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THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Saturday, May 20, 1989 Court action threatened to get review of pulp nulls I'D '1 i. in Edmonton, said the current arrangement in Alberta allows federal departments to review and critique Alberta's environmental impact assessments. He said that Bouchard could, however, order a federal study if he deemed it necessary. James Darwish, spokesman for tie Friends of the North, said Friday that federal environmental assessments allow for public hearings something lobby groups have been pushing for in Alberta. "But public hearings are only part of it," said Darwish.

"Maybe if someone does a proper job of studying these things (pulp mills), they will say they must be halted or fixed up." The group's challenge follows a string of other legal action taken by Alberta environment groups. Friends of the Oldman River are going to court next month to try and force federal environmental reviews on the Oldman River dam project The group is also awaiting word on its charges against former provincial Environment Minister Ken Kowalski and his department for destruction of fish habitat, relating to construction work on the dam. The South Peace Environmental Association in Grande Prairie asked Environment Canada earlier this month to investigate illegal storage of PCBs at the local Procter and Gamble pulp mill. The PCBs, from a transformer accident in 1978, are being stored in a settling pond on site. The same group has charged Procter and Gamble with destruction of fish habitat By SCOTT McKEEN Journal Staff Writer An Alberta lobby group will take the federal government to court if it won't intervene in the province's proposed pulp mill developments.

Friends of the North wrote Canada's Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard last week, asking him to order federal environmental assessments of Alberta's pulp mill projects. The letter says that Bouchard is duty bound to assess the mills because they will have environmental impact on areas of federal responsiblity. The mills will pollute Alberta rivers which flow northward through native settlements and up to the Northwest Territiories and the Wood Buffalo National Park, says the group. The letter concludes by warning Bouchard that if he doesn't intervene on the pulp mill projects. Friends of the North will launch court action to force him.

That threat was inspired by a federal court decision last month which halted construction of Saskatchewan's $125-million Rafferty-Alameda dam project Federal court justice Bud Cullen said proper guidelines weren't followed when former federal environment minister Tom McMillan decided to accept a provincial environmental review instead of doing an independent one. Bryan Armstrong, Environment Canada spokesman Student 'glasnost' chilly By DON RETSON Journal Staff Writer Chrystia Freeland is thrilled to be back in Edmonton after a student-exchange program in Ukraine that goes double for Soviet authorities. One Soviet newspaper vilified the Harvard University scholarship student as an "anti-Soviet bourgeois nationalist" Soviet authorities also complained to the Canadian embassy in Moscow that Freeland, 20, was "a well-known trouble-maker." That's not how it began, though, for the feisty, free-spirited daughter of Halyna Free-land, New Democrat candidate for Edmonton Strathcona in the last federal election. Freeland said Soviet officials couldn't say enough good things about her when she arrived in Kiev last October to study Russian history and literature. But her personal "glasnost" with Soviet authorities cooled after she accepted an invitation to speak at a Ukrainian language conference in February.

Handsome young Russian men started showing up at her door unannounced: one night it would be a blond hunk, the next night a suave, dark-haired man. They'd gaze into her eyes, she chuckled, then start talking about Western technology, or inquire what she knew about certain Ukrainian nationalists. A trip outside Kiev by the aspiring journalist to interview a Ukrainian dissident turned into a particularly chilling experience. When she left the man's home, a local militia man was waiting outside his door wanting her to sign some sort of statement. Free- Harvard University exchange student Chrystia Freeland Soviet authorities labelled ber 'a well-known troublemaker' Police gave no solace to family land talked long enough to find out what he wanted, then excused herself saying she didn't want to miss her bus.

Police were waiting for her in the next town, but Freeland avoided them by jumping off the bus in the middle of nowhere, hitch-hiking part of the way back to Kiev. Before getting off the bus, Freeland said she handed notes of the earlier interview to a travel companion, who stuffed them down her bra. ack in Kiev, Soviet authorities begu phoning her, demanding she come in for an interview. Freeland politely told them to get lost. Her scariest encounter, she said in an interview, was also her last night in Kiev.

Four men, two of them KGB officers, showed up at her dorm demanding that she answer their questions. Again, Freeland refused to talk, ignoring threats that she wouldn't be allowed to leave for Moscow the following day- The four Soviet agents also threatened to confiscate her passport, but Freeland said they backed off when she told them it as the property of the Canadian government. "I was incredibly nervous," she recalled of the lengthy stalemate. Despite her numerous run-ins with police and authorities, and despite the fact university courses were spiced heavily with Marxist dogma, Freeland said she gained a great deal from the exchange program. for the best," Les Woodward told a public forum Thursday night Wanda Woodward was murdered near Medicine Hat in August 1987 by Daniel Gingras, a convicted criminal released on a day pass to West Edmonton Mall.

Family friends and community members were the only solace during a tragic time the family is still fighting to recover from, Les Woodward said. "My only hope is there will be some changes made to stop criminals being released so they can kill innocent children," he told the forum, entitled Victims Speak Out. "Gingras is going to have more and more birthdays, but his victims' birthdays have stopped." Kathy Fischer, a battered wife from Calgary, said the system doesn't take enough responsibility for victims. CALGARY (CP) Police offered a Medicine Hat family no comfort when they were desperately searching for their daughter, who went missing and was later found strangled, says her father. The woman Wanda Lee Woodward was found 12 days after she was reported missing.

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