HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-02-20, Page 20Murray Gaunt, Liberal .M.P.P
for Huron: Bruce. has called upon
the Minister of Energy to fustitute
an immediate public inquiry •into
the' proposed Bradley-George-
town hydro transmission route.
"The Provincial Government
plans to expand facilities at the
Bruce -Nuclear Power Plant to
provide hydro-electric power to
the Toronto market. This would
incur capite costs of, many
millions of dollKsT' and necessi-
tates numerous and heavier
transmission lines across prime
agricultural and scenic areas' of
South-Western .Ontario. These
plan's completely negate hydro's
stated priority of locating all
generating stations close to major
load centres. Also the proposed
routing of the prinliary trans- •
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The realizetl , net income of
Canadian farme,, is...expected to
decline by almost eight• per cent
in 1975, W,L. Porteous, Direca-
of Statistics Canada's Agriculture
Division, recently told an agricul-
tural outlook conference in
Ottawa. , According to. , present indica-..
tors , realized net incerne will he
slightly less than $3.2 billion
'compared to $3.47 billion in 19,74,
a decline which will affect all
provinces except Stskatchewan.
In percentage terms. Prince
.Edward Island and New Bruns--
wick are expected to'recorsi the
Most acute drop, falling to near
• the 1972 level, partly as a result of
lower potato prices.
Mr. Porteous noted that farm
cash receipts arc forecast to
increase but not nearly as-rapidly
as in the previous two years.
Based on current expectations,
cash receipts are expected to rise
by 4.4-per cent to a level of $8.9
billion as a result of moderate
decline in crops receipts and an
increase in receipts from livestock
enterprises. '
,While 1975 projections of
realized net income denote "a
deterioration of the relative
income position of the farming
industry”, particularly in Prince
,Edward Igland and, New Bruns-
wick, Mr. Porteous said income
gained • from off-farm sources
must also be taken into considera-
tion..
In 1972, farmers reported that
more than double their income
came from off-farm rather than
farming activities. On a national
level, 68.6'per cent or $5.3 million
was earned in non-farm income.
In his review of last year's farm
income situation, he said-the ric
income of farmers from farming
alone increased for the fourth
consecutive year with preliminary
estimates indicating that realized
net income rose by '28.3 per cent
to a retbrd of $3.417 billion. _
The most substantial gains
were in the three Prairie ,
provinces, particularly Saskat-
chewan, ‘itiere realized net,
income is estimated to have
reach.Kan all-tithe high' of $1.16
billion.
Sasktrichee an was the only
province e here farming activity
was the must important source of
income; . non-farm income
accounted for only 44.2 per cent
representing $5 millirin. Oe the
other hand. British Columbia
farmers carried 9.s.2 per c 'in or
$7 million of their income off-
farm.
There was continued expansion
in- British Columbia, Ontario and,
to -a • lesser degree, in Prince
Edward Wand. In. Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Quebec,
realized net incomes '• declined
compared to 1973 levels; lie said.
Farm cash receipts are
estimated to have increased at the
national level to $8.6 billion.
representing a record and a 25.7
percent increase over the 1973
level, Mr. Porteous ,added.
Most of this increase is
accredited to continued expansion
in cash receipts from the sale of
crop products which rose by 45!til
per cent as compared to, livestock
receipts which advanced only 4
per cent over 1973 levels, he said.
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By Keith Roulston .
The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture is studying a- plan to
protect the income of Ontario
, farmers in times of poor prices,
but from the reception of the idea
given by Huron county farmers, it
seems it will be a long time before
',such a plan might see the light of
day.
The plan was 4 explained
Thursday night at the monthly
meeting of the littron County
Federation of • Agriculture in
Exeter by Maurice Bean of R.R.1.
Auburn. O.F.A. - director for
• Central Huron. Mr. Bean told
farmers at the Meeting that the
plan' nas just come up for
'discussion by the O.F.A. and so.
far only a few rough guidelines--
have been worked out. He said he
understood 'the plan would work
similarly to crop insurance' with
farmers paying into an insurance
fund -during good years and
drawing from the fund in lean
years when prices were bad and
income fell. The plan would be
foluntary with premieres shared
by the farmers and the
gMernment. •
The .guidelilnes„ Mr. Bean
stated, would be that payments
he based on a reasonable cost of
production for each commodity;
that there he protection against
increased costs; that there
still be an incentive to sell at -top
prices; that there be an incentive
for Production of both quality and
quantity and that the plan -. at
interfere with the normal '
marketplace.
