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WV man faces tax
evasion charges

A WEST Vancouver businessman and two companies that he’

directs are to face 269 charges of income tax evasion in B.C.
Supreme Court.

Gordoa A. Hazlewood and his companies, Howitzer Enterprises
Ltd. and Howitzer Enterprises (1982) Ltd., ase charged with
evading $5 million in taxes and making false statements claiming
$19 million in losses in joint company ventures, according to a
Revenue Canada spokesman.

Hazlewood and the two companies are scheduled to make their
first appearance Jan. 17 in B.C. Supreme Court.

N. Van company
lands U.S. contract

NORTH VANCOUVER-based Ballard Power Systems has signed
a lucrative multi-million contract with the massive General Motors
Corp., (GM) and the United States Department of Energy for the
delivery of a new non-poliuting fuel celi developed by the local
high-tech company.

The environmentally-friendly solid polymer fuel cell, which runs
on hydrogen exiracted from liquid methanol, is already being
tested on B.C. Transit buses.

Ballard’s fuel cell is non-peliuting, producing only energy and
water.

The Allison Gas Turbine Division of GM has been sclected by
the U.S. Department of Energy to tead a two-year program to
develop a fuel cell for electric transportation application.

The team members for the project include the Los Alamos Na-
tional Laboratory, Dow Chemical, GM Research Labs, GM’s
Advanced Engineering Group and Baliard.

The total budget of the four-phase project has not been finaliz-
ed, although the first phase is estimated to cost $13.5 million US.
The goal of the program is to produce a fuel-cell-powered
automobile.

The first phase will focus on producing a methanol-fueled 10
kW fuel cell system based on Ballard’s solid polymer membrane
technology.

Ballard has been developing its fuel cel! since 1983.

Hit list of polluters

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includes 130 offenders

From page 4

ethree press releases covering
both of the above and the planned
new pulp mill regulations.

In the press releases, Reynolds
is quoted as saying the controls
‘‘will result in the highest standard
in Canada of pulp mill effluent
controls — without sacrificing
economic stability.”’

Reynolds is also quoted as say-
ing that the need for stricter
measures “is underscored by the
expanded closures at a number of
commercial shell fisheries near
pulp mills.”

The price tag for pulp mill
compliance with the changes by
December 1994 was pegged by
Reynolds at $1 billion, repre-
senting about 25,900 worker-years
of construction time, according to
the press release.

Labelling the pulp mill effluent
standards ‘fair but firm in pro-
tecting the environment,’’
Reynolds was to have said that
they would help to end two
shellfish closures in as short a
time as possible.

But with Vander Zalm’s veto of
the stricter pollution-fighting plan,
it is not known whether any of the
regulations will proceed.

The polluters’ hit list cites 130
cases, including:
© 33 polluting companies that
failed to comply with waste
management permits, and that are
labelicd harmful or potentially
harmful to the environment;
® and 97 cases said to be ‘‘of con-
cern’’ to the ministry.

In Report 1, two North Van-
couver bulk-loading plants are

cited for exceeding their effluent
permits: Vancouver Wharves Ltd.
and Neptune Bulk Terminals
(Canada) Ltd. are listed as having
significant toxic samples. The
Teport says both firms are ex-
pected to resolve the problem by
year-end.

And the effluent from Western
Pulp Inc.’s Woodfibre pulp mill is
cited twice, for waste and air
pollution. The ministry says work
is currently under way to upgrade
the mill's standards.

The regional breakdown in-
cludes concern over:

*the sewage effluent at North
Vancouver’s Lions Gate sewage
plant. The ministry says the
Greater Vancouver Sewerage and
Drainage District’s liquid waste
plan includes bylaws to manage
the combined sewer overflow and
storm sewer runoff.

* several hazardous chemical spills
at Canadian Oxy Industrial Chem-
icals Ltd. Partnership’s Squamish
plant. Charges had been laid
against the company, which is said
to fave brought in corrective
measures.

«the sewage effluent at Whistler,
where the Cheakamus River is
threatened by pollutants. Provin-
cial funding for a sewage treat-
ment plant there has been approv-
ed.

Other documents show that
charges laid under the Waste
Management Act for the first six
months of the 1990/9! fiscal year
represent an inerease of 43 per
cent over the same period last
year.

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