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February 24, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 68 pages 25¢

NEWS photo bike Wakalield

WHAT STARTED as 2 present for his granddaughter has almost turned into an obsession for 70-year-olé North Shore resident Leonard Rogers.
Regers loves to make doll fouses, miniature furniture and antique collectibles authentic to the last deisti. His work is currently oa display at
Capilano Library until the end of February.

POSSIBILITY OF PETROCHEMICAL PLANT NEAR BRITANNIA_BEACH

: Howe Sound industrial
proposal raises concerns

THE POSSIBILITY of a petrochemical plant being con- are being considered for a 300-acre But environmentalists are “Howe Sound needs no more
structed near Howe Sound's Furry Creek has raised new site fronting on Howe Sound and already ringing alarm bells over the — heavy industrial pressurc.’* En
concerns from axea environmentalists over the future of the owned by Copper Beach Estates possible environmental impact of a vironmental Watch spokesman

hans Lid. (CBEL), which acquired the petrochemical plant: adjacent to Terry Jacks said. ‘lt looks like the
. sound. of Anaconda ines | F > Creek and the shore f : . I ali
property from Anaconda mines in urry Creek and on the shores o government plans on making
The plant is one of several pro- ——————— the mid-70s. Howe Sound. Areas of the sound Howe Sound an extension of Bur-
i >osals being considered for pri- By TIMOTHY RENSHAW CBEL owns approximately were closed to commercial and rard Inlet."*

‘ vately-owned property ia the Furry News Reporter 1,680 acres from the south bank of — recreational fishing Nov. 30, 1988 Jacks said Howe Sound is a
Creek valley approximately three Furry Creek to Britannia Beach. after high levels oi cancer-causing prime recreation area and should
kilometres south of Britannia too early to talk (about those pro- Bruusgaard said jobs for the dioxins, furans and other — be developed as such.

Beach. posals). Its at a very preliminary region and environmental com- organochlorines produced by the But West Vancouver-Howe
But Tom Bruusgaard, economic state of affairs." patibility would be major con- area’s two pulp and paper mills Sound MLA John Reynolds said
development commissioner for the He said proposals ranging from siderations in any industriai pro- were found in sea life taken near See MLA

Sea to Sky region, said, ‘It is way industrial to residential projects posal for the site. the mills. Page 3