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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-11-08, Page 31tt ,. 1 GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1979—PAGE 11A Bandwagons are tooeasy to get on get off of. (And if that isn't breaking all the rules of English -- ending a sentence with a preposition -- then I'll apologize now to my high school English teacher). Which is why this columnist has not joined the hue and cry against nuclear power stations. Jaffe Fonda and her husband (what's his name?) have become outspoken critics of nuclear power. They were joined by a few thousand other porch -climbers and assorted hangers-on recently at a demonstration which in- dicates how easily most people are led by a hero image. Pardon me: heroine. I cannot understand how North America can con- tinue gobbling up fossil fuels, especially petroleum. At this point,,l can see no alternative to nuclear energy. Agriculture needs petroleum to produce food. If the energy crunch hits Canada as it surely will within the next decade, then Canadians must be prepared to give agriculture priority for petroleum. If we are not, as, a nation, ready to do this, then we are going to have empty bellies. Therefore, other forms of energy must be used. Nuclear energy is the only reasonable solution at this time. I have read most of the books written by Isaac •Asimov, a respected biochemist as well as a well- known writer of science fiction. He recently penned a piece in support of nuclear power that is worth reading. He said the American press called the Three Mile Island accident -- and that is all it was, just an accident -- a catastrophe. Was it? No one died. In fact, no proof has ever been given that anyone has died as a direct result of the peaceful• application of nuclear power in Canada or the United States. Yet, says Asimov, hundreds of thousands of people die in highway accidents every year and nobody is trying to ban the automobile." Why aren't these bleeding hearts like Jane Fonda and what's -his -name out leading demonstrations against cars? Because the automobile is too con- venient for them. We cannot continue to put ourselves in hock to OPEC and Mexico. Coal is certainly not the answer. You can't shove coal through a pipeline and we .have let our railroads fall apart making it that much more difficult to refine coal. Besides, „ if we solve the problems of refining . coal, we come smack-dab up against air pollution problems. There are no easy solutions. We cannot destroy the nuclear age and still have all the energy we want for the luxurious way of life we demand. C-anada's-method-of-nuclear power -- the Candu and difficult to reactor -- is the safest yet devised. I have no great love for Ontario Hydro as regular readers of this column know. AGRICULTURE MAILBOX Drawn from fetters to Agriculture Canada and Agriculture Minister John Wise Dear Mr Wise: • table production. The govern - I have always been in- ment ' now is developing an terested in farming and would overall strategy to help the like to make it my life's Canadian horticultural in - work. Because farm prices dustry grow and prosper, are so high these days, I We are concerned about need financial assistance. the cost of energy for heating Could you tell me what greenhouses, and the impact help is available? that rising imports of fruits and vegetablesare having on An aspiring Manitoba fanner our balance of payments. Agriculture Canada's Re - Dear Aspiring: search Branch is studying The Farm Credit Cor- greenhouse construction to poration provides qualifyingnd ways of conserving 'energy farmers with - long-term farm , • mortgages up to 5200,000. The current interest rate on Dear Mr. Wise: - FCC loans is 12 per cent. Recently; the federal With all the excess wind. government increased the an- we have on the prairies, 1 nual budget of the corpora= leel more effort. should be tion. , Total loans up to pert into harnessing it for 5624 million may- be made energy on the farts. Is your in the current fiscal year to department looking into wind meet the needs of Canadian power research, particularly farmers. the • new eggbeater -type of I suggest you contact whrdmill.9 the nearest Farm Credit Cor- poration field office to arrange D.N.. Carunpvrt, ,Bask. an interview with. a credit Dear D,N,: advisor. Oplikkit should also contact A project has been under - your provincial department way since the summer of .,• �f agriculture for information 1978 , at my department's on their financial assistance Swift Current, Sask., Re- programs. search Station to test the vertical -axis, or as it is better known, the egg -beater wind - Dear Sir.• mill, under prairie conditions. / think your departmentThe experimental wind- should !nave a plan to in -'mill has performed up to crease greenhouse vegetrtble expectations as far as gene - production in Canada and to rating electricity is concerned. But the minerchers still have develop. insulated -type green- houses. to determine the economic feasibility of building a small Downsview, Ont. one on a farm. The egg -beater windmill / Dear H,A.: does seem to have potential i agree with your su ,on the farm for pumping gestion that we should become water, as a back-up unit for other power sources. or more self-sufficient in vege- for heating livestock shelters. CUSTOM CORN DRYING Buy - Sell - Store or weigh out to your account ROBERTSON FARMS George Robertson R.R. S Goderich i24-665$ s Lefle.