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‘TERRACE =, A company which wants to build @ pulp and “paper mill near Meziadin has ‘asked. the Finnish firm from which it technology. to become an in- vestor.

Frank Foster of Orenda

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to receive a ‘Fesponse from .

-Tampella Ltd.

- “There is some possibility of . that, They have done this sort of thing in the past,” said Foster of. the possible invest- nent. .

ak The Tampella technology ‘Orenda wants to buy uses ‘hydrogen’ peroxide as a

. bleaching agent to produce high _

quality paper.

. This system, says Orenda, is environmentally superior to the chlorine used in traditional - kraft pulp mills as there is no ef- fluent discharge.

Tampell’s system of grinding whole pulp logs between large, ‘ceramic-coated -rollers also means there is no boiling pro- cess needed to produce pulp, says Orenda.

_ That translates into the abili- . ty to gain a better and more effi- ‘sient transformation of pulp in-

to fibre than is the case with .

kraft mills, the company adds, _ Orenda has spent the last few weeks in meetings with com- Munities and groups about its $365 million plan. ;

Those meetings follow the company’s entry this month-in- to the first phase of a required provincial environmental ap- proval process.

’ Its proposal would use wood it already has under licence in the Stewart area, creating 143 . mill jobs, 37 transportation jobs “and stabilizing the 200 jobs in

its logging operation.

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Up until now, Orenda has sold the wood under licence as pulp ‘or as: sawlogs to other.

Operations.

Foster said he was happy with the results of a public meeting in | Stewart.

se@xtlg,saidOrenda.is.working.on.. a plan to provide bus transpor- —

: tation from Stewart to the mill

District drills thoughts — of tapping Lakelse water

TERRACE — The Kitimat- Stikine regional district wants the provincial energy and mines ministry to ban all drilling “now or in the future’’ within a 6km radius of the main pool at -Mount Layton Hotsprings.

- The move. followed a presen-. ‘tation by: ‘Mount Layton owner

- Bert’. Orleans described plans to explore the .geo-thermal power generation potential of the area as ‘‘a sword hanging over my head.”

_ Fairbank Engineering of Vancouver wants energy ministry approval to- carry out exploratory drilling to deter- _ tine whether there is sufficient super-heated water trapped beneath the Lakelse valley to make construction of a power plant for electricity viable.

_The company has proposed three drilling sites one of which,

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But the regional district at its Jan. 19 meeting said it was wor- Tied about ihe implications of having a mill located away from acommunity. -

Directors said people will want to live as close to their jobs as possible and that could mean

<unregulated..growth .and |

demands for residential services near ‘the mill.

Orleans pointed out, was only a

. mile and a half’ south of his

development — the area nearly all expert opinion agreed was the source of Mount Layton’s water, he added,

That drill site was also in an_

environmentally: sensitive area. Recalling his - unsuccessful, three-year battle to obtain this particular site for a proposed

golf course, he said, “Now so- ‘

meone wants to | Put industry there!’’

Orleans pointed out he had spent approximately $5. million on Mount Layton to date and created 60 jobs in the process, Over the next five years he an- ticipated investing a further $10 million and adding another 90 jobs.

Those plans would have to be abandoned if the geo-thermal project was allowed to proceed

‘from geo-thermal development,

Directors want the provincial government to develop plans to deal with the: possibility and wants Orenda to look at the possible housing and travel im- plications,

Directors also want represen- tation in the environmental ap- proval process.

They. also, want to know how... fish might be affected by Oren- . da’s plans: :

and so threaten his water supp- ly, he said.

Orleans also failed to see what. social or economic benefits the area would derive

“The whole thing does not make any sense,’ he insisted in

asking the regional district to —

support his drilling ban request.

In support “of the ban, Kitimat director Ray. Brady said the provincial government con- stantly. emphasized tourism was the fastest growing and cleanest industry in the province. Now it was proposing multiple use of the natural resource on which this tourist-oriented’ business was based, he said. \

“The risks are just too high,” Brady added in stating. the regional district should do everything it can to protect the hotspring. The drilling ban mo- tion passed unanimously.

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