; PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, August 15, 1977 {the herald) Published by ’ Sterling Publishers Ltd. Terrace - 635-6357 . Kitimat - 632-6207: Circulation - 635-2877 PUBLISHER... GORDON W. HAMILTON MANAGING EDITOR... ALLAN KRASNICK KITIMAT... CHRIS HUYGENS | CIRCULATION MANAGER... JACK JEANNEAU Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201, Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. : . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sale copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Baan bermitted without the written permission of the r. ‘ ' Private sec ) X ee: y Concerned public wants © answers “So you've come to give us a hard time about our burner,’ said Wayne Webber, manager MacGillis and Gibbs Co. Ltd. The Herald writer had not come to give anyone a hard time, He felt he didn’t know enough to form ; an opinion as yet on the wood wastes burner the company wants to put in. He had come to get more facts. The only information the pa time, was from a municipal council meeting a few days before. ' Another M & G man said he had been angered by had, at that the Herald's first story on the burner. The only | thing contained in the first story was an account of . what local politicians had said at the last council meeting. How can you fault a paper for that? The first part of the Thursday afternoon in- terview in the company offices continued on that tack. It took awhile for the reporter to get the facts he was after. . However M & G has been under stress. Webber said .he’s been having a tough year. M & G wanted to log part of the Seven Sisters Mountains near Cedarvale last year. But the citizens of that area pressured the forest service into letting them set up an advisory committee. _ The result was that the go-ahead from the forest service. was held up for a long time. Also the company can now only take logs from 800acres. They were hoping tocut1200acres. . Environmental groups in six. communities are still trying to halt the logging entirely. «© ~~ Perhaps M & G should give up on a property as controversial. as the Seven Sisters, and go somewhere else? Is there somewhere else to go? So in a way it's easy to understand why the company is so uptight. They would rather not get into a similar fight with citizens here. In fact they would be delighted if the issue of their burner got no" publicity at all, so they could go on with their business unmolested. ; - But M & G is missing the point when they take this attitude. Their old burner caused a lot of trouble for residents. John and Marie Chapman recall the awful smell that came from the company’s burner By BARBARA WALLACE MLA, COWICHAN-MALAHAT While discussion on the estimates for the Minister of Labour has not made any greatheadlines, there hasbeen. - very valuable debate. . ; The Minister has come in for some strong criticism because of his government’s lack of ability to cope with unemployment, particularly among young people. I ra the situation in the Cowichan Valley and quoted from the report -done by Canada Manpower which showed nearly 65 percent of workers under 25 as unemployed. The government is relying almost entirely on the private sector to provide those jobs. But the private sector is not finding them. - _ It seems to me that, ih such times of recession, the public sector must step in and fake up the slack. There _ are many meaningful jobs which would do much to shore up the economy and at the same time provide facilities or . improvements that would add to our.quality of life and 4 ‘provide for future generations. Some of the things that come to mind’ are reforestation to build up our ‘diminishing first resource industrial base. -' Environmental projects could be undertaken such as ‘ clean up of estuaries and harbours. Alternative garbage and sewage disposal plants would recycle our 4, 4 HY: Wf iA Opposition Comment waste and by-products and become pilot projects for future endeavours. Development of potential industrial .sites would open the doors to private industry and give an incentive to them to come into an area. Development costs could be recoverable over a long term period. Workers’ Compensation Board came in for extensive discussion. I raised the point of excessive concentrations of sulphur dioxide and of hydrogen sulphate at Crofton Pulp Mill and forwarded a copy of results of the companies own tests to the Minister. He has promised to review this with the Workers’ Compensation Board. Another point I raised was inspection of fish boats. The conflict between federal and provincial inspectors has not been resolved. This is obvious when one realizes that of 7,000 B.C. fishing boats, only 700 of those exceeds 15 tona and thence ard subject to inspection. That means 6,200 fish boats are sailing without insepction. The Minister has promised to review this. _. - [also raised the question of women in the work force and ‘suggested that it is a half-witted way to run a province to use only half our brain power. There is no evidence to suggest that intelligence and potential skills are not as readily