4 - Sunday, December’ 10, :1989°- North Shore News WHILE THE federal government was gearing up to an- nounce the closing of eight fishing zones along the West Coast because of poisoning from pulp mills, Adam Zim- merman, chairman of Noranda Forest Inc., was making a speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto, accusing en- vironmentalists of telling ‘‘lies or bent truth at best’’ about the poor old misunderstood pulp and paper industry. Zimmerman struck the pose of a woundeag, maligned captain of in- dustry, beseiged by hypocrites and eco-terrorists on every side, while meanwhile patting himself and others in the industry for being *‘good.”” Yes, that’s the word he used. Good. As opposed to the media who report ‘‘just the bad things that happen and the people who are willing to say irresponsible things.’”* Maybe Zimmerman has a point. Here I am reporting a bad thing that happened — the mass poison- ing of Shellfish. And, moreover, reporting on a person saying sore awesomely irresponsible stuff, al- though, as it turns out, that person in this case is the great Adam Zimmerman himself. The most telling thing about this, as I see it, is that Zimmerman thinks that brainwashing through advertising is an ‘education yIF? exercise: be As proof of the industry’s goodness, Zimmerman said: ‘I’m here to tell you that the pulp and paper industry this week is renew- ing its multi-million dollar adver- tising campaign.”’ Oh wonderful! How truly good. “This time, for openers,’’ he went on, ‘‘the ad is featuring the industry environmental code, thus joining the several other industries that have managed to develop a consensus environmental code.”’ This was based, wonder of wonders and further utterable goodness, Cap'n Zimmerman add- ed, on the Council of Forest [n- dustries’ ‘‘very telling and im- pressive public education exercise on the subject of forests are forev- er (which) in the last year I think . has turned a Jot of minds.’” Frankly, that just turns my stomach. The most telling thing about this, as I see it, is that Zimmerman thinks that brainwashing through advertising is an *‘education exer- cise.”” But fe2's follow his incredible in- sights a bit further: **1’m sure that we in the forest industry are much better in our act than you are in yours,’ meaning the average householder. “*A big modern pulp mill replants all the wood it uses and | thus maintains a sustainable yield forest. It produces an effluent that is drinkable and virtually undetec- table 10 miles downstream, doing no harm along the way, and it may produce about a sugar cube’s worth of dioxin in say 300,000 tons of production. it smells a bit, which may aggravate you, but it certainly does no damage." Zimmerman should try telling that to the fishermen who have been thrown out of work by the accumulation of this same harmless effluent along the entire length of the West Coast! Zimmerman raved on, apparent- ly blissfully unaware of the catas- trophe his wonderfully-advertised industry had unleashed in B.C. waters. “Pulp mills are marvellously ef- ficient waste disposal converters, and the pulp mills themselves not only recover the chemicals used, but over 98 per cent of the fibre and their secondary treatment of effluent creates a generally accept- able stream. There are problems but certainly no dangers.’” I swear I’m not inventing this stuff. I have a copy of his speech in front cf me. it was made just two days before the federal ban and advisories on eating crab, oysters and prawns as a result of research that revealed the presence of toxic dioxins and furans in waters outside several B.C. pulp mills. lasked Dr. David Suzuki what he thought about Zimmerman's little speech. When he stopped Jaughing, Suzuki explained: ““We have to get used to the idea that the planet is not infinite, it’s not an infinite sink that will dilute out our products forever. When we start using water and air in a major way to dump so much material, even if we’re dumping one part per billion, eventually it’s going to ac- cumulate. ‘*Many of these compounds are absolutely brand new. They’ve never existed on the planet,”’ Suzuki continued. ‘‘Chlorinated organics --- furans, dioxins — are not normally degraded by any bio- logical system. So they’re going to pile up, and the consequences are going to be felt right up through the food chain. “The toxic limitation goals for chlorinated organics being con- templated by the B.C. government are outrageous. The government is suggesting they be cut back to two and a half kilograms per tonne by 1991] and one and a half kilograms per tonne by 1994. “That sounds like a hell of a lot to me! The pulp and paper in- dustry says, ‘Well, we're only talk- ing about a sugar cube-size amount of dioxin.’ And yet that amount could wipe out practically the whole population of the earth,”’ Suzuki said. “So we've got tc stop fooling the public that the amounts in- volved are so infinitesimally small we don’t have to worry about them.’ Back t to you. Adam Zimmer- mane . RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in the following fines and penalties for drinking and driving related offences. 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