Telkwa report

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Uses of Northwest resources

March 1978.

This is the second public report front the Telkwa Foundation’s Habitat North Project. Currently funded by a Canada Works grant a ‘ small group of. people is trying to understand the implications of the way we use the natural resources of the nor- thwest, The issues are complex and need careful research from a broad perspective to be unravelled.

The concerns of nor- therners are many, Unfortunately they. are. oiten felt and expressed in isolation from the activities that generate them. Solutions are applied in the same ad hee, piecemeal fashion. As our research takes us deeper into these issues we begin to appreciate how many facets of our lives are interconnected.

There are strong links between our use of the land, the stability of our economic structures, the satisfaction to he derived from our daily work, our personal investment in community groups and the depth of our relationships with family and friends. Together these links form a net- work of interactions. As with all nets there is a great deal of resilience yet at the same time if a few links start to break the rest often follow in quick succession.

The Habitat North project is probing the strengths and weaknesses of the social and natural networks that make up the culture of the northwest. In particular we are examining land use and its impact on our economic and social institutions — for as the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs put it — The Land is the Culture,

With knowledge of the network ties and the processes that weave them it is not impossible for people make ‘the choices necessary for a stable, harmonious communily. Education - then ‘is the other side of

our research coin. In school and college classrooms, public

meetings, film shows and newspaper . arlicles we try to communicate our findings. ;; The most complete «source of in- formation is the monthly Telkwa Foundation Newsletter, avialable with a $5.00 subscription fram P.O. Box 100, Telk- wa. Environmental ; Education: Programme The objective of the programme is lo give children the tools to identify and understand basic ecological . processes. Much ot this is taught through fieldwork sospring is a particularly busy time. At the high-

_classes,

- school and college level

the programme is ex- panded. to include work on natura]. resource conflicts.

In March the project helped with eight school one college course and six com- munity group meetings. In Prince George we were able to provide background on forestry and fishery issues to a regional meeting of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs,

A film and discussion evening will be held at the Chandler Park Theatre on April 29th at 3:00 p.m. The subject willbe the

. nuclear power industry in

Canada.

Telkwa Newsletter

The newsletter serves as the main way for project staff to inform the public of their findings. In March 800 copies of the Vol, 1; No, 7 edition were mailed throughout the northwest and other parts of Canada. Another 150 were distributed through newsstands or other means,

The issue contained articles dealing with wolf control, Indian food fishery, Skeena River steelhead, Guide- Outfitters nuclear power, Hog-fuel systems, the Seven Sisters logging plananda report on a Queen Chrlotte Islands oil spill. Industrial Alternatives — Forest Industry

Basic forest resource information is being given to a number of correspondents from Ootsa Lake ot the Queen Charlottes. In these areas, as through out the province, concern is. mounting that there will not be sufficient timber reserves to carry the present levels of cul very far into the future.

Foundation

Discussion papers by °

project staff have helped the Smithers Forest

Advisory Committee to..

formulate recoil

mendations to the “Ber:

Forest Service that if adopted would enable the annual -cut in- the Smithers PSYU to reflect the . economically available reserves. Community stability and long-term _—_ industrial viability are key ob- jeclives of the com- mittee,

Research is continuing into two pecinical fixes’’ or

proposed province’s troubled forest industry.

Initial work indicates the inlensive forestry programme put forward by Forests Minister Tom Waterland to supply more trees contains too many unknowns about the increased yields expecled,. — its ap- plicability to norlhern conditions and, most important, ils.cost.In any

event the results of such a .

Deportation reprieve

A Chilean expatriate facing immediate deportation to this home- land has won a short reprieve to gather more evidence proving his need for political asylum in Canada,

Immigration Minister Bue Cullen said Monday in the Commons that he sees no-~ difficulty in fiving the extra time to Galindo Madrid, 22, who

jumped = ship near Squamish, B.C., last May.

Cullen was replying to Stuart Leggatt (NDP— New Westminster), who said Madrid's lawyers are taking his case to the Federal Court of Canada

. anid need the extra time to ‘gather evidence to back the claim that their

- ellent faces persecution:

in Chile. Madrid and another Chilean exile, Luis

Sanchez, lost their appeal last week against an Im- migration ~ Commission deportation order, lawyer Ray Cantillon said Monday.

