TERRACE — B.C, Hydro
has begun a program to
replace old mercury vapour
Streetlights with ones that
don’t burn as much energy.

High-pressure sodium
lights give out the same
brilliance but use 25 to 65 per
cent less electricity, said
Hydro spokesman Margo
Gilchrist last week.

She said the replacement
program is but one of many
facets of the crown corpora-

‘ing to build more “hydro-
electric capacity.

The -program here: covers
streetlights in Thornhill and
in Terrace.

When completed, 736
street. lights will have been
replaced, said Gilchrist,

The mercury vapour lights
are either 450 or 300 watts
while their sodium

OLDER AND inefficient street lights are being replaced with
ones that don't burn as much energy. That's Bob Gray from
Twin River Power, the company doing the work for B.C.
Hydro, with one of the newer high pressure sodium models.

Lighten up

tion's efforts.to cut elecitici-
i]. ty use in order to avoid hav-

replacements are only 150
watts,

“In terms of power use in
the 1990s, mercury vapour is
just inefficient,’’ said
Gilchrist,

The street lights are leased
to local governments and
they pay a flat fee for the
electricity.

Gilchrist said the replace-
ment program doesn’t cover
what’s called ornamental
lighting. . .

Examples *“of’ thést “are''
lights are the ones on the
overpass or on Lanfear hill,

Twin River.Power Ltd. of
Terrace has the contract for
this year’s replacement pro-
gram. ;

Customers that own
streetlights or yard lights
receive a rebate for changing
over to high-pressure
sodium,

TERRACE — There's a new
commercial and residential
refrigeration company in the
area, :

Caledonia Refrigeration now

-has three employees and hopes

to hire a fourth, says company
representative Liane Schmidt.

“We feel there's a strong
need for sales and _ service,
especially -in’ the commercial
area,’’ she said.

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Renovation work continues
on the Bavarian Inn, extensively
damaged by fire last December.

Heli. Gerdei, one of its
owners, expects it to open a
neighbourhood pub in the
downstairs section first toward
the end of April. A licence for
that was received last
year, The top dining section
will open after that. ;

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There's going to be a reshuf-

fling: in- working space at the

highways ministry.

The. regional planning sec-
lion, now in the ministry's of-
fices on Kalum, and the project
section,:now in a building on
Keith, will move into space on

the. second: floor of the new

shonping cettre development
on Lazelle Ave. -

That ,arrangement makes it
difficult for both to coordinate
their activities, says highways
ministry spokesman Jane
Sparkes,

She expects the move to take
Place next month, = st

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' A Kamloops company which
started .as.a hobby now has a
$250,000 contract: to provide
fire tetardant ‘safety wear: to
BC. Hydro, Oe

Keon Sewing will supply
custom-designed workwear . for

Hydro crews for. the next two"

years, 25”

The company made a contact .

with B.C, Hydro at a provincial :
trade “show last year “and '{

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FERRACE — Engineers this
week are testing the effects of
nearly 22,000 cubic metres of

. gravel resting on land at: the
Ocelot Chemicals plant in
Kitimat.

The weight of the gravel is
equal to the weight of a large
tank and its contents the com-
pany wants to install as part of
the project to store a gasoline
additive from Edmonton prior
to it being shipped offshore,

Ocelot construction
superintendent Keith Vidalin
said the test is needed to see if
the ground will take the weight
of the tank.

‘It won't fail, it won't sink,
There’s no problem (with the
weight). This is part of the
engineering requirements,” he
said. _

The gasoline additive called

methyl tertiary. buty! ether -

(MTBE) will come from an Ed-
monton plant being built by
Petrocan and Finnish-staté
owned firm.

It'll replace lead as the octane
boost in gasoline and shipments

Fine mine meet
draws interest

TERRACE — There was a
good response to Terrace at a
recent mining show in Van-
couver, says the city's economic
development officer.

The city and other northern
municipalities sponsored a
hospitality room as part of the
promotion effort at the Cor-
dilleran (it means chain of
mountains) Roundup. Jan.
29-31,

. It.also had a booth at an ac-

"z companying’ trade , show, said -
economic development officer *:

Peter Monteith.

He collected 300 business
cards, gave out 35 cily supply
and service catalogues and
distributed 60 resource maps of
thé northwest produced by the
regional district.

“A lot of people said they
will be in the region this year.
We also had a chance to re-meet
people from last year,” said

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Gas work
underway

‘lines.

_ fabricating the 57m in diameter
‘by 20m high tank has been let to

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clothing was then approved by
B.C. Hydro.
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More pollution charges have
been laid against a B.C. pulp
mill.
The charges against Mac-
Millan Bloedel’s Port Alberni
mill stem from an investigation
following a Sept. 19, 1990 spill
of weak black liquor, _

The company is charged with
one count of failing to comply
with conditions of a waste
management permit, one count
of introducing waste into the

environment and one count of
failing to report the spill im-
mediately. :

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The level at which property
damage in motor vehicle ac-
cidents must be reported is now
$1,000.

That’s up from $400 because
of the rise in costs of vehicle
repairs, says the provincial
government.

ICBC data now suggests the
$400 figure no longer represents
significant damage. The $400
limit was introduced in 1981.

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to Kitimat by rail car on CN

Vidalin said the contract for

a Toronto firm. It'll be shipped
in sections to Kitiniai for
assembly.

He predicted work on that
will start in April with an early
fall completion date,

The Edmonton MTBE plant
is to be ready tate this year and
cost $350 million.

Also to be built at Ocelot are
expanded rail facilities and a
4km pipeline measuring 16 in-
ches.

The Ocelot work will cost $15
million and create 25 man years
of employment,

There'll be five or six jobs in
Kitimat resulting from the pro-
ject when finished and 10 more
in transportation. —

Ocelot has applied for ail
relevant povernment en-
vironmental approvals.

Monteith.

Those municipalities joining
witn Terrace in the hospitality
room were Smithers and Dease
Lake.

Monteith estimated the cost
of the hospitality room and
booth at the conference at
$3,000.

“There's a good return (on
_the money spent). We find out
who is exploring and other
aspects of the business,” said

Helping out with the cost of
the city’s booth were local
businesses.

Also at the conference were a
chamber of commerce official, -
the Kitimat-Stikine regional
district and local business
representatives,

This is the second year the ci-
ty has attended the roundup.

The city will also be
represented at another mining
conference in Vancouver this
month, a prospectors and
developers show in Toronto
next month, a mining con-
ference in Stewart in April and
at a resources trade show in
Smithers, also in April.

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“THE RIGHT SPIRIT...”

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but is greatly interested and concerned |”
~~ for the good of the community
to which he belongs and
for the true welfare of the society
~ Of which he is a member.”’

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;Board of School Trustees
choo! District No. 88 (Terrace).

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