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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-01-21, Page 214 tflrcnuounty continues fight against 1 before World War H. Canada is a huge country wfth enough hmd undevelopedito last for canaries, they said. absentee ownership -MA' - • . • =Ts.- . • SIGINTALSTAK WliVVESDAYi JANUARY ittelltil-LPAGE 7A One foot in the furrow fit ALICE MB interest on the secuiltysecurity' depot), there's no Huron County Federation &Via doubt about that." In of Agriculture The inspector alsooutlined response- to another members are .continuing their campaign regulations in Bill 127, the question, he said with the against the ' absentee Aggregates Act, which the new regulations, likely some ownership oi °mare) tan government has been trying suldier gravel pits that to pass for some time to aren't us:W very heavily, will nokuid. At their January meeting, replace the Pits and go out of production. held at Clinton Public School Quarries Control At Under Another men said he could on Thursday, January8 the new act, which has had a see operators taking pits out members approved a motion second reading, in addition of production now and asking the provincial to the eight cads security Waiting to apply for a license gu 4 for programs such as tile to Pay a royalty fund of sia loans and capital grants cents per tonne, which will available only to resident be divided between tne • Ontario farm owners. municipality, the county and The resolution stated the Province- TL royalty fee "whereas' limited money is won't be returned to available for such programs operators. Mr. Laing said as tile loans, capital grant thia moueY will be used by programs, etc. and whereas government to repair roads Canadian taxpayers should and intplement dust controls not be supporting absentee to repair damage by heavy investors", the Ontario truck traffic around pits. In Federation of Agriculture response to a question from (OFA) was asked to request the audience, Mr. Laing said the government make he didn't expect the funding available only to e Aggregates Act would be Ontario residents. passed until a majority Tony McQuall. who government was in offiee. seconded the motion put The inspector was asked forward by Merle Gunby, how a stockpile of crushed said since the province isn't gravel would be affected by getting anywhere very the' security fee regulations. quickly on limiting absentee mr- Laing said operators ownership, the motion's have until July, 1961 to get intent was to make sure the rid of stockpiles and after nutted funding availabk for that, they mist pay the eight Ontario farmers wasn't used cents per tonne fee on up on absentee owners. remaining graveL 'He said In response to a query because of .the Would of asking if absentee owners lead time given operators, have already received funds the ministry felt they should for tiling, Merle Gunby said be able to get rid of stock - no examples of this were piles by July. known to committee Another audience member members, but it was a asked how recently pits must possibility they were trying have been used to qualify for a license, pointing out that to head off before it hap- gravel from many farm pits pewit is used only to gravel The theme of ithe driveways and fm yards. federation meeting on Mr. Laing said if a fanner Thursday was regulations- can, swear the pit was in use governing the operation of continuously for a number of pits and quarries in the years, the license will be county, Craig Laing, pits and granted. The license fee is quarries inspector for the $25 for individuals, and $100 Ministry of Natural Resources, Wingham office, outlined the implications of the Pits and Quarries Control Act for farmers with gravel pits on their property. Under the act, which now covers all townships within the area, operators must pay eight cents per metric Mime security fee on extracted gravel, effective Jan. 1,1981. The fee is paid to the Treasurer of Ontario to, , wrth heavy duty farm fence. from this meeting he's guarantee pits and quarries I I will be rehabilitated in the However, Mr. Laing pointed organizing?" Mr. McIntosh future. The deposit out there are allowances for pointed out the federation is returned to operators when non-compliance with fencing had sent 20 delegates to the rehabilitation is in progress regulations. For example, if recent OFA comiention, to or is complete on a site. • the pit is in an isolated discuss issues in the farm location or if fencing com- comrnunity, and now the pletely around the boure minister was asking -the daries will take good group to send one delegate to agricultural land out of his conference. production, then fencing . Tony McQuail moved that regulations could be waived. members request a more Mr. Laing said the ministry detailed agenda of Hen - particularly wants fences derson's planned conference around pits bordering before deciding whether or roadways or around pits not to send a delegate. • curtaining water. Members were reminded Another audience member to complete their briefs for asked Mr. Laing how gravel the annual Members off _ eands fee, operators will idso have attiv price tf gravel goes up. Laing cautioned it would be more difficult for operators to get a license in the future if they allowed a pit to go out of operation. He said getting the license again would require a bylaw !hang. Merle Gunby edged the inspector what it would cost an average farmer with a one -acre pit on his farm to hive a site plan prepared, as required in applying for a license. Mr. Laing said it would be hard for surveyors to give an estimate of site plan costs until they viewed the pit, thetopograji of the liand, etc. He did advise operators to get two or three estimates On site plans since there is quite a difference in price. Federation president Gerry Fortune asked Mr. Laing if there's a limit to the number of wayside' • pit permits one person will be issued. Mr. Laing said the mitiintry going to try