Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba De tar d Lar issues to oq1 a7 Kenaston needs to be updated the letter from Braz Zell pass on underpass of april 24 demonstrates the Type of thinking that will keep Winnipeg on the sad Road to mediocrity and obscurity that we Are already headed nearly every City with a Popula Tion of a Hal million or More has Limite Access freeways running through even cities like Regina have this Type of info Stu Winnipeg has no North South or East West those of us who live in the far reaches of the City must travel Down Over regulated streets to reach the Centre parts of our perimeter Highway is of Little or no use to City unless you live in Norbert and work at Assiniboia the functionality of this ring Highway is Brazzelle suggestion that trucks use this route when travelling through Winnipeg is the majority of trucks now on Winnipeg streets work for companies that have terminals in there they must travel Down City streets to reach their and possibly Down More City streets to reach the various warehouses to Load for their next since these trucks already clog our intercity secondary Why not build four Lane roads to accommodate them heavy truck traffic will then be streamlined into a few select freeing up the smaller roads for residential by Azzeh Labelling of arterial highways As people unfriendly is How is a efficient Road system unfriendly by directing and other High Speed traffic onto the roads that Are designed to handle the secondary and residential roads will become less less pol and More Kenaston Boulevard is a traffic Nightmare legendary in and most citizens would agree that it needs to be updated As soon As Possi Steve Teller Winnipeg private labs serve vital role we would like to take this Opportunity to respond to the april 28 Arti labs skim study As registered medical Laboratory technologists employed at Central medical laboratories we find this article highly inaccurate on several private labs provide a very important and convenient service to the Public and their at Central medical laboratories testing is done by qualified registered medical technologists and conforms to rigorous testing Stan we provide several tests at no private labs do not decide which tests will be it is the Manitoba health services commission which in essence dictates which tests labs will be paid where is the skim Ming we Hope that All labs will be studied fairly by the provincial commit tee on lab service with much input from technologists before any important decisions Are Bev Knight Winnipeg fkanc1nelazareck Winnipeg Yvonne Rindall Winnipeg Cherry Mccormick Lockport game plan Worth a look John Dafoe article on the tory game plan to win an election april 22 is both timely and it helps the Manitoba electorate prepare for the inevitable Campaign where the air is full of speeches and i suggest that the same electorate consider questioning All parties in three main areas so called sin medical and education budget the tories certainly know the wages of sin Are consider million in alcohol million in cigarette taxes and million in gambling a total of on the one hand they boast that personal taxes have not been raised and on the other they fill their cof fers with sin the puritans would smile As they approach the Point of stamping out but the 83percent tax on alcohol has driven people to Home Bee making and it has caused the closing of 18 distilleries with the resultant loss of the eight a per Cigar letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from readers letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not addresses All letters May be edited for style and length Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x 3b6 letters can be sent to our fax number letter maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone Rette Nas shown us How porous our Borders including the Ontario the government attitude to knocks them from the moral High they Only know of the Mountain of Money they see growing and nothing of the misery they cause As addicts and near addicts toss loonies around like confetti at a government ask yourself Are the medical re forms making for a better system they Parachute in a american expert and then discover the recommended reductions Are Reform has been driven by rising but where is the planning committee composed of All person Nel who work in the medical Field Orchard lost his health Cabinet Post because he was perceived to be Dis mantling the system rather than re forming the absence of a real committee suggests Rule from in the tories have done a wonderful at the same time they have consistently reduced Edu cation budgets and income raising they have legislated the mainstreaming of All students in Public and raised the Grants to private this is a formula for diluting the system rather than strengthening As Dafoe Points at least the tories have a plan and we can see it is now incumbent on All voters to ask the other parties what their plan is in these three and the to Ries should ask themselves How Many civil servants and teachers will support them in the next and Why downy Winnipeg news Media hypocritical for years i have sat like the majority of and listened and read with in Terest How the news Media report goings on around the i find that the Canadian Broad casting corporation Csc to be the most hypocritical of they Are paid with taxpayers Dol always seem to run a deficit and try very hard to mimic the american news also very annoying to me is that they try to censor what we see on a program while following it up with completely the opposite on the next while watching a hockey game a fight Breaks out very rarely does anybody get seriously Csc will switch its cameras to the play ers fan reaction or go to a i assume this is done so As not to show the younger Genera Tion violence on after the hockey on comes the Csc prime time and the Lead Story is a Young female in Sarajevo with her body blown apart lying in a Pool of or a Young male in Rwanda who has had his body hacked apart with machetes lying dead in the Street in his rather interesting i cannot watch one Type of violence but it is perfectly acceptable to watch what really upset and the main reason i am is Liat Peter Mansbridge said the evening the Canadian forces sea King Heli copter crashed in new killing the two he implied the reason we did not have the new eh101 helicopter was be cause the Liberal government can celled the this is they but the main reason it was cancelled was the Media Blitz at the led by Peter Mansbridge and Pamela that gave us interview after interview from per sons against the acquisition of these the pressure by the news Media against the eh101 was the main reason it was Winnipeg i the proposed cutting area includes rights to Cut in Duck Mountain provincial file photo concern about environment by Don Sullivan special to the free press Louisiana Pacific up is proposing to open an million oriented strand Board Obs Plant near Swan a Community located 300 Miles Northwest of the announcement has resulted in a coalition of 14 organizations including the concerned citizens of the Swan River forming around concerns that up is moving into Canada to avoid the higher costs associated with meeting higher health and environmental standards in the United Manitoba future Forest Alliance noted at a press conference in March of this year because and indeed have no air emission standards whatsoever for formaldehyde and methylene diphenyl is Cyanate it is very easy for up to state