PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, October 27, 1977

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: VANCOUVER (CP) — 4’
> Massive power project
: which would involve

; diverting Kootenay River

x water into the Columbia

« River appears to be “the

most economic (energy)
- a

, available in _ British
: Columbia,” aside from the
« McGregor diversion now
: being studied near Prince

Massive river div

George, says a B.C. Hydro
report released Tuesday.
st November Premier
Bill Bennett said he would
not permit construction of
the Kootenay diversion
unless the objections of
environmentalists and other
citizens could be satisfied.
The Hydro preliminary
assessment report states
that the diversion project is

Union to point
out inefficiency

VANCOUVER (CP)
:The Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE)
‘ voted Wednesday to
-establish worker com-
“mittees that will point out
‘management waste and
‘inefficiency and recom.
-mend alternative ways of
doing business,

The proposal to develop
“what one CUPE spokesman
described as “a shadow
-management,” was con-
; tained in a major economic
‘policy Statement endorsedtl
-by 1,150 delegates to
:CUPE’s national policy con-
“vention.

CUPE, the country’s
‘largest union with 231,000
‘members, will recommend
to other unions that similar
‘committees be set up in the

private sector for the

-automobile, steel, textile,
‘fishing and other industries.
CUPE said that in the
public sector, committees
‘will be established in the
‘fields of health care,
-municipal services and
education.
- The purpose of the com-
‘mittees will be to make
‘public information on
“waste, inefficiency and
poor quality of the product
‘produced or provided to the
‘public because decision-
making and power reside in
‘the hands of a few.

President.

acclaimed

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Grace Hartman was
unopposed Wednesday in
her bid for reelection as
president of the 291,-000-
member Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE).

Ms. Hartman, who was
first elected president in
1975, told delegates the
union has been through a
rough two years ‘‘and we
have had to fight govern-
ments at every level.”

“The fight goes on,’’ she
told cheering delegates to
CUPE’s national policy
convention.

Ms. Hartman, 58, is one of
the few women to head a
major Canadian union.

She has been active in
public service unions since
1954, when she joined the
staff of the Ontario
municipality of North York
as a secretary.

Since her election | as
president of CUPE, Ms,
Hartman has been out-
spoken against the federal
policy of wage and price
controls and has pushed
hard for programs that will
end pay discrimination on
the basis of sex.

Kealey Cummings was re-
elected national secretary
treasurer by acclamation.

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EMPHASIZES MAJORITY

CUPE president Grace
Hartman said her union will
take its policy to the
Canadian Labor Congress
(CLC) convention scheduled
for Quebec City next April.

“We know from past ex-
rience that it would be
‘oolhardy to depend on the
corporations and_ their
governments to develop an

a

strategy which would
strengthen the economy and
place the needs of working
people in the forefront,” the
policy statement said.

“A new industrial
strategy, which places the
emphasis on the real needs
of the majority of
Canadians, must come from
the labor movement.

Ms. Hartman said it is not
enough for the labor
movement to criticize
government policies.

“We have to get involved
ourselves, we have to start
running for office and
become part of the decision
making process.”

CORPORATIONS
BLAMED

Ms. Hartman said “even
if we don’t run for office, we
have to make sure that our
opinions continue to be
known to the publior +z

CUPE said the economy is
in ‘a ‘mess because roreigil
and domestic corporations,
“along with their govern-
ment institutions, continue
to make private investment
decisions which increase

rofits for the few and cause
inflation, unemployment
andinsecurity for the many.

“The Canadian Union of
Public Em loyees, will
icipate, along with other
Prtiliates of the CLC, in the
establishment of industrial
and public sector com-
mittees composed of
working people to begin the

an
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process of developing an -

a
program.”

Ms. Hartman said CUPE
executives will meet after
the convention to ‘decide
which areas we want to zero
in on” in the public sector.

lis members are em-
ployees of municipalities,
school boards, universities,

hydro plants and other
public bodies in ali 10
provinces.

“We as public employees
must face the fact that there
is waste and inefficiency in
the public sector,” the
policy staternent said.

“We are not responsible
for these problems but by
exposing their causes we
can lay the foundation for an
expanded public service and
stop the process of
privatization and cutbacks
which have been launched.

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expected to reduce the
temperature in Columbia
and Windermere lakes by
about seven to eight degrees
Celsius.

“This impact on the $60
million recreation and
tourism industry has not
been addressed in the
current studies,” it states.

“Furthermore, for long
periods of time the diversion

would reduce the flow i, the
Kootenay River to about its
minimum recorded level
and this effect on the
liution in the Kootenay
iver from the Skookum-
chuck pulp mill effluent, for
1984 conditions, has not yet
been answered.™ /(Crest-
wood Forest Products pul
mill at. Skookumchuc
discharges effluent into the

Northwest future
to be discussed

The 46th annual meeting of the Northwest Chamber
of Commerce and Alaskan affiliates will be held in -
Terrace this weekend with delegates from Queen
Charlotte Islands to Houston.

The two-day meeting will be highlighted by a panel
discussion following lunch on Saturday. Topic will be
“Future of the Northwest” and panel members will
include representatives from the De
Regional Economic Expansion (DREE), B.C.
Development Corporation and Canadian Cellulose.

Tickets for the luncheon are available from Rich
Green at 635-7291, or Ted Taylor at 635-7454.

rtment of

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Kootenay River). ;

DIVERSION POSSIBLE
Under the terms of the Co-
lumbia River Treaty,
Canada is allowed after
Sept. 1984 to divert up to 1.5
ion acre-feet of water
annually from the Kootenay
River to the Columbia river

‘in the vicinity of Canal

Flats.
The diverted water would

Divert Kootenay into Columbia

pass through Hydro’s Mica
and Revelstoke generating
stations on the Columbia to
produce power.