a available in women as in men, yet potential captains of industry are pounding ters, potential scientists are waiting on tables and potential doctors are carrying bed pans. 1 suggested that one of _ the causes was that management always discusses equal at Richard Nixon right this minute!” French-language editorials ' bringing tor not creating jobs _ rights for women. in terms of added cost, Instead it loss industry is - should be approached from the point of view of potential experiencing by not making full tilization of the women in their employ. The Minister suggested his Apprentice Program was heading in that direction. The fallow: show that. . TRADE APPRENTICESHIP Auto body repair Bricklaying Carpentry indvetrial Electrical Ironworker _ Joinery (bench Lineman Machinist Millwright Plumbing Refrigeration Sheet Metal Steel Fabrication g statistics from Manpower don't f MALE..FEMALE 387 § eoocoocooovTcseoo You're not doing too well, Mr. Minister. Those are pans.”" the high paid trades and women are still “carrying the bed Report from Ottawa | On pipelines and railways. An inquiry commission, modelled along the same lines as Justice Thomas Berger's has recommended to federal government that a natural gas pipeline not be built across the Yukon for at least four years. As many of you know, experts have been studying and working on ways to transport gas from the Canadian and U.S. Northwest Aretic regions southwards for some time. There were _ three competing pipeline groups: Canadian P Artic Bas Consortium proposed bringing the gas along the . Mackenzie River Valley south to the United States; El Paso Company of Texas proposed an all - U.S. gas Mi ‘pipeline from “Prudhoe to Valdez in Southern Alaska, then south to the U.S, West Coast by tanker; the third group, the Alaska Highway pipeline consorium proposed Alaskan gas to the lower 48 states by a pipeline across Alaska, the Yukon and Western Canada. Later; according to this same proposal, Canadian cwisetease: Bourassa on comeback trail? — failed to remove the dirt. Their windows would get dirty. Their roof would be covered in fly ash and the gutter would get plugged up. Isn’tit natural for residents to be worried about a new burner going in? Instead of taking a huffy attitude about the whole thing, M & G should be making an effort to show how the new burner will be different than the old one, They should also be telling everyone about how their burner compares with Pohle’s and Little, Haugland and Kerr’s ‘smokeless burner’’. Residents also wouldn’t mind knowing just how much fly ash would be coming from the burner. Would a little smoke and fly ash do anyone any Gone are the days when companies are unac- countable for their actions. The sooner M & G accepts this, the better for \ them HERMAN wes i 1077 Unbrariol Press Syndicate "ithe guy at table 7 said you ought to have been , a saddle-maker.” During the six years he was in- power Quebec City, Robert Bourassa as premier projected the image of a man consumed by the demon of politics... When Bourassa elegantly packed his bags after his defeat Nov. 15, all those who knew him well found it hard to believe that this still young, atill ambitious politician had truly opted for the anonymity of the business world, legal practice or university . circles. The reports gathered by our one to believe, opponent. colleague Dominique Clift leads in fact, Bourassa has in no way renounced a political career which was begun with brilliance and -was abruptly checked six months ago following a defeat whese breadth surprised . everyone ‘including his Pequiste At present," he is polishing his guns to participate in the campaign against the ‘referendum, armed with conclusions inspired by his assiduous associations with diE-- - ferent organizations in charge of applying the agreements of the European Common Market. Perhaps he himself will be in a position to propose himself another veins of ey in the hope of is. party as ex a mission as the one that has inspired the Parti Quebecois since 1970. Theoretically, this manoeuvre seems even more. ‘crafty since there are already signs of fatigue ina public tired of being confronted with two contradictory theses, one that : to preserve’ By GUY LACOMBE Ottawa Le Droit _ Whe federal government has decided not to accede to the demand of the In- dians and Inult of the Northwest Territories seeking territorial govern- ments to ensure the survival of thelr cultural identity. This request by the Brotherhood of Indians and Inuit must not, however, surprise anyone. The natural resources of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon have, in effect, incited a fairly algnificant white immigration to these regions,..and the natlve people belleve that the ime has come for them to take their destiny into thelr own hands. ‘In refusing to grant legislative authority and governmental jurisdiction which would be founded solely on race, the federal government nonetheless recognized the necessity of extending further the study of this question, and the prime minister named Bud Drury as special agent to study in