YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 Riders el prepare to compete PAGE 13 = | VICTORIA GIVES ASSURANCES Foster parents needed eA 7 48 pag RN ey te MINISTRY OF Environment officials have pledged to review all measures undertaken by Canadian Forest Pro- ducts at its Port Mellon pulp miil to ascertain what has been done and what is being done to bring the mill into com- NEWS photo Terry Pelers GUMBY AND a mini-Godzilla share a dinghy with Outdoor Centre manager Scott McLuckie in front of McLuckie’s Marine Drive store. The inflated friends are frequently displayed outside of the new marine supplies.store, which opened March t. pliance with provincial air pollution standards. Following an April 16 meeting with provincial Monister of En- vironment Bruce Sirachan, West Vancouver resident Terry Jacks said he had been given assurances that the mill would be in com- pliance with provincial air poilu- tion standards by July 1988 and that all the mill’s current air pollu- tion monitoring figures would be rechecked. “It was a very good meeting,” Jacks said. ‘I think this situation is going to be rectified.” Jacks, who has collected a peti- tion with over 3,000 names demanding the miil conform to provincial pollution standards, said he lobbied for the meeting with the minister to find out why the mill has not been forced to comply with provincial air pollu- tion standards that it has not met for the past 10 years. Assistant deputy minister Earle Anthony confirmed that the ministry will now conduct a com- plete review with Canfor of its obligations and the requirements needed to get the mill into com- pliance with provincial levels of particulate (flyash) and totally reduced sulphur (TRS) emissions. Port Mellon mill manager Harry Cargo has said the milf has in- vested about $20 million on pollu- tion control over the last nine years and plans to spend another $2 mil- lion in 1987-88 to further reduce odors caused by the mill's TRS emissions, which drift across Howe Sound to West Vancouver. In addition, Canfor has sched- uled open houses in West Van- couver Wednesday and Thursday to outline for concerned residents the company’s past efforts and future plans to control air emis- ‘ews Reporter sions from the Port Mellon mill. But Ministry of Environment waste management officer Zaheer Manki said Tuesday he doubts whether $2 million will be enough to bring the mill into compliance with ministry air pollution stan- dards by 1988. He also questioned the claim made by Cargo in an April 15 News story that Port Mellon had complied with air pollution stan- dards in 11 of 12 months in 1986. Manki said that previously published Ministry of Environment figures showing that there was nol one month in 1986 in which all three of the mill's three recovery boilers complied with government air pollution standards would be more correct. Cargo said his figures were bas- ed on the mil’s total daily allowable levels of TRS taken from all 14 of the mill’s stacks. Port Mellon has applied to the ministry for an amendment to its existing waste management permit that would allow the company to measure its air emissions under a similar averaging or ‘‘bubble system," “But the application has not been approved yet,’’ Manki said, ‘‘so they are not allowed to use measurements taken under that system.” Jacks said the bubble system would allow the mill to continue emitting particulate matter and other toxic gases from its three re- covery boilers at present levels, which currently exceed provincial standards.