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_KOKANEE ALL-STAR wide receiver Paul Livgard evades two J.B. Knights pursuers during a close game between the teams from
-Men’s Top-Flight Flag Football League. Livgard caught two passes for more than 60 yards and two touchdowns, but it was in a losing cause as J.B.

‘Knights edged the All-Stars 36-31. For game results from the weekend, see page 13.

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Mill faces 19 pollution charges

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER CRACKS DOWN ON HOWE SOUND PULP MILLS

HOWE SOUND Pulp and Paper Ltd.*s Port Mellon pulp
mill has been charged with a total of 19 pollution-related
offences under the Waste Management Act, B.C. En-
vironment Minister John Reynolds announced Tuesday.

The Howe Sound pulp mill faces
nine counts of failing to comply
with conditions of its waste permit
and five counts of ‘introducing
business pollution” into the Howe
Sound environment,

Five additional pollution-related
charges laid against the mill are
contained under a section of the
Canadian Fisheries Act thet pro-

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hibits the dumping of harmful
substances into a waterway.

The first court appearance for
the mill’s ownership is set for May
15.

Meanwhile, an official art
Western Pulp Partnership's

Woodfibre pulp mill in Howe
Sound, which already faces 12
pollution-related charges, said
Tuesday that Woodfibre might not
be able to meet the April 18 pollu-
tion abatement order deadline im-
posed on the mil! Tuesday by the
provincial government.

The order was slapped on the
Woodfibre mill Monday by
Reynolds, who is also the MLA for
West Vancouver-Howe Sound, fal-
lowing an Apri! 6 chemical spill at
the mill.

The spill was Woodfibre’s third

in just over a month.

Company vice-president John
Lukosevicius said he was surprised
by the government's environmental
crackdown and doubted whether
the mill could meet the April [8
deadline.

Reynolds told the legislature on
Tuesday that the action was a
direct response to the recent spills
at Woodfibre.

The pollution abatement order
requires Woodfibre to construct
chemical control devices around its
tanks large enough to hold [25 per

cent of the capacity of the largest
storage tank on the site.

Reynolds said if the company
does not meet the April 18
deadline, the mill will be closed
down.

The order also directs Wood-
fibre to hire an independent,
ministry-approved consultant ‘to
conduct an environmental audit"
that would identify possible spill
sources on the site and develop a
proper training program for staff.

See Victoria