depth the consHtutional development of the North- west Territories. The native peoples did OTTAWA FAILS. Indians are. fighting Identity — not greet this news with much en- recommendations were aver-ridden the recent federal decision. For 110 years, the federal government and the development of French language and.culture could be assured, Thus the Indiang of the Northwest Tarritorles and the Inuit are well justified in having Tf the solution which they propose is really unacceptable, It is legitimate to expect the goverament which rejects it to find another solution as effective. A constitution which would allow one or several peoples to be destroyed or an- _-|~ Neutron bomb _ prompts unity by Winding up a week of has been unable to find an equitable . ie accommodation by which the survival ecgatived Latent against . farmers, students, scientists and government officials ‘have accused Carter. of : violating the most basic resorted to decisive means to keep an : ‘identity which is justifiably precious to | human right of all-the right them and which is threatened on all on sides. This charge has recurred almost daily in hundreds of protest notes and speeches carried by the news media The similarity of their tone and content has nihilated to the advantage of a certain prompted speculation political unity should be replaced among Western diplomats without hesitation. ; . that the invective way have been centrally co-ordinated Levesque. formula is liable hesitant who. comprise an im- portant body of voters. . In practice, though, it is doubtful that this move can succeed. The rue cause of Bourassa’s defeat rests much less, to our thinking, with the errors he have have committed as ‘party and ad- ministration leader than with the confusion of his option, preached by Trudeau, the other by Any compromise to rally the to offset Carter's criticisms on the way dissidents are treated in Eastern Europe. Certainly the protestors have taken their cue from Moscow, which has laun- ehed an ‘unprecidented propaganda assault on the mb in recent weeks, Communist sources. said the weapon was a major talking point when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhney ‘ {individually received East European. government heads at his Crimea resort this summer. oo At first the protests .took the form mainly of groups signing petitions and lengthy newspaper articles ring th . throughout Eastern Europe. , comparing the bomb - which kills people with high radiation bursts rather than by crude blast and causes comparatively little harm to property - to the most motorious machines of earlier wars. Report I. natural fas could be brought south through the. same ipeline by an additional ink-up line from the Mackenzie Delta. to the Alaska Highway. So, all three proposals . have beencarefully studied; such factors as environmental risk, Indian land claims, Canadian and U.S, energy needs, social disruption and of course, costs were ed, Justice Thomas Berg considered these factors and recommended a 10 year moratorium on construction of the Mackenzie River Valley line; and now a commission headed by Kenneth Lysyk of -the University of British Columbia has recommended a four year waiting and study period before construction of the Alaska Highway Route. — Parliament has now completed its special debate on this important issue, and it is now the responsibility of the federal Cabinet to weigh all the options and choose what we feel is the right course of action for our country. Ican assure you that I and all of my Cabinet colleagues are giving this matter our most serious consideration. ou would like more information on the Arctic Gas question, please do not hestitate to get in touch with me. Write to me care of House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, KiA 0X2, (No postage is required). : HALL COMMISSION Justice Emmett Hall, chosen by the - federal government to study - western Canadian grain and rail transportation, released areportwith |. recommendations. this spring. The Hall Commission ‘feel, —_is comprehensive and contains excellent observations and recommendations. Otto Lang, Minister of Transport will be giving close scrutiny to these proposals over the coming months and it is my feeling that. he will make every effort to implement many of them, | Some indeed, he has already pu into effect. A number of the Hall Report recommendations are‘of importance to us in northwestern B.C, The most obvious of these ig inee oposal: that the Prince. upert Grain Elevator be upgraded ‘-a matter I have already been actively pursuing with my Cabinet earlier colleagues, Another proposer of importance to us is the recommendation that & major rail line be built through northern Alberta to the Mackenzie corridor. Procedure with this project would add an_. extra dimension to the ‘Western Canada rail grid, and - greatly increase the potential traffic along our northern rail line. It.is not a project which is likely to go ahead4n the very near. future, but it is an important idea, and I will keep you advised on any: further developments related to if.