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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 2009-04-08, Page 3Dim results for Earth Hour signal -star staff Despite the efforts of those who went in the dark on March 28, Earth Hour didn't make as big a mark on Goderich's electrical load as it did in 2008. Town of Goderich Environmental Technician Jeanette Walker com- pared electrical loads during the hour between 8:30 and 9:30 to the same consumption rate of the 2008 Earth Hour effort between 8 and 9 p.m. She found that where last year, Goderich reduced its.usage by six per cent, this year it was just four per cent. Walker, however, is not fazed. She said the savings of kilowatts used per hour was higher than the year before. In 2008, Goderich cuts its kilo- watt expenditure by 620.6 kw/hr. This time around, though, the town saved 771.4 kw/hr. "Our overall consumption was sense of the consumption rates," she higher," Walker explained. "It could said. " have been that there was something Across Canada more cities were going on at one of our bigger facto- involved in Earth Hour than last year. ries, or maybe more water pumping. The federation of Canadian Munici- It's hard to say what was the cause." palities reported 280 communities participated, that's up from 150 from Earth Hour results last year. Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund as a worldwide effort to draw at- tention to climate change, Earth Hour was launched in 2007 with 2 million people turning out the lights. Partici- pation jumped to about 50 million in 2(X)8. Organizers are calling Earth Hour 2009 the biggest environmental demonstration in history with "almost a billion people mobilized." How low did the world go? Results have yet to trickle in but will be available on World Wild= life Fund's Web site, http://wwf. ca/earthhour. *Ontario, 920 MW (6%) (920,000 Kilowatts) •Toronto, 455 MW (1 S%) (455,000 Kilowatts) •Goderich, 0.7714 MW (4%) (771.4 Kilowatts) To tally the total, Walker took averages over the two-hour period between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. She said that consumption readings are recorded at hour intervals, not half hour. "Because it goes by hour, I had to average the whole period to get a Hydro rest red quickly after Friday outage Mil -Dominique. - burn we use our own forces to address our proximately 12 hours after 50 km/hr infrastructure," said Larry McCabe. winds caused power outages to some "When something like this happens residents Monday morning. within Hydro One [territory], those are As the work day came to a close on the ones that can take more time to ad- April 6, 3,200 Hydro One customers dress when their forces must come in across the province were still without and find the cause." electricity after the early morning As of Monday, a Hydro One rep- bought of windy winter cut power resentitive said, that customers in the supply to more than 20,000 custom - Clinton area would be back online ap- ers at 7 a.m. In Clinton, 1,600 custom- ers remained offline Couple accused in murder plot well into the day. appear In court via\video link A North Huron man and woman, London. She will make another charged with conspiracy to commit appearance by video on Thursday, murder and counseling to commit Apr. 9 at 10 a.m. murder, have both been remanded in A 39 -year-old Wingham man custody and await further bail hear- charged in the case will make his ings. next video appearance in bail court The 38 -year-old woman from on Thursday, Apr. 16 at 10 a.m. North Huron made a video appear- The pair were arrested Thursday, ante in ; bail court in Goderich, Mar. 12 for conspiring to commit a Wednesday, April 1 and was murder. Names have not been remanded in custody at the Elgin- released to protect the identity of the Wended victim. signal -star staff The north east block of town was plunged into darkness as the sun set on Friday after a fallen tree limb disrupted hydro within the Town of Goderich. According to Line Foreman Tim Martin, the main three phase 26,300 volt line on North Harbour Road was struck by the limb shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, April 3. 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