A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 1994 News In Brief NWCC fills regional post DOUG BAKER will be the hew central region director for Northwest Community Col- lege, Currently working at Kwant- len College, he replaces Gary Morrison, who is leaving NWCC to become industry liaison coordinator at BCIT. - Baker assumes duties Feb, 1 and will be responsible for op- eration of the Terrace campus and the administration of pro- grams in Lhe Nass ‘Valicy. He has a Masters in educa- tion from the University of British Columbia and has begun doctoral studies in ad- vanced education with an em- phasis on college-employer partnership and training. City tries grant again IF AT FIRST you don’! succeed... That’s the way the city’s handling rejection of its ap- plication for provincial money to cover part of the cost of drilling a water well. It had asked for $1.18 mil- lion, half the estimated cost of the project. Engineering director Stew Christensen said only sewer system projects had received govemment money in "93. However, the city had been invited to teapply this year anc had done so. Given it took until November last year to hear the grant had been timed down, he could hot predict when word would come from Victoria on the t new application, Eurocan charged EUROCAN PULP and Paper has been charged with pollut- ing a creek bar pulp inte ‘Consérvaiion™ officers “inves= tigated the escape of landfill leachate into the waters of nearby Beaver Creek a year aga. Eurocan was charged Jan. 5 under the Waste Management Act with two counts of failing to report non-compliance wilh their permit, and one count of introducing business waste into ihe environment. Fines can range up to $1 mil- lion for each count. The first court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 10 in Kitimat provincial court. Raw sewage spill charge THE VILLAGE of Hazelton has been charged spilling raw sewage into the Skeena River more than a year ago. The charges of introducing business waste into the en- vironment and failing to im- mediately report a spill stem from two incidents in Decem- ber. Power power oulages shut down a pump at the village sewage treatment plant and al- lowed a bypass to drain sewage directly into the river, Since the accident, an alarm sysic¢m has been installed to alert staff of any problems. Kuntz case on hold fighting the College of Physicians and Surgeons well into 1994, A Supreme Court judge ad- journed the judicial review of ihe College’s 1988 decision to remove the former northwest orthopaedic surgeon’s licence to practice. Dave Martin, a lawyer for the college, had placed an ap- plication before the court to exclude all the evidence Kuntz sought to introduce. The judge, however, put the onus on Kuniz’s lawyer lo prove why the evidence should be introduced. He granted the adjournment to allow Kuntz’s lawyer time to prepare an application {o that effect, No new date has been set for the review to resume, About 30 people showed up to watch, the court hearing. DR. DAVID KUNTZ will be MINING: Red Mountain test results excellent FIELD WORK at Lac Mineral’s Red Mountain project wrapped up last month, with total company expenditures on the property standing at $9.1 million for the year, That's belicved to be the largest amount spent on a Northwest mining project in 1993, John Pearson, investment rela- tions manager for Lac, said ex- ploration work at the gold proper-' ty high in the mountains near Stewart shows thete’s twice the amount of mineral the company expected a year ago. **We had a very successful field season, Now we’re making plans for our ’94 field season for ex- ploration work.”’ Last season crews completed 100,000 feet of surface drilling, and developed a 2,800-foot ex- ploration tunnel into the mountainside, Underground in that tunnel another 20,000 feet of drilling helped define the ore bady. Contract offer vote set SKEENA BROADCASTERS employees vote today on what the company is calling it’s final offer for a new contract. Strike action could be the next step if employees tum down the proposed deal. The package calls for wage in- creases totalling three per cent over three years, plus an improve- ment in the percentage of benefit premiums paid by the company, “It was a $7 million U.S. ($9.1 million Can.) program,’” Pearson said from his Toronto office. “We're estimating that we have greater than a 2-million ounct resource indicated there.’’ . The climbing ~ price of © gold makes the project look even more positive, he added, - “This is a high-grade deposit. - It’s got an average grade of 0.37, which is very mineable.”’ “We're estimating that we have greater than a 2- ntillion ounce resource.”’ PEARSON Lac employed 83 people last year at Red Mountain, about ‘60 on site, 23 at the Stewart office: A feasibility study on Red Mountain is scheduled to be com- plete by the summer, The study would choose the best options for The union, local 827 of the Na- tional Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET), represents 48 workers including on-air announcers, reporters, TV. switching staf, carlera operators and commercial writers at the northwest radio, television and cablevision outlet. Union spokesman John Craw- ford noled the concilliator has not yet booked out, and added that such things as access, transporta- tion, milling and mining. Among the decisions facing Lac is whether to build a huge tram- way to move ore out of the prop- erty and supplies and crew in. Because Red Mountain ‘can only be reached by helicopter, the company is examining the best way to provide a ground link. The steepness of the terrain means high avalanche risk and that virtually rules out building a toad, Pearson said, “yt would be very difficult to keep a road open, so a tramway would solve that problem.”’ Construction of the 2.3- ‘kilometre tramway is expected to cost millions of dollars. When it comes to milling ore, options include building a cyanide-leach mill on site (cither above or below ground), shipping. ore to a new mill in the valley bottom or to an existing mill for custom-processing, probably at the Westmin mill near Stewart. for today talks could continue even if the latest offer is rejected. Members voted 87 per cent in November to authorize strike ac- tion. 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Tewill cost more than $70 million, but it will pay off as a means of doing more with less Le The KDRE will control the temperatures of releases by drawing water from ‘the surface and from deep in the reservoir, either from one source at a time or simultaneously from both sources depending on the time of year. “summer, it will allow. flows at temperatures controlled for the needs of salmon to be released into the Nechako River. In the In the upper Nechako Canyon immediately downstream from the KDRF, the river will run: again for the-first time since Alcan began ils operations. The - _ Canyon now contains sand. and debris that havg accumulated over the years; it “willbe carefully flushed and a channel will! be built through Cheslatta Fan to - prevent siltation: in lower stretches of the Nechako River. The existing Skins Lake Spillway would no longer be used except tinder _ extreme {lood ‘conditions -- the kind of flooding that-would not happen more than once every 200 years on average. 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