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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1990
Vol. 6, Issue No. 50 .

A bus owned by Farwest Bus Lines stopped short of its destination Friday night after catching fire while travelling on Highway
16 near Chimdemash Creek. The passengers, a group from Prince Rupert going to a Christmas party in Prince George, got off the
bus without injury, suffering only the inconvenience of a three-hour delay to reach their destination. Farwest manager Dave Storey

. Said the Thormhiil Volunteer Firefighters deserved commendation for fast response to the emergency. The cause of the fire is not
known, and there has not yet been an estimate of damages to the bus.

Board waits for details on Orenda plan

Recycled feedstock suggested

Kitimat-Stikine Regional District

directors are still hedging on pro-

_ posed development in the Meziadin
Lake area by Orenda Forest Pro-
ducts and their contractors, but
they may have come up with a
solution that will help in reaching
a formal agreement.

In November, the regional district
board tabled two matters involving
Orenda Forest Products. The first
was a referral from the Ministry of

Crown Lands for a commercial.

lease on a logging camp by
Orenda’s primary contractor, Els-

worth Logging. And the second |
was a application made by Orenda’
to the Ministry of Forests fora

special use permit for-a logging

camp and a log sort-area.

In 1 December, the same two mat-
ters were tabled again. As
explained by board chairman Jack
Talstra, "We're not sure what's
happening out there. It looks like
people are moving helter-skelter
and Elsworth is making a move for
a fixed residential area near their
camp. We don’t know if this is
good or bad... but we want to look
at the whole situation."

On Orenda’s pulp and paper
plant proposal for the Meziadin
area, however, the board may have
offered Orenda a course of action

that would force the regional board

to look toward their proposal more
favourably. The board voted in
November to reserve any decision

on the pulp mill proposal pending
more information, and although
they are still awaiting that informa-
tion, a motion by Bob Cooper
offered this suggestion: if Orenda.
were to include the use of recycled
paper in their process the project
would provide a greater benefit to
northwest.

There is nothing to suggest that
the idea is technically feasible, but
according to Les Watmough, it
may be possible for Orenda to use
recycled paper in their process
rather than the kraft pulp they plan
to purchase from Repap’s Watson
Island mill. This would solve one

high cost of shipping used paper to

‘area,

the lower mainland,

But there is a complicating factor
Orenda must face before consider-
ing any of these preliminary
hurdies... native land claims.
Before Orenda worries about log-
ging camps, a prospectus for the

-Tegional board, or using recycled

paper, they have io prepare for a
January meeting with the Nisga’a
Tribal Council. According to Harry
Nyce, the Tribal Council stili has
environmental concerns in the
Nisga’a and Gitksan
Wel’suwet’an natives hunt, fish
and pick berries in the area and
aren’t about to let any private or
industrial development Jeopardize
that resource.

Phone 635-7840: on
Fax 635-7269.

Weather

that just
doesn't
quit...

One weekend a record snowfall,
the next record rains. In Terrace,
the rain began in earnest at 6 a.m.
on Wednesday, Dec. 5 and, in the
words of Adrian Van de Mosselaer
of the Terrace weather office, “It
forgot to stop."

We got 16.2 millimetres (0.64
inches) of rain that day says Van
de Mosselaer. On Thursday we got
another 20.2 millimetres (0.79
inches). And on Friday, Dec. 7, the
heavens opened wide, breaking the
all-time one-day rainfall record for
December with 111.4 millimetres _
(4.39 inches) of rain. The all-time
record for any month was set on
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 1978, when we
got 114.8 millimetres (4.52 inches)
of rain. On Friday, we missed
breaking that record by only
13/100ths of an inch.

If you haven’t already bothered
to total last weeks rainfall, it was
measured at 147.8 millimetres or
5.8 inches. Add to that the 78
centimetres of snow that melted
during the storm and you have
another 78 millimetres (3.07
inches) of water on the ground for
a total of 225.8 millimetres or 8.87
inches, Save the remaining centi-
metre of frozen snow that pre-
vented any kind of a reasonable
runoff during the storm and you
have one thing... flooding.

Acting Provincial Emergency
Plan coordinator Ray Tank filled

.for absentee PEP zone manager

Rod Salem on Friday and offers a
summary of events caused by the

storm. Five Copperside Estate

families and one from Kalum Lake
Drive had to be relocated due to
the flooding. Eight Lakelse Lake —
residents were isolated for almost
three days. behind a four-foot deep
washout on First Ave. about half a
kilometre south of Lakelse Lake

Lodge Road. And there were a

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