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BELLUZ Realty Ltd. Simcoe Plaza' Box 715 Terrace Bay Ontario POT 2WO URS 3 ZDANOVSKS Office - 825-9393 BROKER/ MVA Home - 824-2933 Serendipity Gardens Cafe & Gallery Fully Licensed Birthday Discounts - Christmas Catering Open Daily at 11 a.m. Main Street N i ERKACE BAY PUBLIC LIBRAR Volume 46 No. 47 The Terrace Bay-Schreiber ews 824-2890 ROSSPORT, ONT News Stand Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1992 50 cents incl. G.S.T. Liz Boutilier 895.9 490 Broker SUPERIOR SHORELINE INSURANCE LTD. We represent 8 different insurance companies so that ns can get the best rates for u: - *Business = *Air Craft *Mobile Home Former Miami Dolphin Mercury Morris holds court at Lake Superior High School last Thursday evening. Much more on page 11. KC meets with Chamber to present AOX position by Darren MacDonald Staff Kimberly-Clark presented their case against the province's proposed zero discharge legis- lation to the Aguasabon Cham- ber of Commerce at a special meeting held Nov.18 at the Ter- race Bay Recreation Centre. "A lot of groups use the media as a vehicle to get their message across," said Bob Baxter, KC's Director of Chemical Recovery and Envi- ronment. Baxter showed the 20 cham- ber members at the meeting an excerpt from a documentary produced by an Australian tele- vision news magazine. The documentary was extremely critical of the environmental group Greenpeace. It outlined cases where the Australian branch of Green- peace went after Australian companies they alleged were breaking environmental laws and were seriously harming the environment. However, the group's allega- tions often turned out to be totally incorrect. In one case, the Australian government forced a company to shut down after Greenpeace held a news conference accusing them of breaking environmental laws. The company lost $6 million while the government conduct- ed a $1.5 million environmen- tal study of the plant. The study concluded that Greenpeace's allegations were groundless. In Canada, one of the analo- gies Greenpeace has used in support of banning chlorine- based pulp and paper produc- tion is comparing it to a drip- ping tap in a bathtub--even a small amount of AOX will eventually cause the tub to overflow. In other words, even a small amount of chlorinated organic compounds (AOX) released into lakes and rivers will even- tually accumulate and become an environmental hazard. "That's not a fair analogy, because AOX is a naturally occurring compound," said KC President Lew Grimm, who was also at the meeting. In a test of the 26 rivers along the North Shore of Lake Superior, all contained natural- ly-occurring levels of AOX. "Nature has a mechanism to deal with these kinds of things," said Grimm. "If it didn't, you would be looking at a Dead Sea type of situation in Lake Superior. So the idea of eliminating AOX is unrealis- tic." Grimm also said that when the province came out with nine different effluent regula- tions under the Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abate- ment (MISA) program, "the pulp and paper industry didn't blink." The MISA requirements were developed in consultation with the industry, Grimm said, and means of achieving them were Clearly laid out. KC meets or exceeds all of the proposed MISA regula- tions, except for AOX. It has plans to reach the required dis- charge level of 1.5 kg of AOX per tonne of pulp and paper produced by 1995 at a cost of $4-8 million. The provincial Ministry of Environment (MOE) is consid- ering making it illegal for mills to use chlorine compounds in pulp and paper production. continued on page 3 ge , ODIANNE O'NEILL TERRACE BAY INSURANCE LTD. New Revised Auto & Property Rates Some Non Smokers Discounts & Alarm Credits We offer Mature Owners Discounts, Claims Free Discounts, SIMCOE PLAZA TERRACE BAY 825-3246 * Home * Business * Auto * Cottages ' * Recreational Vehicles * Etc. ~