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know what the real issues are behind the personalities in the BG,
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CPC.

Hearings undemocratic, says Coalition

Port expansion opposed

The validity of Oct. 24 hearings
into the controversial Roberts
Bank port expansion was
challenged last week as the 10-
member-organization Fraser
River Coalition charged that the
structure of the hearings “‘is or-
chestrated to inhibit public par-
ticipation”’ and called for a public
“West Coast Deepsea Ports
Inquiry.”

Coalition representatives told a
press conference Friday that the
outcome had already been
prejudiced because the hearings
are based on two assumptions, that
port expansion is necessary and
that Roberts Bank is the best site
— neither of which has been
proven. -

At the press conference, the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union, one of the
Coalition members, also released
copies of its brief which, in addition
to voicing the union’s opposition to
the port expansion, called for a
phasing out of export of Canadian
coal.’”? Most of British Columbia’s
and Alberta’s coal is shipped out
through the present superport at
Roberts Bank.

The UFAWU noted in its sub-
mission, “‘.. . thermal coal must be
conserved to meet future domestic
energy needs, and coking coal
should be reserved for Canadian
_metallurgical industries.

“We submit that to export coal is
to export energy and jobs,” it said.

Projected increases in coal
exports before 1980 were the main
factor in pressing for the port
expansion and on the basis of that,
the National Harbors Board (Port
of Vancouver) commissioned Beak
Hinton Consultants Ltd. to prepare
an.-environmental»impact,.study.

Beak Hinton’s six-volume report,

completed several months ago, is
the basis on which a fedéral En-
vironmental Assessment Review
Panel will conduct hearings which
are scheduled to open Oct. 24, and
continue on Oct. 25, 26 and 31 and
Nov. 1 and 2. ;

UFAWU REPRESENTATIVE ARNIE THOMLINSON . .. joins other
Coalition representatives in opposing Roberts Bank expansion. L to
R, Thomlinson, Greg Reif (SPEC), Ron Tyhurst, (Community Forum
on Airport Development), David Alicroft (Natural History Society),
Jenny Cromarty (Citizens’ Association of Delta).

But if they proceed according to
the review panel’s outline, they
will not only inhibit public par-
ticipation but will also “disarm the
organized intervenors”’, according
to the Coalition.

The six days of hearings have
been divided into a series of
narrow topics — marine en-
vironment, for example — and
submissions are to be limited to 20
minutes on the day’s topic only.

In addition to working within

restrictive time limits, intervenors
would be unable to question the
proponent of the port expansion,
the NHB directly, but would in-
stead have to put questions to the
chairman. The chairman could, at
his discretion, decide not to direct
the question to the proponent but
even if he did, the proponent would
be under no obligation to answer.
_ Of particular concern is the fact
that the National Harbors Board,
instigator of the project, will be
sitting as a member of the
assessment review panel.

The Fraser River Coalition also
stressed that the hearings “are
“premature” because neither the
economic need for an expanded

Stevens raises CP vote

Continued from Pg. 1

Jaggard in Hamilton making a
credible showing of over 300 votes.

All 15 of the candidates elected
will have a short stint in
Parliament, likely about six
months, until Trudeau goes to the
people with a full general election
in the spring.

The byelections, termed by
many observers as the most ex-
pensive opinion poll in Canadian
history, will have only a fleeting
significance for the Burnaby-
Richmond-Delta electorate as that
riding will go out of existence with
the redistribution of seats that will
be implemented for the spring
general election.

One lesson learned from the

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VERNON

Banquet and Dance
to celebrate
61st anniversary of the
Russian Revolution

Guest speaker:

WILLIAM
KASHTAN

Cocktails 5:30
Dinner 6 p.m.

AUUC HALL

Vernon
Nov. 4

$6 admission

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experience, Stevens said, is the
need for laws regulating the calling
of elections at specified terms. The
Burnaby-Richmond-Delta seat
remained vacant for over a year
while the government played
politics, he said, and should have
been called promptly after the seat
became vacant. — .

‘Stevens said that he will be
running again in the redistributed
riding next spring.

port nor the value of Roberts Bank

as the best site has been .

definitively established.

‘Nothing less than a com-
prehensive public inquiry into all
potential deepsea port sites must
be held before any substantial
expansion of port facilities is
permitted,’’ the Coalition delcared.

UFAWU representative . Arnie
Thomlinson told the press con-
ference that any inquiry would
have to study the economic
question first, to determine
whether a port is, in fact, needed.
The UFAWU contends that the
present study “‘has not demon-
strated a need for port expansion of
the magnitude envisioned.”’

Although the UFAWU has
submitted the additional brief to
voice the special concerns of the
union, the main opposition case for
the Coalition will be presented in

_the lengthy brief prepared by the

Society for Pollution and En-
vironmental Control (SPEC).

In its 85-page submission, SPEC
points out that port expansion

would have serious environmental -

consequences including increased
coal dust fallout, damage to the
tidelands and foreshore areas; that
it would bring increased industrial
development to the Delta area ‘‘at
a time when the agricultural
viability of these lands has already
been seriously compromised”’; and
that the consultants have not
“seriously studied. the en-
vironmental, social and economic
impacts that the project would
involve.”

SPEC also emphasizes that the
need for expanded port facilities
have not been established nor have
alternative sites been properly
studied.

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