~ Coming through —

“ CN F REIG HT train travels underneath steelwork that forms the base for an overhead track cross- . ing at the Esker work site between Terrace and Prince Ru

_ includes a new section of road. Work is scheduled to be Structure on the left is one of the raised approaches.

pert on Hwy16, The $4.5 million project completed this fall. That honeycombed

ON plan hit

| Spraying opposed

SMITHERS — The province's environmental appeal board is expected to decide within six weeks whether CN Rail will be allowed to spray herbicides along its northwest railway line, CN wants to spray a six- .., metre-wide swath on track bet- ‘ween Prince Rupert and Smithers to control weed ‘growth. Several northwest groups have banded together to

Blockade threat issued

‘SMITHERS — Trains will be blocked from passing througli ° native territory. if..GN - Rail... sprays herbicides along its nor- thwest line, says a spokesman for a coalition of native groups...

Gitksan hereditary chief Ralph Michell made that threat during an appeal hearing of CN’s permit to spray herbicides between Smithers and Prince Rupert.

“We will not allow the train to run through our territory if they (CN) continue to abuse the land,”’ Michell said outside the hearing in Smithers. '‘We believe that by changing’ the quality of the environment with chemicals, so shall the quality of our way of life be diminish- ed.

He said he was speaking on behalf of the Skeena First Na- tions Fisheries Commission, which represents the Gitksan- Wet’suwet’en, Tsimshian and Carrier-Sekani peoples, and the Babine Lake band.

RCMP receive ‘murder tips |

TERRACE — - "Police say recent

publicity about:the 1974 murder §

of a 15-year-old Terrace girl has resulted in several new leads.

Monica Ignas was last seen

alive trying to get a ride homein

a snowstorm on the night of Dec. 13, 1974, RCMP say her straigled body was found the following spring, triggering Ter- race’s longest-running unsolved murder investigation.

“It's (publicity) resulted in us - opening up a whole new arm of the investigation,’’ said Cpl. Don Woodhouse, who heads the‘ detachment's General In- vestigation Services zection.. “New information has surfaced that was unknown to the police of the day.’”

AS many as 10.people called in :: with tips, “he -said, and - although police already | had most of the information, some of it has considerably advanced the investigation,

_ Officers are now. pursuing .

leads they: hope will point to

new suspects “in : the. killing, : ‘Woodhouse: said. After those leads are fully explored, he add- ed, ‘pallce believe they will have enough information to issue a; composite drawing of a suspect - and..a vehicle that may have picked up Ignas.:.

Terrace RCMP say any: tips.

that: come in. will be kept ¢ cole fidential. he , ang

fight the proposed spraying on environmental grounds. .

Appeal hearings wrapped up in Smithers April 26, following two. days of debate surrounding the two herbicide-use permits granted to CN last October.

Each group argued in turn that because the long-term ef- fects of herbicide are unknown, alternative weed-control methods should be used.

United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union spokesman Jim Rushton said any impact by her- bicides on the Skeena fishery would have “serious conse- quences.’’

“There is no question the chemicals CN proposes to. use are harmful,” he added. “The only question is to whom and to what.” “Give the benefit of the

“doubt to the environmeént — too

many times we've. been told there is no problem only to find

:_dater.on.there was a problem,” ”

said Rushton.

He warned the spraying could further hurt already damagéd coho salmon stocks because that species often spawns in dit- ches and backwater areas next to the railway tracks. He pro- posed CN post a $30-million bond as insurance against en- vironmental damage if spraying

SDRQIING |

proceeds.

Company lawyers said the contractor will follow establish- ed and approved ‘spray. pro- cedures. They said as much as 160km of the tine between Prince Rupert and Smithers

_ won't be sprayed.

The .company maintains spraying is the most efficient

method of killing weeds, which,

if left rooted in the ballast, can undermine the track's stability. CN spokesman Pat Egan said removal of the roots is essential in avoiding derailments and keeping the line safe.

CN officials told the hearing spraying herbicides costs $400 per mile of track, compared to the $187 ,000-a-mile cost of replacing the ballast. Egan said alternative weed-contral C parent as. steam and

Biyivne ental groups at- « -

tacked the appeal board for not allowing the appellants suffi-

cient time to prepare. They also’

called the board out of touch

with public opinion and the

latest research on herbicides, Appeal board chairman Mar- jory Ryan said it will take at least six weeks for the board to prepare its final statement,

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