Aa - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 26, 1996 MLA takes on Repap Payment delays SKEENA MLA Helmut Gicsbrecht is at- tacking Repap for ils long-running policy of delaying payments to its truck loggers and contractors here. “For a company to assume that their financial needs must be met on the backs of the logging contractors and their families is unacceptable,’’ Giesbrecht said. ‘All these contractors and truck loggers have expenses,'’ he said, ‘They have to pay them on time. They do not have the op- tion of paying after 120 days without penalties, yet they are expected to. carry Repap or borrow to pay their’ expenses while Repap makes commitments to’ pur- chase a forest licence for $25 million, That is wrong," Giesbrecht vowed to ask forest minister David Zirnhelt to see if there is anything thal can be done to stop the practice, “There should be a requirement for the holder ofa forest licence to pay for services rendered within a reasonable amount of time,’’ he said. “Forest licences are issued in considera- tion of the bencfil to the local economy. The regiona) economy includes the contri- bulion made by local logging contractors and truck loggers.”” Repap officials weren’t impressed by Giesbrecht’s comments. “T think his statement unfortunalely was based on one side of thé equation,’ Skcena Cellulose woodlands manager Tim Fenton said Friday, Fenton said only a few contractors have ever been stretched out to 120 days, and those were large capital projects that were bid or negotiated with that term. Most contractors are being paid at the 30 ‘unfair to loggers to 37-day stage, Fenton said. “EVs not where they would like to be,” he said, ‘‘but it’s only about two weeks longer than normial.’’ Prior to the pulp mill strike last year, Fenton said the company was working towards shortening the payment delay to Zero, “We had to put those plans on hold, and pushed some ‘contractors back out to where they. were the previous year,”’ Fenton said, “Our main thrust has been to keep our _facililies* operating through ‘these tough times,’” he added, Falling pulp prices overseas have hurt the botlom line. Fentori says Repap'’s northwest aperations ‘haven't broken even since be- fore the strike. Despite that trouble and further increases in stumpage rates, Fenton said the company plans (o continue to log through 1996, Fenton said most of the criticsm of Repap comes from members of the Northwest Loggers Associalion, a member group of various contractors. “There’s always all kinds of politics within the organization,’’ he said. ‘Some contractors are quite happy with their ar- rangments with us, and others aren’t.’’ Giesbrecht doesn’t buy the excuses and says agreements struck with contractors for long payment terms are questionable i in his mind. He says contractors are effectively forced into the deal. “IE you don’t accept their terms, you don’t work,” he said. Logging contractors in tum, pass over payment delays to truck loggers. “1 don’t think it’s particularly fair to the guy at the bottom.’’ No holiday for pitlampers IT’S BUSINESS as usual for enforcing night hunting violations, says a northwest conservation officer. “Pitamping’’ — using bright lights to stun wildlife and then shoot the animals — is illegal under the Wildlife Act. But a Vancouver Island judge created legal confusion last week when be dis- missed charges against three native hunters. Provincial court Judge Bob Higinbotham accepted arguments that the men, all mem- bers of the Chemainus-area Penclakut band, have the right to hunt in the area in the way they choose, The judge said the laws are meant to keep hunting as a sporting activity and don’t apply to Indians hunting for food and ceremonial purposes, While pitlamping may be repugnant to sportsmen, the judge said, it is an accept- able and convenient method for natives ta bunt for sustenance purposes because it makes it easier for them to succeed, Peter Kalina, senior conservation officer for the Smithers area, said an appeal has been filed on the decision. Meanwhile, Kalina said the ruling changes nothing. ‘‘You have to remember this is a lower court decision,”’ he said. “My direction to my men in the field is that we will carry on as usual,’? Two night-hunting cases from Moricetown and Hazelton are currently be- fore the courts. 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