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Premier anneunces
"additional highway projects

~- Several highways projects

- . were announced by Premier
Bill Bennett yesterday as

short-term employment

opportunities as well
. meeting

some. of. the
problems of the- roads and

_ ~ needed* reworking. in the .
~ northwest area.

Tenders have been called
for. September 28-29 on two

- ). major. highway projects on.
_ ‘Highway 37, ‘the western

~ north-south provincial. high-

_ way,

“These projects will cost

$17 million and will employ

up to 150 workers for” two.
years. : .

- Forest industry - “ oy

There will be 25 miles of
construction and paving
south of Cassiar Junction
and 24 miles of construction

‘to . gravel - finish south - of
Nass River. The contract
will be called. for the last

project when preparation is

completed, said Bennett.

He said the south end ot
Highway 37 between Kit-
wanga and Kitwancool has
‘begun and employs 10 native
Indians who are working on
the right-of-way and are
clearing on a day labour
basis using their. own
equipment.

He -said seven miles of
paving on the access road
between . Kitimat and
Kitimaat Indian Village will

‘begin next week, following -
gravel preparation. The -
‘completion date will be in -

mid-October and this

project: will employ 12 .

workers, not including —
auxiliary workers.

“These and other projects.”

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are not only intended - to- -

improve transportation.
links but are also intended to

‘increase . employment. op-

portunities in the region,’
said Bennett.

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- Cabinet concerned |

- Premier Bill Bennett: has
promised: to look into
charges. made by Little,
‘Haugland and Kerr general

. Manager,. Walter Yeo, that

CanCel and Eurocan are

using up all the local sup-

plies of timber, leaving L. H.
& K. no choice but to shut
down.

Bennett said” he was not
aware .of the charges- but
that.:both. he: and Tom
Waterland, Minister of

- Forest Resources, would.
-. learn: more ‘about them
_ while they are. working in

Terrace:

‘He said.the government is
making. plans to remoye the
conflict of interest with
CanCel and the government.
He said the government and

the Forest Service should

not act as an. independent

: arbitrator between all the

‘forest companies and also
have directorship and
control in one of the forest
companies: because they

could -unfairly - allocate ;

timber. .
“Government © is ‘a

majority shareholder (of

CanCel) but we don't control
its direction,” he said.

The government has plans
to making the CanCel
‘directorates independent of

the Forestry Department,

he said, and it will be taking
the responsibility away

from the Forestry Minister ©
for the crown corporations .

that operate in the forestry.

area or with CanCel.
Bennett said the CanCel

expansion and  moder-

nization is a very “positive

move. ‘‘It’s the largest.
capital expansion that has
taken place in this province

Rail development.

.make Prince Rupert a
major economic

Terrace yesterday.
He said’ major economic
activity. in construction,

movement -and
sportation: will’ encourage

other economic. activity yet 7
: to be defined. -

~ He added it will also en-

: | courage" other people to
‘invest in, the northwest. ‘
‘The premier said he ¥

‘wasn’t - making any

oo predictions as to the future
‘size. of Prince Rupert. He ¥-
said when the Grand Trunk’

~ Railway first went in there

-were’ predictions of a

'. population of 50,000: people
ad later when the CNR. took
over. this prediction “was.
‘made again. —

““E'm= not making. any
predictions but (Prince
have ‘more
opportunity of realization
-now. with coal and unit

_ . trains “and: hopefully major
* grain facilities,’ he said. ——

Bennett said he was

= pleased the CNR is bringing

some stability to an “area

-that's © depended :. almost ,

totally on. forestry.” He

added’ . ‘he’ has hopes of
mining — activity in the:

area |
' because when you make it a
major port it becomes more
__ thana branch plant shipping
centre, as’ it is now,"
- Premier Bill Bennett said in

activity: in
tran-

‘an economic anchor

“There has to be a shift to

province but that such
development takes time.
Mining exploration tripled

in the early part of 1976, said ©

Bennett, and that will mean
more economic .. op-
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CanCel and employment in —

the northwest ‘for ‘many,

many years which couldn't |

be guaranteed’ in the old
obsolete facilities.”

‘He said Social Credit has
been

change over period.”
He said the. government
called in the company for its

appraisals of how it wouid -
“handle the labour situation, .
how much money it would.

put up to negotiate with the
unions and worked with the
federal Manpower and the
provincial Department of

‘Labour to find. ways in
. Placing some of the people.

“I'm confident that
Manpower, the company
and the unions can negotiate
because the government is,
prepared to help in any way
we can in making it as

painless as possible,’’ he .

said.

He added the future of L.
H. & K. hangs on the Pearse
report on the allocation of
‘timber, not CanCel.

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