a eh oe

Mend economic

@ biological sclénces, '
m dered when he saw the mountain
before he set out for Montreal, but

Swhich the conference- organizers
mexamine its implications, and to

mates, divided into. ‘a ‘Series | of

Vednesday, December 7, 1966

Concern Often

voiced with increasing “intensity
gpver the past few years. Unfortun-
ely, expressions of | legitimate

ohce™n too often have been dig.

otted by emotionalism and’ unwil-
ngness or inability to face facts:
Pollution is everyone’s bualness,
but the problems it presente shauld
pe dealt with intelligently, based
pn an understanding -of-the inher-
ent sociological and economic im-
lications. a mo
s As a private citizen I~cannot
lp but be in sympathy with many
the objections to. pollution. of
ur natural resources —- particyl-
priy water. As your Minister . of
wand, Forests, and Water Re-
yources, and also a3 immediate
past president of the Canadian
Founcil of Resources Ministera, ‘1
fm also aware of the many factors
mvolved in pollution control that
ke essential an objective -ap-
cach to the problem. = -° ~
‘In this and later columns, I pro-
prose to discuss some. pollution
hatters that concern us: all, First

here is the recent conference in|

fontreal; and those . sociological
: considerations
Entioned, and, finally, the action
being taken by British Columbia

the field of pollution control,

The Montreal ‘conference was

emarkable evidénee of Canada's

awareness of the effect the na-

gtion’s growth js having upon our
M@natural environment, It was also
an act of good faith. I think this
ris ‘best expressed in the objectives
laid down for the conference:
-~To examine and discuss the
nature, extent and. effects of envir-
onmental pollution and the -various
measures required for its continu-
ing assessment and controi,
—-To assist: government and in-

dustry in formulating effective

acceptable guidelines for the con-
tinued improvement in knowledge
and control of environmental pol-
lution... .

~To provide the varios. sciors |

of society the information needed
to increase the public's understand-
ing of the efforts to control pollu-
tion, : : . .
Representation probably wag the
largest and broadest ever exper-
ienced at any conference on the
subject of pollution, Of the 600
delegates Invited, 120 were from
the federal government, 160 from
provincial governments, 70 from
municipal governments, 110 from
‘industry. and associations, 70 from
Dublic interest groups and profes-
sional associates, and 70 were in-
volved in educational research.
The 350 observers included fed-
eral and provincial cabinet min-
isters, members of. Parliament and
provincial. legislatures, deputy min-
isters.and other senior government
officials, as well as 50 university
presidents. DN
Further testimony to the import-
ance of this massive’ Canadian
meeting was the attendance’ of
observers from’ many foreign and
international ‘oganizations. Other
‘countries represented included
Australia, Belgium; Czechslovakia,

| Finland, Germany, India, fsrael, |

Japan, Poland; Sweden the United
Kingdom and the United States,
-To provide the delegates with
a comprehensive survey of polln-
tion contro] activity and organiza-
tion, more than 100 backgroimd
Papers were prepared and: distrib-
uted well in advance of ‘the con-
ference, These papers were written
by avastarray of. talent, includ.
ing administrators, economists, so-
ciologists, technicians, engineers,
and experts in the physieal: and

Many-a delegate must have shud:
sof required reading that faced him
it was typical of “the extent _ to

Wwere ‘prepared to go in.an honest
attempt to assess pollution, to

search for a resolution. ;
At the conference itself, dele-

Btoups, discussed -pallution from

By THE HONQURABLH RAY WILLISTON, |...
Minliter of Lande, Forests, .
Concern over pollution has been’

od Tn Po

and Water: Resources

becoming urban, -agriculural areas,
forest and mining: regions, river
basing and coastal regions.

From here discussions. were led
into the drawing up.of guidelines
on pollution. control, If . anyone
thinks these guidelines were to bea
simple . set of “do's” and “don’ts” he
la very. much mistaken..As it wag
already known and the conference
Proved, pollution control is not and
never will be 2. simple matter. Fair
and reasonable controls of any kind
are immensely difficult to. intro-
duce in a democracy, -Not only
must the controls have the legiti.
mate. purpose - of protecting. ‘the
rights of the. individual, but they
must also ensure that his rights
are not violated... ' .
_ Before they even attempted to
set guidelines down on Paper, the
delegates had to thresh ‘out pro-
Posaly on''a threshing. floor : of
many ‘levels, Guidelines had to be

TERRACE -“‘Omineca’' HERALD, TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

lution Picture
technological -point of view. ‘There
were. legal, jurisdictlonal, legislat.
dve and enforcement problems.
There were economic and ‘finan-
clal, and. public and. private. ad-
ministration considerations, - Plan-
ning guldelines had to be planned,
ahd a public information program
had to be propesed.. =
nevertheless a distinguished
achievement that this giant meet-
ing in one brief week drew to-
gether the literally thousands of
facts, opinions and ideas into ‘a
cogent set. of guidelines- for the
policy-makers, In. other. words, the

canference met its objective.

~ Palm” Springs - residents . may
well be the cleanest in the world,
suggests the California Office of
Tourism. ‘This favorite desert re-
creation: spa of 21,000 souls has
3,600 swimming ‘pools. It takes
some 100 million gallons of water
to fill them, Golfera note:: Palm

considered from the scientific and

he’ polnt of view of metropolitan |”

«For a limited ti
installation

eid. urban areas, areas ‘which. are

take the easy way-out: get he
atic dishwasher. The new ona
ting. Pots, pans, even fine chind and

courses within a 20-mile radius.

_ Although it was expected, it-was

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