Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lbu11 love our Winnipeg free november 1981 9 Robin Hood All purpose flour Eagle sweetened condensed milk special 300 my Fleischmanns fast Rise yeast Sealemon concentrate Lemon juice special Vul Pak Dessica Ted and Sweet Long Coconut 200 g pm magic baking powder Hershey Cocoa 200 g Blue Bonnet coloured Margarine semisweet chocolate chips special 1 Vul Amber Walnut pieces special Sun maid Muscat raisins australian Sultana raisins special Dominion Cream cheese Dominion medium eggs special values effective until close of 1981 truly Canadian we Reserve the right to limit Dominion stores a i 4 smelter merits debated health study focus of controversy at meetings Balmoral staff an attentive crowd of 300 local Resi dents gathered Here last night to hear environmentalists and Alcan officials debate the merits of a proposed aluminium but after three hours of discus Sion in the Balmoral Community there appeared to be no con 1 census among those interviewed on whether local people favored the Balmoral is located about 50 Kilometres Northwest of i Stonewall area Dairy Farmer Barry Tomsk said More people Are in favor of the proposed smelter than against because of the i positive economic Impact it will i have on the i four Lane Highway George Charison of i Stonewall said the Only people in favor of the smelter Are the ones 1 who Are going to sell the another local resident Felt the decision to build the smelter May already have been youre not going to Stop said the Man who refused to give his just look at the Way things Are being done out Treyve the provincial govern ment already built a four Lane during a question period at the end of the meeting participants probed Al cans connections with the provincial government and asked whether local water sup plies would be Safe from smelter the crowd cheered when a woman asked what influence Alcan has with the present govern Serge an Alcan engineered answered we have no control Over this government or any government and said the company was purposely taking a Low profile so As not to become embroiled in the i came Here with the under standing this in an information but so far All Ive seen is a grudge said a local resident during the Al cans record the Rockwood smelter study an Independent local Community group organized the meet ing and invited Alcan environmentalists and interested individuals to among those who spoke was Jim an admitted oppo nent of the aluminium company of at a meeting earlier yesterday Brisebois warned that Al cans rec Ord on environmental and health problems is something to be concerned the former Union official who worked in Al cans smelter for four told a Small University of Winnipeg crowd he was sorry company officials were not present to defend themselves at the forum held to discuss the proposed Alcan smelter and other proposed Mega pro i know Alcan has circulated an information package to the Media suggesting i was perhaps not the Best person to invite to this in not going to dispute Ive never been known to defend Brisebois one of four speakers on the Meg projects said he had not come to Winnipeg to Tell people whether or not to allow the proposed smelter to be in Here to say go out and get the research material on smelt ers for look at the history of where they have Jeen and what they have he said while a member of the Canadian smelter and Allied workers Union he had been involved with a research project on health hazards he claimed were connected to lung disease the and a followup triggered a flurry of press releases sent to Winnipeg Media Friday by Casaw and the citizens investigating aluminium smelter committee which co sponsored the Brisebois said a 1977 health sur vey commissioned by the Union and carried out by a Bertram Carnow of the University of Illi Nois found a Large percentage of the Kitimat smelter workers had lung disease and a new crippling muscular skeletal disease both of which were linked to their an Alcan anticipating Brisebois mentioning the 1977 claimed the study provided conclusions not accepted by the experts approached to review them including experts selected by a third quoting Casaw National representative who a denied that the 1977 study had been challenged on its findings or on its according to the re lease issued by forum said nobody we talked to questioned the carrows credentials Are Hes one of the few scientists who credible As we stand by his looking for a better Job Winnipeg free press the War of words continued Over a second study requested by Alcan and carried out with the cooperation of the Workman compensation an Alcan release claimed the second study concluded there was overwhelming Evi Dence that Tuscul skeletal Flouro Sis As identified previously does not Brisebois and Papenbrock both dispute this conclusion Brisebois told the forum yester Day the second study found 14 cases of fluorosis which he said were referred to the compensation quoted in the also said 14 cases of fluorosis in its preliminary stages were identified in the second variant new Papenbrock explained the Dif Ference of interpretations by say ing Carnow had never claimed there were cases of classic fluorosis but expressed concern Over a new variant of the the same arguments blossomed during the evening meeting wish Brisebois statements challenged by Alcan Brisebois warned local people that Alcan is sophisticated in its dealings with governments and outlined the environmental and health impacts he claims alumni num smelters have had in other Friar also urged local people to participate in governments on sorted Public hearings into the location of the smelter in Manito Eric chief medical officer at Al cans smelter in Kiti mat told the meeting the study done by Carnow and quoted by Brisebois was not found to be an acceptable study by other Scien Ken a local physician said he had studied research on aluminium and told the crowd they were being presented with a fake he said 99 per cent of medical opinion does not accept the car now study quoted by bad neighbor he told the meeting that if he comes across any information Alcan is unsafe he will speak Brisebois questioned How Simpson can act As sole arbitrator in the Assue and added there is not enough data available to set Safe Friar said there is a Means of setting standards and added Alcan Doest want to locate in the area and then be considered a bad Stonewall mayor Alex Krawec told the meeting he resented being smeared by Brisebois for visit ing Alcan smelters partly at the expense of the but Brisebois answered by say ing when one goes at the com pants one sees what the company Jim Pattison this weeks specials s 1982 pm Omega and citation As Low As per hurry Only 3 Days left 36 month lease i or further information Call Bill Todd 320550 Century 7752064 office products praxis praxis makes perfect an electronic portable typewriter for the lifestyle of the i0 character memory Tor 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started the pro Cess of renunciation and self denial of worldly and when it is i will take tanyas live in the Krishna he said he has met some Indian industrialists and businessmen and discussed the Hare Krishna Ford was reported recently to have Given a donation to a group for the construction of a Krishna museum in ;