A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 7, 2001

From front

Talks to assist Skeena Cellulose ‘complicated’, commissioner says

at the Terrace sawmill, the Communications Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) at Carnaby and the Christian Labour Associa- tion of Canada (CLAC) in Smithers.

When West Fraser ori- ginally sought its ecano- mic plan and log export approval Iwo years ago the issue split the }WA, whose policy is to oppose raw log exports.

Local union members who worked at West Fra- ser’s sawmill sought to veto ihe export deal, which would have put more than 300 loggers back to work, unless saw- mill jabs were protected,

In the end, sion offi- cials overruled the local vote and agreed to the ex- port deal.

Van Soeren indicated there could be similar complications with SCI.

That’s because export provisions may help avoid logging layoffs, but SCI mill shutdowns may be un: avoidable due toa poor mar- kets, van Soeren said.

Exporting logs is con-

equated to exporting saw- mill jobs. But van Soeren has defended limited ex- ports of raw logs — which fetch premium prices over- seas — because those pro- fits can be used to subsi- dize continued logging when low prices would otherwise force shutdowns.

Other parts of the SCI plan are likely to include further deferrals of unpaid stumpage and property taxes, he said.

Both SCI and [nterfor also want a switch to a new market-based stump- age system that links roy- alties paid to the province to the actual market value af the wood.

A mumber of the plans are to provide for indepen- dent logging by the licen- sees contractors.

That allows loggers to:

cut and market. unused —

timber when a company isn’t cutting the full amount of its annual al- lowable cut. In exchange, the province agrees not to © invoke use-it-or-lose-il pe- nalties and take away tim- ber rights for not logging

was suppased to.

Government officials say the plan may extend other types of aid to com- panies including Skeena Cellulose.

-One possibility is that loggers may be allowed to leave mare waste wood behind in the bush, said forest ministry regional manager Jim Snetsinger,

’ ‘He said the rules in place on the coast ~ where companies can leave be- hind 35 cubic metres of timber per hectare ~ could be extended to the Kalum and. Kispiox forest districts where the maximum is 20 cubic metres per hectare.

Another possibility is to not always require compa- nies to spend money “cruising” the timber to

determine its value for the setting of stumpage rates.

Suetsinger said stands where the timber {s clearly of low quality could in- stead use data previously collected from other simi- lar stands to avoid unne- cessary costs,

Van Soeren said al- though the terms of the new economic plans will be five years, they’ll be reviewed every year.

And, he said, if market conditions no longer war- rant continued approval of log exports, they’ll be dis- continued,

The Kispiox Forest Pro- ducts plan put 80 workers back on the job at a saw- mill near Hazelton that had been shut down nearly two and a half years.

troversial because it’s From front

911 service eyed

“That unfortunate incident at the Kitimat Air Park would have been considerably different had they had 911,” he said, referring to the woman who died at the Kitimat Air Park when an ambulance was delayed be- cause it was instead sent to the Terrace-Kitimat airport.

“Kamloops dispatch didn’t understand the difference between ‘Air Park’ and ‘Airport’. This has been some- thing of a problem for us for years.”

Watmough noted 911 is easy to remember.

“People get confused when they get into a town that doesn’t have [911]. Young children have the same pro- blem. They try to diat 911 and it’s not there.”

Thornhill voters defeated two recent referenda, one on a proposed political amalgamation with the city of Ter- race, another on Terrace’s bid to build a taxpayer-sup- ported $7.6 million multiplex.

Watmough insists a referendum on 911 is the way to go, And he vows he'll ask the people of Thornhill to vote

as much as the company

i yes to 911. :

Térrace’ ‘mayor Jack Talsira said it’s too Soon to ‘think

_ about a referendum on 911... WEL Rs

“Twouldn’t suspect it would go toa referendum in n the cily,” he said. “It’s really hard to cross that bridge now

-because we don’t know what our cost is going to be.”

He thinks it could take the summer to determine if re- gional district's aboriginal communities.

Without it, Terrace’s portion of the cost could be about $383,565, or 31 per cent of the estimated $2.1 mil- lion price tag-to get the system up and running.

By contrast, Thornhill’s taxpayers would be respons- ible for 6.6 per cent of 911 costs, based on property as- sessments,

“We have to determine whether we can handle the costs or not, but initially it looks reasonably favourable,” he said. “I think it’s do-able.”

WATERSHED

Rehabilitation Started on Local Creek

Daudet Creek is a four-kilometer stream that originates from a groundwater spring just north of the Kitimat city center and flows into Minette Bay, part of the Kitimat River estuary. Historicaliy, cutthroat traut, coho and pink salmon utilised this stream for spawning and rearing, but land development, road building and logging over the past 30 years made the stream inaccessible to fish due to numerous beaver dams and logging debris,

In 1998, Gviatt Contracting Ltd. acquired property along the middte reaches of Daudet Creek and after obtaining the necessary approvals, excavated the creek to re-establish a continuous channel that increased the drainage for the property, and provided fish access ta almost 3,5 kilometers of praviously isolated habitat. -

However, improvements wera still necessary to

; increase the survival and production of fish. Triton

Ze =6Environmental Consultants, in partnership with

ae = Department of Fisheries and Oceans Habitat

: Branch, Mount Elizabeth High School, and Oviatt

fag = Contracting Ltd. (whose generous donations of

m= machinery and materials amounted to one quarter

of the project costs), completed the restoration of

one km of Daudet Creek in summer and fall of

1999, This included creating pools and installing

fae = olarge pieces of wood for fish ta use as caver, creating

fees = drop structures and rock riffles ta oxygenate the

water, planting of evergreen trees and installing informative signs along the creek banks.

This Fisheries Renewal BC funded project was a successful beginning to the restoration of Daudet Creek. Relationships were buitt within the community, high schcol students gained summer employment and fish regained access to productive habitat. New community partners have taken up the challenge and applied for funding this year to continue reatoratian of the final three kilometers of Daudet Creek.

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