AG Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 7, 1990

- Ashes to dust

4 Terrace residents may no longer have to complain about .

"fly ash" clogging their eavestroughs or causing moss to. ii
grow on their roofs. But, have you noticed the pink-.
tinged snowbanks surrounding the Skeena Cellulose
sawmill? Is it a fungus? No, it’s cedar sawdust from the ©

debarker. . _

~ When the wind blows and it lands in our yards, it is ~
just as hard to sweep off the sidewalks and wash off our
houses as that demon “fly ash". Granted, the mill .- -
converted from burning waste to a smokeless hog fuel
system last year, but there are still some. issues of social
conscience remaining for an industrial installation that
operates in the midst of a residentail area. |
Did anyone read last week’s classified section, in which
the same mill applied for a permit under the Waste
Management Act for a PCB storage building? "The
composition and quantity of special waste(s) to be stored
is...PCB filled capacitors; maximum concentration of
substance in special waste: 100%; maximum quantity of
special waste to be stored: 2500 kg...waste oil; ... The
period during which the special waste will be stored will
be indefinitely or until a Provincial Special Waste
Facility is available. The method to be used to store the
special waste will be inside special metal containers toa
specially built storage building."
_ Granted, this mill provides major employment in our
area. And within the Forest industry, it contributes the
majority of that critical one-third of our economic base.
Granted, they are supporters of local groups and

organizations and projects.

But, would it not be possible, with some research and
effort, to find solutions.to: these environmental concerns?
Could the offending sawdust-blowing mechanism be
enclosed and the sawdust shipped off for use in a waste
wood-burning power converter? And the PCBs stored
some place safer than near a residential area? We don’t
want a situation like the one in Hagersville, where the air
is being polluted by the toxins given off by the burning
tires. A fire is a distinct possibility at a sawmill, and
toxic waste within its boundaries seems foolish.

‘Many communities throughout the country have rejected
proposals to store quantities of toxic chemicals within
their boundaries. is there a compelling reason why we

should be different?

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| Wednesday ;

_ by Bob Jackman

Perspectives

Oh, columny! (spelling
intentional.)

Political pundits like John Pifer,
Hubert Beyer and Brian Kieran
regularly direct our attention to

the personalities, or lack thereof, ©

of our provincial politicians, and:
keep an alert eye out for real
estate profits made by Cabinet
Ministers and former campaign
chairmen. They are, J suppose,
serving a useful function by
pinpointing some of the worst
offences and most inane remarks,
and because of their special status
as commentators rather than as
reporters, are allowed to say

f/ things that cannot generally be

said in a straightforward news
story. They are the Don Cherrys
of the newspaper world, not the
Jim Robsons.

I don’t like Don Cherry, or
Brian Kieran. But Harry Neale is
okay, and I enjoy quite a few
other columnists. 1 imagine that
both Cherry and Kieran would be
seeking other lines of work if
everybody felt like I do, so we
have to assume that they have
their fans. They also have their —
detractors, which we’ll get to in
a minute or two.

December’s issue of OMNI
magazine hias a good article,
which caught my attention:
because it features Stephen King,
on censorship. Seems that King,
along with Judith Blume and
John Steinbeck, is one of the
three most highly censored
authors in the States. Some
people don’t like the fact that

King puts on paper words that

you can overhear any day of the
week in local pubs, restaurants,
or schoolyards, words that Clint
Eastwood alluded to in his
famous phrase "Read My Lips!”
So they go to school board.

ee

O CENSORSH--

‘meetings, and Council meetings,
and ask these protectors of the
public virtue to ban King’s books

from community and school
libraries.

I’m not so sure it’s the
four-letter words these people
find so offensive. Judith Blume,
I’m told, writes books that make
teenagers think. Well, that’s
pretty subversive, and I
don’t read her anyway so maybe
we can do without her stuff. But
Steinbeck? Hold on a second!
Lenny and George...The Grapes
of Wrath...East of Eden.,.Cannery
Row? Oh, no, you don't!

Kennedy assassination and
implies that The Dallas Police
mentality is not limited to a few

. cops and FBI agents in Texas,

but rather permeates our society,
at all levels. ‘Ine Ogopogo,
UFO's, CIA involvement in
Panama...better to

hide the facts and keep people
from thinking than to

have an informed populace.

If people knew what was really ©
going on, don’t you think they’d
care enough to actually do
something about the inequities in
our society? Why should Captain
Hazelwood be the only scapegoat

"If people knew what was really going on, don’t
you think they’d care enough to actually DO
something about the inequities in our society?"

And King? 22 different swear
words used 156 times in one
novel -- yup, somebody actually
counted them! I only use about
six, and a couple of hyphens, but
then, I’m not Stephen King. I
would think if someone found a
particular word offensive, they
could easily get a black felt
marker and just stroke out the
word whenever it appears, in
their own book, of course.

As with Blume and Steinbeck,
what some people don’t like
about Stephen King is not so
much the words he uses, but how

’ he combines them to make us

think. If you want real horror,
read The Tonunyhaockers, and
think about The Dallas Police.
Briefly, if you haven’t read it,
King takes the ’cover-up’ of the

of the Exxon Valdez disaster’
Why should Cache Creek have to
take Vancouver's garbage? Why
were the people of Bale Comeau
forced by government troops to
accept PCB's against their will?
When I see letters to the editor
demanding government thought
control and gagging of |
columnists, I question what the
letter-writer would think if the
same standards were applied to
his letter? Sorry, 1 don’t like what
you're saying, so we're not
going to let you say it! Or, if
your name is Salman Rushdie,
we're going to kill you and, by
implication, anyone else. who
dares to write anything we don’t

agree with. ; .

I’ve got just two words for
supporters of censorship - READ
MY LIPS! Se