end

TERRACE —. De ‘some
unexpected. problems, the access

road to the riew Shames Moun-
tain ski hill should be complete

by the end. of the ‘month; says’.
the Highways: department Pro- ,

ject-manager."

: “Barring monsoons, we
should be out of there by Oc-
tober 26,’’ Dave St. Thomas
predicted last. week. He. said
work was still underway on the
major. switchback on the route
but it would be ready to take
two way traffic by this
weekend,

That, however, will depend
on the weather, Pointing out the
switchback stretch had a clay
base which began to “‘flow’’ in
extremely wet conditions, he
said dry weather was needed to
continue work there,

' Also to be done yet is gravell-
ing of a 4km upper section of

the road which was expected to .

begin yesterday and take one
week to complete, That will
leave only clean-up to be done.

“Alt in all it’s gone quite
well,” St. Thomas said of the
project, although there had
been “‘a few surprises,’” One of
those had been the amount of
overburden sub-surface

material unusable for road con-|

struction — that had to be strip-
ped. away, .Noting the amount

that had to be removed was 10.

times original expectations, he
said the overburden had been as
deep as 9m in spots.

Another problem had been
the amount of rock blasting re-
quired. ‘Initially we figured 80

per cent of it (the route} would ~

be rock, but it turned into 95
per cent.” As a result, St.
Thomas said, crews effectively
ended up building 5km of solid
rack road to ministry standards.
. “And we've only been work-
ing a total of seven months,”’ he
pointed out. ‘'That’s quite ex-
ceptional.’'
Although final cost.; fi

will not bé available Gnut ihe

end of the ‘month, St.' Thomas
expected . they would show the
project was ‘‘close to being on
budget.” .

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Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 17, 1990 — Page Aa:

TERRACE — Negotiations
began: for the first time last
week between provincial
government negotiators and
Nisga’a native leaders over the
Nisga’a land claim to the Nass
valley,

Native affairs minister Jack
Weisgerber was in Greenville
Thursday for a ceremony, and
the signing of a commemorative
document marking the entry of
the province into the talks;

The historic day marked the
first time B.C, has entered
negotiations to settle a land
claim. The province has always
refused to recognize native land
claims, and has maintained the
federal government accepted

total responsibility for all.

outstanding issues when the
province entering confedera-

‘tion. -

Negotiations began to revise

"the framework agreement —

which was signed a year ago by
the Nisga’a and the federal
government and set ont a

* schedule for the negotiations.

Fhe changes would open the
Negotiations up to areas of pro-
vincial jurisdiction as well, since
talks to date have been limited

. to areas of federal jurisdiction.

Both Nisga’a and provincial
representatives said the first day

" of talks went well and both sides

‘agreed keeping the public in-
formed will be crucial. —

‘We all agreed that was im-
portant — to keep people in
Terrace and Prince Rupert and
elsewhere informed,’’ said Eric
Denhoff, the province's deputy
minister for native affairs and
chief negotiator in the talks.

**The general public seems to
be saying to the government
that it supports the idea of
resolving claims, but I don’t
think that means they want us
to just go off and do it and let
them know how it went,”
Denhoff said. “Anytime you're

involved ‘with ‘issues that are
« fundamental ° to “pedple’s: ex-

istence — like land or resources
— the people want to know
what’s going on and how it

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might affect them.” a
In particular, he added, away.

must be found to involve’ third‘ : :

Parties — from_logging com

panies to sportfishing groups —!

that might be affected by a set-':
tlement. “That’s an issue that’ i
has to be resolved,’ He said,’

“The province, and ‘the Nisga’ a:
too, have made commitments ©

previously that we want to have.

third-parties involved in a,

meaningful way.’’

But Nisga'a Tribal Council
executive director Rod Robin-

son said last week it’s time to -
admit that third parties won't

be at the bargaining table:
“You might as well face up to
it,’? he ‘said. ‘‘They. are
represented by the province.”

He. said that-‘doesn’t mean
outside interests will be ignored, :

“Their . concerns’ have . never
been far from our minds,’”
Robinson said. ‘‘How about the

‘people living in the Nass valley?

Are we going to kick them out?
Of course we're not going to
kick them out. They will be pro-
tected.”

He said the Nispa’a want to
hast aséries of public forums to
answer questions about the land

claim negotiations to help |

reduce public anxiety. “We will

. give them every opportunity to |
‘ask us questions. And we will

demonstrate that their interests
won’t be affected,” he added.
“T wish someone would have
had these concerns when our
lands were arbitrarily taken
away from us.’

Both sides predict tough
negotiations, ‘These guys are
very mature, seasoned, ex-
perienced negotiators,’’
Denhoff said of Nisga’a
leaders. ‘‘But we're not going to
give away the farm.’’

“It’s not the end of the ball
game, in fact, it’s just the begin-
ning. And it’s going to be hard

ball,” Robinson said. “But as !
long as there is a spirit of good- «

will, I think we can conclude
this within a reasonable length
of time.’’

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