The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 19, 200) - Al3. | Natural ae songs se Housing [2b ais } . 147 fer | | yet | _ ag 7 gas rate . complex | 2004619 Pak Ae } to break | iorimecoan- spe ams to drop MORE -RELIEF for homeowners paying high natural gas prices will arrive on Oct.1, a. Pacific Northern Gas will drop its = =. gas commodity charges by 15 per * cent next month, according to docu- - ments filed with the B.C. Utilities ground CONSTRUCTION of a 22- unit seniors supportive housing complex next to Terraceview Lodge is to begin Oct. 1, says B.C. Housing’s chief executive officer. Shane Ramsay said the oc On bw — Oo www. safeway.com a’---Commission. - 5 +a} . —| —} —— " on ro “That should translate into a dro July ‘Blan ‘89}Oct San Od Jul GO'Oer OO" Jan "Feb" uy “oct | contract 10 Build the pre | TERRACE TERRACE . . P ject has been awarded to & gD of about 10 per cent in a typical re- Dueck Construction of sidential bill, or annual savings of $180 per year. Based on average annual use of 132 gigajoules, the commission esti- mates the average home's gas costs Wi Residential HJ Commercial www,terraceautomall.com Lanceville on Vancouver Island. Dueck was the low bid- der at $2.325 million. Total project costs are estimated continued unravelling of the 42 per cent increase in gas charges that quarterly in an attempt to quickly moderate charges if high gas costs will drop from $1,807 per year to ease, took effect in the winter, at $2.76 million, Ramsa “on, ain $1,627. Part of the cost reduction is the The increases had been approved gai, y TERRACE TERRACE Small business users should also elimination of a rate rider placed on this spring by the commission over There were a total of PAI CHRYSLER, | TOYOTA] notice a drop of about 10 per cent in PNG rates in February as a catch-up objections that the prices were caus- five bidders. terrace.automall @telus.net: gas bills starting in October, amounting to savings of $614 per year for the average user of 460 gigajoules per year, © Measure to recoup money for gas consumed last year when gas costs were high. . Most bills came down about three ing norihwesterners to abandon gas for other methods of heating. But PNG and the commission said then it appeared natural gas Wayne Watson Con- struction was the only local bidder for the work. "We're glad to see il The Terrace Standard TAN D ARD advertising @terracestandard.com The commission has directed uti- lities to review gas commodity costs per cent in July. The October decrease marks a costs were peaking and wauld begin to come down. Interfor lays off loggers here Multiple woes cited for long shutdown By JEFF NAGEL UP TO 100 contract log- gers for Interfor have been told they won't work any more this year. Most of Bear Creek Contracling’s Terrace- based ‘workforce — about 80 to 100 people at peak operations — have been laid off, Interfor area man- ager Peter Schasf said. ' “We are down for the rest of the year,” he said, adding all logging and road-building halted Sept. 3. “Hopefully we will re- start sometime in the spring.” : Interfor has also laid off _ about a third of its own staff. . Scharf said, two direct employees and up to 10 contracted consultants and field workers have been let fo. : An unprecedented num- ber of factors are stacked against the viability of the northwest forest industry - Tight now, he said. _ Softwood lumber tariffs imposed by the U.S., re- cord low lumber and pulp prices, the regulatory bur- den, the lack of stumpage reform and land-use uncer- tainty are all hammering the company, he said. “It’s worse than ‘98, it’s worse than the early ‘80s by far,” Scharf said. “It’s looking to be a cold winter.” , “ Interfor was one of the companies hardegt hit early this year when the province, aboriginal and National Leader Ron Gray New Brunswick's Referendum on VLTs Shows How Poils Can Be Manipulated by Massive Ad Campaigns A dramatic example of the futility of referenda as a means of deciding poll on video lottery terminals. — Voters there narrowly approved retaining VLTs - sometimes called ‘the crack cocaine of the gambling industry’ - after a massive advertising campaign by the gambling industry threatened them with “increased taxes if VLTs are outlawed,” What the voters apparently didn’t understand (because it was not in the gambling industry’s interest to inform them) ts that: (a) money taken out of the economy by gambling IS a hidden tax; (b) to get the amount of money that goes to hospitals from gambling, that ‘tax’ has to be much more than twice as large as a direct tax would be to pay for those services ; (c) a large part of the money that the economy loses to gambling goes out of the province and out of the country, to foreign operators of the industry (and some major gambling -businesses are alleged to have Mafia -connections); “ (d) the social cost in ruined lives, ‘broken homes, and bankruptcies that -can be directly attributed to .-» [;gambling must be borne by all al taxpayers is much more costly, both social policy was New Brunswick’s _ CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY GF CHRETIEN ” Suite 200 Heritage Place, 155 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON KIP6LI — Ph (819)669-0673 Fax (819)669-6498 Email: edchp@netcom.ca Website: www.chp.ca This Communiqué may be copied. New Brunswick’s Referendum on VLTs Shows How Polls Can Be Manipulated _ by Massive Ad Campaigns role in the Nazis rise to power. . wrongbequeathed to our culture by _- its Christian origins are the only PARTI DE L’HERITAGE in money and in human terms, than simply paying the tax bill for medical, educational and sports facilities. Quebec is still reeling from the news that 31 suicides last year were directly attributable to casino gambling and yet the provincial government there is pouring $200 million of taxpayers’ money into the expansion of the Hull casino! Do you know who's really addicted to gambling? Our governments! They’re so hooked on having.a source of revenue that doesn't LOOK like taxes (even though the money really comes out of taxpayers’ pockets-and impoverishes the economy), that even deaths can't persuade them to kick the habit! In cases like this, where a moral issue is at stake, referenda which can so easily be distorted by massive media campaigns are probably the WORST possible way of deciding. There was a good reason why Germany, which had citizen-initiated referenda in the Weimar Republic from 1919, scrapped the idea: they had seen how demagogues can inflame public opinion and manipulate the outcome, and referenda had played a significant On some issues, the long- established principles of right and reliable guide to-public policy. environmental groups un- veiled the beginnings of a land-use plan for the coast expected to dramatically reduce logging there. _ “We want some resolu- tion, some certainty,” Scharf said. “Where we can operate, where we can’t. Where the parks are going to be, where the working forests are going to be.” “We're in limbo. There’s too much uncer- tainty out there right now.” On top of it all, he said, the provincial government is poised to raise stumpage rates by about 20 per cent on Oct. 1. “On all our fronts we're reeling,” Scharf said. The combination of fac- tors are hitting Interfor company-wide, Scharf noted. ~Interfor...has..closed a- major sawmill.in southern B.C, and has permanently closed its Bella Coola oe- perations. reach this point,” Ramsay said. “Construction is ex- pected to commence Oct. 1.” Your website/email address Contact us at 638-7283 could be here! 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