they will meet All provincial and Federal the coalition also pointed out that up was fined million by the United states environmental Protection Agency for air emission violation for these very same technology this so called state of the Art Obs Plant in Swan River will not include regenerative Thermal oxidation the reason Given for this by Dan spokesman for up at a town Hall meeting in Swan was that this Type of technology has not been the Alliance wonders Why would the environmental Protection Agency Epa order up to install million Worth of to technology in 11 of its facilities if it has not been proven to be in this new technology has been proven to eliminate up to 95 per cent of panic late matter and 90 per cent of volatile organic the health Issue is of Paramount concern to the people of Dawson Creek who have experienced Louisiana Pacific practices first hand for the last several based on Dawson creeks experience the government of Manitoba would be Well advised to insure that Louisiana Pacific install the Best possible pollution control technology anything less would be a attractive As it becomes harder and harder for Large multinational resource extracting corporations like to conduct their business in the due to higher environmental and health countries like Canada become All the More this is made All the easier with the signing of the North american free Trade agreement which will allow multinational corporations to gain unlimited Access to our resources and avoid meeting higher standards in their own country of Given the past track record of up in the United states it would seem natural that the Manitoba government would want to conduct a comprehensive environmental assessment of los operations and cutting on the environment minister Glen Cummings announced on March that the environment department might decide Public hearings Are not this statement came As no Surprise to members of the Manitoba future Forest As this government has a dismal record at Best when it comes to dealing with environment Elizabeth executive director of the Sierra club of Canada commented that we just didst find any Bright spot in As a result the Sierra club awarded Manitoba an f Grade for its environmental conduct in their annual report other issues must also be addressed with the coming of up into the question of sustainable forestry practices is of great importance to the it has been Learned that up intends to Cut up to one million cubic metres of hard Wood a year in a cutting area that Only has an annual allowable Cut of cubic metres per this will probably be achieved by cutting 45 Inch stands of Aspen rather than the allowable 79 Inch also of great and an ongoing Battle Between environmental groups and the government of is the question of allowing resource extraction to occur in provincial the proposed cutting area for up includes the right to Cut stands of Aspen in the Duck Mountain provincial Only eight per cent of the Park is closed to Forest Manitoba is the Only province left in Canada that still allows resource extraction to occur within provincial Park finally and most consultation with first nations Peoples has not there Are no fewer than 12 bands in the area that will be effected by los traditional land use issues such As trapping and harvesting have yet to be addressed and outstanding land claims by the first nations have been with All of these issues unresolved it is no wonder the Alliance feels that up is treating Manitoban As if we were a third world Manitoba future Forest Alliance has insisted that the government of Manitoba hold joint Federal provincial Public environmental assessment hearings into los Plant and cutting the government provide the Alliance with intervener funding As provided for under the Manitoba environment this funding would in some create a level playing Field in providing balanced information to any Public the Alliance feels it is necessary to have Access to Independent experts and analysis to balance information that will be provided by up to the Public hearing alternatives the government of Manitoba has up until now portrayed this Issue As jobs versus the yet the government has failed to explore alternatives to there is presently a proposal to open an oriented strand Board Plant in Western Manitoba that would use Straw As its source for production of wafer this proposal would create jobs and protect our boreal Forest at the same if the government of Manitoba is truly committed to their sustainable development principles they would be exploring this Type of sustainable Manitoba future Forest Alliance is counting on a Long and arduous Campaign to hold both the government of Manitoba and up accountable to the people of Manitoba and to insure that our health and the future of our environment Are not compromised for the Sake of the Bottom Don Sullivan is Manitoba future Forest forestry development Good for area special to the free press As someone who has lived in the Parkland All his life and is currently raising a family in the Swan Valley i take exception to the series of articles by Val Werier opposing the forestry development by Louisiana Pacific in this Werier implies we Are a Bunch of poor dupes who require the expertise of some Radical environmentalists from within the perimeter Highway to save us from destroying our believe it or the people up Here in the North Are smart and every Day they live in close touch with their environment and have been farming and logging the area in a sustainable Way since do Werier and his Radical i realize that it is the primary producers like Farmers and loggers who put the food on his table and Supply the Wood for his House it Doest come directly from Safeway or your local Home your readers should understand that the proposed Obs Plant in the Swan Valley will Harvest Aspen Poplar which most consider to be a Weed which matures in 4060 years Spruce requires 150175 1 would have a Cut area of Square or million but at a Cut rate of acres per year it would take 158 years to Cut the entire the first Cut will have regenerated and rotted before the company could get Back to did you know that Farmers in Manitoba bulldoze and Burn hundreds of acres of Poplar each year now Farmers can take marginal keep it in Poplar and Harvest it for did you know that this project will help us save our rail line which is scheduled for abandonment in we want the 170 jobs in the Plant and 250300 in the but not at any we Trust that the clean environment commission will set Tough standards on emissions that Louisiana Pacific will meet or exceed or we dont want the harvesting forests up Here we have been harvesting the forests in a sustainable Way for almost a Hundred by using variable size Cut and allowing buffers around lakes and streams we will be Able to Harvest the Aspen which is completely under Werier and his Radical environmentalist friends within the perimeter Are Only listening to Ken Sigurdson who represents Jess than one per cent of the people in the Sigurdson held a concerned citizens meeting and raise one cent when he passed the hat among the 350 people to try and pay the rent All municipal and 99 per cent of the private citizens support the economic nothing has United the people of the area More than this municipal trappers and businessmen Are All working together Here to promote economic Weiers friends requests for clean environment commission hearings in Winnipeg for this project make As much sense As having the Cec on the Charleswood Bridge in Minitonas ;