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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-02-10, Page 1'll The �uc�c�row s� «nx ase ;Ashfield isn't on list of disposal sites: Client Pub$sied IN Lack Nw, Qatar* Wednesday, Fehruery 10, 1962. 24 Pages Ashfield Township is not any list of possible locations for a toxic liquid waste disposal site, because no such list exists, according to Dr. •Donald Chant. chairman and president of the Ontario Waste Manage- ment Corporation. Dr. Chant . reassured the residents of Ashfield Township at a meeting of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture Thursday night, that neither Ashfield nor any other municipality in the province has been selected for the site. Chant said the corporation is doing as it has said it would; going back to square one to'establish its own criteria and all areas of the province south of North Bay are being considered to determine a secure site. Ashfield residents. -became alarmed that the proposed facility, to treat the province's hazardous liquid wastes, would be located in this areawhen the Ontario Waste Manage- ment . Corporation announced last fall that the proposed South Cayuga site would be abandoned as unsuitable. Study Selected Ashfleld A government commissioned study had previously selected Ashfield as the prune location for the waste facility. When South Cayuga was abandoned, Ashfield residents feared they were next on the list. The county federation of agriculture asked Dr. Chant to come to Ashfield to speak at its January meeting to answer the questions of local residents. Chant told the meeting held at Brookside Public ` School that he was not speaking in Ashfield : becatise the township is being considered for the site. "You asked us to come. We are not here because we have our eyes on you. We are here to listen." • Chant said he is developing a ..process of public involvement because he believes the people of the province have a role to play in the selection .of a secure site. He said he does not believe in "sudden surprises", referring to the fact that the people of South Cayuga learned of the decision to place the facility in their backyard, 12 hours before it. was announced in the legislature. Chant told the more than 200 people who attended ,the meeting, that everyone, in Fireburns home Lucknow Fire Department was called, to assist the Ripley Departinent at `. a fire on Saturday afternoon which completely de- stroyed the frame house belonging, to Henry Askes family on concession 4. 'Two Lucknow firemen answered the call taking the tanker truck to .the scene , as the Ripley department was running out of water: The fire, of unknown origin, destroyed the home, despite the efforts of the two depart- ments. No one was injured • in the blaze. Lucknow Fire Department answered a call to the , home of iTom Armstrong, West Wawanosh Township ,on Wednesday night when a chimney fire caused minor damage. No one was injured. Sight wolf in Ashfield Two Ashfield. Township farmers sighted a .wolf in the Belfast area a week ago and area hunters are reported to have killed two wolves on Friday. Lorne Hackett sighted a Wolf the afternoon of January 29 coming from thebush on the farm of his brother, Chester Hackett. Russel Irvin, reported seeing a hound chasing a wolf near Brookside School last week and St. Helens area hunters killed a wolf near the trailer home of Hugh and Dolly Menary. concession 9, Ashfield, just west of the school on Friday afternoon. The hunters had shot another wolf north of concession .9 earlier in the morning. Ontario who is'a consumer is responsible for the production of hazardous wastes and we are all responsible for choosing a secure site • to treat and store 'these wastes, he said. Chant expects several sites will be hydrol- ogically suitable for the site' but socio-econ- omic, community and transportation factors must also be considered in the choice of the location. .� ' "Money No Object" "Don't quote me,'' said Chant, "but essentially money is no object" (in finding a secure site). According to Chant the Waste Manage- ment Corporation has a responsibility to do. more than choose a site and set up operation of'. the disposal facility. He believes the corporation is responsible for determining what wastes are being produced and how much is produced as' well. as how it is being treated and stored. Most industry .is controlling the waste reasonably well within the current guidelines, he said, but middle and small industry which do not have the treatment facilities are presenting the problem. "We all know some of these nasties are being dumped untreated into\ municipal umps and landfill sites or into storm sewers. We cannot control midnight dump- ing," observed Chant. The purpose of the proposed treatment and storage facility . is to control and catalogue all wastes being produced and to do what is necessary to treat • them for storage' insuch 'a way they will remain harmless,.: `. . The Waste Management Corporation• has an enormous role not only with respect to ,controlling this waste but to providing the companies producingthe waste with the technical expertise to recycle, reduce and exchange wastes, believes Chant. "There's the saying that what . is one. Turn to page 2! gsy HrOwa B. 6,°Obdeiic6, kittalks