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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1976-10-28, Page 541 eutte �14n} Mtil >rl enerk "Dixon o '+elecfc titin duel fn 4 e; ca'r.t targe sportatiorCt tor... Vex 0i is y>re ►a es' Duaget in; noa ae, has t - + e ,fir. e ,energy fn enr ct. consum end otal Consumption ►rPrivate further he Loan- epresenl a Sec ise:;tne ;saw. tile homec impacts. o scene. I every cut Mies .rnpti n - only' f+4 per cant furnace toeing, ower temp easur a cutback alna a4 cant, directly. By, icarod. lour- ttonal chases consumer action, recycling and choosing. y energy-efficient travel h modes, we ean havean lm- kstii aattion, pact on that other two thirds- er D et` Almost all of ' us, believe to would be4 sorne degree in conservation crit For some People, : it is a tuapti e. simple Matter of saving Qt seem is,, eaeaclaius iving,,for oy third of `>t ttai. The othee two thi#r`ds, +of Oa WS consumption la usedto produce the and services a as: con- sumers demand. This Means' that our potential forcon.-- servation la k not limited to that one third of thetotal energy budget that consume- tUi e.res of ale 'l 'hile t is may~ large. t rcen is actually a, t energy c dollar Secuxtd,dt ie otla r se rs of 14,!our economy are also lane energy urs; uadtts , transiitioo sea redden coos option. s mom: that therie an opportunity and a respoan- sibility for conserving energy in those sectors. Each of .us can also contribute by carrying our conservation concerns over to our job. Whetter you drive .a.truck or manage a business, work in an mice or a factory, there are -numerous ways that you can ,;conserve energy each day.' finds of. ghting (continued frorn page 19) as the holiday season is over. Try not to turn them on until after 6 p.m., so you won't add to the peak evening load, and turn them off before going to bed. In most cases, outdoor Christmas lighting can replace your normal outdoor. lighting. Don't use both at'the same time. Now that you've been enlightened, let's see how much energy you can save. Here's how todoit: For one day leave extra lights on; letthe TV andradio play awry. The next day be conservation minded; turn off everything you can find. On the f irast dayr. read' the electric meter early in the morning: and make a note of the reading* The next morning read the meter again at the same time, .. and calculate how many kilowatt . hours were used. Read it again on the morning of the third day. Talar' the difference between the two days and multiply by 8 2 4 • money; for other's a," husbanding of resarur' now so thtat we will not find our- selvesshort short in the future. For yet oilier .people,iW con Via.. servation represents�,an ideal, a way of life to• Which we should aspire. Whichever is: your view, there are many sound reasons to, support energy conservation as an important new direction- for Canadian energy policy. Let us focus briefly onjiast the most obvious of these, First,, there is the sheer physical volume of energy that is being demanded in a world of ever morespeople, of higher incomes. and of, more technology. With every in- crease in our rate . of con- sumption; In - Canada - as - 365 to find out the number of kilowatt hours you could save in a year. Row much is this in cash? -Checle your last electric bill. It should show how much you pay per kilowatt hour. Why not encourage your children to carry out this project by themselves. Good con- servation training. The electric meter is normally on the outside wall of the house or possibly in the basement. 0 you five in an apartment and have your own metier, it's probably in the basement. (If you can't locate it, ask -the superintendent.) The dials are normally organized frons left to right. Some of these turn counter- clockwise. When the pointer is between two numbers, read the lower number. Your meter probably has four dials. The right one gives the reading in tens of kilowatt hours, the next one in hurl- deeds of kilowatt hour, and so on. READING 20680 (es`Is'al caro t) tewbere, it''be, kes 3 der e+ est! ane w+e erre ;in a Position, kere projectedfuture de ad levels cannot a satisfied by Conventional :energy' arces. vada Will face bible sar<ortages of oil- and natural gas Within the , ut* decade unless non-conventiunal or potential frontier resources can be devel+opedand delivered in sufficient quantity. Even. future elec- tricity supply is not assured. Feasible hydro sites are now almost totally developed and uranium reserves are limited,, Second, even if we could locate energy resources, of suitable quantities and qualitieS, their casts would be monumental. f t has been estimated that to - satisfy' anticipated demand growth in Canada,to,1985: alone, we will have to spend over, $100 billion; that is about 520,E Per .existing household to just supply energy. This'effect gets worse with time because as we move to lower quality and more remote sources of energy, it wil cost us mom and more energy to obtaain. energy. That is, since we have to invest not only dollars but also energy units in order to mine coal or tar sands, drill wells, operate pipelines or whatever, the net costs of energy delivered to the consumer will be still higher. The impact of this on our economy will be -severe, both in terms of inflation and because it means fewer dors for schools, hospitals and other industrial projects. In effect, itimpiies a return to the situatlot; iu orbic C dl? vestment w ... be concentrated In Lica reso] rce a ecto'ra of t e> onomy view o the resource factors, conservation 'e a: low-cost d:low-rl; al . ve � c w �;ati � to ontinucd. . dearr�kand growth. Third, assumingthe resources were available and could be produced at Coit that we were willing to pay, to produce them and then consume them, would involve large-scale enc vironmental mpacts. Obviously to the extent that we conserve energy and defer or cancel energy develop- ment plans, the en- vironmental impact ==of production and tran- sportation can he avoided. alsMooreover in environmenalmost. every instance sound energy con- servation at the point of use supports protection. True,, in some cases environmental protection .techniqu S Seen! to require more energy, butin most cases this arises only when such techniques are added on to the end of an existaing. process. The emission devices op automobiles are good examples . of this approach. When more thought is given to the process as a whole, the apparent conflict between energy conservation and environmental protection usually disappears. . In summary, - energy conservation can be viewed as the purest form of en- vironmental protection Finally let us examine the idea of quality of life. This is perhaps an over -used phrase, but the fact that it is over- mealu " Many ..�+ � there ;a feeling higher tai greater Wealth hay. producing all that w'e .had hoped they would. For example,. we now have larger, more powerful automobiles, but it takes us just aslong to get to work and there are 'ever more aggravations en route. Our luxurious homes are burgeoning with appliances, our garbage bags burst with waste from the affluent society. But has all this consumption and con- venience brought us closer together or has it alienated us from the natural world and each other? There is sound evidence to think that most indications of quality have begun to turn downward* that they are by no means as closely related to energy consumption as we once .thought. Indeed, it.now seems that efforts at moderating our energy consumption - smaller cars, more mass transit, better built houses, less waste production, more personal involvement - will contribute to the quality of life at- the same time as they save energy. There are still other reasons to support a serious and continuing effort at energy conservation which cannot be discussed fully here. Energy conservation is likely to require the sub- stitution of labor for capital and will thus account for an increase in jobs in Canada. By avoiding the need for enormous volumes of im- ports, energy conservation will reduce the dangers of international blackmail and confrontation. And so forth. ... is something every C�nadjan should -do If your energy saving project is peeing to be explosive -- hew laudation, home i*preve*eats, or e sew cif that will save es gas and oil -- taws its and see es. OW low -fist ureas cu Mehr scrim y oo wimp. R.a i Berl ;lima Cswa ity Ciroditiblet ANNUAL ME1IPG antheMinistry ofAgriculture Board Room, Clinton WEDNESDAY NOV. 1 go 'IMO P. reports and financial staten+wat year 1tf11: declaring.* dlialeain ire a acting tf. C MON* alloy appoint avit i• tar it* of a►`Byy-laws aril` er bw an ti .Vico . twaaltI fi