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: VANCOUVER (CP) — 4’ > Massive power project : which would involve

; diverting Kootenay River

x water into the Columbia

« River appears to be “the

most economic (energy) - a

, available in _ British : Columbia,” aside from the « McGregor diversion now : being studied near Prince

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George, says a B.C. Hydro report released Tuesday. st November Premier Bill Bennett said he would not permit construction of the Kootenay diversion unless the objections of environmentalists and other citizens could be satisfied. The Hydro preliminary assessment report states that the diversion project is

Union to point out inefficiency

VANCOUVER (CP) :The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) ‘ voted Wednesday to -establish worker com- “mittees that will point out ‘management waste and ‘inefficiency and recom. -mend alternative ways of doing business,

The proposal to develop “what one CUPE spokesman described as “a shadow -management,” was con- ; tained in a major economic ‘policy Statement endorsedtl -by 1,150 delegates to :CUPE’s national policy con- “vention.

CUPE, the country’s ‘largest union with 231,000 ‘members, will recommend to other unions that similar ‘committees be set up in the

private sector for the

-automobile, steel, textile, ‘fishing and other industries. CUPE said that in the public sector, committees ‘will be established in the ‘fields of health care, -municipal services and education. - The purpose of the com- ‘mittees will be to make ‘public information on “waste, inefficiency and poor quality of the product ‘produced or provided to the ‘public because decision- making and power reside in ‘the hands of a few.

President.

acclaimed

VANCOUVER (CP) — Grace Hartman was unopposed Wednesday in her bid for reelection as president of the 291,-000- member Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Ms. Hartman, who was first elected president in 1975, told delegates the union has been through a rough two years ‘‘and we have had to fight govern- ments at every level.”

“The fight goes on,’’ she told cheering delegates to CUPE’s national policy convention.

Ms. Hartman, 58, is one of the few women to head a major Canadian union.

She has been active in public service unions since 1954, when she joined the staff of the Ontario municipality of North York as a secretary.

Since her election | as president of CUPE, Ms, Hartman has been out- spoken against the federal policy of wage and price controls and has pushed hard for programs that will end pay discrimination on the basis of sex.

Kealey Cummings was re- elected national secretary treasurer by acclamation.

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CUPE president Grace Hartman said her union will take its policy to the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC) convention scheduled for Quebec City next April.

“We know from past ex- rience that it would be ‘oolhardy to depend on the corporations and_ their governments to develop an

a

strategy which would strengthen the economy and place the needs of working people in the forefront,” the policy statement said.

“A new industrial strategy, which places the emphasis on the real needs of the majority of Canadians, must come from the labor movement.

Ms. Hartman said it is not enough for the labor movement to criticize government policies.

“We have to get involved ourselves, we have to start running for office and become part of the decision making process.”

CORPORATIONS BLAMED

Ms. Hartman said “even if we don’t run for office, we have to make sure that our opinions continue to be known to the publior +z

CUPE said the economy is in ‘a ‘mess because roreigil and domestic corporations, “along with their govern- ment institutions, continue to make private investment decisions which increase

rofits for the few and cause inflation, unemployment andinsecurity for the many.

“The Canadian Union of Public Em loyees, will icipate, along with other Prtiliates of the CLC, in the establishment of industrial and public sector com- mittees composed of working people to begin the

an }

process of developing an -

a program.”

Ms. Hartman said CUPE executives will meet after the convention to ‘decide which areas we want to zero in on” in the public sector.

lis members are em- ployees of municipalities, school boards, universities,

hydro plants and other public bodies in ali 10 provinces.

“We as public employees must face the fact that there is waste and inefficiency in the public sector,” the policy staternent said.

“We are not responsible for these problems but by exposing their causes we can lay the foundation for an expanded public service and stop the process of privatization and cutbacks which have been launched.

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expected to reduce the temperature in Columbia and Windermere lakes by about seven to eight degrees Celsius.

“This impact on the $60 million recreation and tourism industry has not been addressed in the current studies,” it states.

“Furthermore, for long periods of time the diversion

would reduce the flow i, the Kootenay River to about its minimum recorded level and this effect on the liution in the Kootenay iver from the Skookum- chuck pulp mill effluent, for 1984 conditions, has not yet been answered.™ /(Crest- wood Forest Products pul mill at. Skookumchuc discharges effluent into the

Northwest future to be discussed

The 46th annual meeting of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce and Alaskan affiliates will be held in - Terrace this weekend with delegates from Queen Charlotte Islands to Houston.

The two-day meeting will be highlighted by a panel discussion following lunch on Saturday. Topic will be “Future of the Northwest” and panel members will include representatives from the De Regional Economic Expansion (DREE), B.C. Development Corporation and Canadian Cellulose.

Tickets for the luncheon are available from Rich Green at 635-7291, or Ted Taylor at 635-7454.

