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Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 10, 1991

City wants Orenda site within its boundaries |

Danny Sheridan

Pulp

TERRACE — The city wants to collect taxes from Orenda Forest Products’ planned pulp and paper mill by including the

Talsira during a meeting Oren- da had with Kitimat and Ter- race municipal councils at Mount Layton Hotsprings last

ahead, ie “we'd be “foolis :

not because.,there” are-- ‘many

things we need in ‘terms of:in- -

operation in its boundaries, Tuesday, the day before the frastructure. If. the. provincial

public announcement. government does not agree wit sore et toreapprevel went The city could include Oren- the boundary request, we'll be: P=, oS out July 3, the day Orenda da by either running aboundary asking for some: kind of new HANDCRA — publicly announced it wanted to line down Hwy37 and envelop- revenue sharing arrangement ” FTED — Paid’ che mill 8km south of ing the site in what is known as (from the mill),"’ said Sheridan. | “FROM 32%: Lakelse Lake, city ad- the umbilical cord method or by A municipal affairs ministry’ “FULL LE AD .. ministrator’ Bob Hallsor said circling the location by what’s. official last week said that .

called the satellite method. boundary extension “applica- ‘AUSTRI AN CRYSTAL

last week.

That area now falls within the jurisdiction of the Kitimat- Stikine regional diftrict.

News of the city’s plan came from Terrace mayor Jack

process different

Talstra is on vacation and is unavailable for comment, but alderman Danny Sheridan said the proposal makes sense given the services the city might have to provide should the mill go

from other mill types

TERRACE — Well, no. It’s not actually a pulp mill — at least not like the ones commonly seen in B.C.

What Orenda Forest Pro- ducts wants to build is a chemi- pressurized groundwood (CPGW) mill.

Unlike traditional pulp mills which use chemicals and a cook- ing process to dissolve wood, Orenda’s planned CPGW mill. will grind wood between large ceramic-coated rollers.

The result, says Orenda, is no liquid effluent discharge. It will use hydrogen peroxide instead of chlorine used in other mills as

the brightening agent to make

magazine-quality paper.

Clay will be used as a coating in the paper making portion of the mill.

The no-effluent discharge design extends to what Orenda terms a closed loop system. Waste water will be . boiled, turned into steam and recycled.

But there will be air emissions from a wood waste-fired boiler that'll be‘ used to ‘turn the waste

water ints ‘stein’ “Tie wasté will - be“mixed with ‘the “sliidgé left ~

from the. steam-to-water-recycl- ing method. Consultants for Orenda who

Company chooses

prepared air emission studies for the Meziadin location first selected by the company say

there won't be a significant |

odour from. stack emissions because sulphur isn’t used as is the case in traditional pulp mills.

Those same consultants said studies indicated there are methods available to ensure that what comes out of the stacks should fall within accepted guidelines.

These studies were criticized by the Nisga’a Tribal Council which claims the area around Meziadin.

It said Orenda did not pro- vide clear figures on the volumes or concentrations of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen ox- ide and other chemicals that would be discharged into the air.

The Nisga’a added they were worried about the potential for acid rain.

The process Orenda wants to use was developed in Finland by

a company called Tampella.-‘-"-

‘An added ‘benefit to grinding

and not cooking is a vastly in-.

creased recovery rate — tagged at 96 per cent — compared to

port at Rupert

TERRACE — Orenda Forest Products is talking with the Port of Prince Rupert about us- ing the latter’s facilities to ship its paper.

Orenda wants to send ap- proximately half of it by sea to California, increasing the amount to 100 per cent of its production after several years.

Although the provincial government wants to build port facilities at Kitimat, company vice president Frank Foster said Orenda is making plans on what is available right now.

“You can’t build a mill ona

from Al

Mill timing

“We have interested parties and they continue to express an interest but how long they will remain is questionable if there are further delays,’’ Foster add- ed...

One of ‘the companies that did back out was Tampelia, the Finnish .firm from which Oren- da will-buy pulp and paper mak-

phantom port,”’ said Foster.

“At this point we're dealing with what’s out there to be utilized and what's available to us and there are public facilities in Prince Rupert,’’ he said,

Foster added that Orenda would assess Kitimat facilities when they are in place.

Prince Rupert spokesman Joe Stranan said it would have no trouble handling Orenda’s cargo.

“We've got the facility they need and we're working on planning whatever infrastruc- ture Lhey need," Stranan added.

One mill aspect the province will evaluate is what types of air emissions will come from the mill and what effect they will have on the surrounding area.

Foster said the company is confident enough of the project that it wants what's called ap- proval in principle under MPRP guidelines,

the $0 per cent for traditional mills.

. “For every tonne of fibre coming out of the bush and into

the front of the mill, there'll be

one tonne of paper coming out of the back,” says Orenda vice president Frank Foster.

Orenda’s figures show that its 173,000 tonne a year operation will consume 183,000 tonnes of fibre.”

The mill is also designed to use smaller diameter wood com- pared to other operations. That means using tree tops and wood. now left on the ground,

At the same time, the length of pulpwood Orenda will grind will be shorter than those pro- cessed in other mills.

The benefit here, Orenda says, is being able to cut off sawlog portions for processing into timber.

Fibres produced by grinding will be shorter in length so Orenda will blend them with fonger fibre bought from tradi- tional mills to give its paper strength,

Although the planned mill location is a signficant distance

from where ,Orenda, has_its.

wood, Foster said the company may trade with other companies if there are benefits to all par- ties.

One possibility is using smaller wood Skeena Cellulose now has in the interior in return for it using larger wood Orenda has under licence that isn't suitable for the kind of mill it wants to build.

And even if those plans don't come about, Foster said Orenda can haul its wood from the Stewart area and still make a profit.

“At our utilization profile, trucking wood from there to this location is just about the same as trucking paper. It’s

almost an exact match. We'd be trading an dollar for a dollar,’” said Foster.

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tions are judged ori their in- dividual merits. ~~ -

Orenda vice president Frank.

Foster said that while ‘Talstra's: statements of last. Tuesday were the first he knew the city. was going to make an extension ap- “plication, the idea was not new. “We pretty much expected

porate usin their boundary - he said. Foster added that Orenda talked with members of the city; council before its announce-.”

- ment was made to ask for infor-

mation and to.teli them they were looking in the area.

He said Orenda acceptance of a plan to incorporate its side in- to city boundaries would: de- pend on what services the com- pany ‘would receive in return.

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