Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday december 1971 dissolve inquiry Haig repaid on loss feed lot continued Are those of a prosecuting at Torney rather than those of an impartial m r. Haig said in a statement. We Are informed that Docu m e n t s and memoranda of which counsel of the witnesses have no previous knowledge Are being introduced in the course of hearings in a manner calculated to Surprise and presumably hopefully to Embar or. Bowman s departure has prompted grave doubts As to the ability of the commission to search out All the facts regard ing the Fores tries Complex he said. The decision to proceed made by the commissioners knowing that some relevant material was unavailable for its examination and adjudication would suggest to the Public that Justice May not ultimately be the commission should Dis continue its hearings until material in use in the courts is available to it he said. Before his resignation or. Bowman had the Confidence of Manitoban As does c. Rhodes Smith chairman of the commission of inquiry said or. Haig. The other two commissioners Are Leon Mitchell who is chair i correction in the mall foods advertisement of wednes Day december 15, Adana instant Coffee was shown As 10 of. Jar this should have read 6 of Jar. Man of Manitoba s municipal Board and Murray s. Donnelly Provost of University College University of Manitoba. Or. Smith the commission chairman said monday he did t think the need for additional counsel would necessarily mean a delay in the hearings. Or. Bowman did t name any commissioner in his statement announcing his resignation but earlier informed sources had said or. Mitchell was consid ered by some people to have interfered with the examination of witnesses. Oil War finishes Algiers Reuter the French and algerian Sta to owned Oil companies Elf Era and son Atrach signed an agreement wednesday marking the formal end of the Oil War Between the two countries. The document was signed by Michel Tennille of Elf Era and Sid Ahmed Gozali chairman of son Atrach which has held 51 per cent control of All French Oil interests Here since the go v Ern ment s sudden National nation measures last february. No details of the agreement were Given. The pact takes the form of separate settlements and agree ments on future working with each of Elf Era s five subsidiaries in it follows the signature last june 30 of a settlement Between son Atrach and the Compagnie Francaise Des petioles one of the major French producers Lere. Correction in the Dominion stores and of wed., dec. Domino beverages assorted 28 Al. Of. Bottles 4 for 89c should have read 4 for 89c plus Deposit 15 correction Advance . And of dec. 14 should have read Philips modular 4 26" color . Wal even less with Trade 689 the Manitoba government compensated a Portage la Prairie cattle feeding operation for capital loss it incurred when a National soup company launched an Appeal in 1970 against the feed lot s licence to pollute a hearing of the Mani Toba municipal Board was told wednesday. The government stepped in and settled a Legal hassle be tween Assiniboine feeders Ltd. And the Campbell soup com Pany after the feeding operation was granted by the Manitoba s clean environment commission a licence to pollute on property near Portage la Prairie the hearing was told. They the government recommended that we abandon the site at Portage in favor of other locations and that they would compensate us for any capital loss incurred on the original stated a letter dated july 7, 1971, from the feed lot Secretary treasurer Charles t. Oliver to the clean environment commission. The three member municipal Board is hearing an Appeal by the Austin agricultural museum against Assiniboine feeders Ltd., the second Appeal against the cattle operation in Ivy years. Feed lot president Bert in. Chol who testified during wednesday s hearing said the government offered Assiniboine feeders our cattle and costs to go to another or. Nichol would not say exactly what the government paid to close the feed lot s Portage la Prairie operation. Or. Oliver s letter related the company s attempts to establish an operation in Rural Manitoba. After the clean environment commission had granted the feeding company a pollution licence for the Portage la Prairie property the soup company which operates a Large Plant there got an injunction against the company and its licence. The soup firm had claimed that the feed operation would pollute the City s water Supply. Campbell soup buys water from Portage la Prairie the feed lot had appealed the soup company s application. But the government had stepped in and said it would consider the old Macdonald Airport base near Portage As a possible site. Government policy regarding the base had to change first the company had been told. The feed lot had continued to operate at a different location until May 15, 1971. We were told that tenders would be called for the Mac Donald Airport site and that we should bid on such a tender. We did this but were outbid and lost to the Rosedale Hutt Erite or. Oliver s letter said. The letter had been written to or. Peter Warner clean environment commission chairman to explained the company s difficulty in finding a location in Manitoba however the company found suitable property a Little More than a mile from the Austin agricultural museum asked the commission for a new licence the original licence granted for Portage was never used by the company and prepared to set up their operation the hearing was told. The museum had asked the municipal Board for a stay of proceedings on the company s pollution licence. The Board had rejected the stay and an Appeal had been launched. The alternatives now before the Board Are to uphold the commission s pollution licence to revoke the licence or to instruct the commission to vary the licence and set conditions which the feeding operation must follow. Another aspect of the hearing is that the provincial govern ment May adopt a policy for the location of cattle feeding operations in Manitoba. At present the government s environmental management Branch has no feed lot policy. The main complaint by the museum is that a feed lot downwind would severely hamper its summer tourist Trade. It has also said there is Strong possibility of water pollution from the cattle feeding station. Or. 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