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The Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969

Refund
program
pain in
the glass |

IN 1970, British
Columbia became the
first province or state in
North America to
establish a mandatory
deposit /refund program
for drink containers.

Alittic under two montis age the
provittce expanded that program to
include hquer and wine botues, juice
aad water Gontamers and ether ready
toserte: drinks. New vere the pre
grimowill be oxpandesd? saa to
include mak and milk substitute con
tanen, drink boxes and gable top
contaniers

In today’s Sunday bo wus on page
3we cvamuine how pia North Shore
businesses © adiquerstery anda bot
tle deport have dealt aath the new
deposi /retund poly and: the prob
lems thes "ve encountered since the
new program beganon Oct |

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NEWS photo Mike Wakelieht

NORTH Shore Bottle Depot owner Duksan Kim sorts liquor and wine bottles in the back of his Lower Lonsdale business. The province's
new deposit/refund program has proved a challenge for Kim and other recycling outlets (See News Sunday Focus page 3).

Fast ferry pre

Robert Galster

News Reporter rober t@usnews.comt

A Bowen Island-based coalition of ferry-
users is attempting to stir up a storm of
protest to delay the launch of the first,
and thus far smooth-sailing, fast ferry.

A group calling itself’ Ferry Coalinga of Users to Re estab
lish Equity (Ferry CURE) has tiled complaints with neo teder
ildepartments. The complaints = lodged with the Department
af Fisheries and Oceans as weillas ‘Transport Canada =~ urge the
two bodies to use their powers ta) postpone launching the
recendy completed fast ferry pending the result af mare ‘Stud:
ies.

“[t appears that operating the fast ferry on the Horseshoe
Ray Nonaime run bas resulted or will result inva visk to pleasure

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Bowen-based coalition says
wake from new ferry a threat
to local marine ecosystems

craft safety Caswell ass the disruption or destruction of fish
habirar by negatively impacting estuarine, coastal and marine
ccensy stems in the waters in the Strait of Georgia,” stated Elbert
Paul a Ferry CURE director, “Also, there is now significant risk
of erosion to beachtront properties and damage te docks,
wharves, marine craft and other private property
However, the impact of the complaine is unlikely ta pose
much of a threat to the program,
BC Ferries spokesman Erie Kristanson said’ Ferry CURE
had net contacted the corporation. BC Ferries, along with var-

jous media oudets in the Lower Mainland, received a copy of

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the complaint fase Wednesday,

“We're quite comfortable. DEO (Department of Fisheries
and Oceans) has not raised the issue with us,” said: Kristiansen,

He added thar BC berries has been studying the fast ferry
wake issuc on tts own and has retained the services of Ken Fox
and Associates, a Washington State wake and wash expert. The
group's report is duc in about two weeks.

Vhe fast terry program was launched by the provincial gov:
ernment to design and build three Paciticat L000) ahuninum
vessels tor use by BC Ferries on the Horseshoe Bay-to-
Nanaime route. Catamaran Ferries International (CEE), a BC
Ferries subsidiary. has headed up the project which is already
two vears behind schedule and aca cost af S86 million for the
first vessel, S16 million over budget.

Meanwhile, the Pransport Canada thrust ar the complaint
urges the federal body to defer certifving the first fist terry

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