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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-06-10, Page 14Hull ON EXPOSITOR, .IUNE 10, 1076 ticlear GET THOSE EARS UP— Grant Butcher had to perform some acrobatics to get his cow, grand champion female at the Clinton Spring Fair Jersey Show to put her ears up anctlooklikaaprize,winn.e...,___...:,____.. . . . . , ......(Staff..Photo) ARNOLD J.STINNISEN LIFE — and Mortgage Insurance Plans Income Tax Deductable Registered Retirement Savings Plans and Annuities Income Averaging Annuities Ask for our new Flexible Premium R.R.S.P. — REPRESENTING — Tel. 527-0410 Sun Life Assurance 117 GODERICH ST. EAST Company Of Canada SEAFORTH for 17 years. GARDEN PEST CONTROL Attention Farmers For Your Spraying Needs Call SPRATEK ENTERPRISES Bob French, Mitchell Phone:, 348-8218 Five self propelled field sprayers equipped with 50 foot hydraulically, controlled booms for even application ' of your herbicides and a minimum of tracking. Ail units are radio dispatched and serviced by its own tank truck. We have POP -IN SPRAY for your fruit and ornamental trees DON'T FORGET ROSE DOCTOR F,OR ,THOSE ROSES Fly Spray Electric Fly Killers Time Mist Machine TRY US Seaforth 5274910 " 4 'I MP 'Orkin hears o plans for new STRAIGHTEkUP THERE —Bill Dale of Seaforth, who showed Jerseys himself before he retired from farming helps Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dale line up some of their prize winning Jersey herd that they showed at the Clinton Spring Fair on Friday. • (Staff Photo) R.B. McKinley. Huron M.P. member of federal, parliament representing Huron, is also a member of the standing committee of natir resources and public works, Ma. McKinley asked several questions of John S. Foster, president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, when he appeared before the committee about mid-May. Mr. McKinley's questons and Mr. Foster's 'answers follow: Mr. McKinley: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wotild like to ask the witness some questions regarding the Douglas point nuclear plant. Where, to the main extent, does the electric energy produced there go? What area of Ontario does it supply now? , Mr. S. Foster: As you know, Douglas Point is located on the shore of Lake Huron and it feeds into that part of the systems at Hanover, so most of the energy would drop off toward the Kitchener area. Mr. McKinley:Could you advise us as to what stage they are in now in production and what will be the ultimate capacity when the present plans are completed? Mr. S. Foster:On the site there is the 200-megawatt Douglas Point nuclear power station and now under construction is the Bruce generating station with four 750 megawatt units. Ontario Hydro has plans for commencing, in two years' time, the construction of a second plant, like Bruce, of four 750 megawatt units. So all together there will be 6,200 megawatts of generation on the site. The Bruce heavy water plant, of course, went into operation in 1967, and for the past two or three years it has been operating at around a 75 per cent capacity. So 'tar this year it is operating at about an 85 per cent capacity factor. The first two Bruce Units will' start up during this fiscal year, so 1,500 megawatts should be in operation a year from now. Mr. McKiniey:Did you say there were plans for another heavy water plant? Mr. S. Foster: There is also a heav y water plant on the site. Operating now is an 800 ton per year capacity unit, operating at a high capacity factor and they ate building two more 800 ton sections on that plant. Mr. McKinley: These two 800 ton sections are being built on the same locatipn? Mr. S. Foster: ''Yes. Mr. McKiniey:Are there any further piins construction of nuclear energy plants, or heavy' water 'plants farther south. on Lake Huron somewhere north of Grand Bend, between the Bruce station and Grand Bend? Are there further plans in the foreseeable future for other plants •along Lake Huron? Mr. S. Foster: I do not know of any plans. As you know, this is Ontario Hydra's program. I do not know of any plans to install a plant further south along that shore. Mr. McKinley:That leads me, Mr. Chairman, to the next question. It has never been quite clear to me exactly what jurisdiction your Atomic Energy of Canada Limited people haVe, what jurisdiction Ontario Hydro has, and the Costs of these plants to each. Could we learn a little more about that please? Mr. S. Foster:Certainly. With respect to nuclear power in Canada, ACL's main roles are to do the underlying necessary research on and development of the system, and to provide engineering with respect to the nuclear steam-raising part of the plant. So for plants that Ontario Hydra, and other utilities are buildin Quebec Hydro, and New Beaniwibk we, in effect, act as a consulting engineer, producing the design and providing some purchasing and technical supervision services to the utility. Mr. McKinley:And the finances? Mr. S. Foster:Perhaps we should go back. The prototype plants, which were plants built to demonstrate the sytem at Douglas Point and the Gentilly 1 plant in Quebec were built at federal government expense. The next stage was the construction of the Pickering station. In that plant we have an investment of about 40 per• cent in the first two units. We,aget that repaid out of earnings. r More recently, as you know, the government has announced that the first nuclear unit in other provinces will be financed at half the cost, usually to a celing. Half the cost will be financed by the federal goverment. This is the case in Quebec, where the federal government is lending up to $150 million for the Gentilly 11 plant and in New Brunswick where the government is lending up to $350 million for the. Point Lepreau Plant, Mt. MeKinley:Dicl they de that orginally with Ontario, but the federal government does not do it any more because it is net an - original installation? Is that the reason? Mr. S. Foster:No, I think the effect is about the same in all the. provinces. It took a little