NEWS BRIEFS Former WVD staffer nets three months for theft A FORMER West Vancouver District employee was sentenced March 12 in Vancouver provincial court to 90 days in jai! for stealing a large sum of money from the municipality. Yolanda Mary Greniuk pleaded guilty at 2 preliminary hearing to theft over $1,000. Charges were laid against the former finance departmem employee after the municipality discovered $24,000 had diszppeared. Municipal manager Doug Allan said Greniuk was charged with theft of approximately $3,000 from the municipality's recreation program revenues between Feb. 17, 1989 and Nov. 23, 1989. Allan added that the municipality has since conducted an internal audit of its cash handling system as protec- tion guard against a recurrence of the incident. The district has also implemented a series of recommenda- tions from its external auditors, Dunwoody and Co. Greniuk was also placed on probation for two years. Feds unable to build case for charges in creek spill TIME HAS run out for charges to be laid against a North Vancouver business thought to be responsible for a spill of bleach into Lynn Creek in Augusi that wiped out hundreds of juvenile salmon. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans was unable to gather enough evidence to build a case within the six-month limitation period, said federal prosecutor Jay Straith. The Aug. 16 spill of sodium hypochlorite is believed to have entered Lynn Creek south of Bridgeman Park through a culvert below Hunter Street on the east side of the creek. Virtually ail life dov. astream was killed by the spilt. Lynn Creek supports populations of chum, chinook, We Know ° PARTKIPEE! 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Howe Sound mill fined $175,000 THE PROVINCIAL government, not industry, is to blame for pollution problems created by B.C. pulp mills, environmental activist Terry Jacks said Tuesday. Jacks made the comment one : day after Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Ltd. (HSPPL) was fined $175,000 for exceeding pollution permit levels at its Port Mellon pulp mill in May of 1989. The company pleaded guilty in Sechelt provincial court ou Mon- day to five charges laid under the Waste Management Act and was fined $25,000 on each count for a total of $125,000. HSPPL was fined an additional $50,000 after it pleaded guilty to an additional pollution charge !aid against zhe mill in connection with a spill that occurred on Sept. 19, 5990 when its cooling tower sump overflowed during the startup of the mill’s new effluent treatment system. The company could have been fined a maximum of $1 million on each count. But Jacks called the $175,000 fine ‘ta drop in the bucket"' for the mill’s owners. “These guys make a million dollars a day. That fine means nothing to them and that’s the sad part. It’s nothing compared to the damage they've done to the (Howe) sound,”’ Jacks said. He added that the provincial government should be blamed for what he said was allowing pulp mills to exceed provincial pollu- tion levels. “It's no use in saying the pulp mills are dirty rotten polluters. It's the dirty rotten government,”" Jacks said. ‘I don’t go after these polluters any more because they get away with it. It’s the provin- cial government that lets them get away with it.” By Surj Rattan News Reporter Jacks said it is not good enough that the pulp mill industry is working to reduce milf poilution levels. Government and industry, he said. must ‘‘go for zero pollu- tion. They (pulp mills) don’t have the right to destroy our quality of life.” He added that there should be 24-hour monitoring of pulp mills. The Port Mellon mill is in the final stages of a $1.1 billion ex- pansion and modernization pro- ject. Company president Bill Hughes said the 1989 incidents were not related to the new milf, which he claimed, ‘“‘is now, and will con- tinue to be, one of the cleanest kraft pulp mills in the world.”’ “Howe Sound's new clarifier and secondary effluent treatment system have been an outstanding success in achieving effluent quali- ty that is consistently better than our permit requirements, so we decided to put the past behind us as quickly as possible by clearing the slate of old charges,’ said Hughes. He added that last September's spill ‘twas an isolated incident’’ that was linked to the start-up of the new mill. “We have made mechanical changes to ensure it will not hap- pen again,’” said Hughes. Last April. the provincial en- vironment ministry charged HSPPL with 19 pollution-related offences. 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