- A good deal of skepticism about
the plan was expressed by the
farmers present. It was pointed
out that a similar plan is in effeet.-
now in British Columbia where'
the New Democratic Party
government brought the plan inpo
effect to . compensate farm6s
after a land freeze was imposed.
There was concern on the part of
the farmers peesent about the
potential costV the plan and
whether it could be made to work.
Mr. Bean said. preSeat O.FA.
Discussions are very much in the
preliminary .stages. More
discussion will be held at, the
Huron county Meetings in the
coming months to let the local'
directors know , how county
farmers feel about fhe plan.
Guest speaker for the meeting
was Mason Bailey of Blyth,
O.F.A. Director for north:west
Huron who spoke on contracts
7.and gave the farmers an idea of
what to look out for when it came
to signing contracts. •
He said the 0.F.A.'s property
smimittee gets more complaints
aboUt contracts than about any
other source. He said farmers too
often either don't have things in
the contract that should be or
don't„enderstand what is in the
contract.
A contract by definition, he
said, is a written agreement
between two or more persons to
undertake 'or refrain Om doing
things. Because a contract is only.
between people for.their own use,
it is not a" crime to break a
contract and. -the, only way 'a
contract can be enforced is
through the civil courts: yet very
few cases ever make it to court'.
Probably more • contracts are
gotten out of by simply not
fulfilling the contract than by any
other way. Mr. Bailey said,
because unless the other party is
willing t6 go to court to enforce
the contract, the matter will be
dropcd.
•
Cases of -rabies in wild and
domesticated animals have been
)Teelitting regularly ill Huron
COUnty for the past three years.
The Huron 'County Health Unit
has only 44 positive cases
reported to them last year, a
decline of 33 per cent from 1973.
Health Unit spokesman Jim
MeCaul said that the animals
stricken with rabies are divided
evenly between wild and domes-
ticated species. He said the
animals contacting rabies year
after year are strictly coincidental
and are not necessarily more
susceptible to it
kast year 18 'brivine, nihe fox,'
nine skunks, one cat, three
horses, three dogs and one bat
were reported to, the health unit
as positive rabies cases, In 1973
there were 19 bovine, die swine,
one rabbit, 19 fox, 14 skunks,
eight cats, two horses, one dog
and one wolf diagnosed as rabies
victims. In 19?2 there were 75
Animals stricken.
The health unit have had a few
incidents reported so far this
year, mostly in bovine, skunks
and fox but have no return on
actual infection of the animals.
Smiles
A banker went to the doctor
for a checkup. .After a thorough
examination, the doctor advised
him of his condition and the
banker fainted. I told him,"
the doe explained to his nurse,
"was that he was as sound as
a dollar."
Boy to mother: "You never men*
tion the dirt I track OUT."
A clever motorist figured
out how to avoid getting parking
tickets. He removed the wind-
shield wipers from his tar.
A woman came into a police
station• to report her husband
missing and described him as
,,30-years-old, 6-feet 3-inches
tall, dark and handsome."
"I know your husband," said
the desk sergeant. "He's bald,
fat and forty."
'"I'm well aware of that,"
replied the wife, ,,but who wants
him back?"
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OFA studies guaranteed
income, farmers not enthused
Into tower route 1 . • ntolls.,for..!"1ydeo inquiry
Most of the contracts farmers
sign, he said, have been contracts
driWn up,by the other party they
are doing business with, whether
it be an equipment company or a
building contractor and thus are
not usually to the .advantage 'of
the farmer. Mr, Bailey said dust)
even standard -contracts can be
changed if the farmer insists on
changes in wording. He said he
wondered if the O.F.A. might
design a standard centract for
farmers to use which would help
tilt any benefit in the contract to
the farmer's side.
He advised farmers to ask a
salesman to explain -everything in
a contract and if he an't give a
satisfactory e p t lion tit n he
farmer should take the contra o
-tis'lawyer before signing or have
changes written in.
A resolutioff was passed at the
meeting calling on the Q.F.A. to
investigate the practice of some
fertilizer suppliers to insist on
tying one product to another. The
resolution followed_ complaints
from two farmers that they had
been told they would have to buy
potash. it was expressed the
companies felt they could make
more money on the total blend
rather than by Iskelling the
,. fertilizer without potash. •
(The Blyth Standard)
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mission line, and the see.ondtry
"security" or back-up line cover a
distinceof 150 miles, which at'an
approximate estimated cost-of a
half to one -million dollars' per
mile,, depending on, the. terrain,
means an expenditure of up to
$150 million.
