A4 - Wednesday, January 19, 1983 - North Shore News th wa = SS <> emracanact st wv wae BCs outside By UNITED PRESS CANADA Ombudsman hits at bill VICTORIA — _ British Columbia Ombudsman Kari Friedmann says the province's proposed expropriation bill provides insufficient protection to landowners from sweeping govern- ment powers over private property. ° -- Friedmann tmdtcated Monday there’ were several areas of potential abuse in the draft taw released last fall by In- tergovernmental _Relat- ons Minister Garde Gardom, Gardom said he wants the constitution to guarantee property nights. Commenting on the proposed bill, the om- budsman said, “Citizens will now be granted a good measure of protection from “the use and abuse of ex- propniation powers.” He said, however, there are str areas of concern. © Most landowners were not aware of their rights, Frnedmann ‘said. “Mary people agree to sell their Property fo government authorities because they are led to believe that they have no choice in the matter.” Money ministers plan strategy PARIS — Finance ministers from 10 of the world’s richest in- dustrialized nations . began a day. of —talks Tuesday to discuss creation of an emergency fund to ease the burden of international debts on banks and cash-starved countries. Ministers of the In- ternational Monetary Fund’s “Group of 10” most influential industnal nations met 10 work out a joint strategy to present to the IMF’s decision- making body, the interim Committee, Washington next month. A senior delegate at the Group of 10 talks said preparatory meetings produce agreement on the size of quotas, or contributions, nations would make to the Fund. The 10 - United States, Canada, France, West Germany, Britain, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Holland and Japan - have reached general agreement that =the resources of the larger IMF fund = should be substantially increased. ‘Not begging’ for summit BONN, West Germany — Soviet Foreign Minister Andres Gromyko — said Tuesday the Soviets want aA summit meeting with Presidcat Reagan bul they are nol “begping | for one He told a news con ference the United States bas said such a ANGEL wepared be Tr eta, nothing fo pre pan one Ceromyker oom Che Chand day of a four-day visin to Bonn that was wade ty teparded ay an alte tpl foo mifluenee the growing West German peace movement, also offered to hold talks on the Soviet blow proposal for an Fast West non ageression pact. “We are proposing to NATO that wars bepin that all quariels be settled by nepotiations bh mr = worn l ecta, want all Wes foo Commsadder uf emothon TY! the table Nathons ard we te Pocdhiny Cacinany without Convo ltabrerns wee WeCESSaDN Ube yc at bee held hie Saned FROM PAGE A1 ‘ment admits that it already dumping ‘volume and that the permit change is merely a housekeeping matter to authorize on paper a situavion which exists. And that is. what neighbors of the members of the Citizens Opposed to Landfill Dumping (COLD) so furious. What has dump, he” permitted” vigorously campaigning to wind down the landfill operation rather than step it up. “COLD spokesman Dan Simunic, who took Distnct lo court and was successful in @ prosecubon on the grounds that it did not hive up to the conditions of the waste management permit, wryly comments that the sooner the landfill fills up the sooner it will close. However, such conjecture they have main- is tempered with acute mis- tained all along -—~ that trust by the residents over Distnct does not comply District's intentions § con- with the terms of its landfill cerning the dump. permit — is again con- Diatrict’s original notice firmed. seeking to change the the Distnct’. Engineer John dumping volumes’ was Bremner says that neigh- published last November and bours’ fears that dumping | _ volumes will increase are council because publicity of groundless. The landfill the application in the News receives — and will continue raised such an ou to receive, he says — an landfill opponents. average of 372 tons per day. That application was The permit allowing 500 tons would merely authonze the heavier dumping days which average out the lower ones to that figure, he maintains. But opponents fear that once District is permitted to dump 500 tons per day, that may well become the ac- cepted average daily load — at a time when they are terminal A TIP-OFF from the RCMP drug squad led to the arrest of two people by West Vancouver. pohce Fiiday afternoon, on drug charges. The couple was arrested after police allegedly seized approximately 220 gm. (7.7 oz.) of marijuana said to be worth $2,000, from a car the two were in. West Van police checked the car at the ferry terminal, at 4.30 p.m., acting on an- formation received by the RCMP. Charged with possession of the drug for the purposes of trafficking are Vera Lynn George, aped 24. and Rachard George. JI. both of loa] Booth Avenuc, Coquitlam. Perpetual Memberships accompanied by a request (0 be exempt from conditions requiring daily coverage of garbage by topsoil. Failure to comply with that condition was the reason the Simunic prosecution was successful a ol k roa | a0 rate i against District. A request by District to be exempt from those terms, foes mistrust council in December deluged Waste Management with hundreds of protests. And now the while so recently placed on application has been —for- probation for failing to comply with them, only Strengthened neighbors’ suspicions towards District and its intentions for the landfill. Harry McBride, District's deputy engineering director, said in a report to council that Waste Management “wish us to proceed with the amendment (tq increase) the average daily tonnage ... to bring it up to date.” He added: “The amend- ‘ment requested will simply bring it into agreement with current and projected future the new application which would include the required flooding into Premier Street tandfill. However, granting of the application by Waste Management Branch is likely to be considerably more than the rubber-stamp operation District would no doubt hike. 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