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Crcuation ‘Supervisor News, Fishei. = Front Ctfica Mana en beet Ce won + * special thanks io all ‘our contributors,and thane and for an *. thelr time Aalents.” ; SOR Any time now the provincial govern- . ment, will release its plan for log exports ‘on the north coast. It'll take the form of a cabinet order-in-council, to replace one that runs out early next year, setting:out the rules and regulations for the sending © of whole logs overseas for processing. And just as in past times, the issué of log exports will once more. arise. Pro- ponents of the practice say it keeps 3 nor- thern.. people working and busiriesses operating. Opponents say it ‘is nothing as more than a wasteful export of a raw resource that should instead be process- ed in the province to create value and to create more employment. ‘ It's:a difficult problem given that the business of log export hinges not so ‘much on market demand. for the com- modity, but on government policy. What _ happens is that businesses set up to benefit from log exports. When govern- ments’ fiddle with those numbers, the businesses become vulnerable. Derailed | ‘Passenger rail service in the northwest could be: gone-next year if VIA Rail has its way. | The federal crown": ‘éokpatation “has ‘asked Ottawa for permission to cut ‘the ‘Skeena route, one of eight it considers - remote and isolated in the country, unless it gets a larger subsidy. Its reason is. simple — the route doesn’t return enough revenue to justify the costs. VIA Rail does have a point. It was ‘created in the 1970s to take over passenger rail service when CN and CP decided to get out of the business. Saddl- ed: with old equipment and high fees ‘charged by CN and CP to use their that governments simply. ‘can’t be - depended upon as a source of f permanent assurance on which to ‘base: business ‘healthy economy, particularly one in the In effect, the government creates a. trap for itself and a trap for those businesses. A government is praised for what is considered a sound policy and damned when those dependent-upon it suffer when it is changed. “If there is one lesson to be. learned it is decisions. But once again, expect a resurgence of demands to be allowed to export more ‘ : : me here... ha Sa hada SINCE. param... hte | given the shakey state of the wood-based economy. What will likely happen is a temporary solution that won't fix the long term problem. : And that long term problem is that a north, can no longer be dependent on the export of raw resources. All it does is create a false impression of economic progress and an inadequate foundation VICTORIA — The great un- ‘Eternal watch needed by us all for the years ahead. -washed have never been more powerful. Politicians want ' “their votes; consumer goods ‘manufacturers are after their dollars, and lobbyists and ac- -tivists vie for their hearts and From the Capital ‘by Hubert Beyer . Soe) minds. tracks, VIA Rail never had ¢ a “chance: But in spite of all that’ But VIA Rail is probably running the power, the public’seems to be wrong kind of service along the north. It -. at the mercy of special interest uses equipment perhaps better suited For: : 2eTeURSy often unable fs to: ; the more populated’ southern. routes:” aliingish between fact and And, the timing of the runs through the “right and worng. north from Prince Rupert to Prince — Told often enough that a George aren’t so much designed for certain product is essential to regional service as they are to hook up their sar esteem porte ead with VIA’s cross country run at Jasper. people are unabje to resist buy- Before things get out of hand, the ing it. federal government should tell VIA to —_The political left in this pro- look at equipment and scheduling alter- vince would have us believe ~ natives. Train service could be an attrac- that all Socreds ‘are heartless,.’- ; ; a fit-oriented capitalists wh tive transportation method given the Pao cn woking ecple right kind of attitude. ; look down on working people. | The Socreds, on the other hand, try to make us see the A runaway saga “Francis is the first thing in NDP as a godless bunch of . socialists, bent on destroying . any indiviuality. How many times do the en- vironmentalists have to repeat their doomsday message that the forest industry is destroy- ing our forest before we ‘Red Deer that’s caught the na- tion’s attention for some time,” says Red Deer's director of -commuunity. services, Through Bitocals é believe them? And at what point do we accept as truth statements, by forest industry officials that the environmen- 3 . Indeed. Since Francis, the | ~ talists don’t give a damn for ipig, escaped a Red Deer by Claudette Sandeckl . people and jobs. | . :Slaughterhouse in July by jump- = — In these, fierce battles for ing a fence, sneaking through Watch. Within days, pics. It must also wait for the. public support, more lies and ” half-truths are uttered than the ‘the sausage-making room and ‘pushing open the back door with his snout, he's gathered ‘more media coverage than Jim ‘Therrien. Over the past few days, Fran- ‘cis. was talked about on three CBC. Morningsides, on two ‘CBC Sunday Mornings. (with ‘Nancy White and a comic troup - ‘singing a song about him). Last week The Province tan three ‘updates on his saga. In Edmonton, twenty-three Grade 3 and 4 students blitzed -Red Deer Mayor Bob McGhee with letters begging for a stay of execution for Francis, And it worked. . Following the hog’ § * capture Nov. 30 by Al Marshall, a big game guide who now owns him, Francis