A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 1995

FREE ENERGY Homes here get Power Smart -

A CREW from a province-wide program aimed at reducing domestic energy costs is in town.

The two people from the BC21 Power Smart program will be here until early fall installing a basic energy savings package on area homes.

‘We've got 527 homes already registered,’’ says Lauralee Gor- don of Cullen Energy, a Vancouver-based company which has the Power Smart contract for northern B,C.

The program is offering the package, valued at $100, free of charge to 75,000 homes across the province.

Gordon said there’s still time for homeowncrs to register in this area.

“"We're getting a great response

THE QUESTION of whether the supply route to key mine devel- opments on the Iskut River will go through B.C. or Alaska is once again being debated.

International Skyline Gold Corp. wants the B.C. government to subsidize construction of 19 miles of road from the tumoff to the Eskay Creek gold properties to its Bronson Slope property on the Iskuz

The road extension has been discussed for years, and cost estimates range from $5.4 million to nearly $9 million. oo,

The issue is on the table again now, because Skyline is applying for a mine de- velopment permit and says the

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NEW HOME construction ap- pears to be down a bit from this time last year,

But Terrace still boasts by far the strongest construction market in the northwest,

Terrace senior building in- spector Paul Gipps said the city had issued 23 residential building inspection permits by the end of April.

That's down from about 30 the same time last year, Gipps said, altribuling the drop to the build. ing delay caused by the longer winter,

IWA signs up McEwan GM

WORKERS AT another local auto dealership have now been organized by the International Woodworkers of America.

McEwan GM_ staff became automatically certificd with the union after 72 per cent of workers signed up by April 3.

The TWA Canada Local 1-71 has represented workers at Ter- race Totem Ford since 1975,

IWA rep Surinder Malhotra confirmed the union {s looking at the possibility of organizing other local car dealerships,

Correction

AN ITEM on this page last week incorrectly indicated Tim Horton’s plan for a drive-through window would close Ottawa Street from Lakelse to Lazelle.

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in Terrace, It’s the second town after Prince George on our list for installations,’ she said.

The program is being offered through the provincial govem- ment, B.C, Hydro and other ener- gy utilities,

Included on the free list are:

Wi insulating reflective blanket for hot water tank

@ water pipe insulation (leading to/from water heater

Mi energy-saving showerhead

Mi faucet aerators

i Qush reducer

Mi door weatherstripping

Mi draftproofing

Mi home energy check-up.

To register for these free pro- ducts, call Cullen Energy at i- 800-967-2252: Please have your electric/gas utility account num- ber available when you call.)

toad is key to its plans.

Although the province his refused to commit any money for the road, company president CHiff Grandison says Victoria remains “‘obstructionist’’ over the altema- tive — the option of mining finms building a road 42 miles in the opposite direction, to tidewater at Bradfield Canat in Alaska,

That would channel the flow of

ore concentraté and supplies — -and the money: and jobs associa-

led with them — through Alaska instcad of B.C.

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Mine firm pushes for road

International Skyline digs up Iskut gold route debate

Grandison says his preference is to go through B.C, and ship con- centrale out of Stewart.

But he also wants to be able to seriously consider an Alaskan of- fer to subsidize by US $20 mil- lion the Bradfield road,

That road would be dramatical- ly more expensive than the B.C, route — more than $50 million — and would require a 5,000 foot tunnel through a mountain.

The B.C. road is more econom- ical, Grandison said, and proba- bly profitable in the long run for

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“'There’s probably a billion dol- Jars worlh of new mining poten- tial up there if the government helped open up that road,’’ he said.

“To allow that corridor to go through there has got to be a boon to te whole area.”

Grandison said the road could also make further exploration and development at International Skyline’s Johnny Mountain mine — closed last year —- more eco- nomical.

International Skyline’s assay resulis at Bronson Slope show a poly-metallic deposit of gold, sil- ver, copper)’ ‘molybdenum and magnetile.

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