AZ - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 26, 2991 From front New bids shut out ey Mercer had paid #. $1 13: milion refundable deposit. 5 ; “They raised the bar to ggebe z level that no business man in their right. mind could meet,” Weniez said. If the time required to =) 49. av Do [PNG rate changes 1998-2002 meet deadlines “is the 9 issue, Weniez said, the 9 9: matter should be put to the a judge for consideration. — ‘J gd —— Veniez said) NWBC’s ° * typical homeowner uses plan would invest a-tota) ” 4 af. od, 182 gipajouies per year. of $150 million into. Skee-— [ge | = Bo ey i 4 i i na Cellulose’s. operations. .- 6- _ , : Poon | lt would be chaired by. for- pe i : y 7 4 . j m! f T t George Peay” 7 chairman a Nialy Sagan 99 Oct ©2Jzn 00 Jul 00 Oct OGJan O1Feb O1July 01 Oct O1 Jan 02 “To be effectively. sum- marily dismissed in. this fashion by the minister re- sponsible for attracting bu- @ Residential EH Commercial siness to British Columbia is shocking to: me,”" Vée-~ niez said. oe “| can only guess that the government wants this off its plate-as fast as it can,” he said. “Because of that they're making a very serious mistake." NWEC would: pay a2 purchase price of -$15-mil- lion — a 50-per cent in- crease of its earlier offer'— but with a condition that Victoria use $5 million of thal to pay down SCI prop- erty taxes owed to Prince Rupert and Port Edward. Veniez said .Mercer’s offer in contrast wouldn't pay any back taxes, nor uny future taxes for three years. ae NWBC’s pledge last week led Prince Rupert of- ficials to also urge recan- sideration by Victoria. NWBC's bid aiso. in- cludes 4 provision for zero- interest start up financing for logging contractars and future profit-sharing with “~ employees. 8 One element of uncer-. tainty in the NWBC pro- - posal is a clause -thal would refund its deposit if: it cannot negotiate new deals with SCI’s unions by Jano 3-1: wees wry peel ie GTA me pennizie i Veniez said that’s ne- © 2] cessary 10 preserve ‘a. strong bargaining position in talks with the unions, . and in turn assuring finan- cial markets the company will be viable. Flasher sought TERRACE RCMP are looking for an adult male who has been exposing himself ta young people in and around the Davis Ave. and Park Ave. areas of the horseshoe. a ’ Police have three re- ports, the first on. Dec, 11 or Dec. 12 near E.T. Ken- ney school, on Dec. 20 near Park Ave, and on Dec. 19 on Davis: Ave. hear Sparks St. ’ The Dec. 19 incident took place al approximate- —. fy 6:15 p.m. when an adult: male approached a 13 year-old girl and dropped - his punts. He then put. ona hat and asked for a sexual favaur, police report. The mun was not known lo the girl who then ran away, police said, ‘ The man is described as being 173cm (5 feet, 8 Inches) tafl of heavy build. - He was wearing blue jeans, a dark blue down- filled winter coat, hada | hood over his face and.was wearing a loque or hat, possible red in calour. He was also wearing glasses. ; - Police are asking. par-. ents not to let. young. ~. people walk unescorted al. ° night. an Police have run the in- formation they have. ¢ through a sophisticated © _ computer data base to de-" s * Proud Sponsor Olympic Team. choose aig sOT - Shoes ak ees oe nyh 2002 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN | Natural gas rates still high despite new drop ANOTHER drop in natural Bas rates thal takes effect Jan, 1 still won’t return prices ta levels seen two or thie winters 420. The 12 per cent drop-in residential rates means the average home. owner will ‘Save up to $190° a year. The typical annual- biil “will now be $1,373. ‘I's the second decrease * “jn--Pacific” Northern” Gas” Jates in-recem months, fol-:- ~ Jowing an‘11 per cent dip - in October. ; Bundled rates. are to drop next month to $9.21] per gigajoule. oy Burt that’s still nearly 25 per cent more than the $7.371 per gigajoule pas. charged for the first six months of 2060. The B.C. Utilities Com- mission has approved new rates on an interim basis pending a public bearing here in’March.e 0 0°. The rate decrease is being. driven by .reduced commodity ‘costs of natural On that-basis alone the “eut would “have been” even. higher, trimming the aver- agé annual bili by. $250." ~ oo But. atthe, same“.time PNG has requested to raise - jis’ delivery charges, ef- fectively boosting the average bill by $87. The result is a net decrease of $163 for most customers. 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Part of the application - -is:to increase the-return. on” equity to shareholders fram ‘1010.10.63 percent. “Pacific “Northern Gas ‘also assumes Skeena Cel- lulose. won't: operate in 2002, eliminating.a major gas Customer.’ It-also predicts less gas. will be sold io homeow- ners because some. have switched to other heating sources. GRADUB Rebate Up te Hodes termine if this person’s - method of operation mate 05) ches those of known offen-.. © ders. , Lo At the same time, they... are yathering information... on each of the incidents to-* combine them into one ine). =, vestigation under one offi-° cer. a Those with information : ate asked to- call’ -the: RCMP at 638-7400 or Cri-. ER wy. 16 West, Terrace, B.C. “om. 4916 H RACE 635-7187 1-800-313-7187 mestoppers at 635-8477. www.terraceautomall.com pir. sos}. ” ee