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NEWS photo Nell Lucente

CLEVELAND ELEMENTARY Sckool students Jutie DeJong and Jokan Arnet (both Grade 7) are up to their necks in colorful poinsettias. Children
at the North Vancouver school recentiz sold mere than 750 of the festive plants to parents and businesses, raising $5,000 for the school’s Eastern

H Canada student exchange progrant.

onmentalist fears Japanese deal will delay pollution controls

CANADIAN FOREST Products’ (Canfor) $635 million
deal with Japan’s Oji Paper Co. Ltd. (OPCL) to upgrade its
Port Mellon mill and move it into newsprint production has
increased concerns from a Wesi Vancouver environmentalist
that a mill deadline to comply with provincial air pollution
standards by July 1988 will be delayed another three years.

Terry Jacks, who has waged a
two-year battie to force the mill to
comply with provincial air pollu-
tion standards, said Monday's an-
nouncement of Canfor’s deal with
the Japanese company made no
mention of environmental plans
for the mill’s production expan-
sion.

The variance order deadline re-
quiring the company to be in com-

By TIMOTHY R
and JOUN

pliance with provincial air pollu-
tion standards, he said, is seven
months away.

“The government has promised
us that the mill will be in com-
pliance, but this plan means they
could go another three years,”

Jacks said. *‘If there is a slump in
the pulp industry in the future then
the environmental improvements
could be left. The cost of preven-
tion is ultimately going to be much
le.s than the cost of pollution.”
But Canfor's director of energy
and environment Kirke MacMillas
said Tuesday the company will
meet this week with provincial en-
vironment ministry officials to
establish a Port Meflon environ-
ment plan that will upgrade it to
meet the tightest pulp mill potlu-
tion standards in B.C. by 1990.
The dea! between Canfor and
OPCL was announced Monday in
the B.C. legislature by Economic
Development Minister Grace Mc-

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Carthy.

Canfor and OPCL, a I14-year-
old Tokyo-based company, will
team up to create Howe Sound
Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd. with an
initial Japanese investment of
$307.5 million.

McCarthy said the agreement
between the two corporate giants
would include:

*A new $355 million, 535
tonne-per-day newsprint mill
scheduled to start production in
1991,

¢ Modernizing the Port Mellon
pulp mill and increasing its market
pulp capacity from 650 tonnes to
1,006 tonnes per day by 1990 at a
cost of $280 million.

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* Increasing annual mill pulp
production from 223,000 tonnes to
345,000 tonnes and increasing chip
consumption from 3.4 million
cubic metres to 5.6 million cubic
metres,

«Plans for further expansion in
newsprint production will push the
total investment in projects to
more than $1 billion by the mid-
1990s.

¢ The creation of up to 450 con-
struction jobs over the next 3%
years.

MacMillan said the major por-
tion of work to improve the mill's
environmental facilities will be

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