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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-02-06, Page 11Pro.vinciat cabinet 'a�. � ked to re()nsaOr.... continued from page 1 A Wilding of service roads and highways is .not' supportive to ' Huron's main Indust* "a has been argued in the', past that the , agricultural industry increases its use of electricity tremendously and therefore we need more generating stations. We may point' out however that the far --ming industry uses only about 2 percent of Ontario Hydro's output,' while con- stituting °5 percent of the population. "But we are not intending to argue the meed of elec- tricity as projected by Ontario. Hydro. What we are disputing is the proposed location ' of the plants and particularly the Central Huron Plant. "By this time it is well known that air pollution causes damage to crops. This has been proven in studies done by Researchers o f the Phy. totoxocology . Section of the Air Management Branch of your government's Ministry of the Environment, and at the Harrow Research Station and at Ridgetown College, whose studies established that even , an exposure time of no more than half an hour to an ozone concentration of. rio more than 16. parts per hundred million caused severe bronzing in white or pea beans. At half that rate it takes sir hours to cause severe damage. "Drs. R.G. Pearson and S.N. Li,nzon of ' the Air Management Branch, with D.P. Ormrod and G. Hofstran o4 =the --Un-iversit ©f Cue .. iph--drf iet�lt-to-ealeh arae. Thi n=~ r. Fe-:Fe-de"raTion -fast e'a9, Life oth7r-o ,lemlw.�....---._�.-,4-"""'--,—•e,.+.x•... „^r• wa��.d--.... ;�. ,.,.�'�. h�+ocnaew+.---:;•,.,: ..: in publication of the Ministry will affect food costs is u' Agr,iculture in general, came after Hydro. was of Agriculture and Food without a doubt. Hydro decide, it would offer ' granted its land rights. , AGDEX 200:69,1 state that "The long range 'effects of landowners the options of: Ontario 'Hydro and' the "ozone -sensitive plants „in- the Plant ar.e also difficult to a selling 900 or 490 ft, or,,,: -Bruce- uron committee• elude bean, corn, onion,` predict, but one doesn't need granting an easement for 490" have held a meeting•to try to a great deal of study to see ft. in The Bryce to Bradley resolve the matter. Botll that after the- peak em- section; sellin'g ' 490 ft. or sides agree that landowners ployment: period the services selling or -granting an' ought to have access to the provided for the constructioneasement on "120" ft. in the Land Compensation Board. work force will have to be 'Bradley to', Wingham strip; Mr. Crombie said Hydro paid for, This will take the selling or granting' an officials are `working to try form of,higher taxes -for easement for 120- ft, in the to find a; 'way aroundthe'' those remaining in the -area, Wingha-rn-.to-Seaforth strip. difficulty. FLe added that a or the attraction of '.industry . "George, Undervyood of recent report on the Larid -- R.R. 1, W Ingham, a member Compensation • Board, made ' of -the "Bruce -Huron recommendatio_ns which • Negotiating .Committee and could be helpful; but that the also of the Concerned legislature has not approved Farmers of' the United implernenting these, Townships (who are opposed recommendations. • to • locating transmission Mr. Underwood ,said the lines_, across class one• and Bruce -Huron . group con- twd, agricultural land);" Laded • the Ministry df stresses that' if the -lan Energy regarding the 'Matter. .downer chooses" an option on Sept. 18, 1974• 'but has :other than that granted at received no reply. They have 'expropriation hearings, he' is ,also contacted MPP Murray. 'changing the 'terms of the Gaunt (Huron -Bruce - Lib.) „.agreement and therefore' ' "We're the• first people to cannot appeal the'amount of come under this new: Hydro, compensation to the Land land. policy,, but it's going to Compensation Board. effect everybody connected "We can't blame this on with transmission lines from Hydro," Mr Underwood now on, so it hag -to be set - 'said. ''But the .fact remains tl'ed," he said. that we were promised Mr.' Crombie said there access o the -Land Com- were,. approximately 120 pensation` Board and unless properties- involved in the Bruce to Seaforth line. Some of the landowners have already settled, he said. Huron has a potential effect "We maintain that it is 'energy to industry to locate on a conservatively ogress when we succeed in in this area. estimated $50' million worth saving one acre of food "This will serve a twe-fold° of food production, no,t producing land from that purpose.`One - to develop our considering inflation; per process. It is progress when largely unused Northland, Year. - we put more land in food and two - siphon population "A further detrimental production, By allowing, away from our agricultural effect on food •production is Ontario Hydro to establish' -'areas, , !p' the transmission' corridors their monster facilities in "It' has been argued that necessary to transport the Huron County in particular, people can't be induced to go produced electricity ,,.to and in Southern Ontario in where government wants where it is needed. At some genera'1the Ontario them to go, but the` Mining of the proposed alternatives Government will impede towns like Sudbury and this could run to corridors ofd•- progress and future Uranium City have proven 1,260 feet wide.' . generations in our country this to be false. "In Huron Countythere is and present generations in , "If a' Northern pipeline ' '' o other way , to go with many other countries will were to be built and elec- those corridors than over pass judgement on you, tricity was made :available prime agricultural land.' We' gentlemen, and I predict ' at'preferred ^rates it would, will, not go further 'into the that the judgement will be be a miracle if development effects on agricultural severe. - did not take place. 