.4.- Wednesday, June 10, 1981 - North Shore News

JERUSALEM (COPD -
Prime Minister
Menachem .. Begin
Tuesday defended Israel's
attack ‘on Iraq's atomic
reactor as a “supreme act
of national defence” that
saved the Jewish state
from another Holocaust.

Addressing a news
conference, . Begin
Charged the Iraqis

‘ planned to build three to
| five. Hiroshima-sized
. atomic bombs which they
intended to drop. on
Israel. He said such ae

HAMILTON, “Ont.
(UPC) - The Toronto Sun
retracted — its, -stock-
profiteering “allegations
against. Indian and

Northern Affairs Minister

John Munro” and a
‘Hamilton lawyer
“Tuesday, but the two say
"they will sue anyway.
_ Munro and Jack
Pelech, his former law
partner, said Tuesday
‘they would proceed with
their libel actions against
the newspaper, despite
“the Sun’s admission its
story accusing the men of
profiting from the
government's purchase of

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
The federal government
rule is isolated from
western Canada’s and
Quebec's aspirations even
‘though the regions have
gained the _ self-
confidence to play a
major role in Con-
federation, conservative
leader Joe Clark said
Monday.

In a speech before a
receptive audience at-
tending a one-day
western conservative

LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
Hunger-striking Vietnam-
era veterans and their
supporters were ousted
Tuesday from the tent
city they erected on the
lawn of ai Veterans
Administration hospital
threo weeks ago to
protest inadequate

Feds isolated ,
says Clark

Vietnam vets
evicted

aitack would cause up to
600,000 Israeli casualties
and the destruction of the
nation’s industrial and

agricultural in-
frastructure.
Begin said killing

600,000 of Israel's nearly
4 million citizens would
be like wiping out 44
million Americans or 8
million Egyptians.
“Never again will there
be another Holocaust,”
Begin said, recalling the
1.5 million Jews who died
at the hands of the Nazis
during World War II.

-Petrofina oil ‘company
was wrong.

The June 2 story
alleged Munro, Pelech
and other Liberal Party
figures were linked to
transactions in shares of
Petrofina shortly before
the Belgian-owned firm
was purchased by the

state-owned Petro-Can- .

ada.

Munro declined to
comment on the
retraction, but said ‘he
had instructed his at-
torney to continue his
Ontario Supreme Court
action — reportedly for
$750,000 plus costs —
against the Sun.

caucus symposium, Clark
said the federal govern-
ment “is isolated because
it looks inward at its own
theories instead of
outward at the nation.
(Canada) needs policies
that serve the whole
nation.”

The opposition leader
said the federal govern-
ment would have to
recognize Quebec and
the westem provinces
have been striving “to be
the equal of Ontario.”

medical care.

Seven protesters,
including a woman, were
arrested and carried out
of the lobby of = the
Wadsworth Hospital
when they refused orders
from VA _ officials to
vacate the premises.

Service (EPS) were sent to

both provincial and
municipal officials.

A letter from EPS director
Bernie Heskin. to Bob
Ferguson, provincial
director of the Waste
Management . Branch
(WBM) dated April 11, 1980,
said that samples of leachate
discharge and sludge Pits
collected in the previous
eight months — contained
“significant levels of am-
monia, phenols and heavy
metals including mercury.”

The toxicity was so strong
that fish -died within 100
minutes of exposure, the
letter continued.

Brian Kelso, head of EPS’s
fresh -water surveillance
department told the News
that the samples, dated Sept.
4, 1979, contained total
chromium readings of 14,450
parts per million.

Acceptable chromium soil
levels is 100 parts per
million, with a permissible
range of 80 to 200 parts per
million.

The “extremely toxic
discharge” was then, and is
now, unacceptable, - said

WMB ‘results of” sludge

taken from the landfill site
two - weeks ago after a
woman reported toxic
dumping by McRae’s Septic
Tank Service: confirms that
the material is hazardous.
Once -again; -elevated
levels of chromium make the

waste miaterial “ hazardous”
and toxic, explained WMB-

regional biologist George
Gouth.

McRae’s_ said that the
liquid waste came directly
from. ERCO, a pulp. and
paper chemical manufac-
turing plant.
‘media reports, ERCO of-

ficials have questioned the.

high metal content in the
sludge, saying that the toxic
metals are “not even used
by(its) plant.”

Until a recent sampling of
sludge taken directly from
the ERCO plant is analyzed
for its toxic quantities, it is
prohibited from dumping
waste material at the landfill,
said North Van District
engineer John Bremner.
“We do not accept any

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Bremner. “The problem ‘was
with McRae’s, not ERCO.”
And analysis of the sludge
taken directly from ERCO
supported that, he Said.

But McRae’s say that their
trucks are always clean now

‘hazardous waste.”

ERCO officials refused to
comment on the degree’ of
chromium metal present in
its waste by-product.

But chromium is definitely
a by-product of a sodium
chlorate plant, said Gouth.
“Unfortunately you can't get
rid of chromium,” said the
head of the regional en-
vironmental department.

And there is no legal place
to dump the metal since B.C.
does not have an approved
site for getting rid of
hazardous. wastes, said
Gouth.

Two years ago the cause
of the highly toxic material
being dumped was an un-
clean septic tank, said

ERCO's wast

Bremner and WMB of-
ficials are scheduled to meet
this morning to discuss. and
analyze the incident.

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