A8-Wednesday, October 15, 1980 - North Shore News

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presence poses to the
surrounding community.
However, task force
chairman Derek Inman now
eonsiders it more likely that
the plant will wind down
gradually through becoming
technologically outdated, at
a speed dictated by the
industry rather than the
neighbours.

“It may not be practical to
spend that kind of money
(about $200 million) to move
that kind of thing,” Inman
has told the News.

“In the meantime, there
have been advances in
technology to have smaller
plants located right on the
mill site where this chlorine
is used.”

PRACTICALITIES

Inman says that through
working as volunteer
members of the task force,
some of Hooker's. chief
opponents are also won-
dering about the prac-
ticalities of relocation.

It appears the task force is
now concentrating its efforts
on persuading authorities to
ensure there is no further
expansion of the chlorine
plant, to. upgrade safety
precautions at various North
Shore industries and _ to
Closely monitor traffic with
hazardous cargoes in
Vancouve harbour.

Inman says of the attitude
to Hooker Chemicals:

“There were some people
on our committee who were
pretty well dedicated to
having the thing moved.

“Now, after going into all
the points and deliberations
in the different areas of the
chemical industry and where
the hazards are involved —

which is prnmanily in tran-

sportation and making the
industry aware of its
responsibilities — they have
come out and said “Look, we
can't get them out nght away
but let us have an un
derstanding that there will
be no further development

and instead of saying make
them move right away it
might take five or 10 years
down the road.”

DISSENSION

However, the News un-
derstands that this point is
not accepted by all members
of the task force and that
some may even write their
own alternative report on
ther findings and recom-
mendations.

Inman comments: “It ts
very definite that industries
like this don’t fit into built up
areas like we have.”

And as for the siting in the
Maplewood area within the
past year of the Dow
Chemical storage plant and
Mohawk Oils recycling, he
says. “The committee ts
saying that none of these
places should have been
approved but they went in
beside Hooker as they use
things supplied by Hooker ~

Inman adds that Hooker 1s
by far from the only concern
of the task force

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He also expresses the need
for something to be done
about monthly shipments of
liguified propane gas to

Japan by the Trans
Mountain Pipeline Com-
pany, which are loaded

about the Yamahide Maru
on the south shore. east of
Second Narrows.

The task force will be
making recommendations
that propane should only be
allowed in the harbour in the
very early hours of the
morning, during times of
minimal traffic, and that its
transportation by road
should be strictly monitored
and forbidden during times
of traffic congestion.

TIGHTEN CONTROLS

“We've got to tighten up
controls over these things,”
he says. Of his concerns in
the port,.e says “When you
have fermes crossing and
planes landing in the har
bour you can't

just have

these things running loose ”
Inman says the task force

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pponents have second
thoughts about relocation

FROM PAGE A1

has been studying the
question of chemicals
exhaustively, with the aid of
chemists, railway experts,
Nationa! Harbours Board
personnel and even UBC
students specializing in
hazardous materials, who
have been included in task
force meetings.

He says of the committee's
research into hazardous
materials: “Not only have we
identified them but we have
come to the point of how
these things can be handled
in the event of an ‘accident,
which has never been done.”

Whereas the report will be
in District council’s hands
about two weeks later than
the target date the task force
originally set itself. work on
writing it has already begun,
while members complete
their investigations con-
cerning storage of materials

and costs involved in the
actions they are recom-
mending.

Inman feels the report will
give District a more com-
prehensive picture of facts
and recommendations
concerning hazardous
materials than it has ever
had and adds:

“Tf they don't
something out of tt
understand it, then
never will.

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