near the Deep Creek
Bridge Oct. 10. RCMP, Terrace firefighters and the ambulance service respon-
ded. The accident is under investigation. TERRACE FIRE DEPARTMENT PHOTO

Accident blocks off
Kalum Lake Drive

SPEED may be a factor in
an accident which saw a
logging truck flip over and
spill its load Oct. 10.

The logging truck was
heading southbound on
Kalum Lake Drive when it
failed to negotiate a left
hand turn and rolled over,
losing its load into the
bush, said RCMP Chi.
Scott Lovell.

‘ “It’s being investigated.
We have a traffic analyst
who took the necessary
measurements and we are
attempting to come up
with a speed,” Cpl. Lovell
said.

The roll-over occurred

at 1 p.m. just south of the -

Deep Creek bridge and
closed the southbound lane
of Kalum Lake Drive for
several hours, police said.

The male driver, also
the lone occupant of the
vehicle, suffered minor in-
juries and was taken to

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Members of the Terrace
fire department also re-
sponded to the accident to
assist in cleaning up
spilled diesel leaking from
the truck, says deputy fire
chief Fred Burrows.

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pads on the truck and we
contained the spill by
soaking up the leaking fuel
with those,” Burrows said.
“There had been an unde-
termined amount of fuel
spilled before our arrival.”
The spill was reported
to the. Ministry of Water,
Land and Air Protection.

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Kemano power sales a
useful tool, MLA says

sales as a regional econo-
mic development tool
could transform the north-
west economy.

“The problem is if you
say it's power only for alu-
minum, you’ve just tled
your hands,” Harris says.
“You've taken away the
one jewel in the crown you
have that .can attract other
industries.”

Kemano power for the
region could revolutionize
the northwest economy,
and reverse the depopula-
tion of the northwest, he
said.

“Tt would take away our
dependency on single in-
dustries ~ the Achilles’
heel we suffer from
today,” he said.

Terrace is paralyzed by
the Skeena Cellulose shut-
down, he noted, while Ki-
timat all but shut down
when there’s a_ threat
Alcan workers might go on
strike.

Right now, he said,
modernization is gradually
shrinking the norithwest’s
industrial workforce.

“Over the course of
time you may still have
the aluminum plant, Me-
thanex and this one and
that one. But you'll have
fewer people working.”

Altracting new indu-
stries to the mix would di-
versify the region, create
possible complementary
businesses, and add new
people with new special-

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ties here, he said,

Harris said Alcan has
tremendous international
connections that it could
use to bring new industries
or partners here that use
either aluminum or cheap
power or both. ,

Alcan officials like the
idea, Harris said. “It’s a
discussion.
much like to engage in.”

Harris says the founda-
tion for a new economic
model in the northwest
will be the creation of a
container port.

That then opens the
door for transport of all
sorts of end products and
supplies in containers
along the rail corridor —
paving the way for new
manufacturing,

“Containerization is the
first key of a new
economy,” Harris said.

they'd. very.

“Without it we're just
treading water and sort of
planning.”

But he predicted a con-
tainer port at Prince Ru-
pert may be just months
away, adding the prospect
is generating interest far
and wide.

Business people in Al-
berta and Saskatchewan
are already talking about
what ventures they can
build to take advantage of
containerization at Prince
Rupert, he said.

“It is the light at the
end of the tunnel that is
going to change the town
you live in.”

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Government legal re-
views have concluded
power sales by Alcan don’t
break ‘the existing agree-
ments.

While the sale of power

by Alcan may not be ille-
gal, it’s unclear whether
the province still has the
discretion to refuse -to let
Alcan sell power.

“] don’t think you have
to go there,” Harris said,
adding taking a hard-line
stance could limit the pro-
vince’s power supply op-
tions.

“We are going to face a
power shortage,” he said.
“We need to get new
power on line.”

Harris suggests Alcan
power sales likely became
legal when the power line
was built between Kitimat
and Terrace that could
carry power to the provin-
cial grid. ;

That was done at the
province’s request, he
noted, so B.C. Hydro
wouldn’t have to build a
new dam in the Peace.

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