A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 24, 1999 Liberal, Reform coalition | moves continue onward KEY REFORM B.C. organizers here will attend the B.C, Liberals’ northern policy-setling conference in Prince George on Saturday, And that’s an encouraging sign that the two parties are moving steadily towards a united front against the NDP, said Jim Bell, Reform B.C,’s secrelary-treasurer in Skeena, | Bell and two other local provincial Reform executive members — Gordie Anderson and constituency associa- tion president Wayne Kilgren — got invites to the Liberal session. “They're actively pursuing us and they want us to be there,’’ Bell said. ‘‘It’s a good step.’” The Liberais’ Northern Directions policy conference at the University of Northern B.C. is seen as critical to efforts at healing divisions between the parties in the north, Liberals hope to get the Reformers on side by developing policy goals relevant to northern B.C, that would then go forward to the party’s 1999 provincial convention in April. Efforts to unite the right will likely hinge on how far the Liberals go in ultimately incorporating some Reform policies, Beli said. “It's a one shot deal,’’ he said. *‘If they make some con- cussions to us and pick up some of our policy then we'll certainly do all we can lo help them.’” It’s not clear yet if that would mean blending the two parties, running a mix of Reform and Liberal candidates in the north, or running only Liberal candidates with Reform support, Also hoping to atiend the Prince George conference is Steve Cook, who heads efforts to unite the right-wing parties in Skeena. He says Reformers are looking for an inclusive approach from the Liberals, rather than an insistence they simply abandon ship and switch parties. “It boils down to a matter of respect,’? Cook said, ‘Reformers want to feei that they’re respected and that they’re given credence that they do have a brain and they’re not just a bunch of radicals as s they’ ré sometimes portrayed”? “T£. Gordon Campbell could find a way. to get out of © Howe Street and up to Highway 16 in terms of his mindset and to really look at it from a northerner’s perspective, that would goa long way."” tk kkk Also in Terrace today on their way to the Prince George conference are four B.C, Liberal MLAs. Health critic Colin Hanson gets here first to tour hospi- lals in Terrace and Kitimat and to meet with local doctors. He’s then joined that evening by Kevin Krueger, Kathryn Whittred and Geoff Plant for a meeting at the Inn of the West where local Liberals will select delegates to 0 to the party provincia] convention later this year. Feds ease copper mine worry THE TULSEQUAH Chief mine has cleared its biggest hurdle and won the support of the federal government, says Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott. Scott said foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy on Feb, 19 promised the federal government will not refer Redfern Resources’ proposed copper mine project on the Taku River west of Atlin to an Intemational Joint Commis- sion made up of Canada and the United States. Referring the mine to the commission on Amer- ican/Canadian boundary issues — as demanded repeatedly by Alaskan governor Tony Knowles — would have been a major setback for Redfern aud was the main hope of en- vironnentalists opposing the project. The $160 million underground mine, which would create 200 permanent jobs and twice that number during its two- year construction, has already been approved by provincial and federal environmental reviews, “T am very pleased the federal government has not caved in to pressure from Tony Knowles and has not caved in to pressure from the environmmentalists,”’ Scott said Friday. “Tm hopeful that given this signal Redfern Resources can proceed,”’ Redfern president Terry Chandler said the threat of an From front Recallers gathering International Joint Commission — which could have forced major and possibly uneconomical changes to the mine — had casta shadow over the project and made it al- most impossible to raise financing for it Scott and Chandler were both waiting Friday for a formal letter from Axworthy confirming the government’s posi- tion, Although that roadblock for the company may be down another went up last week, The Taku River Tlingit First Nation filed a petition in B.C, Supreme Court seeking an judicial review of the pro- ject’s approval by the province’s environmental assess- ment office. The native group is primarily concerned about the 160- kilometre access road that they say would disrupt tradi- tional hunting and fishing territories, The Taku River Tlingit claim they weren’t adequately consulted in the review, environmental studies were defi- cient and that the mine and road would interfere with their aboriginal right to hunt and fish there, ‘The road and the inine are going to have very serious, negative impacts on the Tlingits’ ability to hunt and fish in the region,” said Tlingit spokesman John Ward. 1, Hockey Night ” Hockey Fans, come in early to get the best seats. In Hanky’s Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27 There will be games! Prizes to be won! |__Located In the Coast Inn of the West | Since 1960, over 16 million people have enjoyed our world famous Mikeburger's sensational flame-grilled taste, 100% all beef patty, garlic french loaf and special sauce. So now that he’s turning 39, we’re celebrating by dressing him up with some special new taste combinations. And between February 19 and March 29, (39 days) we'll be having daily draws for free Mikeburger Meals. MAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG GUY! THE MIKEBURGER’S 39!!! BE SURE TO DROP BY AND SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TO THE BIG Guy. “So then all you're really doing is mop- ping up the support you know is there and then, using the time, more. effectively to reach those undecideds and bring them on side.” Maunting 40 recall campaigns will be ex- pensive, Falcon confirmed, but said dona- lions and contributions towards the campaigus are already coming in. Cook said it’s likely the Northwest Coali- lion of Dissatisfied Citizens, “ which originally formed to slage last fall’s rally and channel right-wing support behind a single candidate in the next election, would tun the recall drive here if total recall does gel off the ground. He said the recall organization will in- clude business people, professionals, mill workers and people belonging to both the Libera] and Reform parties. “I's a bipartisan effort to get rid of this government, "he said. “That's really what i it is.” / Cook also; said the level, of desperation ‘among people in the province is consider- & ably higher now than a year ago when the ff original recall drives that came closest to § success were underway, “They know that we're in crisis and this # is war,”’ Cook said. ‘‘We have a govern- | ment that is grinding this province into the dirt financially and economically and the people cannot and wili not continue to take | that.’* **This is a revolt, it really is.’’ Cook said the effort is not some kind of hobby or pastime of politically interested people, but a necessity to preserve the pro- § vince. He noted the NDP will not be required to call an election until late in the spring of 2001. 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