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Opinion
The Huron Expositor • November 22, 2006 Page 5
Renewable energy restrictions cover best wind
resource areas in Ontario, says
To the Editor, billing us each month for the last nuclear
Like a horror movie from the 1950s, an spending spree. (see the "debt retirement
"Orange Blob" has invaded. Ontario. charge" on your monthly'hydro bill)
The work of 'mad scientists' at Ontario Power Back in the 1970s they went ahead with
Authority, the Blob is an ambiguously defined building thousands of megawatts of nuclear
area where they are limiting the ability of generation before arranging for the transmis-
renewable energy projects to connect to the sion lines to deliver it. Now when the farmers
electrical power grid. and small communities they forced those lines
It just happens to cover the best wind through are ready to start being power genera -
resource areas in Ontario. tors and contributing to their own local loads,
At the moment' when local farmers and com- OPA says NO.
munities were set to develop wind power, Give me a break. Go talk to the Danes, go
methane and municipal generation projects of talk to the Germans and discover how dis-
up to 10 megawatts, OPA changes the rules persed, modest scale, local electrical generation
and says it will only consider projects ONE projects can help meet local demand and help
THOUSAND times smaller at 10 kilowatts. buffer and stabilize the transmission system.
This is how to strangle the beginnings of AND, -get on with upgrading our rural trans-
Ontario's renewable energy development while mission network NOW so that it is more reli-
choking Ontarians with continuing coal use and able than it has been in the last 5 years and can
Lucknow farmer
support our transition to renewable energy in
Ontario.
Tony McQuail
Lucknow
Farmer and past Chairman of the
Foodland Hydro Committee
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Dublin in need of street lamps after
runner sustains injury in 1881
NOVEMBER 18, 1881
Dublin needs street lamps badly.
On account of the dense darkness
-Saturday night Phil Keny and
Chas. Belt who were running
rapidly in opposite directions, came
into violent collision. Mr. Keny's
upper lip was split and it had to be
sewn up.
The dogs of Messrs. Rooney and
Fitzgerald of Dublin were shot for
worrying the sheep of several of the
adjoining farmers.
Salt! Salt! Salt has been the all
absorbing topic of conversation in
Hensall for the past few days and it
is little wonder that it is so, for we
most assuredly have a bed of salt
well worth talking about, and one
we venture to say that is
unequalled in the dominion.
John Ward of Seaforth has
removed his harness shop into the
centre store of Dady's block. He has
now very handsome and commodi-
ous premises.
NOVEMBER 23, 1906
G.F. Golling of the Seaforth
Collegiate Institute staff, was
recently offered a position in the
Jarvis Street Institute_ in Toronto
at a salary of $1200 a year, with a
yearly increase of $50 a year until
the salary reached $1400. But he
declined the tempting offer as he
had made an engagement for the
year here.
H.W. Strasser, successor to John
Paterson in the Kandy Kitchen is
now located here and looks like
business. Seaforthites are always
pleased to welcome newcomers of
the right sort, and we hope Mr.
Strasser's stay with us will be a
prolonged one.
William McDougall, the old reli-
able fur and hide dealer has again
taken his stand on the Seaforth
Market and can be found at A.W.
Stoble's produce store when it is too
cold or wet to be on the street.
NOVEMBER 20, 1931
Messrs. John Broadfoot and
Frank Archibald of Seaforth are
spending the week at the Royal
Winter Fair.
Mrs. W. Edmunds of Seaforth is
spending a few days with her sis-
ter, Mrs. T. Wheeler in Brucefield.
Frank Johnston of Winthrop
wears a broad smile these days. It's
a boy.
Thelma Hudson, accompanied by
a friend, of London, spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C.S. Hudson of Hensall.
NOVEMBER 23, 1956
Jean Hillen in Grade VI and
Margaret Hillen in Grade V piano
were awarded silver medals on the
occasion of the recent music convo-
cation at University of Western
Ontario, London.
Among those who are awaiting
orders to proceed as a part of
Canada's contribution to the
United Nations Police Force are
Rfm. Jack McClinchey and A.B.
Seaman Grant McClinchey, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Garnet McClinchey,
Seaforth.
Orville Cooper is building a fine
henhouse on his farm on the 8th
concession of Tuckersmith.
Dimensions are 210 feet by 35 feet
wide. He hopes to have it complet-
ed soon.
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh McLachlan of
Egmondville were: Mr. and Mrs.
Don McKenzie ` and family of
Cranbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Urban
Ducharme of Hensall, and Mr and
Mrs. Howard Currie of Clinton.
NOVEMBER 18, 1981
About 225 Seaforth, Hibbert,
Hullett, McKillop and Tuckersmith
residents who attended a public
meeting on the arena Tuesday
night voted in favour of establish-
ing a Seaforth and District
Community Centre Board.
Less than a dozen people attend-
ed Seaforth council's ratepayers'
meeting last Thursday night but a
few of them were vocal, asking a
number of questions.
Seaforth's Public Utility
Commission managed to get a
strenuous objection in edgewise
before accepting the inevitable at
its regular meeting Nov 10, a 9.6
per cent increase in the price it
pays for power from Ontario Hydro
effective at the start of the new
year.