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OTTAWA — A government decision to allow renewed oil exploration and drilling on the west coast would "constitute a gross betraval of the trust of the people of B.C." a UFAWU delegation told the House of Commons resources committee April 6.
Union president Jack Nichol and secretary-treasurer George Hewison submitted a brief to the committee, which is reviewing the government's omnibus energy legislation, Bill C-48.
"The people of the fishing industry and B.C. are unconvinced that the benefits of offshore drilling and oilports can outweigh the long-term benefits of a fishing industry worth $450 million a year," Hewison said.
The union called on the committee to continue the current drilling moratorium until a full public inquiry — possibly a reconstituted oil ports inquiry — determines that drilling is safe environmentally and is in the public interest.
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The proposed legislation would determine the terms of exploration on crown lands on both coasts and in the Arctic. Two companies have already expressed interest in drilling in Hecate Strait on the west coast.
(The Fisherman incorrectly reported in January that the moratorium has already been lifted. In fact, the government still is considering a request to lift the ban by Chevron.)
"It is a matter of great concern to us that the minister of energy is actively considering lifting the west coast moratorium on oil drilling," the union brief said, "all the more because the risks from drilling are potentially greater than from tankers.
"We would ask that the moratorium on west coast oil drilling be continued unless and until a public inquiry has had the opportunity to report out."
The proposed legislation should be amended to exclude the west coast, the union said. If a public inquiry finds drilling should be considered, then questions of compensation to fishermen for accidents or loss of stocks could be reviewed.
"The biggest danger from our perspective is that Parliament is being panicked into making energy decisions the consequences of which may well be disastrous for our industry."
NDP MP Jim Fulton has discovered that the fisheries department made more than 100 recommendations for environmental protection clauses in the bill. None were included. Tory MP Tom Siddon pointed out during committee questioning that the government retains
great discretion in the terms under which exploration will be allowed.
"The fishing industry is more than 100 years old and this energy policy is only for the next
10 years," Hewison said. "The interests of people like ourselves should be taken into account.
"We believe there is some basic incompatibility between drilling for oil and the west coast fishing industry."
In response to a question from Siddon, Hewison pointed out that the industry has "discovered already how woefully inadequate our protection from an oil s'pill is. With our limited fishing grounds and given our currents, an oil spill would be devastating."
The best way to improve the legislation would be to ban offshore drilling on the west coast, Nichol said. "If there is a spill, the legislation would be of little assistance."
The modest environmental safeguards do not reassure fishermen, Nichol added, who have seen little enforcement of the Fisheries Act. "More Riley Creeks, more Amax mines — this is what we fear."
Fulton has discovered that the
011 spill clean-up gear closest to the west coast is based in Tuk-toyaktuk in the Northwest Territories. In the event of a spill, it would have to be flown to B.C., leaving the Arctic unprotected.
Fulton won the union's en-dorsation for his suggestion that complete environmental studies of the entire coast are essential as part of a public inquiry into all aspects of energy development in B.C.
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His niece, Mrs. Shirley Dany-luk of Vancouver, says Thompson immigrated to Minnesota in about 1907, where he farmed for about 10 years.
Just after the First World War he came to B.C. and after a stint at gold-panning in Alaska, he took up a career in the halibut fleet.
For many years he worked on the Cape Beale with Edgar Arnet, including a stint in the Fishermen's Reserve during the Second World War. In 1946, he transferred from the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union to the UFAWU where he remained in good standing until his death.
After his retirement in 1956, Thompson moved from his Prince Rupert home to Vancouver, where he was an active networker for many years. During his quarter-century afloat, he had seined and packed salmon and herring and fished halibut as well — every major fishery in the province.
He is survived only by his niece.
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Saltwater sports fishermen now may obtain their licences from 300 commercial outlets throughout the province. The fisheries department says the $5 licence may be purchased in most hardware and sporting goods stores throughout the lower mainland and along the coast.
The imposition of the daily limit of one chinook per sport fisherman has been rolled back one month until May 1. The department says other proposed curbs on sport fishing, including the ban on down-riggers to June 30, remain in effect as announced last year.
THE FISHERMAN — APRIL 14, 1981/11