3 - Wednesday, May 23, 1990 - North Shore News NEWS photo Cindy Goodman NEPTUNE BUEK Terminals’ project manager Jim Dardis stands near the company’s potash storage shed which the company hopes to ex- pand. In addition to the proposed $22-million expansion, Neptune is also hoping to build a second potash storage shed, which would be 110-feet higk and 700-feet wide, a move being protested by the Cloverly Residents’ Association. On the waterfront NGRTH SHORE INDUSTRY EXPANDING OPERATIONS WHILE VERSATILE Pacific Shipyards Inc. has dismantled its number two dry dock and downgraded its North Vancouver shipyard to a ship repair facility, other North Vanccuver waterfront facilities are expanding their operations. Current North Vancouver waterfront expansion projects in- clude the construction of a $6- million, 14,100-square-metre warehouse at the Lynnterm forest products terminal and a $30- million upgrade and expansion project at Vancouver Wharves Ltd. In addition, Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada) Ltd. is negotiating with the Nerth Van- couver City to expand its current potash storage shed and to build a second potash storage facility. The new Lynnterm warehouse, the centrepiece of a $9-million Lynnterm improvement project, will be opened next month. Vancouver Port Corp. (VPC) spokesman Barbara Duggan said the facility was needed to house the increasing amount of pulp being shipped through the port. “*t2’s a very large warehouse and it’s fundamentally for pulp because we are just busting at the ‘seams over there (Lynnterm),’’ said Duggan. Lynnterm, one of five port terminals owned by the VPC, recently secured a five-year con- tract from the Japanese pulp mill company Daishowa to house pulp destined for export from its Alberta pulp mill. The contract, awarded to Western Stevedoring Co. Ltd., which operates the Lynaterm fa- cility for the VPC, is estimated to be worth between $15 million and $20 million over five years. Neighbors in a flap over WV construction site By SURJ RATTAN News Reporter Last year Lynnterm handled 200,000 tonnes of pulp and 800 million board feet of lumber. Duggan said the VPC will have spent approximately $100 million between 1985 and 1990 on ex- pansion projects for several of its facilities on both sides of Burrard Inlet. But one North Shore water- front expansion project that has run into a roadblock is the con- troversial $22-million potash storage upgrade and expansion project being proposed by Nep- tune Bulk Terminals. The expansion would include an additional unit train dumper and potash sicvage shed to hold 100,000 tonnes of potash. Neptune has also applied to North Vancouver City for a rezoning permit to allow for the trying to negotiate a development agreement with the city and add- ed he hopes the issue will be brought before a public hearing this month. Neptune recently launched a public awareness campaign to raise North Vancouver City resi- dents’ awareness abcut the com- pany’s proposal. The campaign included two open houses, one at the Neptune site, as well as the distribution of a questionnaire in which residents were asked whether they are in favor, undecided or opposed to the expansion project. Willcox said he was happy with the open houses. He said he also learned that most people had misconceptions about Neptune’s Neptune said the expansion would create six full-time jobs, 100 person years of employment during construction, and raise an additional $350,000 in tax reve- nues. Meanwhile, the $30-million upgrade of the Vancouver Wharves facility is expected to be completed in July. The company is one year into a 20-year contract it has with Com- inco Ltd., the world’s largest producer of lead and zinc. Vancouver Wharves is upgrading and expanding its North Vancouver port facility in order to accommodate close to 400-million tonnes of lead-zinc concentrates currently being removed from the Cominco- **..VPC will have spent approximately $100 million between 1985 and 1990 on expansion projects on both sides of Burrard Inlet.’’ proposal. “It (open houses) went well,’’ said Willcox. ‘*There were about CRANE IS AREA’S HEAVIEST: SEE STORY, PAGE 8 construction of a new potash shed, which would be 110-feet high and 700-feet wide. But the expansion project is opposed by the Cloverly Residents’ Association, which argues that the move would in- crease noise, pollution and cut harbor views. Neptune president John Willcox said the company is still From page 1 but the bank to the east is open,”’ said Morrison, who add- ed that the issue is now ‘‘a civil matter between the two parties.” But Peter Backhouse, a structu- ral engineer who lives next door to Rener’s house, said he has no idea what Rener is trying to do and ad- ded that he was fearful that the excavation work would cause nearby trees to fall on to his house. 100 people who came through and those who gave us feedback were delighted with it (the pro- posed expansion).” There are approximately 235 people who work full-time at Neptune and, according to a company brochure, Neptune pays about $1,040,000 in property taxes, $487,000 of which goes to North Vancouver City. “*T understand his (Korall’s) concern about the children because it’s (hole) a hell of a drop. He {Rener) hasn't fenced it off,’’ said Backhouse, who added that Rener initially approached him about working as the project’s structural engineer, but he refused. ““We’ve had an unpleasant time with him. | watched them proceed on this and it (house) is on blue clay, and I realized that they never took any measures to protect the owned Red Dog mine in northern Alaska. Last week a massive 880-tonne crane, costing $8.5-million dollars, was assembled and mov- ed onto one of the piers at Van- couver Wharves. It will be used to unload the lead-zinc concen- trates once the product is trans- ported to North Vancouver. The expansion project includes extending the company’s dock by 160-feet, building a ship unloader and providing a shipment facility to move the lead and zinc from North Vancouver to Cominco’s smelter in Trail, B.C. houses on either side,’’ said Backhouse. “It’s (construction) the most temarkable thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Why they dug holes and drove in piles, I don’t have the foggiest idea,’ said Backhouse, who owns a structural engineering firm in North Vancouver. Rener could not be reached for comment to press time. . a ee a, NORTH Vancouver resident David McAdam ...pulled woman to shore. Triathiete rescues bridge jumper IT WASN’T supposed to be a swim day for triathlete David McAdam. By ELIZABETH COLLINGS _ News Report But when the 44-year-old North Vancouver man saw a woman floating in First Narrows water while he was jogging along the Stanley Park seawall, he swam out to save her. “It was a little freaky,’’ McAdam, a group insurarice sales manager, said. ‘‘I didn’t know what to expect. I don’t even know why I went out there. It just seem- ed somebody had to go out and get McAdam, who was featured in a May 9 News story on first-time triathletes, was running along the north side of the seawall towards Lions Gate Bridge with a business associate from Montreal when he saw a crowd of about 20 people. : He initially thought the crowd was looking at a seal, but, he said, “I got a little closer and thought, ‘That’s a body.*”’ The woman was about 50 yards off shore and being pulled further out by the tide. : *‘Nobody was doing anything. It was just floating, so I took my shoes off and dove in,’” McAdam said. **When I got there I heard a lit- tle noise and a gurgle and saw it was a girl. She was alive.” After he pulled her back to the shore, someone in the crowd dial- ed 9-1-1 and 10 minutes later rescue vehicles arrived. Meanwhile, the woman was laid on her side and covered with warm clothing. McAdam, who has no emergen- cy medical training, said she had a pulse but her hands were blue. ‘What saved her was she had this big bulky-like ski jacket. It was all puffed up,’’ he said, ad- ding that sorneone in the crowd said the woman had jumped from the bridge a short while earlier. Vancouver police spokesman Const. Bob Cooper said the 35- year-old woman, believed to have sustained massive injuries, was admitted to St. Paul’s Hospital. Business .............. 37 Classified Ads..........48 Editorial! Paye...........6 Lifestyles..............43 North Shore Now.......21 Sports .........05.2006 13 TV Listings............32