~ behind geothermal -
B.C. Hydro
engineer Greg Moe said it in- *:

TERRACE — Local non-union
teachers are appealing to the In-
dustrial Relations Council
(IRC) to ‘strike down re-
quirements they be members of
the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.

The complaint is the final ef-
fort_of 12. teachers to avoid
union-membership, They have
refused to join the BCTF or the
Terrace. District Teachers’
Association (TDTA). The cur-
rent contract requires they join

both unions by June 30 or lose

their jobs...

The teachers fi ling the’ com-
plaint say the requirement forc-
ing them to join constitutes un-
fair labour. practices. Most of
the them object to the federa-
tion's pro-choice abortion
stance and confrontational
labour action.

If the application fails some
of the teachers will quit, says
Diane Cey, one of the non-
union teachers. |

“Some of us will sign, under

pressure, because we need our .

“Page AS — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 13, 1990

Final appeal made: |.
to avoid union

Greig Houlden
jobs and have families to feed,””
Cey said last week. ‘‘Some will
wait until the last minute to

.Make a decision. And some of

us will not sign, They will quit
and this district will lose good
teachers.”

Some of the teachers have
already decided to quit, she ad-
ded.

She said many of the teachers

Hot stuff might
yield new power

TERRACE — Interest by an

‘ unnamed company in the poten-

tial. of turning underground
super-heated fluids at Lakelse
Lake into electricity has promp-
ted the provincial government
to invite bids on exploration
rights.

Energy minister Jack Davis
last week announced two eight-
year. permits covering 5,726ha
of land at Lakelse Lake would
go. out to tender Aug. 17.
“There is a company interested
‘in exploring the potential for
low temperature geothermal
resources in the area,” he said,

The name of the company is
not being released, said ministry

«spokesman * Darlene =-Sniderjs:-* 2. |. %
‘because of its policy of: con ----~

: fidentiality during the tender
‘ process.

She also couldn’t say where .~
the land is but did add the infor-

“mation would appear soon, in
newspaper advertisements to in-

‘vite bids.

Snider said exploration would
involye studies of geological
formations in the area and

. “probably some exploratory

drilling’? to determine if the
fluids could be used to power

. generators producing electrici-

ty.
Until the ministry had seen
‘the proposals from potential
developers, how any power
‘generated would be used also re-
mained an unknown, ‘‘It’s still
in the very early stages yet so
there’s not a lot of concrete
answers,’? Snider added.
* Explaining the principle
power
generation,

volved tapping reservoirs of
super-heated fluids below the
earth’s surface.

If the fluid (or brine) washot -
‘enough, it’s converted into —

steam which drive turbines

-which in turn drive electrical - -

generators. Moe said the

technology is used to generate © ;

‘power in California, Iceland
and New Zealand..

. : The reservoirs: were formed .
: over: ‘millions of years when * |.
fluids ‘Migrating upwards*.-:..'

through - ‘porous rock en-
countered, an impervious layer:

of}:rock and became trapped =<”
beneath this cap. As with oil,
‘the:fluids. were brought to the _
surface by drilling through the . .

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While the temperature of the
fluids was a major factor in
determining the viability of a
project, the volume available
was also important. Explaining
a 20-year operational lifetime
was necessary to justify the
capital outlay, he pointed out,
“It’s a depleting resource.
Ultimately you will end up using
it up.”

object to the’ ‘BCTF::

the New Democratic’. “Party, :

“Why should I pay to support a
political
member of?’

She said the fon-unton ,
teachers all pay Bull dues to both... |.

unions.

provincial federation.

Cey said some teachers would 7
be willing to do that. ‘Right’.
now we are not allowed to:join ’

the local union without becom-

ing a member of the BCTF,”

she said, ‘It’s unfair that we’re
forced to join the BCTF -— we
should have a choice,’’

No date has been set for the ,
case to be heard, according to ° [
IRC officials. A hearing intoa .

similar application by Kelowna

teachers began Friday, and the’
result of the Terrace complaint ©

will likely depend ‘on the
Kelowna ruling.
Meanwhile, the IRC has set

July 19 as the date it will hear

another local teacher’s applica-
tion for religious exemption
from the union.

A total of 23 local teachers

have still not become union
members. Twelve have signed

the complaint to the IRC, while”

five more did not, according to
TDTA president
Houlden. He called their status
“uncertain,”

Three of the teachers have

now abandened the dispute and ©

signed .union memberships,
Houlden said. One teacher has
succeeded in gaining religious
exemption, and one has failed,
although that IRC ruling is now
under appeal. .

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