Clayoquot cut good decision

TERRACE — The provincial government’s decision to allow some logging in the Clayoquot was @ good one, says Jack Munro,

Speaking at 4 chamber of com-

merce’ dinner last week, ihe Forest Alliance chairman said it had two virtues. --Not only did it sent a clear mes- sage B.C. will continue to have a forest industry: and the govern- ment is ready to listen to the pub- lic, Noting the Clayoquot steering commitice had spent three years coming up with its final recom- mendations, Munro said cabinet had made only slight changes to ‘them.

However, he was concerned ‘that ‘Victoria had not done more to address the problem of job loss in the forest industry.

“They have to pay some atten- tion to the people who are not _now working,”’ he said,

‘As for the complaints from preservationists that any logging ‘was. being allowed, Munro pointed out one of the watershed being protected had an area of 26,000ha, four times the size of

_ the Carmanah and all old growth forests.

' As for the logging that is being pemiitied, he pointed out the cut- ting rate was only 1,000ha per year. :

Given the total area to be -logged was 90,000ha, that meant ‘a 90 year rotation in an areca _ where new forests would likely : grow’ to harvestable levels quick- er than that.

Munro said the devastation of

Jack Munroe the forest industry in the north- western United States was a warning to B.C. of what could happen if the pendulum swung too far towards preservation.

However, while people had to understand the economic reper- cussions of losing the industry, forest companies. had fo under- Stand the need to deliver on en- vironmental issues, ;

Pointing to the 21 point Princi- ples of Sustainable Forestry de- veloped by the Forest Alliance, Munro said ‘It’s the most impor- tant thing we’ve done.’?

He also noted 90 per cent of companies operating on the coast and almost as many in the Interior had agreed to abide by those prin- ciples,

City land use plan about to be finalized —

_ ‘TERRACE — A public hearing

scheduled for this coming Mon-

day night marks the last lap for

“the city’s land use pian.

- The plan defines what areas of the city should be used for what purpose (commercial, industrial,

residential) as it grows. -

new system of permits intended “to ensure future developments fit in with the surrounding neigh- bourhood. _

Northwest Tories to

Unless

throws up major objections re- quiring a further redrafting of the plan, council will adopt it at its Tuesday, May 25 meeting.

That final version will form the basis of the city’s new and long-

awaited Official Community Plan ,.:

ijt also includes guidelines for a.{OGP), the masterpla'for the fu-tey)"

ture growth of the community.

The hearing takes place at the

Coast Inn of the West beginning at 7:30 p.m.

support Campbell

TERRACE — Tory delegates from the northwest are expected

- to support Kim Campbell at the’

Tune 9-13 Progressive Conserva-

tive leadership convention in Ot- tawa, |

" Most of the delegates have indi- “cated their support for Campbell

as the next leader of the party. “The seven adult delegates

selecied May 2 were Otto Grund- .

‘mann (Terrace), Danny Sheridan

(Terrace), John McNish (Prince

Rupert),

- (Prince Rupert), Maurie Mont- .. gomery (Smithers), Monty Mont-

~~~ gomery “ (Smithers), and Grace _-. McNish (Prince Rupert).

Dolores © Macintosh

Alternates are ‘Jim Wasyk- | - (Prince Rupert), Surinder Dhami _ |. (Terrace), and Derrick Curtis... 2° . 7 |). Further public meetings are being scheduled and will be advertised. ©

(New Hazelton). :

The three youth

selected (Kitwanga), Chris Lindseth (Ter- race) and Bronagh Sheridan (Ter- race), “‘Skeena is a Campbell riding,’ John McNish said, adding: ‘the defence minister spent a summer in Prince Rupert in the late 1960s as a university student working in one of the fish canneries. -

**That’s probably the closest the riding of Skeena will come to a. Prime Minister,’* he said.

delegates

Quotable Munro

As longtime boss of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA), Jack Munro earned a reputation for speaking out without Jear or favour.

Although his role is now very different, those attending last week's chamber dinner soon found his style at the podium is little changed.

Below, some examples of vintage Munro:

On the early meetings of the Forest Alliance

“ As chairman of the IWA for a number of years, you get used to having an executive board that knows the rules, at least Munro’s rulesoforder, ne

“To go fram thdt ta a citizen’s board with 31 people who all bring their own egos (and) expertise is a wonderful experience you shouldn’t go through more than once”?

On his tour of Skeena Sawmills oe

“Tt’s an older mili, but it’s a mill I understand, It still looks like.a sawmill. It’s got a head rig and it’s got a carriage and it’s got logs and it’s got noise and crap flying over hell...but it looks like a saw- mill.”’ . +

On bio-diversity

“We toured some bush yesterday and saw what they’re doing as far as protecting the bio-diversity, whatever the hell the bio- diversity is. Everybody thinks it’s something different.

“T hope the bio-diversity understands that we’re protecting it using these new methods of logging because we’re going to be dis- appointed if it doesn’t work.”’

On calls to protect unlogged watersheds

“We all heard about the Carmanah when it was the last watershed, now the Clayquot is the last watershed, something else they discovered the other day is now the last watershed,

“T don’t know where the hell the second last watershed is, but we know we've got a lot of last watersheds.”

the public hearing vs

are Norm ° Hanley —

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BRITISH.COLUMBIA

North American Free Trade — Agreement

P PUBLIC MEETING

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uy, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) os

-. on October?, 1992.

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_ PLAN TO ATTEND THE "STOP FREE TRADE" RALLY

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