"Hydro's long range plans
have not been publicly discussed. ,
' mission _„rente, is inappropriate an incredible waste of taxpayers'•
'hilt 11 is clear that they are of 70;000 to .80,0I1U• niegaWrS,
-ProVince. Obvilously, hydro made Approximately 4,000 megawatts
the Western perimeter, of the 12,000 and 13,000 megawatts..
of public and democratic partici- proposed new hydro lines repre-
pinion - and then simply sent a twentyfold., increase in
the an
y
being routed via Owen Sound, an excessive amount 'of hydro-
the already established.. Esse-
the markets en' route:'
planning a programme to estab- while today's over-all needs for
list, generating stations around the entire province are betWeen
plans, held uperficiat hearings - are now being consumed in the
proceeded to do, with Cabinet power to this region. If the
approval, exactly what it had GovernmenOnsists on. allowing
The Bradley-Georgetown trans- proposalS, both will be guilty of
and illogical because the primary money, of arrogantly and
with any back-up line for Toronto - - and of facilitating the provision of
Collingwoed, etc., linking up with electric power to the Toronto
merely going through the motions Golden Horseshoe area, so the
market for Bruce power shotiid be unnecessarily -taking over many
Kleinburg corridor, and serving
intended to do from the outset. -hydro to proceed with the current
area, acres of prime. agricultural land,
the already serious problems of
region, encouraging increased
industrialization and intensifying
over-centralizationin this area.
"The Government has given
"We peed an immediate public
Much emphasis to the Solandt
inquiry inte‘ •the Bradley-. Commission Report. of which a
very curious aspect is the fact that s Georgetown line for two reasons.
Dr.. Splandt chose to . ignore First, there has, been no oppor-
completely the expert, neutral tunity to challenge in the ,public
-and highly expensive report of his forum , the in-house study ;.of
; environmental,consultants, Bruce • hydro, who should be required to
Howlett Inc., which recom-- state publicly what they are doing
mended that the Escarpment be and why. No new transmission
crossed at Rattlesnake Point, corridors should be cut until a full
permitting the Kitchener-. study has been made, and
Waterloo line to be routed Via the alternative exisiting corridors
401 crossing. It would seem the should be completely utilized.
consulting engineer's report was Second, Hydro officials have
changed to be acceptable _ to Completely- failed to justify- the
Hydro. The question is' - why? Bradley-Georgetown • line,
'Although the Nanticoke- - 'according to their own stated,
Pickering transmission corridor criteria. For example; in the East
was extensively studied, this was- ,Garafraxa-Erin area, they have
not the case with the ;Bradley- -chosen the route, which, of tw
Georgetown route. In. July 1974, so,possible alternatives, covers mor
former Minister of -Energy Darcyc ,miles of right-of-way, uses mor
McKcough Said approval of the than twice as many acres of class
Southern 500 IV transmission, one and two agricultural land,
-corridor between • Bruce and affects twice as , many , water
Georgetown via Kitchener was courses,100 more acres of wooded
being withheld pending review of land and -diagonally severs .16 •-
more propertiei.' the long range plan for Ontario
Hydro. Nothing -more -was heard
"The former Minister of
until January 1975 when the new Energy has indicated that while
chairman of Ontario Hydro, the short-term seeprity of the
Robert Taylor, announced blue- system is more - than , adequate,
prints outlining the expansion. of long-termneeds may - may' call
North America's second largest for a brand new corridor, Yet
electric utility would not be hydro is giving to priority to
changed. Obviously, hydro pushing this line through .now,
officials Intended from the probably because -they know that
beginning that the Escarpment
in the near future they will find
should be crossed at Limehouse, this line impossible to obtain
beside Georgetown, and serious because of environmental
consideration has never been considerations and public outcry
given to the Bruce-Essa route l, for the preservation of good
with Essa-Kleinburg as a agricultural land. In the mean-
"security" line, involving only time they are destroying this vital
one crossing of the Escarpment at agricultural land, distrupting the
the 401. The. Essa-Kleinburgline ecology and upsetting property
has a capacity of 6,000 megawatts owners all the-way along the line.
with the present single-string "I have called• upon the
towers and double-string towers Minister of Energy to institute a
throiTh this corridor would give a public enquiry - and without
capacity of 18,000 megawatts. delay. If he does-not agree to do
"The Government's planned so, he will be abdicating his.
hydro corridors have a potential responsibilities."
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