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A20-Wednesday, November 19, 1980 - North Shore News

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removal would cost $1,926
per person. If spread evenly
among the most hikely
potential beneficiaries the
cost would amount to
$41,073 per person.

DISASTER ODDS

In assessing the possibili-
uies of a disaster as a result of
the presence of Hooker, the
consultants take imto con-
sideration recent upgrading
of safety precautions at the
plant which give sub
stantially different statustics
than in the scenario painted
by the previous Beak report.
It reduces the odds of an
earthquake incident in-
volving 1,000 pounds of
chlorine from once every 30
years to once every 100
years.

DPA expects an accident
resulting in deaths approxi-
mately every 723 years,
saying the threat on a

Maplewood resident posed |

by the plant is about one half
of a per cent odds of death
and about one quarter of a
per cent odds for a Lynn-
mour or Seymour resident
dying.

The cost of building a
chlorine plant with a
capacity of 1,000 tons per
day as an alternative to the
Maplewood plant is put at
$121 mullion U.S... or $141.9
Canadian.

However, the consultants
point out that the present
Hooker plant only has 2
capacity of 420 tons per day
and that to build another
plant of equal capacity
would scale down the cost to
$59.6 million. It puts the
total compensation cost to
be paid to Hooker at $125
million.

Removal would mean a
loss mm revenue to the muni.
cipahty in taxes paid by
Hooker of $800,000 an-
nually, although the report
points out that incoming
industries to the Hooker site
would also be paying taxes

Sales of Hooker products
within the District are put at
only 1.5% of the company’s

total sales, amounting to
$600,000 cach year.

OF the $2 milhon worth of
materials purchased = an
nually by the Hooker plant
only 10 per cent is estimated
to come from the Dustric t

The consultants comment
“Given the small scale of
both Hooker
sales and its) purchases
within the District, we are
justified in disregarding any
productive efficiencies to be
lost through its removal ©

As a source of low al
employment Hooker has a
staff of 200 0 of whieh 6
workers live in the Pistract

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and 33 in the City of North
Vancouver.

In the absence of in-
formation as to what in-
dustry might replace
Hooker, the consultants do
not speculate the impact of
the plant's removal on jobs
and income.

Of Hooker’s 1979 payroll
of $4.5 million, about $2.25
was paid to North Van
residents.

The consultants lst five
possible methods of
achieving the relocation of
Hooker:

1. Expropriation,

2. Identifying the plant as a
nuisance;

3. Eliminating the plant by
use of council's emergency
powers;

4. Denying or revoking the
company's business licerice;
5. Implementing zoning
changes to encourage

er relocation co:

Hooker to move voluntarily.
Because of legal com-
plications in achieving most

of these metbods, the
consultants chose ex-
propriation, requiring full

compensation, as the most
likely method.

The consultants say that
only the residents of North
Vancouver Distnct and their
elected representatives are
in a position to decide
whether the benefits or re-
locating Hooker exceed the
costs.

However, the _ final
comments of the task force’s
conclusions are:

“The population of the
Seymour area will continue
to grow, intensifying the
problems created by the
presence of Canadian Oxy
(Hooker) in the midst of
what is already a densely

populated area.
“The task force recom-
mends that the municipal

government, in concert with
the federal and provincial
governments, seek a means

by which the Canadian Oxy
facility can be relocated
from the North Shore.”

PHILIP JOE DOROTHY LYNAS CRAWFORD KILIA

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have shown in electing us to the North Vancouver School Board.

We will continue to strive for challenging, quality education that will meet the needs
of all the students in our schools.

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