Cantillon, who represents Sanchez, said

the decision _ means Madrid could be deported

back to Chile almost im-

mediately,

Cantillon said he was’

informed Friday by the commission's ‘special

review committee that . on:

the: appeal humanitarian “and compassionate grounds had been rejected with no reason being given, Both. Madrid and “Sanchez have said they would be persecuted for

their political beliefs by

the ruling military dic-

latorship if they were returned to Chile. | Madrid, who was

politically active under’

the elected

Salvador already has lost a hid for admission as a political refugee. He now faces

democratically- regecme of

deportation ‘‘as soon as!

practicable.”

Sanchez, 24, a former union activist, can still apply as a_ political refugee.

Madrid and Sanchez came ashore lasl May from a Greek ship after having fled (Chile for Europe.

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Inquiry, .

the.

Allende,’

programme will not show _for another 80 or 90 years — that is how long the trees take to grow.

The other panacea

| often quoted is improved

logging and sawmill technology, Our research shows these technical improvements require high captial and energy inputs, ‘putting them beyond all but the largest companies, Further we find the fine technical tuning only shows results

“if operated by skilled, careful people — not.

often available in an industry plagued by high labour turnover and alienating work en- virontments.

Northwest Eergy Strategy A preliminary report

has been complied by — project workers on the feasibility of using hog- fuel (sawmill waste) to provide for the energy needs of Smithers’ mills and residents.

Rough figures indicate that while the two Smithers sawmills paid

nearly $% million for gas °

and electricity last year they sent over $2 .% million worth of woad- waste energy up in smoke. Capital costs for recovering this energy are high but could be easily justifiable if a co- operative effort between the’ two sawmill com- panies and the municipality can be achieved. . For indivdual energy needs solar heating appears practical — on

paper. A large number of reports and studies sit on our shelves but people need a working unit to be convinced.Pilot project funds are available |... the National Research Council for con- dominiums and com- mercial establishments. Amounts range from $20,000 to $200,000 — any northern businessman that enterprising?

While the possibilities of community and in- dividual scale energy sources grow more promising, the con- ventional suppliers continue to be hit with’ rapidly escalating costs and massive capital debts. An analysis, fo be published in the April T.F. Newsletter, shows how B.C. Hydro’s rate structure encourages energy waste rather than conservation.

Social Impact of Resource Development

As this is the project's sole primary research programme, as opposed to the usual literature search, results will not be available for some time.

We are looking at the social andfamily impacts of changes in the nor- thern way of life. Problems of families in small communities, migrants from urban to rural areas and new arrivals in rapdily growing single industry towns are being examined, Interviewing

continuues at the rate of .

two or thrree weeks along

with basic background .

research,

_Quebec strike

puts 12,

000 out

of work

— A feeling of worry and =

frustration pervades this

“northeastern -Quebec

‘Mining town, centre of a ‘strike that has, put” an estimated 12,000 persons out of work and bottled up 75 per cent of Canada’s iron ore prodketion. _ The strike is in its fifth week and civic leaders are concerned that there will be an exodus if it lasts much longer.

Some businessmen and strikers suggest the Iron

Ore Co. of Canada wanted _

the strike because, of

present market condi-.

tions, The company denies this. Meanwhile, économic’

activity in Quebec and Labrador remains paralysed for 580 kilo- metres-north of this ecty which is 750 kilometres northeast of Montreal! ‘on the St. Lawrence River. Layoffs among non- miners are increasing as the strike drags on, One provincial labor department official says the strike by 9,000 miners has put ,another 3,000 persons out of work. Some of the strikers,

.who were among the

highest paid in Canada, are cursing the company and their union, the United Steelworkers of America.

“We're doing this for nothing,” said one strikar. “This is exactly what the company wanted.” .

PLANNED LAYOFFS

The companx planned to lay off 350 workers permanently at Labrador City in May and another 4,000 for a summer shut-down.

Meanwhile, the latest round of. negotiations broke down Sunday because of difference over worker health and safety.

Less than a week afler 90 per cent of the unionnmembers voted, with.80 per cent of them in favor of a strike, the union took that action. The conlract expired Feb. 28.

“We're sure they're hurling with $53 million in debts,’’ union representative:, Yvan Giard says of the Iron Ore Co. ‘And they could lost contracts if they can't deliver.”

