| of “brownouts”. and disrup- would have required 25 better off without the power. | tions when combined with megawatts, within the limits of It’s almost as if we were told | Orenda’s needs. _ what the B.C. Hydro line could ‘here’s your power line and now 7 99 1 «9 4 SK, | L / F T R ATE Ss ‘Cooper said’ Orenda did talk provide. ; SP said Cornell. h with B:G."" Hydro. about -the “We were simply going to e called the position that possibility of constructing a produce raw pulp and we had a there ism’t enough wastewood es Ase SE ASON P ASSES power plant that could have customer for that raw pulp at for Orenda and B.C, Hydro to “Noi inet C ‘ Special P been used by both parties. that time,’ said Cooper. become involved in cogenera- 7 ny 9 0: ie ee a ia ft But the idea, called cogenera- But the customer decided not tion a ‘‘mistruth."” mi rom ‘Discount unt After tion, was: abandoned ‘because to buy the raw. pulp, leading vues enough wastewood “6 September 21 ONLY. Sept. 21 there is no natural gas line and Orenda to increase by two the around here for all o or not enough hog fuel that could number ‘of grinders and add a the next 50 years,"* Cornell add- Individual: PQUIt .ssssssrsrensvessrsrseesectonan $425.00.......... $500.00 have been: used to power the paper making machine to im- ed. 4 she said Orend Youth (13-17 YEAS) sscserser $27B OO... oreseseerereee vu 305,00 plant, he said." prove the economics of the pro- | {ANG She aie rene to | ; - [S)..eseseee vo $200.00... eee 235.00 Cooper also said B.C. Hydro ject by adding more final pro- did contact Stewart to ask for Child 8 12 years) $ $ | told Orenda it would have been duct value to its pulpwood, he its help in getting B.C. Hytro to Family: — 1st MA@MbOL,.ossercoesceecseees PAZ DOD. ccs sseessetenereerso+-8000.00 | . 2rd MOMDEF.....ssssesssssssee se POOQ.. vasssseseesesssessien -$305.00 3rd Member........... svveners 920000 ees 235,00 Bi igge r B.C. Hyd roline 9 | SSM Sasa ee NEW! Mid-week Ski Card............$210.00............ sosereenneeen WIA (10 mid-week lift passes) All Rates include GST leg eR agit : Pod MEd U Y hay e Mody woe a ‘ TERRACE —'Plans, by Orenda’ and ‘paper mill near Stewart - outstripped the ability of B.C. Hydyo ., provide. enough another, everything is possible. the power available wouldn't . - She said Stewart: is going to MULTIPLE GAME FORMAT - “TICKETS ONLY $1.00 power, says company president “You can do it if you really want ‘match up.- There, would have make a submission outlining its , ‘2.games for : . 4 games for $1,000 Hugh Cooper, <2... _ to doit, but we tried our damn- been brownouts in Stewart and position to the provincial | [$1,000 each week every other week | “And that’ was'a ‘contribuiing dest to make this economically at the (Westmin) mine,'’? government which is now con- ! __ Viable,”’ said Cooper of lans, to Cooper continued. - sidering Orenda’s application to -. Tickets Available At: ; factor,to. Qrenda's. decision, to } ences oe , PP House of Simolghats, Benson onan at Drags, Shelf! & Son, Northern Heatth choose a focation south. of Lakelse’ ake instéad, he said, : His comments follow infor: mation on power supply in the provincial government's ‘review of Orenda’s original plan to . build the mill south of Meziadin... Junction, near Stewart. The B, Ci Hydro. line running past the sile’and: info’ Stewart couldn't have provided Orenda with the power it needed and ~ still have ‘d: security of supply for other, customers using power. my -That’s because the four large rollers Orenda wants to use io gtind-pulpwood required a large amount of power to start up. “Icing conditions on the B,C. Hydro line during the winter would have reduced the amount of power running through the lines, adding, to the possibility provide more ® power. - very expensive and take at feast three years to increase its power supply by rebuilding the litte, “**[ ‘think, in one way: or. ep ty . “We tried our damn--: dest to make this* “economically viable,’ said Hugh Cooper of _ Orenda Forest Products. « Orenda’s proposal - requires just under 50 megawatts of * power. That's more than the 40 megawatts the B.C. Hydro line is now rated for. As it is, Stewart uses an average three megawatts and the Westmin Premier mine another three megawaits, Cooper said original plans by Orenda for only two large grinders and no paper machine said, “We knew ‘then. we would need more power and- when we looked at the numbers, we knew He added that power ‘jnter- ruptions would have’ also af- : fected Orenda’s production, ad- ding to the expense. of the operation. . . . “A little blip and the whoie paper machine. would go. out, Pl ulp mill's power needs. : ‘outstripped hydro line brovide more power. - “As a council, or.as a come © munity, we were never ap- proached,”” said Cornell. build the mill south of Lakelse Lake. - . The emphasis on economic development in Stewart will now be on smaller facilities that won't use the kind of ‘power Orenda needed, Cornell added. even if the interruption is past“ " - you on the 'line,’” said Cooper. - The question of power has Stewart mayor Darlene Cornell - wondering ‘why .B.C. Hydro built a.line that wasn’t Jarge | wood- - enough ‘to power processing facilities. Completed in late 1989 to replace diesel generators pro- viding electricty to Stewart and to the Westmin mine, the $21 - million line was at the time touted as a way of attracting in- dustry. and ‘stability. to. the Stewart area, “(Maybe we would have ‘been . couldn't be justified Thompson, 4": He was reacting to comments . that the line couldn’t provide Orenda Forest. Products a secure power supply when it wanted: to build ‘a pulp and paper mill south of Meziadin Junction on the way to Stewart. *1f we were locking at something bigger, ‘immediately - one that now follows the highway into Stewart and more expensive and bigger towers to handle the larger capacity line, Thompson added. He also said the matter of power for Orenda didn’t turn on what was available bul on” when and how it would ‘have’ been needed, PERMS WITH. VITALITY,. 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Hydro ang nist as, ob ‘aipliaeiansief . oH.OL: ye - . mei owolls Wie foidw jnpataed i Hdn’t build alurgerpower line nounced it would build the: oa power via ‘the ». wature Hiof , tren ‘| on: ane aupAY:RATESE nyhtints "ehia™ pte pots A into Stewart in 1989 because it there might have been an reliability, We could have sup- O Pee (13-17 Years) (8-12 Years) couldn't justify the expenditure economic justification,” said plied the power but when you a, Mount 17.00 $13.00 . required, says a spokesman. Thompson. have a long line over rough ter- Full Day: de eneeweseewsonsanseas $27.00 (Moun ain) $17. A ! And it was only the commit- He said a larger line would’ rain, you can expect outages. susserseieanrssnesereeene 24,00 (Downtown) ment by Westmin Resources to have cost two or three times the That would have affected Oren- Half Day, 1p. Mens susevere 919,00 $14.00 $10.00 switch from diesel generatorsto $21 million it took to build the a's paper making machine,” Lift & Equipment Pkg.... $35.00 $28.00 $22.00 hydro power torun its Premier line that’s there now. said Thompson. : mine -that made construction of A larger line would have “When you consider power aa a the line even. possible, said Tom meant adifferent route than the requirements, you have to look. S