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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-05-10, Page 30, rt .1• 11A.4.".*• THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MAY 10, 1979 ..Icic;k 's Jo ttings ugIas t,tr, BY JACK RIDDELL, M.P.P, sPecialiStS wt.11 participate in, No doubt you will all have the intlUirY* the results of heard of the mysterious "M. which will be made public aS. Shultz" who wrote to Liberal soon as possible. ,flydro wilL MPP Eddie Sargent com- be given, an OppOrtunity tet paring failures at Ontario rebut allegations that Hydro's Brue Oenerating failures at BretT seP441:e Station to those that led tO, icePardized sfef Repre- the recent nuclear accident at Sentatives of all: parties have the Three Mile Island, power agreed, to meet with officials Plant near Harrisburg, to give an opportunity fOr Pennsylvania, He said that Hydro to respond to the "the possibility of all these letter from "Mr. Shultz" and events happening the accompanying'reports. Simultaneously in , a Candu In the latest in a series of reactor are remote, but tio relevations by New York more • remote than the State health officials, it has sequence of eventkat mV. been •announced that the The letter in question. and, • world's deadliest man-made Seven aceompanying poison, dioxin, has been • Significant Event Reports." foundin Lake Ontario fish, wee released by Liberal ,People„ especially pregnant Leader Stuart Smithiwomen and children, have Turning the documents over been warned not to eat fish to the Legislature's select from. the lake, • although committee on Hydro affairs, officialmaintained the dis- Stuart Smith said "These covery poses no threat to documents must speak for Metro's water. An environ - themselves .1 think Tnent ministry official has members of the committee domed that the poison could will see .that Mr. Shultz is a not be in the lake water responsible person and the because it gets into the fish concern he expresses in his through the food chain. "It's letter is a legitimate one." not in the water", he said. . Sebseeently, a man "It 's in sem:thing the fish identifying himself as Mr. eats." Shultz telephoned a Toronto Answeringi question from radio station with details of Liberal- Leader Stuart Smith • an incident over the weekend,- about the seriousness pi the of 28th 29th April in which problem, the Minister Ham two Ontario Hydro Parrott, compared the con - employees received radiation centrations of dioxin to One doses far in excess of the shot of vermouth in a 28 permissible level while million ton of martini**. Dr. working to free a trapped Smith was not reassured by • fuel bundle in a reactor at the Minister's response, and Bruce: One worker received angrily coMmented "He is a dose of 5.5 rems, the other saying everything is fine and received, an eight -rem dose, they don't even test for according to Hydro officials. dioxin. He shouldn't say (Five rems is the permissible •everything is line until the level of exposure 'for an water and fish have been, entire year.) 'tested." Ontario Hydro shut down The liberal •Leader also its 10 -day-old operation to ' questioned the Minister in retrieve the trapped- fuel the House about .delays in. bundle and has launched an carrying out tests for dioxin, investigation into the over Almost two-and-a-balf Years exposure incident. Officials ago the Ministry • of the '•of Hydro. nuclear •plant Environment announced •it operators and health was preparing to test for this • 1 'poison in its, own laboratories. However. Of ficials have recently admittett that ministry laboratories are at le4t three to Six rnOntlA away from setting up. a, program to test for dioxin io water and ftsli. Drums of caustic chef:01001 have been discovered in. a Fort Erie dump which was described as hazardous in a five year old report which , only came to light this past week, when Liberal MPF Ray Haggerty brought it to the • attention of the government. Following re- ceipt of the report by the Ministrythis week samples Were taken at the site .to ascertain. if toxic chemicals from the site were leaking into a drainage ditch. The dump in question is about 4.5 miles from the Niagara River. It is about three miles from the nearest large residential area, although some scattered houses are a few hundred yards •away. The dump is surrounded on all sides by open fields and 'bush. Mr. Haggerty pointed out that the Fort Erie site is the only dump marked as hazardous out of 2 listed in thereport,.. He exp essed the belief that the town should tighten its control •of the dump. However, town management has no idea what kind of chemitals Might have been . , aeposited