"green paper" on’ a new Environmental Review Process to replace the obviously inadequate MPRP system, and we'd hate to Have to go, through that. *Because if we don't get Approval In’ Principle now it may not be possible for the company to proceed. "We are not attempting to put a gun to your head..." _ Under the MPRP, Approval in Principle (AIP) is not the ultimate step: that comes with the final granting of the various ministry permits and licences. In Orenda’s words: "If the granting of AIP meant that the relevant permitting agencies were obligated to issue the necessary permits, more in-depth study would be required before granting AIP... nowhere in the MPRP guidelines does it state that permits will be issued after AIP is granted.” But you can bet your bippy that if AIP were granted today, Orenda would be turning sod tomorrow, and it would take a civil servant with a serious lemming complex to derail the project. A major defect in Orenda’s Meziadin proposal was its "air quality" work at the proposed site. The MPRP report on Meziadin concluded that "further studies to assess the impacts of air emissions on ambient air quality at the Kwinageese site would have been required”, and on the basis of that and other deficiencies, B.C. Environment was prepared to recommend Stage 2 proceedings if the application had proceeded further. Orenda reckoned that for an adequate site study of the airborne transport and dispersion of pollutants, "a study lasting one full year would be required; it has been suggested to us that two full years of data might be needed." Which leaves some questions: ¢How many years of studies on the airborne trans- port and dispersion of pollutants has Orenda con- ducted at their proposed new site at Lakelse? «How many such studies did the MPRP commission to verify the company’s air-quality claims? *And what are the odds that — once given Approval in Principle — the permitting process could pose any impediment or constraint on the project? The likeliest answers are zero, zip, and zilch. John How Lakelse Lake HERE’S TO YOU, TEACH To the Editor; During Education Week we, the parents of the E.T. Kenney Primary School students, would like to thank all members of the school staff and show our appreciation for their dedication and hard work all year in educating our children. Thanks for a job well done! The parents of E.T. Kenney Primary School students ‘Terrace Review — February 28, 1992 Looking Back... ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK... After a closed door meeting, city aldermen told the board of the Terrace Public Library they would have no objections to a fall referendum on the library expansion. Conditions attached to the city’s position were that the library board obtain 50 percent of the estimated $1 million cost through fund raising or a _ provincial grant, and that the regional district agree to share the capital cost ... School District 88 passed a resolution making school buildings, grounds and vehicles, as well as all district owned buildings, non- smoking zones as of September 1991... The correc- tions branch’s bid to relocate the regional correction centre to the Kirkaldy Subdivision in Thornhill was defeated. Regional district board members voted down the proposal after hearing from delegations for and against the facility being located in the residen- tial area. It was the second time the corrections branch had been blocked in its efforts to build a replacement for its outdated and overcrowded Ter- race facility. | TWO YEARS AGO THIS WEEE... Some of the items in the city’s annual budget included $50,000 to the Terrace Healt.: Care Society towards the purchase of a CT scanner, $50,000 commitment to the 1991 Northern B.C. Winter Games and $79,000 for recreation. The budget also included a 6.7 percent hike in residential taxes and increases in water, sewer and commercial garbage collection rates ... A building at the city’s Public Works complex on Graham Avenue collapsed, trap- ping one of the city’s salt trucks. THREE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK... The city announced plans to hire two new staff members in the near future. A Tourism and Eco- nomic Development Officer would be added to the payroll in order to implement and maintain an effective tourism and economic development strategy and a City Planner to evaluate the city’s infrastruc- ture, complete an updated community plan and update and administer existing subdivision and zoning by-laws ... The Terrace Health Care Society expressed concern over the safety of the Highway 16 and Tetrault Street intersection. FOUR YEARS AGO THIS WEEK... After four months of deliberation city council agreed to spend just over $10,800 on a car for the use of city staff to eliminate the private vehicle allow- ances paid each month ... The Terrace, Thornhill and Kitimat fire departments announced a joint fund- raising effort with the object of building a Fire Safety House.