Meeting set for Tuesday

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cannot assure us itis safe, then -they wil haye .to ‘be . removed.” i Members of the Any such # assurances, sh Chemical Hazard Alert Committee are xeadying themselves for

brass tacks study of Hooker Chemical, Jintended to tighten up . Safety | at the North train at Lynn Creek which Vancouver chlorine Wes 20t considered -im-

manufacturers or make

more. weight than th emergency officials ‘at -committee’s- _first = me

just. -one. week.. before

plications of having Hooker located on their doorsteps and aimost certainly be following up their study with

prising Seymour residents concerned about the effect of local chemical industries on their safety - wilJ be

staging a meeting Aprij 15 to“ “ommendations. decide a course of action as” a follow-up to its first ‘in- GOODBYE

formation meeting of March 20 which drew an audience of about 300. |

Committee spokesman Sheila Gordon says the upcoming meeting will split up-into” groups to do an exhaustive study | of the eets-of the Hooker plant, comparing the possible ‘hazards of its location with @its benefits to North. Van- couver. -

Gordon comments: “The ~ bottom line is that if they

And Gordon comments: “If Hooker feels there are too many restrictions and they must move I will be the first one to wave goodbye.”

The committee will be making a cost benefit analysis to discover the financial benefits to the

Hooker located near the

Second Narrows bridge. Among the factors to be

considered will be how much

Says, are going to have a lot

‘blanket promises made by

derailment .of a ‘chemical

‘portant enough to report to~§

the chemical plant ar hd depanment. wil’ “Be” relocate. looking at both the safety . and the financial - im-

The committee - com-

community of having

Chemical Hazard Alert Committee

money goes into the com- munity in the form of wages.

Members will also be ascertaining how much money is spent on repairs to the bridge as a-result of corrosion through-chemical pollution, |

The committee wants the department of health to set up monitoring. equipment to check the emmisions from

‘SHEILA GORDON of the

Hooker in the plant's ‘daily functioning.

Gordon says people i in the arden Apartments have omplained regularly that hen Hooker flushes its int they suffer sore eye problems, eadaches and nausea and t the advise of the RCMP

is merely “close your win- “dows”.

POLLUTION LEVELS

Gordon maintains that

. “Hooker has already been ‘shown to exceed stipulated

pollution limits when not checked regularly

She says the company was granted a pollution licence

in 1972 as a result of a test by ©

the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

She says that three pollution level tests were carried out February 15, 1975, with the highest reading showing 1.45 parts of chlorine per million parts of air.

But by January 2 last year, she insists, the next time the plant. was: monitored, the level was found to have risen to five parts of chlorine per million parts of air.

She adds that Hooker was asked to do something about the situation and by the next

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“My point is, why were # there no tests between 1975 and 1979?” she asks. “No wonder they were putting out five parts per million if no-one checks them for four years."

She says of the com- mittee’s objectives for gathering the data: “Eventually, we hope to gather enough that when we go to Victoria and Ottawa we will have information behind us and can get proper safety standards for the daily functioning of the plant and the transportation of the chemicals.”

Gordon adds frustratedly of the present situation: “There seems to be this loose attitude over things. They are responsible for public safety but are not taking it seriously.”

And she says of the residents’ attitude to the whole Hooker issue: “This is. not the same as keeping the Seylynn firehall out of the park. It's a bigger issue.

“We have to go about this calmly and intelligently and: it may well take some time.”

The meeting starts at 8 p.m. in Maplewood School gymnasium.

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