4 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 20, 1986

Forest ministry

continued from page 1

Out of this staggering
total, 145,000 hectares
lie within the Prince
Rupert Forest Region.

The report goes on to.

say, however, that only
26,000 hectares in the
region represent good
quality growing sites,
and it concludes by
estimating that these
areas could be replanted
for an estimated $25
million, regenerating
commercial growth of fir
in 60 years and spruce in
110 years. The report
also points out that
replanting in poor quali-
ty growing sites is not
only more costly in terms
of initial planting and
long-term tending but
also requires up to three
times longer to produce
commercially significant
timber.

A position paper
issued in June 1986 by a
local group, the Public
Involvement Committee
for Forest Management
in the Terrace Area, call-
ed for the creation of
about 375. silvicultural
jobs over a period of five
years to attack the
backlog of fallow logged
and burned-off lands in
the Prince Rupert Forest
Region. The committee
projected an overall in-
creased yield of 15 per-
cent as a consequence of
the intensive program,
resulting in 120 perma-
nent direct jobs for Ter-
race in sawmilling and
logging during the
1990’s. Funding required
to put the proposals into
the real world would be
nearly double the Forest
Resource Development
Agreement allocation of
$17 million over five
years, a sum which the
paper dismisses as
“‘markedly’’ insuffi-
cient.

Jack Kempf, although
not rejecting the value of
reports and information,
stated assertively,
‘We've had sufficient
reports and commis-
sions. It’s time to act.”

In appointing his first
cabinet, Premier Vander
Zalm also made changes
in the bureaucratic struc-
ture by dissolving
Kempf’s previous minis-
try of Lands, Parks and
Housing. The three
elements of the ministry
were scattered out and
reattached to other ex-
isting portfolios, reduc-
ing the number of posi-
tions in the cabinet from
20 to 19. Housing has
been incorporated with
Social Services, formerly
the Ministry of Human
Resources. Parks will
now be administered by
Environment, and Lands
has been combined with
Forests. Kempf describ-
ed the placement of
lands and forests into a
single jurisdiction as ‘‘a
fantastic marriage that
makes a lot of sense’’.

‘He predicted that there

will be a degree of confu-
sion during the restruc-
turing of function and
authority, but he added,
‘our ongoing objective
will be to ensure that
everyone presently work-
ing in Lands, Parks and
Housing retains their
jobs.”

In addition to the
challenges represented
by reforestation and the
proposed U.S. counter-
vailing duty, Kempf will
also look after con-
straints imposed on the
sale of crown land in his
home riding by the
Gitksan-Wet'suwet’an
Tribal Council. Kempf
stated that he will not
have a direct involve-
ment in the negotiations
between the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of
America and the Forest
Industrial Relations,
leaving intervention to
the Minister of Labor,
but he did say that he has
been in contact with
IWA head Jack Munroe
to extend an offer of
assistance and consulta-
tion.

In late July of this year
the Gitksan-Wet’su-
wet'an Tribal Council
was granted a certificate
of lis pendens by a deci-
sion of the B.C. Supreme
Court, a ruling which
serves notice to buyers of
government land within
the 54,000-hectare
Gitksan comprehensive
land claim that further
court actions could call
title transfers into ques-
tion. Kempf said that the
government will launch
an appeal of the decision
and that, in the mean
time, it's ‘“‘business as
usual’’, and the ministry
will continue its program
of offering crown lands
in the area for sale.

Kempf said that he
will be coming to the
northwest in the near
future, but he was
unable to specify a date.

Premier Vander
Zalm’s cabinet appoint-
ments are, in alpha-
betical order:

@® Tony Brummett,
MLA North Peace -
Education

e@ Hugh Curtis, MLA
Saanich and the Islands -
Provincial Secretary

@ Jack Davis, MLA
North Vancouver-Sey-
mour - Energy, Mines
and Petroleum Re-
sources

@ Alex Fraser, MLA
Cariboo - Transporta-
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Surrey - Municipal Af-
fairs and Transit

Northwest government group ~
prepares to meet Premier _.