to limit the municipalities from going into a wayside pit year after year, since they must open and close that pit each time. He said the intent of wayside pit licenses M so thepit can be used for one-tinne road construction. He said the problem with wayside pit permits is that municipalities want the cheap gravel from these pits whereas operators want to sell their gravel to the municipalities, which means for corporations operating a pit. Mr. Laing said operators "we're between a rock and a don't have to remove gravel hard place." from a pit during the year Members were asked at just because the pit is the start of the meeting if licensed. No licenses will be they wanted to send a issued in Huron County until delegate to the Ontario July 1. , Conference of Agriculture, The inspector was also organized by Minister of qa,wdion, about fencing Avricaltnre Lorne Hen - regulations for the pits. derson, which is being held Under the act, operators are in Toronto in February. required to fence around the Jim McIntosh asked boundaries of a pit or quarry "What can we expect to gain Also, effective July 1,1981, pits and quarries operators must obtain a license from the ministry for their pits, outlining plans for the site, including rehabilitation, or else operations at the pits must cease. ,,.Craig Laing told federation members pit operators pay the eight cents per metric tonne deposit on March 31 of the following year, which means they pits can be reclaimed. The Parliament dinner on must keep a record of the Pits inspector said the land February 21st, when county tonnage of gravel removed could be reforested, could be farm organizations present from their pit during the returned to familand or used briefs to the county' o elected year. as a recreational area. He officials. The pits inspector said the said operators must i t cent security deposit maintain enough topsoil oni e gh "reflects more a cc irately the site to complete 'the cost of rehabilitation and rehabilitation plans. In spill provide incentive for response to another rehabilitation iivhen the pa is question, he said operators still in operation." can sell any excess topsoil after rehabilitation is Operators will be paid a complete. rate of interest on the deposit Doug Fortune of Turn - equal W the Province of berry Township asked what Ontario accounts interest the new rules would de to the rates, which, Mr. Laing price of gravel. VI'. 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But every time you go through a checkout counter at the supermarket, another thousand acres of land disappears in Canada through erosion or urban expansion. This loss of farmland was accepted by most people until the last decade. Canadiansproduced a surplus of food. We had too much grain,' too much milk, too many hogs, too many beef cattle, too many chickens, too many eggs, too many halms. It was a time of large smpluses and increasing yields per acre. Lots of food. If the WeStE.110 world is losing its pre-emin' ence in many areas suet as arms superiority, lack of domestic energy supplies, lack of technology and innovation, perhaps another lack is the inability to protect the greatbody of farm land left in this country. A patchwork quilt of restrictions exist across the nation. Some provinces have tried legislation to protect the land but many of the laws are too difficult to enforce or the legislation is tra0 vague to be effedive. e It is my humble opinion — and I am not a farmer that per acre yields in Canada have reached a peak, that agriculture can no longer replace the cropland by technology. Mechanization, fertilizers, pesticides, new varieties, high technology have been able to offset the loss of land. But not any longer. Wood stoves chief cause KINCARDINE - In 1980 the number one cause of fires in Kincaniine was wood bur- ning appliances, according) , to the town's fire chief John Wall. In his year end report to coma Chief Weil reported . that 44 per cent of fires in • Kincardine were cause - directly by these appliances. The nurnbertwocause was equipment failure causing 14 per cent of the fires. 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SHARP at the LEGION HALL, CLINTON for the purpose Of the proper business of the Annual Meeting, Including con- sideration of a rankled tOnstitutIon for tbss Huron County Pork Producers' Association. JOHNPAUL RAU LLOYD STEWART President Secretary Diririer fidget* anallable from any of the County &fret - tort one week prier to !Meeting. • v - By Bob Trotter When this mushy was settled by pioneers, the best hum land was closers Mound that agricultural base came towns and villages, then cities, 'Where stand the cities? The towns and villages of yesteryear have become the cities of today and most of them are right in the middle of the nation's best agricultural Land. That urbanizatien has gobbled up the land. The best farm land is being converted to, urban use at twice the rate of poorer land. What happens in the United States elentimlly heinous here. It has been estimated that more than 100 million acres of U.S. land has died through erosion because farmers have been forced ado poorer land which is harder to farm and more dilficult to protect hum the forces of nature. Increasingly, rural Canada is becoming indistinguishable frun urban Canada. *mammoth report prepared during the Carter administration took a global view of the situation. The global experts said that arable land around the world will increase by only fear per cent in the next 20 years while population will increase by as much as 50 per cent. The world's population — four billion in 1975 -a, will be 6.35 billion by the year 7000. Where there are two people today, there will be three in 2a years. Faullylanning methods are turning global grassland and crop land into "barren wastelands," according to the report, at a rate of approximately an amount of -land the size of the state of Maine each year. 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