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~ Alcan admits ‘effects’

Alcan Smelter and Chemicals spokesman a, eet

y the company ig well aware there will be environmental affects if plans to.dam the Nanika River go ahead.

The project, still in the early planning stage, has taised fears among some

residents of the Smithers, Telkwa and Quick areas.

They. have formed a-

Save the Bulkl

which claims for

the hydro-electric Project

ere further ahead thar

the company will admit. Members also com-

plain of lack of in-

Poor get benefit

COLOMBO (Reuter) ~ The Sri Lanka government has devised a echeme to ensure that food and fuel subsidies go where they are intended — to the poor,

For more than $0 years about seven million people, the sa Opa, of the country’s po lon, have

ed generous subsidies along with the poor.

Now the ruling United Na- tlonal Party has ordered that the food subsidy system be replaced with food stamps which will be given only ‘to the 7.5 million whose incomes are leas $18 a inonth.

Under the system, a family will get between $3 and $15 in food stam depending on the size of the family.

There also will be fuel sented far kerosene, as the poor man’s

cooking and lighting fuel. | The program Is expected to cont the government about $125 million, but it will save the government about one ‘third of its annual aubsidy hill of $206 million, : A novel feature of the plan is that unused food stamps can be deposited as savings in the national savings bank

Minister of State Anandatiaaa De Alwis aald'a recent survey showed that

. to earn interest,

the rich rather than the poor

-people of the population were enjoying the benefits of subsidies on wheat, flour,, bread and kerosene under ‘the old syatem.

With the ending of subsidies, the government has decided to give a salary inerease to wage earners whose incomes are above $19 per month but fall below $25, he sald. :

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Despite the ending of sub- ‘sidiea, Sri Lanka will continue tobe a welfare state

cheap bus and rail services,

The government also paya heavy subsidies to farmers foe fertilizers, and provides similar Incentives for fishermen and small land: holders.

formation on the project and say Alcan Is keeping them in the dark.

- Hemingway, however, Jays the company recognizes that if the project goes ahead, there will be environmental effects in the Nanika- Morice river system and

- the Nechako River and

lake area.

“We've said a number of times that we don’t have the answers

‘Tight,"Hemingway said.

He said because of this the company has com- missioned an en- vironmental study to determine affects.

The study is being

conducted by Envirocon | ‘Ltd, a

Vancouver company.

. favironmental affects,’ -

dam on the Nanika River,

‘reservoir to a power

Morice River system.

Sd:

Hemingway said Alcan [i ‘4s not insensitive to the} fact that there will be

“We want to be responsible and do what is _— practical and © reasonable to alleviate these affects should the trofect go ahead, he sald.

The project involves a

a tunnel between Kid- price Lake and the Nechako Reservoir anda; second tunnel from the

house at Kemano.

The water flow in Nanika Lake and Kid- price Lake will be reversed, resulting in a reduced flow in the

The Herald takes a look at the damage to the Williams Creek Bridge. See page 10

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