Page 0, The Heraid, Friday, September 28, 1979 FISHERIES, FORESTRY Problems on QCI anticipated October is the official beginning of the ralny season on the Queen Charloote Islands, but already Department of Fisheries dficera are gritting their teeth in awful anticipation of what might happen to a salmon stream in a narrow almost treeless, valley near Rennell Sound on the weat coast of Graham Island. While putting forward a confident front, provincial Ministry of Forest officials and forest = industry representatives are likely also waiting with bated breath, hoping that recent stabilization measures ‘undertaken on the logged- over slopes above Riley Creek will be effective in Preventing the slides which could cripple stream production, The drama now being played out in federal fisheries and provincial forest ministries stems from a conflict over a timber autting permit operated byQ C Timber Ltd, a conflict which resulted in the arrest of 16 loggers last March. The charges, laid under the Fisheries Act, indicted loggers for endangering fish habitat. The Ministry of Forests reacted strongly, demanding froof for the claims and the federal Fisherles Depart- ment backed down, ac- cepting an end to logging qperation on anly a small portion of the controversial cutting permit Kip Slater, District Supervisor of Fisheries for the Queen Charlotte Islands, gays they are now watching the situation ‘‘very carefully.” Although he ig hoping, without much faith, that slides won't occur, he says if it does happen, at least his department will have the satisfaction of a smug ‘we-told-you-so.' “If it rains heavily enough,” Slater+says, “a large part of the slope is going to come down into Riley Creek, and then were going to have a real mess,’’ Slater refera toa report by Doug Swanston, a geologist with the U.S. Forest Service, prepared at the request of dicated that the logging had greatly increased the likellhood of mass movement cf the soil, that slides would likely reach Riley Creek on the vailey floor, and that the slides could contaln material of a size potentially detrimental to fish spawning grounds, the duatice Department decided the evidence wag not con- dusive enough to proceed with the charges, Slater points out, however, that experts, ike Swanston, deal in high degrees of possibility rather than certainties. Stating that detrimental impact is highly possible is about es far aa Swanston’s professional integrity will let him stray, Sater says. The Fisheries supervisor has a telling analogy for his argunient. Hesays it's likea doctor being asked to predict the effect of a revolver being fired at a man from a distance of thirty yards, “Even given the muzze velocity and the pistol calibre, the doctor is not ing to be able to ac- qurately predict whether the man will die, or how long it will take to die, "Slater says, “But one thing lk: for sure; it's not going to do him any gpod uF Slater says the incident last spring proves beyond doubt that there is no preventative mechanism readily available‘in the Fisheries Act. Instead, Fisheries officers must wait for an offense to take place before laying charges. By then, Slater says, it may be too late. The only avenue now open to Fisheries in future fishing and logging controversies Hea in convincing Fisheries Minister James McGrath of potential danger, and opping, logging operations with a federal order-in- council, But the inevitable uproar over jurisdiction makes this last report un- platable to federal and provincial goveraments, as well as large forest it duatrials. Meanwhile, the Forest Service |s placing its faith in anumber of measures aimed revegetation, and to con- struct barriers at the creek “We are reasonably onfindent that the in- structions given the com- pany will go a long way to stabilizing the ata Prine Rupe gional Manager Jack. Blickert . sald ina — statement at the ime, “Tm very optimistic that we can achieve and maintain micceseful multiple resource we through careful: timber harvesting procedures, "he Peter Pfister, a spokesman for QC-Timber's erations on the Queen Charlottes, and oné of those arrested last March, said Wednesday from Vancouver that the aite-specific measure imposed by the Forest Service were nearing completion. Pfister said he could see no reason why the Forestry measures shouldn't prevent ‘major slope failures, but added that he had not been involved in designing the program. He noted that there were likely other precautions which could . haye been taken, but declined to specify what these measures might be. His personal opinion, he. said, was that the sloped would have held up even.if by now work ¥ been un- dertaken to improve’ éability. . Pfister confirmed that it is likely the measures un- -dertaken at the instruction of the Forest Service will cost Timber very little, He said that the Forest Service is now considering allowing the cost of the slope stabilization program under Section 88 -of the new Forestry legislation. The legislation allove for breaks in stumpage chargea for pollution control equipment and processes, Queen Charlotte City resident Jim Hart is not convinced that the Forest | Service had done enough to prevent sedimentation and alides, Hart is the former Fisheries Officer responsible for most of the arrests last spring. When the charges were dropped, and the logging recommenced, Hart both figuratively and literally went fishing. “Following the Riley Creek incident, I. couldn't say in the -same position,”"Hart said from Queen Charlotte City this marnlng.