Al 4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 23, 2000

SKATER Danvis Dorrett with his sign.

Skater assaulted

SKATEBOARDER Danvis Dorrett launched a one- man protest against what he calls “skater haters” last week after he was harassed and confronted by a group of older teenagers.

“T got beal up because I skate,” said Dorrett, a 16-year-old who fashioned a protest sign out of a used pizza box, strapped it around his neck, and took his message to the streets of Terrace, follow- ing an altercation with a group of non-skaters,

On Aug. 16, Dorrett said a group surrounded him on Kalum Street in front of Sears, where he claims he was eventually punched in the face by a much larger male assailant, after the store’s manager - who tried to intervene — went inside to call police.

“The manager said, ‘Seven against one isn’t fair,’ and if they didn’t leave, he’d call the police. So as soon as the guy picked up the phone, | was hit.”

Dorrett said his attacker had followed him from Gus’s, where 15 minutes eartier there had been an- other confrontation. “He said he hated skaters.”

Sears manager Dean Porter said he tried reason- ing with the older youth who towered over his vic- tim, before calling police to disperse the crowd in front of the store.

Wearing a protest sign that read: “I Skate Be- cause I Can, Stop Sk8ter Haters, and Skateboard- ing is Nat a Crime,” Dorrett said he and other ska- teboarders in Terrace are routinely insulted and harassed when they ride their boards around town.

He now fears Terrace’s anti-skateboarding cli- mate has escalated from name calling, insults, and verbal abuse to full-out physical attacks.

“T just want people to know that skateboarding is not a crime, It’s an art. It’s a skill. 1 want all this skateboarder abuse and harassment to stop.”

He and other skateboarders do feel safe at the new skateboard park, although because of its isola- tion, Darrett and his friends avoid it after dark.

He admitted he may face retaliation for speak- ing oul, but Dorrett intends to keep on skateboard- ing, no matter what. “These are the best four wheels I’ve ever had. They get me everywhere.”

Drilling review moves along

A 12-14 MEMBER group is being formed by the provin- cial government to set up the way in which the decision will be made to keep or lift the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the northwest coast.

Al stake are deposits potentially worth more than $100 billion with as much as $10 billion in royalties going to the provincial government,

“I want to quickly work with that group to work out the terms of reference and establish a time frame for the

work,” northern commissioner John Backhouse said last week.

He made the comments last week after receiving the second of two consultants’ reports which found a broad acceptance to setting up a method to examine the’ mora- torium based on including all sectors of the northwest and the north coast of Vancouver Island.

The north coast of Vancouver [sland is included be- cause the potential deposits are located as far south as that area.

The group will contain a wide variety of local govern- ment, native, and business representatives and could in- clude oil and gas company interests, said Backhouse.

Backhouse was given the job last year to find out the public attitude toward reviewing the drilling moratorium placed in the mid-1970s,

He’s had to tread lightly, saying repeatedly his task is not to recommend the moratorium be lifted, but to find a way in which the decision can be made.

No matter what a final decision may be, the need is to give people “as fair as a say as anybody else has in the process,” he said. .

To do that, Backhouse said the work to set up a re- view process must be open and without bias.

Business groups in Prince Rupert have already said they believe environmentally-safe drilling is possible given the advances of technology over the past 20 years.

They’ve also pointed to the success of the Hibernia”

drilling off of the coast of Newfoundland. Various environmental groups aren’t convinced, say- ing the northcoast waters are shallow and subject to se-

- vere winds and storms which could result in spills and

damage should drilling be allowed,

The idea of another kind of northwest industry has grown given the decline of other industries such as log- ging and fishing.

It’s also been fuelled by the recent massive demand by the Uniled States to use natural gas as an alternative energy source to coal and nuclear power.

One of the keys to Backhouse’s work is to set up a neutral and central location for any and all information

- relating to drilling,

He’s going to approach the University of Northern British Columbia to see if it is interested in the job.

“I believe UNBC has the capability and the potential to set up something world class,” said Backhouse.

He’s spent just over $150,000 so far on the two con- sultants’ reports and is now working on a budget for the review design group.

The 1970s moratorium was last revigwed by the pra- vincial and federal governments in 1986 and they deci- ded it should stay in place.

“Any review needs the involvement of the federal gov- ernment.

It has so far remained neutral on the subject and. fed-—

eral environment minister David Anderson has said no serious exploration proposal has been submitted.

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