6 — Wednesday, September 30, 1992 - North Shore News SOMEONE. HAS A QUESTION... Oil well _ shows good leadership in instituting ‘regulations requiring anyone who selis motor. oil to accept used oil back from consumers. T HE PROVINCIAL government has Previously, oil merchants didn’t have to worry about where their product ended up ence it was sold. And a lot of that eroduct wes ending up in the environment via storm drains, toilets and garbage cans. : '.- Approximately 95 million litres of new - O# products are sold annually in B.C. Of that about 40 million ftres is collectable used oii. Wt represents a staggering renewable resource, and North Van- couver’s Mohawk Oil Co. Ltd. has led the way in tapping that.great pool of reusable oil. | The company’s North Vancouver oil recycling plant began production in 1982, and currently produces about 18 million litres of recycled oil from the 30 million litres it collects annually. A big part of the oil-recycling cycle is marketing and use. Here again, the provincial government has shown gocd leadership in decrecing that its 5,000 government vehicles use recycled oil. All three North Shore municipalities also run their municipal vehicles on recycled oii produced by Mohawk. ; That use and increased public awareness have dispelled the old misconception that recycled oil is not as good as oil produced from virgin crude. it is both as good and better, because it keeps more and more dirty oil from ending up in local creeks and gerbage dumps. Ban helicopters from residential areas Dear Editor: Michael Becker’s Avg. 30 article on noise pollution in North Van- couver. District was a pleasant surprise. It’s refreshing t to.read that there - might finally be some real action by district “council towards .con- “trolling noise in our. neighbor- hoods and preserving our quality of life. . I was disappointed, however, : that helicopter movement ‘in the: ’ back-country rates more concern . than the daily helicopter flights (mot even mentioned in the article) © over district homes. Publisher Managing éditor . Associate Editor. . : Advertising Directo Comptroller pre . Timothy Renshaw .Noel Wright Linda Stewart .Doug Foot In the past five years, the fre- quency of helicopter flights, noise and discomfort to residents has increased dramatically. The omission of this point from the. standing committee’s list of noise bylaw improvements _ is clearly an indication that the cor- porate gain of organizations such as Grouse. Mountain Resorts and Vancouver Helicopters is more important to the district than the ‘effect their. activities have on tax- payers, the’ major source of district income. . In Victoria, where helicopter Noise plagued James Bay Disptay Advertising 960-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 988-6222 Newsroom 985. 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Restricting use of power machin- ery, banning leaf blowers and making Sunday a quiet day will have little effect in my neighbor- hood if helicopters continue to travel over our homes. Barbara Wuhrer North Vancouver 986-1337 Printed on MEMSER 61,582 (averag2 circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Yes-blackmail is helping the B.C. No-vote IF BRIAN Malroney and his confused bedmate Mike’. ‘Harcourt hope to make any headway against the . ; mushrooming ‘‘No’’ vote in B.C., they’d better call off . their hired bully-boys (and girls) right away. . Last week’s Angus Reid poll showed a 50% ‘‘No’’ to 34% “Yes’’ in this province. That was an even louder ‘‘No”’ thar Quebec, where the same poll found only 45% to 38% against the constitutional accord. The change from a poll just after Aug. 28 is dramatic. At that time B.C. was shown as 52% to 29% IN FAVOR. You don’t lose a third of your supporters in four weeks unless you’re screwing up badly. What the ‘‘Yes”’ crusaders are doing wrong so far, of course, is to depend on threats instead of rational debate. If you’ve nothing more positive to offer, I guess that’s all you figure you can do. The threats come in two colors: moral and economic. And because most politicians teday are held in abysmally low esteem, _ ALLAN TAYLOR... banking on scaring. heavyweight mental mobsters from business, the unions and other ‘‘non-political’’ sictas Dave been recruited to deliver them. The moral blackmail (let’s call a spade a spade) accuses No-voters of working to destroy Canada by causing Quebec to walk out in a snit. No-voiers are traitors who should be ashamed of themselves. This, remember, was the Meech threat two years ago. The scenario has been repeated at regular inter- vals ever since 1867 if Quebec did not get what it demanded ~- as Pierre Trudeau pointed out last week. ’ Backing up these flag-draped ~ holier-than-thous are the econom- ic scaremongers headed by Royal - Bank chairman Allan Taylor. - . He predicts ghastly losses to our pocketbooks, should Quebec quit, with everyone losing $4,000 — make that $10,000 per family — and the jobless rate soaring to 15%. This forecast from those very same banking experts who cheerfuily lent billions to now bankrupt Olympia & York! Many cooler, well-qualified observers dismiss such horror stories as highly unlikely. In any case, the threats have nothing to do with the referendum . question itself, which simply asks: - whether we approve of the DEAL made by our elected servants. It does NOT also ask {as might have been wise) if we love Canada and want Quebec part of it. B.C.’s past and future may ex- plain why so many of its citizens are unmoved — though increas- ingly irritated — by the bully-boy _ Wright | HITHER AND YON Originally the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island, B.C. developed the coastal mainiand independent- . ly. Lukewarm about Confedera- . tion, it set its own price for join- ing in 1871 — a transcontinental . railway. its spiritual links are still as - much with California as with cen- tral Canada. And economically it is today leading the nation. One can feel a little sorry for the moderate “‘Yes’’ folks who. make no bones about the deal’s imperfections but plead it was the . best that could be done in the : time (i.e., to: meet Boursssa’s deadline). For now, many B.C. voters might be tempted to accept that pica for the sake of a temporary respite — if the injustices to 3. could be corrected later on. But the proposed veto rules that out The veto means our key institu- tions (Commons, Seaate and’ Supreme Court) could be changed . only if all provinces agree. But why would Quebec or Ontario ever vote to strengthen B.C.’s. at the federal level at the expen of their own huge gains at Charlottetown?’ ‘ '_No, Brian, mental thugeery won’t win here. However, killing: the veto and ceasing the threats and insults might help just a ‘little. TAILPIECES: Cefemonially in ' _ stalled Monday as 1992-93:presi dent of the West Van Kiwanis Clab was Frank Wilson, sup-' ported by veences Ian Au . and Gerry McDowell; secretary.’ - Ted Schootman and treasurer Bob Iskander. The festive ‘‘Ladies’ Night” included dedication of the. . landmark clock tower atop)", _Kiwanis Court — the club’s ele-. i gant new af! fordable housing complex for seniors, opened last February. ... Welcome to the Rev. Jane Maffin who succeeds the - ° recently retired Rev. Ray Murrin Oct. 1 as rector of St. John’s An- glican Church, North Van. . And next Sunday, Oct. 4, brings another chance to go treasure-:. hunting’ at the Seriers’ Fiea, Mor. ket from 10:36 a.m. to 2 p.m: West Van Rec Centre. oe WRIGHT OR WRONG: Nothing et is more annoying than someone going right on talking when you re trying to interrupt. ' Manuscripts and pictures which shoutd be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. pitel =.