Mailbox

7 - Wednesday. April.29, 1987 - North Shore News

Lumber firm ‘hoodwinks’ public

Dear Editor:

We are dealing with a company
who projects a record year for
their pulp and paper division in
1987; 4 company whose sales
totalled over $2 billion in the last
two years, and whose stock in the
same period of time has soared
from just above $7 to a high of
over $36. The company is Cana-
dian Forest Products Ltd., ‘“‘The
biggest lumber company in the
world’’, and it is really a sad thing
when a company of this stature
resorts to ‘‘hoodwinking’’ the
public over something so vital as
our environment and the need to
preserve it. They have blatantly
defied and disobeyed a perinit and
an order issued by our: Minister of
Environment.

And you're right, Mr. A.K.
MacMillan, P. Eng., director of
energy and environnient for Cana-
dian Forest Products Ltd., you
were ordered to hold public
Meetings to inform the people of
what plans for the future were,
regarding improving the discharge
of toxic gai emissions and par-
ticulate matter from your pulp
mill.

However, according to our
Minister of Environment, you were

Correction Notice
Buy Low Foods

in the Sunday, Apr. 26
advertisement:

Fresh Chicken Breast
Tray Pack should have
read $1.99 Ib., $4.39 kg.
We apologize for any
inconvenience to our
customers.

ordered to inform, not to mislead,
and your company tried to snow-
job the public by using a type of
“measuring system’? which you
were not given permission to use
by the ministry, and which was
also objected to by 3,000 concern-
ed citizens within two weeks of
your application for its use. And

_by the way, Mr. MacMillan, your

public meetings were ordered to be
held prior to January 31, almost 3
months ago!

And let me remind Mr. Cargo
(mill manager), Mr. Wilson
(technical superintendent), Mr.
MacMillan, etc. that their last
variance order is only an extension
of their previous variance order
which still has to be complied with,
and includes the installation of a
scrubber in boiler number three!
The government has also stated
that the cost of complying with
their permit and two variance
orders would come to a lot more
than the $2 million claimed by the

AV

Weekly Store ~
Special
R.T.U. Weed-B-Gon

company.

Since Woodfibre upgraded their
pulp mill at a cost of $220 million
we do not know of any other air
pollution in Howe Sound besides
Port Mellon. And Mr. MacMillan,
regarding my complaint to the
Ministry of Environment on April
3, if you check with Mr. Manki of
the ministry, you will find that it
was a relay on my behalf, involv-
ing quite a number of complaints
about a pollution problem on
April 3. { was away at the time,
and did not get back until April 6
at which time | received the com-
plaints. It is a long distance call to
the Ministry of Environment, and
I only phone in complaints when
there are a number of them. You
state the mill did not close for
maintenance until April 5, but the
smell and irritant problem was on
the third. So ...!

And Mr. Editer, the reason no
one went to Canfor’s ‘‘tea parties”
(and nearly everyone who had

(controls Dandelions)

reg. $6.49 s 399

DYKHOF

(NURSERIES “ou

Baskets
Outdoor

signed the petition was phoned by
the public relations firm which was
hired by Canfor at a nice cost) was
because people had already made
their stand, and knew that the
open houses were nothing but
commercials for the company.
They didn’t want to waste their
time, listening to a lot of pro-
paganda from a pulp mill at Port
Mellon, that continues to discharge

pollutants above its permitted
levels.

And, Mr. Cargo, “good cor-
porate citizens’’ respect and obey
the law. And our so-called ‘‘pro-
testors’’, Mr. Wilson, were not
protesting, but were merely there
to inform the public of the facts.

We don’t have the resources that
Canfor has, but we have a
tremendous amount of support,
and have just met with the
Minister of Environment, with his
assurance that this problem wiil be
rectified imminently.

Terry Jacks, West Vancouver

Flowers in Bloom

$Q99

460 Mountain Hwy. - Open 7 Days A Week!

North Van.

9 am - 6pm

SIGN, UP. FOR: MEDIA.#
-RESOURCES?: ff
The Media Resources:
rogram. | .is:a. two year full.8
- time: diploma ‘program.
training Students ‘in: B
mmaking, ‘photography,. :
video; : audio, and. computer: *

: plicants. for:the' program

which starts tt. Septem
“but Ifyou. hurry, and;
them: there may stit) i/o
few: spaces: ‘Foe, a

pane Media
and.Computets & Media;
and more information, wilt

DRAPERIES BY S. LAURSEN

CUSTOM DRAPERIES
AND BEDSPREADS
SLIPCOVERS
TRACKS |
“IN-HOME SERVICE” sackages to

i choose from
Labour $6.50 per pane) unlined, $7.50 lined |

All blinds 40% off list prices

Phone for FREE estimates

call 987-2966

Serving the North Shore for 16 years.

@) Lifestyle Membership,
Weights, Aerobics &
Lifecyles (monthly dues)

6 months of aerobics &
trimtone classes
4 months of weight
training — "Early Bird
Special”
3% months weight
training
3 months of aerobics &
eight training

3 months of aerobics
& 11 tans

3 months of weight
training & 5 tans

Bonus ¢

5 TANS

with this
AD.

NORTH VANCOUVER

RECREATION
- COMMISSION

INVITES YOU TO

ME DaNCING

*
‘9
-

by MICKEY McDOUGALL
: GYMNASIUM
200 Block East 23rd

SATURDAY 2 MAY
8 p.m. ic midnight
$8.00 per person

Includes: Hors d'oeuvres, Dancing &
Entertainment. Refreshments available.

250 Locations Worldwide
Best Equipped

Hosted by: The North Vancouver Recreation Centre
Ballroom Dance Club

Tickets are available at The Recreation Centre Office

123 E. 23rd St. 988-6166