TERRACE — A newly-

formed subgroup of the
North Central Municipal
Association, including a
delegate from Terrace,
met recentiy in Prince
Rupert to explore the
possibility of creating a
stronger lobbying force
for northwestern re-
gional and municipal
governments. During the
course of the meeting,
participants established
an agenda of concerns
which will be forwarded
to senior governments
for consideration.

by Michael Kelly

Terrace alderman Bob
Jackman attended the
meeting, and he in-
dicated a consensus that
the group could be
“quite valuable’ in ex-
erting more influence on

behalf of the northwest

on several fronts.
Jackman identified areas
of majority concern as
being emergency air

@ Jack Kempf, MLA
Omineca - Forests and
Lands

@e Grace McCarthy,
MLA Vancouver-Little
Mountain - Deputy
Premier, and Economic
Development

e@ Pat McGeer, MLA
Vancouver-Point Grey -
International Trade

@ Jim Nielsen, MLA
Richmond - Health

e Austin Pelton - En-
vironment

® Bill Reid, MLA Sur-
rey - Tourism

@ Claude Richmond,
MLA Kamloops - Social
Services and Housing

@ Terry Segarty, MLA
Kootenay - Labour

e Brian Smith, MLA
Oak Bay-Gordon Head -
Attorney General

@ Bill Vander Zalm -
Premier, and Finance

@ Elwood Veitch - Con-
sumer and Corporate
Affairs

medical services at night,
a regional shortage of
health care profes-
sionals, access for the
disabled on B.C: Ferries
vessels, the liability in-
surance crisis, protracted
delays in the delivery: of
Expo legacy grants to the
northwest, and, as num-
ber one priority, the
situation of uncertainty
surrounding native land
claims.

Jackman said that the

night meédivac question

involving a section of the
Air Regulations requir-
ing twin-engine heli-
copters for emergency
flights after dark comes
down to a determination.
of where responsibility
lies for supplying the
equipment to comply
with the regulations. In
respect to municipal
liability insurance,
Jackman said that the
problem of unreasonably
high rates and court set-
tlements will have to be
solved by either provin-
cial legislation or an in-
surance pooling arrange-
ment among municipali-
ties operating outside the
insurance industry estab-
lishment. The Union of
B.C. Municipalities, he
added, has engaged a
research group from
Reed-Stenhouse In-
surance to examine the
options.
The ongoing shortage
of health care profes-
sionals such as physio-
therapists, audiologists
and speech pathologists
was attributed to three
primary conditions of

| living in the north. The

compensation, Jackman
said, is about equal to

that in the urban centres, :

and while some in-
dividuals are attracted by
the northern lifestyle,
many -prefer_ the
metropolitan areas.
Finally, he said, the op-
portunities for profes-
sional development are

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almost entirely concen-
trated in the centres of
high population. These
factors, he said, act as
deterrents to adequate
health care in the north
and governments have
an obligation to rectify
the situation.

The group decided
that the position paper
on native land claims
released last year by the
Northern Development
Council should be cir-
culated to municipal
governments in B.C. The
paper was published in
October 1985, and it pro-
poses a one-time per
capita based cash and
land settlement to native
bands in B.C. with the
stipulation that all
aboriginal title claims be
extinguished. The paper
generated controversy at
the time, but Jackman
attributed the problems
to the fact that it was
released before the
member municipalities
and regional! districts in
the Northern Develop-
ment Council had an op-
portunity to endorse it.
Although the NDC pro-

prove to be a departure
point for progressive
negotiations. —.
Jackman indicated
that the group’s next
meeting will be sched-
uled to coincide with
Premier Vander Zalm’s
tour of the northwest.
Jackman stated that
regional fact-finding
visits were part of
Vander Zalm’s campaign
platform at the leader-
ship convention, and the
Premier himself recently
announced that he will
begin traveling to the
various regions of B.C.
within the next week.
The Prince Rupert
meeting was attended by
representatives from the
Skeena-Queen Charlotte
Regional District, the
Regional District of
Kitimat-Stikine, the
Bulkley-Nechako Re-
gional District, and the
municipalities of Masset,
Prince Rupert, Port Ed-
ward, Stewart, Kitimat,
Smithers and Terrace.

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