Adrian Van de Mosselaer “Seeking election -TERRACE — There will be at - least one new name. on the ‘ballot sheet when local residents -go to the polls Nov..17. Adrian Van de Mosselaer confirmed last week he intends to seek one of the six, three-year aldermanic terms. a > Explaining why he had decid- “led ‘to; put his name forward, “Nan*..de:'‘Mosselaer said he — “Wanted to be ‘ta voice for the - people who want to be heard.” - While there were many local "residents who. wanted to have “someinput into .council .deci- ~ sons, there were those who felt ‘they did not have a way of com- - ‘maunicating their personal views ‘at the:moment. ‘Il want to be the: person that does that for - them,” he added. -Van-de Mosselaer said he would be running on that broad , - platform rather than any single _dssue,: “I’m not going in there On: any. issue that’s current to- day, “passe in six months and_J “still have two and a half years ° left in the term,” he explained: Although this will be his first tilt: at- local politics, he said he was - currently, involved in the community through his position as director of community ser- . vices for the recently formed Terrace- Skeena Valley Rotary Chub.. - Van de Mosselaer has lived in ‘. Terrace since June, 1989 and he and wife Deborah became first- time parents seven weeks.ago with. the birth of:son Adrian ‘Jr. ‘He. is‘ officer-in-charge at the ‘Environment Canada weather office at the Terrace-Kitimat airport. f -PORK SIDE. SPARERIBS 1.49. SMOULDERING ISSUE. The lighting of slash fires within sight of the Terrace-Kitimat airport last week reignited the debate on burning in the area, However, the forest service say they called a halt to burn- ing as soon as the wind direction changed and sent smoke and ash drifting over the runway. TERRACE — Slash burning tracted workers are slowly burn- hazard occurs when you burn Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 10, 1990 ~ Page AB: Stikine regional district has repeated its call for a complete ban on slash burning i in the im- mediate vicinity of the Terrace- Kitimat airport and a temporary. moratorium on all such burning pending a provincial review of the practice. In its submission to the Forest Resources Commission, the district suggests the landing pro- ‘cedure at the airport is“‘one of: the longest and probably most complex in Canada,’ Noting it is one. of several bodies lobbying for installation of equipment to make it easier, the district says until that takes place it does not want to see “further encumbrances to air safety,” Recalling the Skylink crash of September, 1989, the district points out that at the time of the crash was “shrouded” with a combination of fog and smoke from a slash fire set the previous evening, While conceding the Aviation Safety Board later determined Wind shift leads to hazy runways — north of town sent a plume of ' smoke over the airport Thurs- day and sparked renewed calls for a halt to the practice. The. smoke came from the prescribed burning of logging debris on a 15-hectare cutblock . less than two kilometres southwest of the airport, said forest service spokesman Kazimir Kopec. Airport workers said the smoke drifted across the main runway, and ash fell on the tarmac, . Kopec blaried a shift in the winds for the smoke at the air- port. He said the change in wind direction and the approach of a low pressure system prompted forestry workers to halt the burn Friday and wait for more favourable conditions” this” Pitta week. He said the large-scale method of broadcast burning isn’t being used. Instead, con- ing off the slash, at a rate of a little more than a hectare per day. “We're keeping the smoke down to a minimum, and we're keeping in pretty good touch with the airport manager and the weather office,’? he said. “We don't want to screw anyone up this year,’’ Kopec said slash burning is necessary to keep. accumula- tions of logging debris from for- ming a fire hazard. ‘‘If we didn’t burn now, under optimal conditions, we'd have a fire hazard there over the summer,” he explained. ‘‘And if somebody did light it, then we'd have a real problem.’’ Regional district director Bob Ccoper, who also owns a local ' logging company,’ rejected ‘that *’ rationale, insisting slash burn- ing is unnecessary. ‘‘That’s all crap,”’ he said. ‘‘The fire and end up having escapements. There’s more hazard to burning - it, than there is in leaving it.” He noted that some local companies, including Skeena Cellulose, have apparently halted the use of slash burning. “It’s only forestry that burns now,” he added, A Trans-Provincial Airlines pilot said slash burning can make navigation . difficult for pilots even when the fires are far from airports, Doug Knezacek said intense smoke from fires in the Meziadin-Bowser Lake area about a month ago nearly fore- ed him to turn around during one flight. Because of the ‘mountainous terrain in the nor- thwest, he said, smoke.can come - bine’ wilh’ poor weather condi- tions to create a hazard — even in mid-flight. He said slash smoke doesn’t ‘ The Movie Dea! of the Century! —/ *& ONLY ‘Thawed for your HURRY! convenience ’ Get yours while -$3.28/kg. cba. supplies last ~ — WE HONOR ALL COMPETITORS COU 2fowmerc . HERITAGE as 1.29... {. ™ Iced 7" | 39 9. Bob Cooper _usually cause crashes, represents one more hazard for pilots to contend with. “It’s not a pleasant experience flying and navigating in this stuff." but B.C. HOT HOUSE TOMATOES x.D. outlines | urn concern | TERRACE — The Kitimat- smoke was not a “contributary: factor in the crash,-the docu-: ment goes on to say, “the fact _ that smoke created by slashbur- ning is another complicating. * element in an already complex landing procedure has not gone unnotiéed,'’ Pointing out the airport ‘ad visory committee had joined in. the call for a no-burning’ zone around the the airport, the: district concedes the Forests ministry had offered to ‘‘incor- ‘porate these concerns within, “new smoke management plans’”. it is in the process of drawing up. ning in general, the district em- phasizes it is not calling for the practice to be outlawed but only: suspended’ until a “‘thoraugh review’’ is carried out. Outlining the need for such a re-examination of- prescribed burning, the district says there have been ‘many cases where | burning has not improved long term: productivity of the land, *‘controlled’’ burns have in the Past got away into nearby timber stands, the danger of wildfires. is ‘‘overstated’’ and ‘bureaucratic intransigence has. meant alternatives to slash bur- ning have been considered only with reluctance.” Other concerns include ‘adverse effects on the soil, the Telease of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — thus con- tributing the ‘greenhouse ef- fect’? —- and the lack of ade-: quate monitoring to establish the effectiveness of precribed burning. The district, however, ends its assault on a positive note, poin- ‘ ting out Forests ministry staff are beginning to respond to its concerns by attending regional district meetings and offering a ‘tour of burned and to-be- burned cut blocks. 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