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North Shore News

A FEDERAL. government iaventory fisting a number of

North shore locations where PCBs are stored was releias-
ed Jast week. Among the focal areas storing PCBs are
Lions Gate Hospital, Grouse Mountitin Ski Resort and
Canadian QGecidental Petroleum, whieh all store trans-
formers aad capaeitors containing the compound, sul

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inquiring
reporter

Stephen Barrington

is city PCB storage too

raed

with a recent PCB fire near Montreal forcing the evacua-
tion of an entire town, many eavironmentalists worry
that storing PCBs — which cannot be destroyed because
B.C. does not have proper incineration facilities needed
to do the job — is just asking for trouble. Inquiring
iLeporter asks about storing 76s in urban areas,

Duncan Hill

North Vancouver

Yes. It's a problem that's
not going to go away — given

overnight. It's the re. until that fire in Quebec.
sponsibility of all of us as T didn’t know they were
to what to do with this stored

stuff. here.

Darren DePourcq
North Vancouver
Definitely. I'd never 7 don't see

Chris Suiker

North Vancouver
a problem

Art Payment
Surrey
It's one of those things

much thought with it as long as they are you don’t) worry about

im areas around ner. Um not

about them.

taken care of and looked
after in the proper man-

unless is next to your
home. It's a small pro-
blem compared to nuclear
waste,

worried

dangerous?

ty

Carolyn Naess

North Vancouver

Yes, definitely. | didn’t
know that the stuff was
that close; I’m worried
about it as there are so
many people in the area.

Power projects for N. Shore dams considered

A GREATER Vancouver Regional
District sta!f report recommends
the GVRD approve $75,000 for a
study on the potential for electrical
power generation projects at the
North Shore’s Cleveland and
Seymour dams.

If approved, the deal could pro-
duce net revenues of $8 million
over the next 20 years at Seymour
alone, said GVRD spokesman Bud
Elsie.

The report will go to the GVRD
Water and Waste Committee on

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Sept. 15, and to the GVRD board
of directors on Sept. 28 for final
approval.

Elsie said Tuesday a study on
the potential for electrical power
generation at th: Cleveland Dam
in 1978 was abandoned because the
GVRD could not secure a long-
term contract to sell the power.

Now, B.C. Hydro is encourag-
ing the construction of small
power generation projests
throughout the province, and has
said it is willing to enter into a

fong-term contract with the
GVRD.

Once the study gets the go-
ahead, construction would begin
almost immediately and would
take about three years to complete.

But Elsie said the prediction is
“optimistic.”

Generating stations would likely
be built at the base of Cleveland
Dam and near the Seymour dam,
on (he GVRD's Riverside Drive
beach yard near the Second Nar-
rows Bridge.

The projects would be small and
would not have a negative impact
on the area’s water supply, said
Elsie.

“We're not talking about pro-
ducing power to generate the city
of Vancouver,’ he said.

The system would only operate
during the eight winter months of
the year when there is a surplus of

water, not in the summer when
water supplies are low.

“Our first priority is to supply
water,’’ Elsie said.

The study, which if approved is
expected to take three to four
months to complete, would also
include an assessment of the en-
vironmental impacts on both North
Shore water systems,

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