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BELLUZ Realty Ltd. Simcoe Plaza Box 715 Terrace Bay Ontario POT 2Wo JURIS ZOANOVSKIS 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 824-2890 ROSSPORT, ONT Ney Volume 46 No. 46 Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1992 The Terrace Bay-Schreiber ews News SUPERIOR SHORELINE INSURANCE LTD. We represent 8 different insurance companies so that we can get the best rates for Stand 50 cents incl. G.S.T. you: Liz Boutilier Broker *Home *Auto ® "Business ; *Air Craft *Mobile Home 825-9492 monies last week. Hundreds of people in. Schreiber and Terrace Bay (above) honoured Canada's war dead during Remembrance Day cere- Inside New director for snowmobile Region 27.........3 Larry Sanders --native self government......5 Community briefs-- Drug Awareness. WK ....025s00r000008 Skate-a-thon supports minor hockey.........:....8 Schreiber resident serves in Croatia........9 P/C committee Meeting.........0..9 Market- place..........12-13 Northern municipalities meet with minister by Darren MacDonald Staff Terrace Bay Reeve Jim Ziegler says he felt "positive" coming out of a meeting with Environment Minister Ruth Grier last Thursday in Sudbury. Municipal leaders from across Northern Ontario --including Schreiber Reeve Bob Krause--met with Grier to explain their concerns about her ministry's plans to ban chlorine-based pulp and paper production. Ziegler was one of three Reeve Jim Ziegler municipal leaders--Marathon and Fort Frances were the oth- ers--who made a presentation to Grier on the possible effects of the legislation. "We came out of there feel- ing positive," said Ziegler in an interview Friday. "She heard us, she understands our con- cerns, and she knows the impact of even just one mill going down." He said he told the minister that chlorine is produced natu- rally in the rivers that flow into Lake Superior. "So you're always going to have chlorine in the system, whether it's occurring naturally or it's manmade," said Ziegler. "T also gave her information about what Kimberly-Clark has done over the last eight years, and told her how much they have spent on pollution control equipment." He says he told Grier that if the province tried to force a mill like Kimberly-Clark to conform to zero-discharge leg- islation, it would mean that the tens of millions of dollars the company spent on equipment would be wasted. Kimberly-Clark currently meets or exceeds all MOE requirements except for the organochlorides (AOX) dis- charge level, which they are currently working on meeting. The ministry requirement is 1.5 kg per tonne of pulp produced. Ziegler says that another concern the pulp and paper industry has is that the money the industry spent to meet the AOX requirement of 1.5 will be wasted if zero discharge leg- islation is introduced. "When they changed the dis- charge level to 1.5, mills went continued on page 16 4 We offer Mature Owners Discounts, Claims Free Discounts, - New Revised Auto & Property Rates Non Smokers Discounts & Alarm Credits SIMCOE PLAZA TERRACE BAY 825-3246 TERRACE BAY INSURANCE LTD. * Home * Business * Auto * Cottages * Recreational Vehicles * Etc. TERRY O*