is to become a feature attraction at a Red Deer city - park once he’s re-domesticated. : During an interview Saturday on’;CBC’s The’ Radio.:Show, Marshall told: how he managed to. ‘throw a net: over the boar four hours aftér “darting” him in the ham. Then Marshall beg- ged | ike an evangelist for dona- tlons to pay for: swill and pigpen $0: li _ Must: score-a perfect :10 in. the: Government Funding Obes vegetarian and pork-lovers alike will contribute thousands of doliars for Francis’ care, Teenage runaways should be so well cared for. Instead teen runaways are left to look our for themselves. B.C.’s much-iouted Reconnect Program did little beyond tally our runaways — about 25. of them, aged 13 to 18, Terrace doesn’t even have an emergency bed for runaways. We expect these kids to sur- vive as best they can spending nights in apartment block stairwells, huddling around a campfire, or bunking with a. - compassionate pal. They borrow clean clothes: from friends, choose new duds | at the Salvation Army, or visit-- home only long enough to pick: up fresh garb or wash a load of laundry. Some __ attend ‘on the international map — free if it had a whole lot more in,” . store for its teen runaways, school next fiscal year, which begins . April 1991, Imagine, if we could converge | governments’ scattergun fun- ™ ding into a laser beam focused: on our homeless kids, we could rescue them from the cold. We could make Terrace runaway-free. That .would encourage : publicity of the magnitude. ‘- Alkali Lake Reserve garnered: when they. stamped” out. alcoholism. Yet publicity: Was : only a by-product. Their aim: was a healthier community, Terrace, too, could put: ‘itself = "are we? For the tmembers of a b which had been plans to log the sland. ae oy average person can examine, We, are, indeed, ‘of all sorts of adversaries. Or watershed ‘ on Vancouver . at the mercy — answer read the last sentence. © . A couple of weeks aga, 1 beat up on the Western - Canada Wilderness Committee _ and the Sierra Club for playing cheap politics. The two en-: vironmental groups had been roadly-based community advisory body formed to give _dinput, into Fletcher Challenge’s Walbran Syn When the advisory commit- tee was ready to report, the ed out,: picked up their marbles ‘-and went home, so to speak. The reasons they gave were not very convincing. And speaking of unconvinc- ng, a speech I came across the other day, fell into that. category as well. The- speaker was Ray Smith, president and ‘chief executive officer of Mac- Millan Bloedel. The venue: a meeting of the Vancouver Rotary Club. Smith did his best to con- _ wince the audience that although there were some nice _ individuals in the environmen- tal movement, as a species they were dangerous. He accused environmen: talists of appealing to people's : emotions while doing a pretty . good job of that himself... . - When he was through with his audience, I'm sure that more than one person was convinged that the consequences, ‘unintended’ as they may be, of listening to the : - environmentalists was tanta- “emount to closing down the en- tire forest industry.” ; Just like the strident. en-. _ ; vironmentalists, Smith spoke : in absolutes. Clearcuts, he ad- » Mitted looked messy, but ban- ning clearcuts, he hinted would somehow lead toa complete — ban on logging. ’ And lest he be.accused of - 7 exaggerating, Smith said that 3 “under other guises,”* some ~ people were proposing a ban , on logging. One of thase:: : guises; he said, was a move by the environmentalist movement : to put a stop to logging in old growth... an WE Smith went on to explain. ssince 97 per cent of all logging on the west coast was! See2T ToD, You sporadically; others have ‘re | nouriced school, home, : and family, Unskilled, maybe. ‘il literate, they face*.a-. bleak future. : Now Terrace’s fatnily courts and youth justice committee N 3 4 VL ( ve GoT A. MIND LIKE. A T7tnar's For suré. tt rs oN ' SNEAKY, DANGEROUS AND }! ofp FASHIONED: ee / : in old-growth areas, a ban on logging old-growth | was a- ban ‘two environmental | groups ‘pull- ‘ort logging per se,” Po at Talk about emotional . arguments: talk about ‘half- truths; talk about misinforma- ? tion, “unintended"’ or " deliberate, The majority of mainstream environmentalists : do rot advocate a wholesale ban on logging old growth. They do advocate a moratorium in ecologically: sensitive old-growth areas ‘such . &s watersheds. They also want: the government to produce a‘ detailed inventory of old--. growth forests. Nothing wrong with that either. . Smith also took aim at_ Sweden or rather those who — keep dragging Sweden and its. forestry methods into our . debates. Selective logging, he said, may be possible in some / areas of the province, “but: | ‘just like in Sweden — despite what you have heard or read .: in.the media, they clearcut: by -law — we do not see any ma- . jor alternative." - Well, I don't know about ; Sweden, but while doing some research into. forestry practices ‘in Germany a couple, of years: ‘back, I came across ‘some | " rather interesting things. : * -“Inimost of the laender or . ‘provinces, ‘they do, indeed, | ‘clearcut by law, but the max-° - imum-area allowed to élear- cut is. 1.3 hectares, To. the pro- - wince: T was.in, the figure ‘even smaller — 0.3 hectare: ~ So rauch for Smith an - contribution to the fores i - debate. How do we distinguish - between fact-and fiction, tiuth -and fies? propaganda and?) “news? ‘Vigilance, eternal © vigilance. That's the only thing that keeps the purveyors of lies ‘ and half-truths at bay.