with Dr. Donald. Chant,,.president pad chairman if the Ontario Waste Management Corporation, who spoke to Ashfield Township .resideniX at the Huron County Federation' of AgckWtuxe's January meeting held at Brookside Public School, February 4. Dr. Chant said he was surprised that area residents are so alarmed that a provincial tonic liquid waste, dlaposal'site may be located in the township. Chant said Ashfield is not on a list of prospective sites because no list exists. He said the corporation is establishing its own criteria to choose the safest site, possible for the disposal faditty. [Sentinel Staff Photo] Seek' legal opinion onsalary position • . BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE. CLINTON - District 45 ' of the Ontario Secondary School ' Teachers' Federation is checking with its lawyer to see if the Huron ' Board of Education has bargained in . bad faith. The board has, in person lel :committee chairman, R. J. 'Elliott's opinion, "in an' at- tempt to, show' good faith" implemented an ' October 1981 fact finder's report and items previously agreed to by the board and the local OSSTF. Both 'sides maintain negotiations on the 1981-82 contract will continue, but no date has been set for such a meeting. Huron • secondary school teachers' chief negotiator Shirley Weary of , Seaforth District High School, said, letters passed out to trustees at the board's February session gave notice of the OSSTF's action. Mrs. Weary said, "the wayto negotiate is to sit down and discuss ... not hand out pieces of Paper"- A memorandum to secondary ' school teaching staff, dated Jan. 22 and effective Jan. - 30, giving the board's position states, "whereas ' the Huron County Board of Education and OSSTF District 45 have had, the assistance in the form of mediation • followed by - "fact . finding during the negotiating process; whereas the Huron County Board of Education has attempted to negotiate in good faith a conclusion to the present set of , negotiations; whereas the Huron County Board of Education has the legal right on Jan. 15, to alter the terms and conditions of the collective agreement in:ac- cordance with Section 11 (3b) of the School BoardsonsAct; " and. Teachers Collective Negotia ti The board changed the 1980-81 collective agreement (the last between the two par- ties),,, by including all items agreed to in ,negotiations, and recommendations made by the fact finder. This involves full retroac- tivity of all monetary 'amounts to Sept. 1, 1981 to be- in the teachers' January pay. Trustee Elliott said this was paid on Jan. 29. Personnel relations administrator Peter Gryseels said the conditions as presented to the teachers are subject to the results of fur- ther. negotiations. ° Both Mr. Gryseels and Trustee; Elliott Turn to page 5. Energy ;Probe opposes power line route BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE STRATFORD — ,Energy Probe and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food have join- ' 'ed oin-•'ed the up `til now farmers' only opposition to Ontario Hydro's proposed transmission line. At hearings held hire this past week, Energy Probe has voiced opposition to On- tario Hydro's proposed transmission line route from Bruce Nuclear Power Develop- ment (BNPD) to London, then to Mid- dleport. It is also opposed .to completion. of Bruce B generating station: Energy Probe's lawyer, Norman Rubin, suggested . monies' saved from not com- pleting these projects could be used to pro- mote energy efficiency and finding renewable energy sources as alternatives. OMAF's -lawyer, Thomas Lederer, said the ministry has prepared a study to be presentedto the Consolidated . Hearings Board. The study indicates the 'ministry's preference .for a transmission line from BNPD to Essa. Foodland-Hydro committee chairman, Tony McQuail of RR1 Lucknow said he is "pleased" the Ministry of Agriculture is at- tending the hearings. He also notified the board, the committee will be taking on party status (that is, having a representative pre- sent each day of the -hearings). This decision came as a result of the Ontario Coalition to Preserve Foodland being turned down in its bid for funding and a six-month delay of the hearings: "It may be repetitious because of the lack of continuity," Mr. McQuail told the Con- solidated Hearings Board, "bu,, I trust the board will bear with us. The board will also recognize that we are not lawyers." A decision on Energy Probe's proposal, that is to include in the hoard's scope, to study whether Bruce ° B should be com- pleted, has been reserved. This proposal was received favorably by farm organizations. Elbert Van Donker- sgoed, speaking for the Christian Farmers' Federation, said the farm community feels there never has 'been an environmental assessment study done on BNPD. He added the completion of Bruce B has always been assurned. • Mr. McQuail said the proposal points to an issue expressed by he Listowel working group, the need to examine other alter- natives to energy and energy conservation. At present, Ontario Hydro' is subiniti.ing its evidence before the board. It is expected this will take about two weeks, wit! Ocher .parties submitting their evidence next. The hearings are being held Tuesday to Friday at the market annex building at the Stratford Fairgrounds.