— Bust

Out &
About

Name game
EXPECT TO sce Ronst-
mastir’s coffee shop change
ils name in the weeks ahead.
- Owner Mike Parker says
he’s withdrawn the outlet
from the Roastmastir’s fran-
chise over a difference of
ideas with the chain,

“*We decided to part
ways,’’ he said. “‘So we're
independent right now,”?

‘The change means both a
name change is required and
all trademarks’ of Roast-
mastir’s have to go — in-
cluding a large decorative
ceramic tile area in the mid-
. dle of the Noor,

“We don’t have a final
name: choice yet,” Parker
said, adding a new logo is

being developed and the

_ changes might not come un-

til early in the new year.

Turning Inn

SPEAKING of name
--changes, staff at the Slum-
ber Lodge are now answer-
ing the phones as the Bear

_ Country Inn,

Jacquie Munson says the
Sign should go up in the
weeks ahcad, adding that
will be the most visible
change so far since the
Munson family. bought the
hole! last June.
~ Inside, however, it’s a dif-
ferent story, where renova-
lions are underway on all 62
rooms, including new mat-
tresses ‘throughout. They
hope to have those renova-
tions finished by April.

Airlift

A HERCULES C-130
cargo plane that landed here
on the weekend delivered a
26,000 pound electric motor
lo replace one that burnt out
at the Methanex ammonia
plant in Kitimat.

“You can’t really buy
these things off the shelf,”
said plant manager Harvey
Weake.

The 4,000 horsepower
motor runs the. ammonia
plant’s refrigerator com-
pressor. Weake hopes the
plant —- which has been
down since Nov. 12 — will
be running by today.

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TERRACE STANDARD

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 27, 1996 - AZ

NESS REVIEW

mw Demo

days

. OLD WALLS are com-
ing down and new ones
will soon be going up at
the corner of Kalum St.
and Lazelle Ave., where
Denis Gagnon is build-
ing a laundromat. The
2,000 square foot build-
ing will have an apart-
ment on the tap floor,
The new building will re-
Place an old comer
Store that was on the

property.

Alcan expansion sought

Province wants to salvage jobs victory from Kemano talks

By JEFF NAGEL
WE'LL KNOW by year’s end whether a deal is possible to
compensate Alcan for the cancellation of its Kemano
Completion Project.

January will be the two-year anniversary of the pro-
vince’s decision to kill the billion-dollar hydroelectric pro-
ject and both sides say they expect to know within the next
severa] weeks whether they’ll be able to reach an agree-
ment,

If talks are unsuccessful, court action will loom as a large
possibility.

“We've been very patient,"” says Alcan’s Ray Castelli,
“We need to show that there’s some progress or at least a
realistic chance we're going to be able to resolve this
otherwise we're going to have to be looking at other op-
tions.””

Discussions to date have focussed on the idea that Alcan
would be guaranteed power from the province when and if
it needs it,

Any time in the next 20 years Alcan coould decide to ex-
pand its smelting operations and then buy the same amount
of power from the province that KCP would have genera-
led for the same price the megaproject would have cost Al-
can,

That price for the power would be significantly lower
than ils value on the open market and the savings would
constitute Alcan’s compensation for KCP’s cancellation,

For the province, the deal would convert the KCP

debacle into some political brownie points because the.
only way il proceeds is if Alcan inyesis in further expan-:

sion and creates more jobs in Kitimat.

“Alcan would like as much power as possible at the
cheapest possible price,’ environment minister Paul Ram-
sey told The Standard last week. ‘‘We want some as-
surance thal if a power deal is arranged, economic devel-
opment goes ahead and jobs are created. We're not inter-
ested in a deal that provides Alcan with power thal it can
tum around and resell wilhoul job creation,’”

Castelli says the province is pushing for a direct commit-
ment from Alcan to expand operations by a certain date.

But he says that’s hard to do.

“If the price of aluminum and a whole bunch of other
factors aligned the right way it could make that option very
attractive,’’ he said,

But he said there’s a big difference between being locked

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“Any agreement has to achieve. the predictability of the
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