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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex
Recently Liberal Leader
Stuart Smith called upon
Premier Davis to reconvene
the Legislature as soon as
possible to discuss the total
breakdown in the Govern-
ment's handling of en-
Environments! concern
vironmental matters. He set
out a number of issues which
have been mishandled by the
present Minister of the
Environment, who assumed
his position in January of
this year.
The issues cited were
Absence of a provincial
policy for toxic liquid in-
dustrial waste disposal.
Withdrawal in March of the
ban on non -refillable pop
bottles, Government han-
dling of the $35 -million suit
against Doti' Chemical for
mercury pollution of Lake
ELCOME
TO THE
ZURICH
BEAN
FESTIVAL
Be sure to visit us
when you're at the
Bean Festival on
Saturday.
1978 Honey Crop
75° .E. LB.
Bring your own containers
week days to our Apiary,
and have them filled.
Open Daily 8 AM To 9 PM
Closed Sundays
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APIARIES
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COUNTY OF HURON
Tenders For Vehicles
For Winter Control
Maintenance
Sealed tenders on forms available from the
undersigned will be accepted until 4:00 o'clock
local time on:
Tues., Sept. 12, 1978
For all or any one of the following pieces of equip-
ment -for winter control commencing on or about
November 20, 1978:
(1) One `Heavy Duty' Tandem truck with driver and
snow plow equipment for snow plow duties in the
Wroxeter area
(2) One 125 H.P. motor grader with driver and snow
plow equipment for snow plow duties in the
Auburn area
(3) 28,000 G.V.W. trucks without operator or box
for installation of County's sand spreaders to
spread salt and sand, in various areas of the
County.
1 TRUCK REQUIRED FOR AUBURN AREA ,
1 TRUCK REQUIRED FOR ZURICH AREA
2 TRUCKS REQUIRED FOR WROXETER AREA
Tender forms. may be picked up at the office of the
undersigned. The lowest or any tender not necessari-
ly accepted.
R.A. Dempsey, P. Eng.,
County Engineer,
Court house,
Goderich, Ontario.
Telephone 524-7412
St. Clair - dropped in favour
of a paltry $250,000 private
settlement with affected
fishermen.
Failure to make the
Environmental Assessment
Act effective' and
meaningful. Failure to
develop a policy to deal with
the serious problems of solid
waste disposal in Metro
Toronto. Failure to act on
problems of lake
acidification in the cottage
country, where fish can't
survive. The inability of
Ontario to comply with
commitments to the
International Joint Com-
mittee on the Great Lakes
clean-up.
Stuart Smith's statement
followed closely upon the
announcement of the
Government's decision to
relax an eight-year old air
pollution control order on
International Nickel Co.
Ltd., which has been
described as dertionstrating
the hopeless irony of Ontario
pollution enforcement
policies.
In 1970, the Ontario
Ministry of the Environment
ordered INCO to stop using
two 500 -foot chimneys and
one 350 -foot chimney 'at its
smelting plant at Copper
Cliff, West of Sudbury. INCO
complied, replacing the
stacks with a 1,250 foot
chimney in 1972.
However, the Ministry at
the same time ordered the
company to reduce its
emissions of sulphur dioxide
from 5,200 tons a day in 1970
to 4,400 tons by the end of
1974, 3,600 tons by the end of
1976 and 750 tons by the end
of 1978. According to the
Ministry, this order was
based "on a need to restrict
tonnage emissions due to the
unpredictability of disper-
sion under all weather
conditions" and ."on
potential adverse effects on
vegetation, soil and water in
a large area surrounding
Sudbury,"
Today INCO continues to.
emit 3,600 tonna day. Yet the
Ministry has issued a new
order permitting INCO to
maintain that level until 30th
June, 1982, simply
requesting a report by
December 1979 "evaluating
the feasibility of controlling"
the smelter's pollution.
Instead of penalizing the
offender, the Government
has bent over backwards to
rationalize and excuse
failure to comply .with the
1970 pollution control order.
Apparently, 1976 statistics
indicate that Sudbury
sulphur emissions accounted
for only 4 percent of North
America man-made
emissions, and only 1.3
percent of global emissions.
Also, "the problems of high
ground level concentrations
of sulphur dioxide and
widespread acute vegetation
damage in the Sudbury area
have essentially been
resolved even at current
emission rates."
As the Ontario Govern-
ment sees it, the Inter-
national Nickel Company is
merely doing the same as
everyone else: moreover,
the 1,250 foot smokestack has
dispersed the emissions to
some extent, which has
minimized the concern
which prompted the issuance
of the 1970 order.
Murray Gaunt, Liberal
Environment Critic, believes
that if the Government is not
prepared to agree to an
emergency debate on the
environmental control order,
"the best thing would be for
George McCague
(Environment Minister) to
resign...I think he's sold out
to big business (in that he's)
agreed to almost five times
the previously set limit for
the next four years."
The condition of the Great
Lakes has received some
publicity recently, following
release of a report by the
Pollution from Land Use
Activities Group, which
indicates that both the
United States and Canada
have adequate laws to
prevent lake pollution, but
the laws should be enforced
more strictly. The group is
urging broader and stronger
control measures.
During the last Provincial
Election, Premier Davis, in
a tough statement, called for
the revision of the Canadian -
Please turn to page 16
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Citizens News, August 24, 1978
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WELCOME
to Zurich's Thirteenth annual
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