Newsstand Price 25¢

May 14, 1980 |

Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

NEW CHEMICAL HAZARDS REPORT WARNS

By NOEL WRIGHT °

The most important source of danger to the
North Shore from hazardous chemicals is rail
transportation rather than the chemical plants
themselves. It’s a danger threatening both North
and West Vancouver -- and one which has not
been sufficiently emphasized to date.

That is one of the key
findings in an independent
20-page report on North
Shore chemical hazards

released Tuesday by the
North Vancouver Chamber
of Commerce.

The report, prepared by a

A FIRST IN AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN &s created by West Vancouver
firefighters Fred Bain, pictured on the left, and Rex Neff, producing a
convertible Toyota Corolla by removing the roof with the aid of the

special ad hoc committee
under the chairmanship. of
well-known community
leader Derek Inman, was
commissioned by the
Chamber late in March to
evaluate the earlier Beak
Report and examine the role
of municipal and = senior
governments in minimizing
or eliminating risks.

The three other commit-
tee members were L.L.

Bockhold, president of W.A.
Thom Ltd., M. Maughan, a
senior consulting engineer
and H.M. Moore, North Van
City’s chief librarian.

The report questions some
of the assumptions in the
Beak Report regarding
future disasters at North Van
chemical plants, especially
its forecasts of a probabje
major accident “once im

eight years” at Hooker, and

department's new spreader and crashing
destroying cars, the

notes that Beak deals’ only
with the Hooker and ERCO
plants themselves, as distinct
from the more serious threat
posed by transportation of
their products.

This, says the report, “has

led to the over-simplified

logic that removal of the
Hooker plant would solve
the problem.”

CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

equipment. As well as

ukas Rescue System can also be a lifesaver in
reaching trapped accident victims. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

TO CUT MOUNTAIN
RESCUE DELAYS

NV City
mulls air
ambulance
terminal
request

By PAT RICH

Lions Gate Hospital
wants to leap into the
1980’s by constructing a
heliport for the use of
helicopters bringing
accident victims to the
hospital.

The matter was brought
before North Vancouver
City council Monday night in
a letter from Maurice Fellis,
president of the Lions Gate
Hospital (LGH) board of
directors.

Accident victims who are
brought to LGH by
helicopter are currently
landed on Grand Boulevard
and sometimes on the police
parking lot on St.Georges
Avenue.

Fellis said that the long
range planning committee of
the hospital is concerned
“that neither of these
locations is a designated
heliport and that there is a
serious possibility of an
accident when they are used
indiscnminately .”

The LGH board of
directors feels that the North

CONTINUED ON PAGE A10

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy
with bsolated showers and
sunny breaks in the after-
noon.

THURSDAY: Mainly
sunny and warmer.