0 LS Mama! Pa OE BT io Tle Sa + ai NEWS photo Mike Wakefield 7 Robber hits store NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are searching for an armed bandit who held up i grocery store on Montroyal Boulevard Wednesday afternoon. A lone man walked into the store at approximately 4:40 p.m., pro- duced a shotgt:2 and robbed a clerk of approximately $300. The suspect was weiling a black motorcycle helmet, a black leather jacket, black gloves and vlue jeans. The man left ie store and was last seen escaping eastbound on Montroyal. The iaspect is described as being approximately 19 years of age, 5° 8°’ ane. weighing approximately 130 to 140 pounds. Any in- formation about tie incident may be forwarded to Const. S. Braes at 985-1311. ‘ Above, a police officer checks out the scene of the crime. day's Third Annual Waiters’ Ski Challenge held at Mount Seymour. TAKING CARE not to spill a drop, this waiter takes his turn at heading down the slopes during Wednes- 3 - Friday, February 3, 1989 —- North Shore News ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY ‘NOT ENOUGH’ Firms present plan to reduce pollution levels in H. Sound BOTH PULP mills in Howe Sound have delivered dioxin reduction proposals to the provincial government, but en- vironment groups say the plans will do little to reduce the overall amount of chlorinated poisons discharged into the sound. Canadian Forest Products Ltd.'s (Canfor} Port Mellon mill and Western Pulp Ltd. Partnership's Woodfibre mill each submitted their plans Jan. 30 in accordance with the deadline set by provincial and federal environment ministries. The deadline for Canadian pulp mills to submit details of how they planned to reduce discharges of cancer-causing dioxins and furans was set following the unprecedent- ed closure of commercial and rec- reational crab, shrimp and prawn fisheries in areas of Howe Sound adjacent to the two mills. The fisheries were closed Nov. 30, 1988 after results from a fed- eral Fisheries and Oceans Canada study showed extremely high levels of dioxins and furans in Howe Sound fish samples. Canfor’s director of energy and environment Kirke MacMillan said Tuesday modification and mod- ermization plans at Port Mellon will reduce dioxin and furan levels “down to non-detectable levels.”’ Under Canfor’s dioxin-reduction plan, the company, he said, will install new pulp digesters that will reduce the amount of bleaching NEWS photo Mika Wakefleid By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter chemicals needed and install by late 1989 a new chlorine-dioxide generator that will allow up to 70 per cent substitution of chlorine dioxide for chlorine in the pulp bleaching stage. MacMillan said the process will virtually eliminate chlorinated dioxins and furans and substautial- ly reduce the level of all chlori- nated organic compounds generated in the mill’s bleach plant. In addition, effluent from the mill will be treated in an oxygen- activated sludge that MacMillan said will further reduce chlorinated organics in mill effiuent by up to 50 per cent. The improvements will be done in various stages with the comple- tion date for the whole plan scheduled for mid-1990, MacMillan added thet Canfor has already had all the mill's defoamers treated to remove diox- in and furans, and has notified all wood chip suppliers that the mill will not accept any pen- tachlorophenol-contaminated chips. At Woodfibre, meanwhile, mill manager Jack Dosenberg said the company is currently investing $17.3 million on a brownstock washing program that is ‘‘a man- datory prerequisite to reducing tae formation of chlorinated dioxins and other chlorinated organics.’’ Woodfibre, he said, was ahead of other mills in experimenting with the substitution of chlorine dioxide for chlorine. The company has been running 30 per cent chlorine dioxide substitution since July 1988 and plans to increase that substitution to 35 per cent by July and even- tually to 50 per cent. But environmentalists continue to call the mill proposals ‘‘half- hearted’? and ‘‘band-aid solu- tions.” Greenpeace biologist Brian Killeen said the plans only deal with dioxins and furans. According to Greenpeace, chlo- rine used as the bleaching agent in pulp manufacturing produces at least 1,000 different chemical combinations, and only 300 organochlorines in mill effluent have thus far been identified. The shift to chlorine dioxide, Killeen said, will increase the Classified Ads.... Doug Collins Editorial Page Home & Garden discharge of other toxic pollutants such as chlorophenols and chlorate and will not completely eliminate dioxins. He said the solutions put for- ward by the Canadian pulp and paper industry ‘‘set no timetable for zero discharge of chlorinated poisons and make no mention of any offer to supply safe, chlorine- free paper product alternatives.”’ Greenpeace wants pulp mills to install oxygen bleaching techno- logy, which the group argues would eliminate the need for chlo- cine. Environmental Watch spokesman Terry Jacks said an Environmentalist Terry Jacks ...chlorines need to be eliminated. estimated daily discharge of 120,000 kilograms of chlorinated poisons from the two mills has permanently destroyed an annual Howe Sound fishery worth $900,000. ‘The only solution,’’ Jacks said, “tis to completely eliminate chlo- tines. Turn off the taps, close the mills, convert them to oxygen bleaching, pay the mill workers while the job is being done, and don’t let the mills reopen until they are environmentally friendly.’’ Jacks said pulp companies have enjoyed three years of record prof- its: “‘So they have the money; they have the technology. Howe Sound is not theirs, it belongs to all of us.’” Provincial ministry of environ- ment spokesman Ron Kawalilak said Thursday the plans from ail 17 B.C. pulp mills using chlorine bleaching will now be evaluated by federal and provincial environment officials. Timetables for institution of the plans and a long-term policy for limits on dioxin and chlorinated osganics in mill discharges will be formulated once all the plans have been . Kawalilak said the provincial environment ministry will likely make a statement regarding the plans next week. WEATHER Friday, sunny with cloudy periods. High near -9°C. Saturday, mostly sunny end cal. High near -6*%: low near -14°C.