%are app'ec•aled Dr 8o0 Rd fim.,a On, N36 :c I do not like the high-handed methods Hydro has been guilty of perpetrating on farmers when power corridors are needed. But Hydro's expertise in generating electrical power by nuclear methods is head -and -shoulders above any other utility in the world. Those who believe the energy shortage will not come in a few years are playing the ostrich game. Maybe the powerful, rich, multi -national oil companies are , fostering some of the hysteria. Maybe they are only interested in their current balance sheets and just do not want to see into the future when petroleum reserves dwindle. The point is that these resources will dry up. They are finite. Other energy sources must be tapped and Canada is• in the forefront in, nuclear research. We must continue to maintain this position. If we do not, we could all be going to bed with empty stomachs in the foreseeable future. If farmers cannot get enough fuel to raise food for the nation, we could be sorry we didn't use the nuclear energy which could, if you'll pardon the expression, siphon enough petroleum for agricultural purposes. Americans, apparently, would rather drive than eat. The truckers trying to get food to the nation, especially from California, didn't have enough gasoline to do the job. F of A stakes claim Hodges Milling Limited ,of Dungannon was presented with a special award by the SHUR-GAIN Division of Canada Packers Limited recently for a random sample of feed made in their mill. This award was based on a feed texture competition among all SHUR-GAIN mill operators in Ontario. Results were announced at the Annual SHUR-GAIN'Dealers' Conference at the Bristol Place Hotel in Toronto recently. Ken Hodges (right) accepted the award on behalf of Hodges Milling Limited from Ontario Nutrition Manager, D. Steckley. Steckley explained that correct manufacturing in- cluding grinding, rolling, mixing and formulation of ingredients, Is essential if livestock and poultry are to perform with optimum results, on a balanced ration. SHUR-GAIN conducts extensive training seminars and feed schools for its feed service dealers across Canada. Farmers want gas line position Canadian farmers are letting the federal government knoW,that if there is ever a fuel shortage in ,Canada farmers must be first in the ration lines. Peter Hann.am, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said recently that farmers want to "stake our claim;. now and not ' have a situation like happened in the United States this spi i -ng" Hannam said "the U.S. fuel shortage resulted in farmers getting priority for planting, but then the nations' truckers got out their guns and some fuel was diverted from far- mers to truckers and there were spot -farm shortages": He said farmers have not yet .received an assurances from Ottawa that they will get priority' in any Canadian rationing system. He added that the province of Ontario did give verbal assurance that farmers will be looked after in a fuel shortage. Hannam said the OFA has two genuine concerns over ,,the.. world fuel situation,` price and availability. He said increased fuel costs will result in direct increases in food costs. He pointed out that increased food costs will not be due to greater profit margins areyou doing for rest of your life? - ACCOUNTING CLERK Would you like to acquire marketable job skills - whIle progressing at your own speed? This 40 -week program can provide you with the skills required as an office worker and equip you for a variety of office settings. You may *lie eligible for financial assistance from Canada Employment or the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). We ccs help you — — — find out. Here 4.Cdr oa Arts • ndogY Building skillstodallr for the needs of tomorrow] Minton Campus Phone 3458 but higher production costs. He added that reduced or cut off supplies will, reduce or cut off the amount of food produced by farmers, He explained that since there are no alternatives to CUr'r•ent fuel types without those fuels farm machinery cannot operate. Hannam said farni`ers are beginning Co'make; their case known because they have no doubt f supplies, will dwindle the next decade. Hannam conceded th on-farm fuel consumpti accounts for only thr percent of Canada's total energy consumption but quickly added it is a critical - three percent. He said agri-eulture generates money in other; seemcnts,of the economy such as food processing and non-food industries such as transporation, The concerns of the OFA are shared by the National Far•niers' Union and the Christian Far- mers` Federation but uel neither bf tho-se in organizations have ap- preached government. at The OFA will he on holding .a special energy ee IT PAYS TO SHOP EXETER THIS FRIDAY IT'S OUR BIGGEST EVER MIDNIGHT MADNESS SUPER VALUES 6 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT NORTHRUP KING This outstanding new single cross hybrid from - Nattonal-NK has excel- lent ear retention, yield potential and fast dry ,, down, PX 7 is excellenffor grain or silage. 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