The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-10-17, Page 36Page 8—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 24, 1979
Acid rain affecting crops and forests.
BY MURRAY GAUNT
A team of Canadian and U.S. scientists
reported for the first time this week that
acid rain is affecting vegetable crops and
forests, and said the environmental
damage is spread over a larger geogra-
phic area than was first thought.
The most definitive study to date on the
problem warnsthat the economic impact
on' the forest industry, up to now
unconsidered, could be great if the
pollution is allowed to continue.
Acid. rain is a weak solution 'of nitric
and sulphuric acids formed by the mixing
of sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxides in
the atmosphere.
The Resources Development Commit-
tee of the Ontario Legislature has studied
this matter, but the Government at that
time took the position that the sulphur
... this Hallowe'en, remember, It's the
International Year of the Child.
dioxide emissions which were discharged
in this province were not really contri-
buting to the acid rain problem in
Ontario. This latest report, however,
refutes that.
This week in the Legislature there was
a major debate on energy, and particular-
ly oil pricing. In the course of debate,
Premier Davis said "We proposed what
we feel are national solutions to the
question of supply and distribution and
did so, taking into account the legitimate
interest beyond our own jurisdiction...I
don't think that just pricing alone is a
sufficient vehicle for reduced consump-
tion or conservation. The only thing we do.
know is that a massive increase in the
price of oil can stall economic activity and
slash employment growth."
Liberal Leader Stuart Smith pointed
out that "The manufacturing base of this
province and our provincial economy
generally will be very badly damaged if
we have to continue to make very large
transfer payments out of the economy of
this province to other parts of the world
and even to other parts of Canada. If
called upon to pay a much higher price for
Township of
West Wawanosh
Clerk's Notice of Posting
of Preliminary List
of Electors
44.0
The Municipal Elections Act 1977
Sections 24 and 25
NOTICE is hereby given that I have complied
with Sections 24 and 25 of The Municipal'
Elections Act 1977 , and I have posted up in
my office at R. R. 2, Lucknow, Ontario, on the
17th day of October 1979 the list of persons
eligible to vote on three [3] questions under.
the provisions 'of The Liquor LicenceAct
1975.
AND I hereby call upon all such electors to
examine the list and to take immediate
proceedings -to have any errors or omissions.
corrected according to law.
The last day for filing applications for
inclusions, additions, or corrections to or
deletions from the list is the 26th day of
October 1979.
The place at which the revisions of the list
will be taken is the Township of West
Wawanosh Municipal Office in the Municipal
Garage at R. R. 2, Lucknow, Ontario.
lieviSion of the list will be undertaken
during normal office hours, 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m., - Thursday, October 18th to
Friday, October 26th, "1979.
DATED AT R. R. 2, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO,
THIS 17th day of OCTOBER, 1979.
Joan Armstrong,
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Clerk -Treasurer of the
Township of West Wawanosh,
R. R. 2, Lucknow, Ontario.
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oil in the coming year we will face an.
almost certain recession. The manufac-
turing industries in Ontario have to
re -tool. We have to be competitive; we
have ' to be able to have the latest in
equipment if we're to compete on a
worldwide basis."
The Provincial Energy Minister is
concerned that too much debate over
fears of heating oil or gasoline shortages
this winter may cause the kind of unusual
circumstances leading to disruption of
supplies which we all hope to avoid.
Ontario's Minister of Commercial
Relations has stated that there will be no
gambling casinos or betting on dog races
in the province. The government is
against casino gambling because it would
hurt service clubs which run casino nights
for charity, and above all because of the
"undesirable element" which comes with
profitable casinos, such as increased loan
sharking and prostitution.
The Minister of Environment released
two reports which have recommended a
long term insurance scheme for dumps
and a series of potential dumping sites
across southwestern Ontario. The , first,
called Perpetual Care for Waste Manage-
ment Facilities, said old Ontario dumps
are producing such problems as water
contamination and exploding pockets of
methane gas. The second, Qn treatment.'
and disposal of liquid industrial wates
and hazardous wastes, says a multi-mil-
lion dollar building program will be re-
quired. Ontario industry will generate an
estimated 60 to 70 million gallons of
liquid industrial waste this year and the
figure could rise ,to 80 million gallons in
the near future. Estimates indicate that
about 40 per cent of the liquid industrial
waste shipped for disposal is potentially
harmful to public health. This includes
polychlorinated. -• biphenyls and other
wastes.
Names of some 9,000 suspected child
abusers in Ontario, dating back to 1968,
were recorded without the suspects'
knowledge in a central file kept by the
Provincial Ministry of Community and
Social Services. Recently a controversy
developed over the existence of this file
when the Ontario Government created a
new child abuse registry on June 17th as
part of an overhaul of the Child Welfare
Act. The law now requires that any
person placed on the new registry be
informed by letter and given the right to
appeal. The Minister has now stated that
any Children's Aid Society . wishing to
make use' of the old file whileinvestig-
ating a report of the child abuse must
inform suspected abusers that they are on
the list. This will give alleged abusers the
right to seek a hearing to have their
namesexpungedif they feel they were
wrongly accused.
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