ee a ie el STREET SZ pein ee mere ane wre oe ‘A6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 3, 1990 able things about living | _/® in this era that we can. witness the only timber . I is one of the remark- ~- processing facility of any ‘significant size on the entire _. North Coast go bust for. _ lack of trees while more “than half a million cubic Metres of sawlogs go. float. ing past its -front. door every year, destined for the Orient | Vand the lower mainland. . Forest industry and ; government analysts will - argue that its a complex _ situation, and it is. But it ‘can be stated simply. _-: Viewed from outside the Context of the industry and . “the system, the failure of ‘the Wedeene River Tiniber. ~ sawmill in Prince Rupert could hardly have been . more absurd if it had been .-seripted by Monty Python — -, and his entire ° Flying Cir- a cus. a ’ By all accounts the busi- néss seems to have been ~ adequately managed and, ‘having received approval _. from the Ministry of | . *.Forests, the concépt on which it was originally “based should have been “sound. A number of cir- _.gumstances, however, arose a "But what was this world created for?” ” said Candide, ° To drive us mad," replied Martin... ,. ae an —_ Voltaire ‘similteneously that taken. together drove the business under. _ A government policy _ . change on log exports came about several months after "the mill started up, knock- ing out one cash flow prop _ from under Wedeene. in Terrace last week the Minister of Forests attempted to blame public _ opinion and Prince Rupert MLA Dan Miller for the _ policy change, but in fact restrictions on log exports came out of the Select - ~ Standing Committee on — -Forests, an all-party com-' " mittee of the legislature at —_ Jeast half of whose mem- bers are from the govern- ‘ment side. The ultimate outcome of denying Wedeene a permit to export 10 percent of its cut — . about 17,000 cubic metres Of sawlogs too large to: --~ process at the Rupert mill ~— is that now nearly the entire 650,000 cubic metre annual cut in the North ‘ Coast Timber Supply Area is exported out of the ‘Tegion. Wedeene may have been — able to survive with: the. . ‘addition of a second shift, a ee . of Stewart. Established May 1, 1985 The Terrace Review Ia published ' @ach Wednesday by Close-Up Business Services Ltd. " “Publisher: - Mark Twyford ‘Editor: - ’ Michael Kelly. ----. Staff Reporters: - Tod Strachan, Betty Barton Advertising: Mar] Twyford, Todd Vogt Typesetting: Carrie Olson Production Manager: Jim Hall Production: a Charles Costello, Gurbax Gill, ‘Linda Mercer, Ranjit Nizar Office: ' Carrie Olson: Accounting: “ar Twyford, Harminder K. 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Human Rights Act, no advertisement will be published which - -discriminates against a person due to age, race, religion, color, sex, nationatity, anceatry or place of origin. 4535 Grelg Avenue, Terrace, B.C, _V8G 1M7 Phone: 635-7840 Fax: 635-7269 2 oe | One year subscriptions: ' tn Ganada $39.00 - Cut of Canada $100.00 Seniors in Tertace and District $30.00- Seniors oul of Terrace and District 393. 00 expressed are not fneceasently those of the Terrace Review, " “ousiness of yours. without you: Peat: Marwick. analyst says, but the company’s tetiured timber supply wasn’t» étiough ‘to feed the mill for that level of production. In - the mean time,-a company with prior tenure agrec- ments is shipping 226,000 " cubic metres of timber out of the same TSA to mills in» Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. And in the North . - Kalum, hundreds of thou- sands of cubic metres of _ sawlogs every year are still being shipped’ offshore. out Finally, the market for lumber took a dive, but _ because the govemment’s VICTORIA — If I believed for @ minute that Premier Bill Vander Zalm would read it, ’d- write him a letter something like this: . *‘Bill, do you really need all | this aggravation? _ I mean, why not just walk away, take Lillian and your — millions and leave?’ _ After all, you know there are. ‘those even within your own — | caucus, Cabinet and party who | are praying that you will do | They believe it is, the only.” thing which might give Social Credit a chance to stay in’ power. Some are even 1 resurrecting. the rumblings about you becoming Richard 13 (Hatfield. that’ is) — the kind of thing said in 1988 and 1989 when "you were seen as the: party's ~ numbér-one liability. ; Haven’t you had enough of - the back-stabbers, regardless of’. - whether such sentiments are realistic? And hey, do you any longer need the ignominy of repeated- ly being called a liar, a ‘schemer, a zealot, or a manipulative one-man-band — — not just by the Opposition and . the media, but by some loyal Socreds, too? ‘Is the fuss over the Fantasy Gardens fiasco worth the ‘bother, now that you have made your money and got rid - of the white elephant?. ‘Do you really expect us to oe mania waren, , - -believe that’ your lawyer or ac- | ae ” countant or anyone else, ‘no - betters to the editor will be. conaldered for publication onty when signed. ‘matter. how ‘trusted: they. may To condense end edit tettere, Opinions be, would be allowed:to handle ’ “your affairs: ‘and a-$15: million «: ‘tiniber royalty system is. _ based on revenue targets: _instead of market value for wood products, Wedeene’s' costs did not go down with where but... its revenues. The end.. The explanations ate all. ‘thete, but so ‘is the inescap- | able conclusion that some- — thing is drastically wrong © with a system thatcan .- allow. disasters like this to bia’s forests. managed by . ' the government last year _ was 72 million cubic meters. The amount con- 7 plants was more than 90. . ~ million cubic meters. That means that one log in every _ five.ised by. the industry” . came from ‘private lands, lands that in nearly every . _casé are not ‘being managed under any guidelines’ for: renewal. The industry has been living in an unsustain-— ‘able fantasy. If the timber supply i is going to shrink by - 20 percent in the near future, plant closures are | ' going to become regular - happen and then attempts to: explain them away. ae . The annual allowable cut | . ‘fore all of British Colum- events. The ‘question is “It is time for this Tegion to lobby for the resource to.’ be attached to the commun- cities that live with it, oe manage it, harvest it and - . depend o: on it. -_ ~The vlew y from Victoria — by John Piter knowing what they were doing? - ‘Sorry, Bill, but it won’t fly. When ‘you were popular and charismatic, that must have ~ been exciting. How does it feel _ now to be the object of deri- "sion disillusionment and _Tidicule? Who needs it? ‘Or does the prospect of sit- _ ting-in Opposition appeal to - you? I know you are an eternally optimistic — not to say bull- headedly stubborn.— kind of guy. But it defies logic for you: to expect to overturn the mess. ~ you're in by saying you aren't - ‘mendacious, you're just stupid. Do you believe, as Ido, that no matter what policies or pro- . grams you introduce, no matter ‘what ‘‘good”’ you believe you are doing for B.C., the voters -are going to reject you or ig- ‘ nore you or punish you in an election? — Hither way, you'll jose. You don’t need all this... and neither does your party. — So just walk away, Bill. -~ Your family will thank you. Your adopted province will. thank you. At the same time that the — premier strings out his “will he, won’t he’? game over an election call, former attorney- _ _ general Bud Smith is ‘putting on the same act up in Kamloops. He told reporters there last week that he still: had not decided whether he will run, in the wake of the radio-telephone tapes scandal which cost him = | i his: Cabinet post in July. © ; : In. the same newspaper the following, day i in the personal... ads, ‘there’ was @ severi-line a ing in irony... Surrounded by. ads for escort services, and the “ultimate © * massage”, Bud appealed to readers to spend the day: with him for ‘‘family fun... games, barbequed beef and corn.” - It may not surprise you to learn that the-event is to be staged at Shady Waters + camp- ground. - We don’t know if it was coincidental, or a tease by a - printer, but Bud’s barbeque _ was sandwiched between anad_. for a-“‘safe and effective weight control’ method from a _ woman named Margo, and one. . for three Okanagan “‘gorgeous: and shapely beauties” offering . . “exciting colour figure Photos _ _ Of themselves."’ As Rodney Dangerfield. . might add: “A man just can't : get no Keapect. a . ‘ ‘parting Thought: Giace D Me: Carthy'is a very: experienced — ~ and astute politician who has: ‘been around a long while. So her comments this week that she still would not sit in a Vander Zalm Cabinet, if asked, must. be carefully weighted, given the timing ef af. - With the Socred convention only 10 days or so away, Ms. - .McCarthy may be trying to - send signals of discontent, yet — again, about Premier Bill. .Or she may have learned. that, ‘the Cabinet changes — . due at the end of October. ‘now that a ; fall election i is unlikely — did’ ae not: include’ her anyway! : Classified-ad which: was: :drip- fgets Stay toned. sumed. by wood. processing ;