'production ofw' "' 'power ' ''Our c o m m i tt e e corridors' as this has been Axecognizes that e•1"carie "The cost Aof millions of extensively ' documented energy will be needed, detlars of extra needed before by the Bruce -Huron probably on' the scale that transmission line has been Negotiating Committee" and Ontario Hydro predicts, and quoted as an unnecessary, by the "Concerned Farmers we stiggest and " strongly -" burden to the consumer, but of the United Townships." urge that future Generating we maintain even if we "The detrimental 'effect of Stations be established in cannot prove it, that the the plant construction on the more northern locations. The • extra cost will be more than availability of farm labor North and East shores of the offset, by the cost of food and on' labor for other in- Georgian, Bay is a more grown on land that otherwise dustries and for suitable area because it will would' be buried under so - municipalities has ,been bring interference with food called progress. shown in the `Dillon production back to the very "In conclusion '' we urge Report" that was prepared minimum. you to direct Ontario" Hydro for Ontario Hydro in the "It will give you as our to draw up new Long Range Bruce area. Some farm land Government the •opportunity Plans With the emphasis of a is reported to be idle, to grant special rates for Northern location." because farmers abandoned Legal the farm in order to work at hassle'.... the construction of the power • plant. continued from page lA while landowners were "Other farmers are .unable strip' from Bruce to Bradley aware of the two different to take up the slack for lack instead of the 900 ft. strip amounts of land (900 'ft. and• of, available farm labor. The and with, a-120 ft. strip from 490 ft.) with regard to the cost to the farmer then in- Blradley instead of 490 ft. Bruce to Bradley portion creases in nearly all areas. Consequently, after. because they were publicized How wrmuch this will affect discussing the matter with during the l Hearing of the coof food is very farmers and with the • m heldin Win ha Necessity Wing ham +'1 ,Trr ,,'••• `;>r , 177—, T71 rr, ,T.,ma:,,°:m^]t -:..:s .tip •...,�, ,,�„ ,75'R"`Ti'� `T,'� i7�' a r , 'i.�IF A. . :R I+ 1 SIGNAL -STAR, , radish, spinach,• tobacco and -tomato." "From the same factsheet I ,quote: ``Widespread pollutants are _generally referred to as "oxidants." They ' are • produced in- ; 'the atmosphere during, a corn - pith( reaction • .involving nitrogen oxides and reactive .to the, area., to:take up the hydro -carbons, the__ main slack inemployment., compbne,nts - of ° ,automobile "Needless to say that new exhausts. • -- •• industry will need more land, "From the_aforementioned to build on, thereby it follows that • two of decreasing food production Ontario's 'proposed plans even - more.. We think that utilizing_fossil fuels only,_and al.rnost_everyone agrees that one plan using a combination the, next generation, and of fossil fuel and nuclear fuel possibly the present will do "seYere damage to generation will need all the most crop's and most likely food that can be grown in will wipe out bean produc- . this world. . tion in Huron County. "The "farmer is an expert '. "If nuclear fuel is used on 'soils. He doesn't exclusively, we still have the necessarily know • the problem of greatly increased chemical composition of the traffic in the area, as has soil,' even if'.many do, but he been shown, in the Bruce does know that new soil Development ' area. 'This, .as' cannot be made overnight. It pointed out above, is the takes thousands or even main cause of the production millions of years to. produce of air pollutants harmful to asoil that can be reasonably. 'plants; used to grow crops. - "Publication 20 of the `"Too often he is not legislation is changed we're Ontario " Ministry of listened to- when he has not going to have it." 'Agriculture ' and Food: stated that a,compacted soil Mr. Underwood said, that "Agricultural Statistics for grows less than a loose soil..• Under transmission lines' .,that were iuilt• 30 years ago, often the stand of a crop is noticeably poorer. Yet this'is'- often denied '''by the book experts who will show other transmission lines where this is not the case. And whom do you listen to Honourable ,Members?, Ontario", we, find that in 1973 the value of white beans raised ' in Huron County approached the 17 • million dollar figure, For corn it is 27. million and for potatoes .17? mill'ion,doliars. "We have not been'able to come up , with accurate f'i'gures, for the other cops susceptible to-: pallut'1'9n a "when we as farmers, damage, ' but it must be -'a have opposed certain' considerable amount `"of developments in the past money for the onion growers. have been accused of tryi at Grand Bend and. the to impede—Progress, but we vegetable growers scattered ask you, what progress?' Is it across the country. ' ' ' 'progress when land, that can "Potentially then air feed thousands of people pollution , caused by , the year after year,, is buried building---- of a - Generafi.g under highways and fac- Development in Central tories? • F1 .T- FARKERS ARE YOU PLANNING TO BUILD? For a gbod solid building at reasonable rates Contad't: RAY. LAMBERS CONSTRUCTION CLINTON• 482-3305 We have had over 8 year§ experience in atypes• of -farm buildings • SAVE UP TO 1 iH,2O.O.0 ONYOUR INCOME TAX. 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