A24-Wednesday, June 18, 1980 - North Shore News

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highest honour in Canadian (Guiding. Presentations were made by Deputy Provincial

charch last week for the annual presentation of Canada Chord Certificates, the Commissioner E.G. Chevalier and Lions Area Commissioner A. Louie. (Terry Peters photo)

Ottawa
heavily
involved in
BC coal deal

VANCOUVER (UPC)
Despite the BC govern
ments announced intenvon
to “go tt alone”, the federal
government remains heavily
involved an the project to
move lucrative coal to port
from the province's aor

theastern coal ficids.
Senator Ray Perrault’ said
Monday

Though BC will build
and finance the vital, $2.0
milhon rail spur fine to link
the fields with catsting track.
the federal government will
apend about $180 milhon to
facilitate the eventual export
of BC coal to Japanese
markets, Perrault told oa
news Conference

Pive Bo Companies
currently tidding to supply
the Japanese coal industry
with about $35 ballon worth
of metallurgie al Coal over 1S
years have been given o
deadline of this week to
make the Japancsc ai firm
offer on bow mych BO Coal
will carat

Ottawa and HC had beco
negotiating fronotn ally lay
dctermine which railway
the Canadian National
Ratlwayn oe the B ¢
Rathway would tuald and
finance the  1tS hihometer
apur line to the ¢ oal fretds

But the HO government
decided at the last minute to
reject CN a proposal and
build the $2350 million spur
lane ttaclf through BOR on a

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