Accor to the report,
diversion of the full treaty
amount could aeity by

.C.'s energy capacity by
up to 670 million kilowatt
hours annually.

The U.S. would lose about
400 million kilowatt hours of

Floating dock
needed for load

VANCOUVER (CP) — 4
1447 MILLION FLOATING
DRY DOCK IS NEEDED
BY THE Port of Vancouver
if it is to offer full support
service to the large bulk
carriers calling here, David
Alsop, director of ad
ministrative and corporate
development for Burrarct
Dry Dock Ltd,  sait
Tuesday.

Marijuana helps glaucoma
but leads to court charge

GRAND FORKS, B.C.
(CP)— Jack Lee, 77, who
owns a 30(0-acre cattle ranch
near this community in
southeastern B.C., is facing

_ a charge of possession of

marijuana in provincial
court Nov. 8, but he insists
he has never smoked the
drug.

“T use it for medicinal
purposes,” he said Tuesday.
“My eyesight is failing
and I find poultice of
marijuana very beneficial.”

Lee said someone gave
him a seed last year, but he
didn’t realize it was
marijuana until he saw it

“growing higher and
higher.” 8

“I'd read it was good for

aucoma so I hung it up to

y in the woodshed, ed
the leaves off, minced them
up a bit and put the whole
batch into a quart sealer,”
he said.

“Then I cooked some up,
stewed it like tea, and put a
poultice on my eyes. It

“seemed to give me great

relief.””

Lee said last month the
RCMP found about eight
plants, some as high as six-
eet growing in his garden

‘Unfair labor charge

may be

VANCOUVER (CP)
The provincial government
Wednesday asked the
Supreme Court of British
Columbia to quash unfair
labor charges practices
filed against Educatior
Minister Pat McGeer and
other education department
officials.

In an application filed in
Vancouver today, the
overnment asked the
upreme Court to issue an
injunction forbidding the
. Labor Relations Board from
holding a hearing on union
allegations that McGeer and
others engaged in unfair
labor practices in the
dispute over Notre Dame
University of Nelson.

The complaint, under
section 5 of the B.C. Labor
Code, was filed by Local
1728 of the Association of
Commercial and Technical
Employees, formerly the
faculty association of the
university,

In addition to the in-
junction, the government
seeks a series of
declarations that the LRB
has no authority in the
matter, including a ruling
that the LRB does not have
jurisdiction to rule
‘whether comments by a
minister of the crown in the

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‘are coercive, intimidating

or constitute an unfair labor ©

practice”.

Legislation passed during
the recent session of the
legislature reduced Notre

Dame from a university foa |

university centre.

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and charged him with
“straight posession so the
law wouldn't be so tough on
me.

Lee said smoking the
marijuana doesn’t turn him
on because “I don’t and
can’t inhale.”

“Once I gave some to an
old fella and he smoked it
but he said it was no good.”

Lee’s case came to the
attention recently of
NORML, an organization
that has pushed for removal
of criminal and civil
penalties for possession and
cultivation of marijuana
when used for personal
consumption.

A NORML official said

‘ Lee could face a prison term

of up to seven years for
either cultivating of
possession of the drug.

-than 47.2 metres,

bill to $40 million.

Alsop , Bald! ns oat
company’s largest dry doc
can take only vessels of up
to 14,000 deadweight tons is
more than 50 years old and
has little more than five
years of useful life leit.

Speaking at a seminar on
western ports sponsored by
the North Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce and
other organizations, Alsop
said his company has
collaborated with the
federal. government to
develop a preliminary
design for a floating dry
dock capable of taking ships
up to 75,000 deadweight tons
and comfortably all ships of
the maximum size capable
of locking through the
Panama Canal.

The dock design calls for a
clear inside width of more
which
would allow the dry dock to
be extended in length at
some time in the future

Alsop said federal
assistance for a dry dock for
Vancouver is ed and is
justified. Without such
support no private concern
can consider building a
major dry dock to compete
a t subsidized facilities
elsewhere, he said.

Alsop said a floating dry
dock is needed because
shoreland cannot be spared
for a graving dock. Besides
the $20 million for a floatin
structure, he said an ad-
ditional $20 million will be
needed to provide cranes, a

jer and certain shore
acilities, bringing the total

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enerey annually at the
Libby Dam as a result of the
project, ;

e report, which is a
summary of findings oY
Hydro engineers and Ent
Environmental Consultants
of Vancouver, says potential
U.S. losses “could be about
660 feet, virtually equivalent
to the potential gain in B.C.

“Itis apparent that the $60
to $30 million expenditure
for the Kootenay diversion
project is being spent
merely to transfer the
generation location across
the border between the U.S.
and Canada.”

It says that if a water
licence is granted in 1990,
construction need not start
until Late 1981.

STUDY NEEDED

The report suggests that

detailed environmental] and

ersion cheapest energy alternative

studies should be carried out
sothat B.C. Hydro can apply
in 1979 for a water licence to
divert the river and con-
struct the project. -

The report says Hydro has
diacussed the Kootenay
diversion project with
levels of government and
local citizens’ groups.

The report alsosays that a
public hearing could be ex-
pected for a project r

e and complex” as
Kootenay diversion.

In its conclusions, the
report says there is not yet
icient data to justify
recommendations for a “go
or no-go decision,’’: but
“indications are that a
viable project can be con-
struc within economic
environmental and ‘soci
’ limits.” -

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