With an upturn in the United States steel market after settlement

of: that country’s coal.

strike, and a favorable exchange rate fornsales ofniron ore

to settle, ;

- Cabaret owner -

Joe Philliponi, owner? of the Penthouse Cabaret, said Monday he collected

unemployment insurance :

intermittently for 48 weeks, after police had closed down his local cabaret on morals charges.

“Sure I did. I was entitled,” said Philliponi. “[ paid premiums all those years ‘just like everybody else and | eollected just like everybody else when - | was out of work.”

. Philliponi’s cabaret was tlosed Dec, 31, 1975, by city vice squadn- deteclives after a lengthy investigation. Philliponi and three associates were subsequently charged

~with conspiring to live off’

the avails of prostitution,

A B.C. county) court convicted Philllponi and his associales May 11,

collected UIC

1977, on the ‘charges, however the’ conviction was overturned Dec. 20, 1977,nby the B.C. Court of Appeal.

The Supreme Court of Canada refused Mar, 7 to hear a Crown appeal of

the B.C. Court of Appeal’

decision. - ;

Philliponi'- said he applied “for °Unem- ployment. Insurance Commission * benefits when lifting of the club's cabaret and liquor li- cenees forced closure.

“I needed the money and so did about 100

people that were affected - -by the club's closing.

That closure created an avalanche of unem- ployment and we all wenl down lo UIC to file for benefits,""he said,

” He said he applied for more than 30 jobs. while

his case was before the

courts.

had -

in U.S. — dollars, pressure may. develop for the company:

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THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 12, 1978, PAGE 3

uide denies

improper license issued

A retired inspector for the fish and wildlife branch told a provincial inquiry into the licencing of guide outfitters that his colleagues gave him a trapline when he retired in 1966,

But Walter Gill, 72, denied that he had been improperly issuedna

guide outfitter’s licence, .

as the inquiry heard in testimony last month. Gill said that several months after his retirement he moved to the Vanderhoof, B.C. area and applied for a ide outfitter’s licence

_ in a territory where the

previous guide had died: He said that normally ‘an applicant for such a licence had to have held an assistant guide’s licence for three years, which he did not, but that the branch director was then allowed under the game regulations to waive the three-year guiding requirement if he felt the applicant had sufficient experience. - Gill said he took out very few paying hunting

. parties but in 1971 branch

director Dr. James Hatter told him that he must turn in his licence because it had been improperly issued. He said two memhers of the branch staff arrivednat his house to pick up his licence, which he handed over after much Argument. , BECAME INVOLVED Mabel Rogers, of Tacoma, Wash, told the inquiry how she became

involved in a real estate

deal in Vanderhoofin £968 involving Arthur Balcombe, a former branch employee who was then the local con- servation officer,

Mrs. Rogers testified that H. H. Whitehead, also of Washington, told her she could buy a fishing iodge near Vanderhoof for $40,000 if she paid $10,000 down. Whitehead was to be the suide.

“Mr. Balcombe said to save us money he would give Mr. Whitehead a Guiding licence,”’ said Mrs. Rogers, “I was not. familiar, with Canadian law and I thought he was doing us a favor.” n

She said she- thought Balcombe’ owned the odge so she agreed to send $5,000 to a bank where his wife worked and the money would he held in trust until the

Assault charge

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C, (CP) Grant Williams, a member of. the Prince George Mohawks intermediate hockey team, has laid an assault charge against Peter Shmyr, coach of North Vancouver Hurry

Kings, after an incident |

at a cabaret here Friday night. Williams, an employee of the Simon. Fraser Inn, laid the charge after a fight at the inn. Police were called in to restore order. .

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Mrs. Rogers said she sent the money, her cheque was cashed and she did not find out until later that the ledge was actually owned by a man named John Ehly, now dead.

She said that shortly after she paid the $5,000 she got a letter from Ehly asking forn$10,000 more. WANTED TITLE

She said she then asked Balcombe for the title to the property but her name was not on it so she consulted a lawyer and

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“But I didn’t get my money back for a long time,’”’ she said.

Balcombe testified that all he did was to in- troduce Mrs. Rogers, Whitehead and Ekly. He denied that he asked Mrs. Rogers to send $5,000 and said he had nothing to do with the money.

Gary Moore, ot Dawson Creek, B.C. told the ~ inquiry that he has had guide outfitters’ licences in B.C. and the Yukon,

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