Page Ag — : Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 17, 1991

"Road cost too expensive —
for Cominco’s snip

TERRACE -- Cominco won't
be involved in building a road to
its SNIP mine in the Iskut
Valley because it’s too expen-
sive, .
Construction and
‘Maintenance costs outweigh
what the company is now spen-
ding on aircraft and one hover-
craft, vice president Dave
Johnston said last week. ~
'-“Jt’s mighty expensive to
build roads to the standard the
ministry (of mines) wants it
built to unless you have a big
‘(mining) project,’""he said.

Projected construction costs
two years ago of just over $6
million for 32km of road rose to
more than $30 million by this
year, said Johnston.

“That kind of cost is out of
sight for us. We don’t think it

should have cost that much,"
he added.

“The. cost of building the
road is a-good argument for it
being built by the government
as a public road to allow
economic activity,”* said
Johnston.

That 32km portion would
have branched west to the SNIP
property from a 38km section
leading into the Iskut from
Hwy37 that’s going in this sum-
mer. It’s going to be built by
Prime Resources which has pro-
perty in the Eskay Creek area
with financial ‘help’ fiom the
provincial government. .

Johnston said road access to
the Iskut isn’t as critical to
Cominco as it is to other com-
panies in the area because it is
already operating and that air-

_ Mills too far away

Iskut wood only good for ars

He said that while there” is |

TERRACE .—. The only way
logging can make money in the

Iskut area is if the wood. is ex. |

ported, says.a contractor who
has worked there before.

Ray Halvorson said it's too
expensive to haul the wood
from the area to the nearest
milling facility.

Instead, it'll have to be truck-
ed to Stewart for _ exports he
said. -

Halvorson, he was also the
Progressive Conservative can-
didate for Skeena in the 1988

~ federal election, made the com-.
ments following last week’s an-
nouncement that a road will be
built from’ Hwy37 © into the
Iskut.

‘It’s really sad that the wood
will have to be exported to make
it work,” said Halvorson. ;

. “Even if the road is in place,
the hauling distance is so great
and the expense of supplies and
fuel and keeping a camp is so
high,’” he added.

Halvorson said the prospect
of logging in the area also rests

craft and hovercraft costs were

operating budgets.
“If we were going to have a

large project or if the road was _ :

already there, it would have
been a different proposition,”
Johnston continued. -

Cominco’ uses Wrangell,
Alaska, as a staging base for
aircraft and for the one large
hovercraft it uses.

_ One of the original theories
behind having a road leading in
from Hwy37 was to encourage
trade and commerce with Cana-
dian companies and not those in
Alaska.

Cominco was one of the com-
panies that helped pay for the
engineering and environmental -
studies on the Iskut Road.

in how much the province will
chargé.companies for.the-wood
and how.much they’ll: be charg- ,
ed to use the road.’

He said domestic prices ‘for

-wood, even during profitable

times for the forest industry,

. won't provided enough. money
. for loggers unless they can ex-

“port some-of what they cut.
- Halvorson has been in-
terested in the area for the past

’ 20 years, logged it briefly in the

mid-1980s and has. wanted a
road there for the past 10 years.

Claims issue publicized

TERRACE — Northwest
residents will be exposed to a lot
of information about land
claims in the next littie while.

The plan, says a public rela-

tions consultant working for the
provincial government, is to
keep residents informed about
the progress of negotiations to
settle the Nisga’a land claim.

A pamphlet is being readied
is for publication and public
in neetings are in the works, says
“Lynda Cronin,

-. “We hope to'give the public a
better sense of what is going on
and what the negotiations are
all about,”’ she said.

- The public relations plan is
being prepared by a committee
consisting of Cronin, a
representative from the Nisga’a
Tribal Council and a represen-
tative from the federal govern-
ment,

It was formed last year when

the province announced it

would enter talks already under-

Correction

TERRACE — Connie Johnson
4s an instructor of the Terrace
Anti-Poverty Group Society's
cook training program and not
a student as identified in the
April 10 issue,

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way by the federal government
and by the Nisga’a to settle the
latter’s claim to 9,000 square
miles centered on the Nass
Yalley.

Cronin said the three parties
realize the importance of public
information given the settle-
ment topics under discussion.

An agreement signed last

month lists Nisga’a self govern-.
étucationy natural-~=.Also planned are more
generat public, meetings featur-" :
ing representatives ofthe three yy
parties at which people: cai ask -

ment,
resourced’? afid faxation PaaS
among ‘the ‘topics to. be
negotiated over the next two
years.

Cronin said meetings will be
held with specific groups to give
information on whatever may
be under negotiation at any
time.

The parties in the talks have
agreed to keep specific
negotiating positions confiden-
tial but that still leaves room to
give out information, she add-
ed.

questions.

mine_

included in its development and 7%

yaluable timber ‘in. the. area

‘through which ‘the road will
run, the greatest timber value is -

further. down the Iskut Valley to
where there are no immediate
plans to build a road.

The provincial government

“already. acknowledges the

economics of logging the Iskut

area through: an order-in-

council for the Hwy37 region.

It states that a logging com- —
pany can automatically ‘export

up to 45 per cent of its cut.

‘As well, companies can apply
for permission to export up to
100 per cent of what they log. .

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