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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1977-12-15, Page 24PAGE 4A—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1977 Gaunt suggests recycling materials through agency By Murray Gaunt Over the last ten days the resources development committee has been studying the ministry of the en- vironment estimates. As critic for the Liberal Party, I suggested that the govern- ment establish a marketing agency for recycled materials, and establish no new landfill sites after 1981. In my remarks I expressed confidence that a marketing agency to coordinate the supply of reclaimed materials and to seek customers is workable. Such an agency could also promote ,and accelerate the building of reclamation and recycling plants, and according to the ministry s own figures these plants would save more than $11 million every year for the 90 percent of Ontario's garbage that would be af- fected. Ontario municipalities are not taking up the provincial government's offer to fund 50 percent of the capital costs of solid waste recovery systems, and private en- terprise should be en- couraged to come into the field. It is my belief that the province's aim to recycle 90 percent of solid waste by 1989 is achievable, but but at the ministry's present rate of progress is completely unrealistic. During the same con- siderations, Environment Minister George Kerr said that Inco Ltd. in Sudbury cannot meet a government - imposed control order to reduce sulphur -dioxide_ emissions from its present 3,600 tons a day to 750 tons a day by December 31, 1978. Inco is .the largest single industrial source of sulphuric -acid pollution , in North America. The en- vironment minister said a new control order is being, drawn up by his ministry. Despite its concern about the .number of people out of work in the province, the Ontario Government does not plan any job creation Health costs drop $1 million, seatbelts help Ontario's seat belt law and lower speed limits have resulted in .a dramatic reduction in health care costs for motor vehicle accident victims during the first three months of 1976 following, the introduction of a mandatory seat belt law. A joint ministry of tran- sportation' and com- munications and ministry of health study examined health care costs for motorists in- jured in highway mishaps in 16 Ontario hospitals during. the first three months of 1975 compared to the same period in 1976. "Our study revealed that active ' treatment costs for injured motorists were down $1 -million over the three- month study period," tran- sportation and com- munications minister James Snow said. "What's even more im- portant though is that the number of people hospitalized as a result of traffic accidents was down more than 22 percent. Altogether, 2,343 fewer accident victims were admitted to the hospitals used in our study. "There's just 'no question that seat belts and lower speed limits are helping to reduce Ontario's tremendous health costs, as well as the death and injury rale on provincial streets and high- ways." The report also showed a substantial reduction ir1 expensive in-patient care. These hospital services, which account for the largest expenditure, were down from $2.6 -million in 1975 to $1.8 - million in 1976. Medical fees, the second largest expenditure, ac- counted for $371,000 during the three-month study period in 1976, compared to $526,000 the previous year. -- An overall reduction in the severity of injuries was also reported. Serious injuries were down almost 36 percent; minor injuries declined by 11 percent. "I am convinced," .Snow concluded, ' Fthat we car reduce these injuries arae their related health cost even further if more drivers and passengers buckled up every time' they get into a motor vehicle." programs this winter, Premier William Davis said this week. Latest unem- ployment figures show 253,000 people out of work in the province. Mr. Davis said in the Legislature that he didn't think it would be constructive for the provincial govern- ment to create winter projects at this time. Such solutions were short-term and in order to solve the problem on a more lasting basis, "it does require on the part of all governments a degree of intestinal fortitude that is not always easy to demonstrate". The 20th illegal strike since May 1975, by members of the same union at the Lummus Co. of Canada -Ltd. project at Douglas Point, was just one too many for the Ontario Labour Relations Board. It set aside its normal practice of not issuing a declaration of an illegal strike if the strikers are back at work at the time of a hearing, and issued a cease- anddesist order against unlawful strikes for the term of the current collective agreement. During the estimate con- siderations of the Resources Development field, the' Honourable Rene Brunelle revealed that the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning, commonly know as the Porter Com- missibn, established in 1975 to look into the long term planning of Ontario's elec- .trical power system, was originally slated to report late this year or early next year.' However, interest' in the topic of nuclear power has been extremely intense and this interest has resulted in the scheduling of 30 extra days of hearings during the January to March period in 1978 for nuclear hearings alone. 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