different form in Ontario-biiiiiiii new ground. The investment in the two Pickering units, I think, corresponds quite well with the loans to Quebec and to the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission. In the one case, it is an equity investment and, in the ,other case, it is a loan. But they are quite comparable: Mr. McKinley:Does the federal government have any finand6 involved in the Douglas Point plant at all or is it all Ontario Hydro? Mr. S. Foster:No, as I mentioned, that was a demonstration plant. It was not built to be an economic plant. It was built to learn and that is about 95 per cent federal investment and the same 'thing with the Gentilly 1 plant in Quebec. Mr. McKinley:Are the heavy water plants at Douglas point on Lake Huron, plants that are built' to learn or are they meant to be production plants? Mr. J.S. Foster: No, that is a commercial plant. It was built by ACL and sold at full cost recovery to Ontario Hydro. The extensions referred to earlier are being built by. Ontario Hydro. We are not involved in those. 4 Pork Congres s on again. i f Ontario's Minister of Agriculture and Foad, the Hon. William G. Newman, will officially open the 1976 Ontario Pork Congress at, the Stratford -Fairgrounds at 12:30, p.m.. on Tuesday, June 15. This year's Pork Congress is looking bigger and better than ever with more than 100 industry exhibits expected, covering 20 thousand square feet of exhibit space. The, popular three-day program will be similar to that of past years, with some innovations. A first for this,third annual congress will be the presentation of the Outstanding Pork . Producers' Awards for and by the producers themselYes. Each day feez. 10 a.m. to noon. a number. of qualified speakers will discuss subjects of current interest to pork producers, including building design. herd health and " feeding programs. June 15 is Breeders' Day, starting at 9:45 a.m., with classes' of boars and gilts being shown. Professor A. J. M uehling, of the Department of Agricultural • Engineering at the University of Illinois, will speak on designs for farrowing barns. Following him, Jim WilkinS, secretary-manager of the Ontario Swine A. I. Association, will give an u pdate on swine artificial insemination. Organization of the large pork farm will be the tepic of Gerald Beattie from Sumner, Nebrasks. In the judging competitions that day, contestants will have the .opportunity to judge the animals as they see them.Then congress judge Bill Funderberg, Twin Pines Farm, Ohio. will place the animals and give his reasons for the placings,. At 12:45 p.m., the because the federal programs are inadequate. Surely if the federal programs are inadequate, the provncial program will be equally inadequate. Peter Hannain, first vice- president of OFA, on hearing the details of the legislation commented: "Once again the Ontario Goyernment has profferred its usual Hollow Carrot to Ontario's farmers," "The Government has again demonstrated that it is bankrupt of ideas and that it clearly lacks the will to govern for the good -of Ontario citizens," Jiannam concluded. • sale of open and bred gilts, and station- and home-tested boars will be held, providing an excellent opportunity for producers to see and buy top- quality Ontario breeding stock, Feeder Pig Day takes 'place June 16, with over 500 feeder pigs moving through the show ring at 10:30 a.m., after being judged by Bill Funderberg. The sale of the animals starts at 3 p.m. In the educational program that day, vaccinating to control scours will be under discussion by' Dr. M. R. Wilson, of 0.V.C.'s Department of Clinical Studies. Dr.' Bud Harmon of the Ralston-Purina Company will speak on high protency feeds, and then those who missed him on June 15 will have another opportunity to hear' Gerald Beattie,s talk,.sm the organization of the ;large pork farm. June 17 is Market Pig, Day. Forecasting production and prices by Dr. Larry Martin of the School of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Guelph, will bring producers up to date on the market 'situation. Problems with moldy corn will be discussed by Dr. W. C. Leask, director of crop research with Maple Leaf Mills. Dr. Bud Harmon concludes Me morning program with a repeat of his_ presentation on high protency feeds. Starting at noon, Thursday, pork • producers will have an opportunity to see over 100 market-weight pigs judged. The top 10 market hogs will be sold by auction starting at 3 p.m. Congress' organizers have planned three information-packed days for pork producers, along with 'a picnic,, barbecue cookoff and the last day's Congress Banquet, When the Producer Awards will be presented. "The Ontario Government's Farm Income Stabilization Legislation is of almost no potential benefit "'"'1'd"" Ontario farmers," said Gordon Hill of Varna, PreSieteptaf the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, when asked for his reaction to the legislation tabled by Minister Newman. Mr. Hill pointed out, "The only benefit will be to members of the • Bureaucratic Kingdom( to be established under the bill1 '-- a bureaucratic kingdom that will haye very little to do since the Miniiter says that they might be called upon to administer about 7 or 8 million dollars. A couple of OFA staff members could look after such a non-program in their spare time," Hill continued, "Surely the last thing farmers or Ontario citizens need is more expensive, inefficient and insensitive government bureaucracy." Mr. Hill explained: "What the legislation provides is a stabilization program identical to the federal stabilization programe Which Newman himself calls inadegaate. The provincial Prograre is to cover farm products not covered by the Federal Plan ' and not under Ontario Marketing Boards which both sets prices and quotas. Preliminary calculations indicate that this means that 87% . of Ontario farin-ptoducts will of be eligible for" supp'btt 'dcr.,l e, Ingislation and lhnik to" illy thi least, is, highly dicriminatory. 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