HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-01-30, Page 14THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1975
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Ontario Cabinet hears brief
opposing energy plant in Huron
Premier Williams Davis and
members of the Provincial
cabinet were told last Wednes-
day that the proposed atomic
power generating station in
Huron County, is not in the best
interestes of the residents of
the county.
The statement was contained
in a brief presented to the cab-
inet as it met in a special
session in London. The bried
was prepared by the Huron
Power Plant Committee, a
committee made up of 18 farm
commodity groups and several
civic groups in the county.
Chairman Adrian Vos of Blyth
told the cabinet that Huron
County is 90 percent agricultural
in base and any development
must be supportive of the main
industry in the area: agriculture.
"Clearly," the brief said,
"a generating development with
its inherent transmission corrid-
ors, its supportive industry and
additional building of service
roads and highways is not suppor-
tive to Huron's main industry."
While it has been argued,
the brief stated, that the heavy
consumption of electricity by
farms makes it necessary for
more generating stations to be
built, figures show that the '
farming industry uses only two
per cent of Ontario Ilydro's
output while constituting five
per cent of the population,
"We are not intending to
argue the need of electricity
as projected by Ontario Hydro, "
the brief said. "What we are
disputing is the proposed locat-
ion of the plants and particularl'
the Central Huron Plane."
The brief pointed out exten-
sive research which showed the
damage caused by air pollution
to white bean, pea, corn, pot-
ato and garden crops which
could be caused either by est-
ablishment of a fossil fuel (oil
or coal) fired generating station
or simply from the increased
auto traffic necessary to service
a large power project.
Quoting the figures from the
government's own ministry of
agriculture and food, the brief
stated that the value of bean
production in Huron county in
1973 was nearly $17 million.
Corn, which is also susceptible
to pollution, was worth $27
Annual Meeting
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ZURICH BEAN FESTIVAL, INC.
to be held in
Township Hull, Zurich
on
Thursday, January 30, 1975
at 8:30 p.rn.
All participating concession operators and
all interested individuals are requested to
attend.
RAY McKINNON
President
MARGE SCHILBE
Secretary
SURVEY OF SCHOOL BEGINNERS
For September 1975
In Huron County
If you are a parent of a child born in the
year 1970, we would like to request that
you complete this form, Please return it
by February 14, 1975 to:
Huron County Health Unit
Court House,
GODERICH, ONTARIO
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million to Iiuron county farmers
and potatoes, which could also
be damaged, meant $172, 000
in 1973 to the Huron county
economy.
The brief said that accurate
figures for onions and other
garden crops grown mostly in
the Grand Bend arca near the
proposed site were unavailable
but said a conservative estim-
ate of the worth of all crops
that could be affected is $50
trillion.
The brief also pointed out
the potential loss of farm land
caused by power corridors from
the station. It dealt with the
problems of finding farm labour
in competition with the wages
paid at the power plant. It
spoke of the problem of higher
taxation required to pay for the
increased services needed by
personnel building the power
station.
The brief predicted that
industry setting up in the area
around tltc power plant would
also gobble up prime farming,
land,
Mr, Vos minced no words in
I telling the side of the farmers
to the cabinet:
"When we as farmers have
opposed certain developments
in the past we have been accus-
cd of trying to itupede progress,
but T ask you, what progress?
Is it progress when land that can
feed thousands of people year
after year, is buried under
in
highways and factories? i mtain-
Coenv ® rt�ttaro that it is progress when we
gsucceed in saving, one acre of
PAGI: 15
food -producing land from that
process. 13y allowing Ontario
Hydro to establish their monster
facilities in Huron County in
particular, and Southern Ont-
ario in general, the Ontario
Government will impede prog-
ress and future generations in
our country and present gener-
ations in many other countries
will pass judgement on you
gentlemen and I predict that
the judgement will be severe."
The brief urged location of
future generating stations be
located in northern locations
along the north and east shores
of Georgian Bay to stimulate
growth in the areas and to rel-
ieve population pressure on -
agricultural areas in the south.
While it is hard to find fig-
ures of savings to prove the
point, the brief said, it is bett-
er to pay the extra money for
power lines from Northern Ont-
ario than it is to ruin good
agricultural hand in the south.
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Cars with catalytic convert-
ers are center stage this year.
Along with unleaded gasoline,
The 1975 cars with converters
not only spew out fewer pollut-
ants. They also run better than
last year's models, start quick-
er, and even get better gas
mileage. Fuel savings in 1975
models with converters for ex-
ample, are 13 percent above
that for last year's cars.
Part of the reason for this
good news is that car manufact-
urers have had to redesign
carburetors and ignition systems
in order to get the catalysts to
work properly. So there are
happy side-effects along with
less pollution.
The converters themselves,
attached to exhaust pipes,
chemically change polluting
hydrocarbons and carbon mon-
oxide to harmless carbon diox-
ide and water. The converters
are designed to reduce hydro-
carbons by 83 per cent and car-
bon monoxide by 90 percent.
Cars with converters must use
completely lead-free gas. Tt's
agains federal law for a gas
station to pump leaded gas into
a catalyst -equipped car. In
addition to ruining the catalyst,
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a $10, 000 fine. But besides
being destructive and illegal,
it's almost impossible to pump
the wrong kind of gas into the
new cars. The filler pipe is so
narrow that the standard gas
nozzle won't fit inside.
Reducing the pollutants in
car exhaust is one major way
to fight air pollution. Car ex-
hause is the chief cause of air
pollution. But there are other'
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