URANIUM INQUIRY

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
Public health may be
jeopardized by inadequate
controls over uranlum ex-
plovation In Canada, sald a
member of the B.C, Medical
Association Tuesday,
ao Robert Woolard made

@ suggestion in a r
presented to the. oval
commission of inquiry into
uranium mining in B.C,
Woollard is chairman of the
BCMA’s environmental
health committee and a
member of the Canadlan
Medical Association, /

“The present system, or
nonsystem, of nominal
responsibilty by Atomic
Energy Control Board
delegated through the mines'
inspectors, whose training
may be marginal, must be
looked upon as being totally
Inadequate, particularly
from the point of view of the

Deals threaten

rdized,’’ Woollard said,
oolard has a practice at
Clearwater near the Birch
Island uranium exploration
site now under Investigation
by Consolidated Rexspar
Minerals and Chernicala Ltd,

-He was not at Tuesday's
commission hearings but
paper was made available,
He ig expected to attend
Friday's hearings to anawer
queations.

Woollard -said -large
amounts of money spent on
uranium exploratlon will
probably result In “effective
pressure at very high
political levels" to make
aure that uranium mining Ls
eventually approved in B.C. -

He said in the paper that
exploration causes specific
health concerns — “some of
which are of a theoretical

Popa health which may be

have already demonstrated
themselves to be of practical
significance.”

Woollard wrote that the
Uranium reconnaissance
program (a federal-
provincial survey of
potential urahium resour-
ces) did not involve public’
healt’s authorities in areas
where there might have been
legiSimate concern about
pubite health ane a yeault of

¢ procram's 8,

He said the health d -
ment has no provisions In its
budget to obtain the - test
water samples necessary to
check for mining pollution.

The doctor described as
“pather cavalier” the way in

e

which waste material was
thrown over a bank into a
drinking water stream

exploration at Birch
Island. He aaid that only the
insoluble nature of that
particular ore prevented
“glgniticant contamination”
of the stream, .

He urged the commission.

toensure that
knowledgeable health
personnel supervise ura-
nium exploration which
involves sinking shafts or
drilling holes.

He said bis-concem arose
from testimony at the public
hearings In Atlin earller this
year '‘wherein geologists
associated with the recon-
nalgsance prograni ap-

peared to have a
distressingly cavalier at-
titude towards the ingestion

of watera high in -radon
content.” 7
Consulting geologist

Douglas Leighton of Van-
couver presented a paper
which stressed the need to
monitor carefully any water
flowing through sation
tunnels over new., exposed
uranlum ore because ura-
nlum'1s transported in this
way.

“Our own experience has
been that uranium mine
waters generally contain
less dissolved uranium than
can be found in some ditches
in the Okanagan Valley,”’ he’
wrote,

ration said hazardous |

nature and aome of which |

“Further, some small
lakes in southern B.C.
contaln in excess of 10,000
parts per billion uranium
which is two ordera of
magnitude higher than that
commonly observed In mine
watera.”

Leighton stated that en-
vironmental effects in the
early stages of exploration
are ‘Indeed insignificant
and it is extremely unlikely
that any reasonable ex-
ploration activity resulta in
exposing uranium values or
radiation levels which are
not commonly cbserved in
nature — often in densely
populated agricultural
areas,” .

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TORONTO (CP) — Back-
stage legal manoeuvres have
threatened to abort the con-
troversial inquest Into the
death of A (Buddy)
Evans, a black man who was
shot to death by police one
year ago. ,

Dorls Evans, the dead
man’s mother, attempted
Tu to lay a charge of
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against John Clark, the
Toronto constable who killed
her son,

Evans,, 24, formerly of
Halifax, was shot Aug. 9,
1078, in a scuffle with police
uitaide a tavern.

Fearing that dings
igainat the officer could
1 the inquest, Crown
alophoned Raigh Faulkner,
ale; } ‘aulaner,
1 supervisor Aten office of
he justices of the peace, to
request that any charges
against Clark be delayed.

The Ontario Coroner’s Act
ays a coroner must
discharge the jury and close
the inquest once charges are
ald in connection with the

Jurors were considering
today the 11 weeks of
estlmony in the. inquest,
which began 13 months ago,
mt has been Interrupted

several times.
Earlier Tuesday, as
.oroner Dr. Margaret

Milton began an emotlon-
sharged address to the four-
member jury, Mra, Evana
and 13 other spectatora
walked out of the inquest

room,

Jack Pinkofsky, lawyer for
the Evans family, and his as-
sistant David Martin also
were not In the hearing room
when Dr, Milton announced
her Intention to cite
Finkofeky for contempt
before Divisional Court for
his “sarcastic, intimidating
and ridiculing manner’’
during the hearing.

The 43-year-old lawyer
was adimitted to hospital
Saturday complaining of
chest pains,

‘Listing 19 specific charges
agalnat the Jawyer, Dr.

{Iton sald she would have
criticized the lawyer earller,
but she was afraid it might
affect the position of Mrs.
Evans in the eyes of the jury.
’ “If there had only been the
odd incident I would have
disregarded this because of
the emotlonal atmosphere
surrounding this hearing,”
Dr. Milton said,
the conalstent
wit-
neesee, the contemptuous
fone and content of Mr.
Pinkofsky's references to
myself and others at this in-
quest leads me of necessity
to take this step to try to
protect other courts and to
reatore my high regard of
the legal profession.”

Dr.. Milton also said she

of:

plans to report what she
described as the disruptive
conduct of _Martin and
Michael Mande], a crimina}
law professor at Osgoode
Hall law school, to the Law
Society of Upper Canada.
Martin, who refused to ap
pear at the Inquest Monday
afternoon to deliver his
aummation, alao drew
eriticiam from Dr. Milton for

referring in a published |

interview to the Evang
inquest as a political tool. .

Dr, Milton was angry with
Mandel because he had
accused the coroner on
Monday of a “blatant denial
of basic rights’ by refusing
to. grant “Martin an ad-
journment to prepare his ad-
dress to the jury. cos
. In her address to the jury,
Dr. Milton defended the
Metropolitan Toronto police

department and criticized .

Evans for carrying a
machete to the tavern to
settle a dispute with a
bouncer.
‘She asked the jurors
whether they wanted a
Toronto ‘“‘where machetes
may be carried to settle.
arguments, or do you want to
have a well-trained police
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