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Coal dust | ‘and ‘North
Vancouver City residents do .

not. mix happily --.and City

‘

council decided Monday to

look into the matter.

Aldermen agreed.

| unanimously that Canadian —
‘National Railways ‘had been _
the culprit for a number of —

years in plaguing those parts.
of the. city: adjacent to the
tracks with noise and coal
dust pollution. Council
members were also
dissatisfied with a letter.
written: by. an air. pollution:
control official to a. com-
plaining resident i in the lower
Lonsdale area.

Alderman Jim Warne
expressed surprise that the
‘Pollution Control Board had
found CNR’s control of coal .

_ dust’ adequate. “I. often see

large clouds of coal dust, "he |
said.

G ity protests transit act

North Vancouver City
council voted Monday to
support a motion by Port |
Coquitlam council objecting
to the provincial govern-
ment’s new Urban Transit
Act,

The ;,.motion -- to,,be .

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“Alderman Elko - ‘Kroon oS
named the: Park &- Tilford -

Distillery on Cotton Road as

one: of the worst victims of.
_ coal dust pollution.
Park & Tilford Gardens,” he

- said, “are very dirty” com-—
pared toa year or two. ago.”

“Alderman: ‘Gordon. Cross oe
complained, in... addition, -_
that excessive noise from the. .
‘CNR . yard had been an —
ongoing problem for local © -
‘residents. “There was a CNR _
report on noise pollution i in

1972,” “he recalled, “and

since then they. {the CNR)

have stonewalled it.”

Council decided to invite a
“regional | pollution control
Official to .a committee
meeting to discuss the whole
problem. Alderman Kroon
also proposed that
management personnel from
Park & Tilford should take
’ part in the discussion.

‘presented at’ the convention
of the Union of B.C.
Municipalities in Penticton
this week -- protests the fact
that the act. will force
municipalities to increase

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_ Financially, Grouse.

: John n Hoegs, president of:
Grouse. Mountain . ‘Resorts ©
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weather deposited ‘a fragile .
dusting: of . snow . ‘on. the
= mountain a. month ahead of
schedule. ; | | "

: Mest’ of the: white ‘stuff.
: melted on contact, but some.
of it stayed around longer at.
-the higher elevations. Skiing —
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and .. a record “number. of.

- visitors - to. the ~. ‘mountain _
- during. July. and August. But
“a recovery can only « come in

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- Hoegg happily.

the winter ‘said Hoegg.

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