- . “He refers to the Forestry Department's measures as “nothing short of tokenism,”' and sliggesta that at beat it Talght ‘increage soll stability - 25 per cent, “If they wasnt ‘to call that minimizing the possible effects, well,,." Hart lauds tough. en- vironmental laws established by the U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency in Alaska, laws that restrict logging in aby areas in‘ which sedimentation levels could be increased even as much as five to ten per cent, . Referring to logging company promises to upgrade logging roads and plant trees as “reherrings,’’ and the Rennell Sound measures as ‘a waste of time and money,’’Hart predicts there could be a 50 per cent los of the pink - salmon production In Riley Creek : Hart saya the con- frontation over Cutting | Permit144 could be "just the start of the flasco,"” He says there are three other watersheds with even steeper lJopes yet to be logged But future confrontations. will continue to be difficult, he says, unless there ia support from within the Department ’ “How can you enforce a law when somebody at the next level might say “Alright, we agree thia Is the law, but we're afraid we can’t let you do it that way.’ LAKELSE (zal) PHARMACY Gerry Martin ‘TERRACE DRUGS YOUR TERRACE PHARMACISTS | At Dubeav * - CIff Proceviat Al Fabbl Bill Turner ‘Kathy Kuzyk Bill Wall | Larry Krause Ingrid Wipfil Bob Otsu Flaberias.which wae then-:at promoting alope stability. - considesing,.. pusaning charges against the com- Fany. Swanston was asked to determine the stability of the slope at Cutting Permit 144, and, after site-examinations, his 19-page report was sent to Pacific Region Fisheries Director Wally Johnson and the federal Justice Depart- ment. Although the report in- 7am .the ; logged-over; cutting. permit. The measures, recommended in a recent report prepared by Prince Rupert Forest Regional staff members, form part of the bargain struck by Fisheries in March. In August, letter from the Forest Service toQC Timber Instructed the company to carry out cross-ditching, yt t seen in coal By GARRY FAIRBAIRN CALGARY (CP) — While environmentalists protest plana to expand nuclear power, a greater ecological hazard may be building, a California scientist warns, In a paper sent to the recent World Petroleum Congreas, Marvin Gold- berger of the California Institute of Technology expressed fears about plans to generate electricity from burning coal and synthetic liquid fuels. That, he said, could well lead to the "greenhouse effect," in which increased carbon dioxide in the at- mosphere prevents re- radiation of solar heat and raises global temperatures. “We are playing with major global effects which cannot be ignored, are poorly underatood and may not be easily reveraible.’" Burning fossil fuels, he said, ‘could produce profound climate changes! such as melting part of the polar ice caps, The changes might not be harmful, or thelr effecta might be bal- anced by other factors, but no one knows for sure, Although the congress in Romania focussed on petroleum problems, Goldberger and other authors and speakers frequently asserted that petroleum supply problems demand development of nuclear power, “A major commitment to an increasing use of nuclear power is necessary,'' Goldberger said in a speech read to the congress In hia absence, ; * We must accelerate con- struction of the safe, ef- ficient, clean, ilght-water nuclear reactor power stations that we have shown we can build. “Nuclear energy muat contribute substantially to our needs, otherwise the burden on our other fuels will be too great.” The controversiai accident at Three Mile Island, he said, “will in the long run have a healthy effect by giving us guidelines for improving our safeguards,’* Noting forecasts that nuclear power could supply 44 per cent of all energy by 2000, up from 4.8 per cent now, Goldberger said it is not necessary to use breeder reactors ta meet that goal. Such reactors, produce more plutonium fuel than they burn, are not economically: feasible and raise the danger of proliferation of weapons- grade nuclear material, he said, “ ; “The breeder is our in- surance policy for future electric power needs. The risks of a plutonium economy are so great we shouldn't cash in that policy untill we need it.” Vice-president John Roorda of Shell Oi) Co. said environmental and other resistance to nuclear power has had its effect, but with oll supply-price trends nuclear e which . power could remain the . lowest cost source of cen- trally-generated eled- tricity.’ In the 1930s, he sald, - huclear power would be a significant source of ad- dltlonal energy. David Sterntight of Atlantic Richfield Co, predicted that the nuclear contribution will be felt even earlier, providing the equivalent of four million barrels of oil a day for the United States In 1985, And Robert Belgrave of British Petroleum Co. 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