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Kootenay River). ;

DIVERSION POSSIBLE Under the terms of the Co- lumbia River Treaty, Canada is allowed after Sept. 1984 to divert up to 1.5 ion acre-feet of water annually from the Kootenay River to the Columbia river

‘in the vicinity of Canal

Flats. The diverted water would

Divert Kootenay into Columbia

pass through Hydro’s Mica and Revelstoke generating stations on the Columbia to produce power.

Accor to the report, diversion of the full treaty amount could aeity by

.C.'s energy capacity by up to 670 million kilowatt hours annually.

The U.S. would lose about 400 million kilowatt hours of

Floating dock needed for load

VANCOUVER (CP) — 4 1447 MILLION FLOATING DRY DOCK IS NEEDED BY THE Port of Vancouver if it is to offer full support service to the large bulk carriers calling here, David Alsop, director of ad ministrative and corporate development for Burrarct Dry Dock Ltd, sait Tuesday.

Marijuana helps glaucoma but leads to court charge

GRAND FORKS, B.C. (CP)— Jack Lee, 77, who owns a 30(0-acre cattle ranch near this community in southeastern B.C., is facing

_ a charge of possession of

marijuana in provincial court Nov. 8, but he insists he has never smoked the drug.

“T use it for medicinal purposes,” he said Tuesday. “My eyesight is failing and I find poultice of marijuana very beneficial.”

Lee said someone gave him a seed last year, but he didn’t realize it was marijuana until he saw it

“growing higher and higher.” 8

“I'd read it was good for

aucoma so I hung it up to

y in the woodshed, ed the leaves off, minced them up a bit and put the whole batch into a quart sealer,” he said.

“Then I cooked some up, stewed it like tea, and put a poultice on my eyes. It

“seemed to give me great

relief.””

Lee said last month the RCMP found about eight plants, some as high as six- eet growing in his garden

‘Unfair labor charge

may be

VANCOUVER (CP) The provincial government Wednesday asked the Supreme Court of British Columbia to quash unfair labor charges practices filed against Educatior Minister Pat McGeer and other education department officials.

In an application filed in Vancouver today, the overnment asked the upreme Court to issue an injunction forbidding the . Labor Relations Board from holding a hearing on union allegations that McGeer and others engaged in unfair labor practices in the dispute over Notre Dame University of Nelson.

The complaint, under section 5 of the B.C. Labor Code, was filed by Local 1728 of the Association of Commercial and Technical Employees, formerly the faculty association of the university,

In addition to the in- junction, the government seeks a series of declarations that the LRB has no authority in the matter, including a ruling that the LRB does not have jurisdiction to rule ‘whether comments by a minister of the crown in the

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and charged him with “straight posession so the law wouldn't be so tough on me.

Lee said smoking the marijuana doesn’t turn him on because “I don’t and can’t inhale.”

“Once I gave some to an old fella and he smoked it but he said it was no good.”

Lee’s case came to the attention recently of NORML, an organization that has pushed for removal of criminal and civil penalties for possession and cultivation of marijuana when used for personal consumption.

A NORML official said

‘ Lee could face a prison term

of up to seven years for either cultivating of possession of the drug.

-than 47.2 metres,

bill to $40 million.

Alsop , Bald! ns oat company’s largest dry doc can take only vessels of up to 14,000 deadweight tons is more than 50 years old and has little more than five years of useful life leit.

Speaking at a seminar on western ports sponsored by the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and other organizations, Alsop said his company has collaborated with the federal. government to develop a preliminary design for a floating dry dock capable of taking ships up to 75,000 deadweight tons and comfortably all ships of the maximum size capable of locking through the Panama Canal.

The dock design calls for a clear inside width of more which would allow the dry dock to be extended in length at some time in the future

Alsop said federal assistance for a dry dock for Vancouver is ed and is justified. Without such support no private concern can consider building a major dry dock to compete a t subsidized facilities elsewhere, he said.

Alsop said a floating dry dock is needed because shoreland cannot be spared for a graving dock. Besides the $20 million for a floatin structure, he said an ad- ditional $20 million will be needed to provide cranes, a

jer and certain shore acilities, bringing the total

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enerey annually at the Libby Dam as a result of the project, ;

e report, which is a summary of findings oY Hydro engineers and Ent Environmental Consultants of Vancouver, says potential U.S. losses “could be about 660 feet, virtually equivalent to the potential gain in B.C.

“Itis apparent that the $60 to $30 million expenditure for the Kootenay diversion project is being spent merely to transfer the generation location across the border between the U.S. and Canada.”

It says that if a water licence is granted in 1990, construction need not start until Late 1981.

STUDY NEEDED

The report suggests that

detailed environmental] and

ersion cheapest energy alternative

studies should be carried out sothat B.C. Hydro can apply in 1979 for a water licence to divert the river and con- struct the project. -

The report says Hydro has diacussed the Kootenay diversion project with levels of government and local citizens’ groups.

The report alsosays that a public hearing could be ex- pected for a project r

e and complex” as Kootenay diversion.

In its conclusions, the report says there is not yet icient data to justify recommendations for a “go or no-go decision,’’: but “indications are that a viable project can be con- struc within economic environmental and ‘soci ’ limits.” -

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