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North Shore News

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It being .a short week as we prepare for

- Canada’s big 110th birthday bash, I’ll wind up the

month with a few trivia that you may possibly have
missed. The first item: a strange development in
Trail which could help bump up our electricity bills
yet again in the none-too- distant future.

Cominco Ltd., the smeiter

giant, has just applied to the J

National Emergy Board in

Ottawa for a licence to export |

up to 960 million kilowatt-
hours of power a year to the
western United States. If that
at first strikes you as being a
little odd, the explanation is
quite simple.

Among other things, you
see, Cominco is the parent
company of West Kootenay
Power and Light, the electric
utility of West Kootenay and

South Okanagan areas. The

WKP&L system, which ob-

tains ~its juice from hydro {

plants on the Kootenay and
Pend d’Oreille rivers, oper-
ates in coordination with the
B.C. Hydro system on the
basis of ‘‘you-help-me-and-
I’li-help-you-as-needed”’.

Meanwhile, just nine
months ago, B.C. Hydro
pushed through an ‘‘urgent’’
plan to build a huge new dam
on the Columbia River at
Revelstoke, with its generat-
ing plant to be in service by
1981-82 in order to meet an

anticipated power shortage
of 985 million killowatt-hours
by that date. And where was
that shortage going to arise?
Yes, you’ve. guessed right.

At last September’s hear-
ing on the highly controver-
sial Revelstoke Dam project
(which some believe poses a
major threat to Revelstoke in
the event of a major
landslide) Mr. E.H. Martin,
assistant general manager of
B.C. Hydro’s engineering
group, explained it thus:

“It is anticipated that by
1977 the existing resources

of Cominco-West Kootenay |

will be insufficient to meet

the growing utility loads of
the West Kootenay Power.

and Light system. and that
thereafter the company’s
incremental power require-
ments will be supplied from
the B.C. Hydro integrated
system.”’

-So now, in mid-1977, West
Kootenay Power and Light --
far from suffering any
shortage -- is applying
through its parent, Cominco,
to sell to the U.S. up to
approximately the same
amount of power each year
that B.C. Hydro plans to
generate at the Revelstoke
Dam by 1982.

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The North Shore News has the most
efficient and economical delivery
system of flyers, brochures, and
pamphlets on the North Shore. We
offer one day delivery, Wednesday

or Sunday.

We already cover every door on
the North Shore—all we have to do
is Insert your flyer Into our paper,
and pay our carriers a bonus for

each one delivered.

For the declared purpose,
mark you, of saving West
Kootenay and South Okana-
gan residents from freezing
in the dark!

The Scientific Pollution &
Environmental Control So-
ciety (SPEC) has called on
the provincial government to
intervene at the public
hearing on the WKP&L
export application, which
opens July 7 in Vancouver.
They want to know why B.C.
Hydro is hell-bent on spend-
ing further hundreds of
millions -- which customers
and taxpayers will eventually
have to foot -- on the crash
project at Revelstoke, while
Cominco-West Kootenay ap-
parently have an equivalent
amount of surpius B.C.

power ready to sell right.

away at an attractive price
below the border.

Looking at my last Hydro
bill, I too certainly want to
know. Probably you do, as
well. Maybe we should go
along to the hearing ourselv-
es a week on Thursday.

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If West Vancouverites
think the highrise rape of

their waterfront has already:

gone as far as it can, they
should think again.

Construction of the 12-
storey, 20-suite apartment
tower being built by Eccom
Developments Ltd. of North
Vancouver at the foot of 185h
Street is proceeding apace.
Meanwhile, a reader alerted
me last week to a further
similar development which

- local real estate sources have

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in his or her yard. Once the

confirmed as being in the
works.

The latest project, appar-
ently, is a 14-storey conco-
minium planned for the foot
of 22nd Street, adjoining that
tiny but pleasant strip of park
leading down over the BCR
tracks to the seawall.

One wonders who’s going |
to live in them, anyhow --

remembering the permanent
‘For Sale’’_signs still adorn-
ing every other West Van

condo completed during the |
‘past two or three years.

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Then there are those cat
traps...
we’ve received numerous
calls from readers since we
published a news item a
week or two. ago on the
subject.

Further research reveals
the present position to be as
follows. The Vancouver re-
gional branch of the SPCA
has apparently contracted to
have humane live traps

manufactured and has initi- |

ated studies into the feasibil-
ity of using them throughout
the Lower Mainland.

The idea, it seems, is that
a homeowner bothered by
someone else’s feline would
be able to apply to the local
SPCA for a trap to be placed

trap had done its job, the
homeowner would be obli-
gated to call the SPCA
immediately, so that trap and
cat could be removed.
When pussy failed to
return home for its Kal-Kan
dinner for two days in a row,

‘jt would presumably be up to

the owner to contact the
pound, cheque book in hand..
But how to prevent pussy
from returning to the scene
of the crime is, for the

‘moment, another unanswer-~ |

ed question.
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Brewers are weeping all
the way to the bank,
according to a Financial Post
report. The market has
turned flat, with Canadians
drinking less beer than a
year ago and little hope for a
reversal of the trend as the
swing to wine continues.

It’s so bad that two of the
big three brewers -- Labatt
and Molson -- are already
diversifying into other indu-
stries. Labatt is getting into
food and consumer products;
Molson into retailing, com-
mercial products and (good
grief!) petroleum.

Which reminds me _ to
remind you that a Liquor
store strike in B.C. has been
mooted for later in the
summer. Now there’s an
investment opportunity for
you to take advantage of
during the next few weeks if
you can raise the ready cash.

Happy Canada Day!

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