there in the past since waybills' have been kept' for only a few years. The type of industry located in Fort Erie does not generate. the type of waste normally associated with a hazardous. label, • , • Both. Opposition •Parties • have expressed concern about the Minister of Health's flip-flop •on • the question of allowing O%ntario - An Expositor Classifie you tried one? Dial 52/-0240. will pay you diVidends. •Hav Hannam so),s- • doctors to accept Melon by credit eard for theirservices- The fear is that allowing the nse of credit eardS 'would remove What the Minister bas himSelf 'Oct.! abed as one of the main in entives doetors to remain ithin the Ontario Health Insurance r Bian-gnaranteed payment and almost no bad debts. Possibly if doctors are sure they will be paid, as they now are under OHIP, they may see little incentive to stay in the plan, charging lower fees than they could aemtnaedif they opted Out. h, lad, r ; , , irt i ul Over 12$ delegates from the Horticultural SoeeitieS in District 8 attended the annual meeting held: at Tara last Saturday. The preSidem, 'Mrs. Maisie Bray of Lions Head was in charge of tbe, meeting which commenced with a :dinner served by the Lady Directors • ,of Tara Agricultural SoceitY. Mrs, Eleanor Bradneek thanked. the Tara LatlieS" for their delicious beef dinner, The. Cis ic greetingS were brought by the Warden of Bruce County Reeve of Tara A. Speers. and also from reeve of Erin Township. G, Kirk- land. Mrs, Amy Trelferd - President ofthe Tara. Horticulture Society welcomed' all to the meeting held ip the Community Centre, Mrs, Effie Stephenson of Seaforth gave an impressvie memorial • service. Mrs.Bray reported on her -year's activities and thanked all Societies (Or their co-operation. • 'The guest speaker, Mrs. Charlotte Erickson - Brown eoftfroinQueen's Park ' -01.• • '11- :cet Crt didn't register BY MURRAY• GAUNT, M.P.P. . Radiation detectors worn by • two Ontario Hydro workers failed to register the • fact that they received over- doses last Saturday, a • Legislature committee was • told this week. Senior Hydro officials told ' •'the Select Committee on • Hydro Affairs that the dosimeters worn by the meri • registered levels of 4 and 4.5 rems, both below the limit of • • 5 set by the Atomic Energy Critrol Board. • However, when more sophisticated testing of the two men was carried out,it was found that one man received reins and the other 5.5. The 'men were exppsed to the . radiation during the, cleanup following, a fuel "washout!' accident at the Bruce :generating station, Lorne McConnell, Hydro's vice-president of operations and- engineering, described the occurrence as a "loss -of. control" accident and said the • professional staff in- volved should have taken action to prevent it. • Mr. McConnell -lsaid "gloom anddoom" head- lines concerning the initial, disclosures by Mr. Schultz already are impairing the high reputation of the Candu • ip. • •••• • system abroad. Tovince as al e• arme release of the seven reports • He told the committee that The Government • of Hannam. President, Ontario Ontario has failed the •Federation ef Agriculture provtnce's farmers Peter (OFA) said glad Er tulip ace seatorth Farmer's C0.,0p "'L S11.011.0 t.t • Hammitt made his charge in the OFA's Annual Brief to • the Provincial Cabinet. Hannam said, food is a first priority for everyone • in Ontario. "This government has let down all the citizens of Ontario by their lack of • commitment to agriculture," he added. • He explained that Ontario's farM community was chale nged by a. whole series of important social and economic issues', each of which posed a seriousthreat to'• Ontario's • farm community: • Hannam pointed out that the government has failed to protect farmers • from scattered development in • rural • areas • that are "sterilizing" • surrounding farms. He charged that: they have failed to protect farmers from harassment • over • necessary farm by-products, such as noise and odeurs. 'Farmers. he Saidhave to put up with an increasing intrusion of all kinds of wastes. Yet the government has failed to implement programs to reduce garbage and failed even to take hold of the issue and find alter- native methods ofdisposal. .Other ,failures include the lick of meaningful trespass law. with logical • liability rules and even the failure to provide protection against predators. beavers and dogs. Hannam said that most of all, the government has failed to be consistent. Confusing signals have • resulted in farmers questioning their future in agriculture . "Farmers can no longer tolerate the Minister of Agriculture and ' Food travelling around • the province •telling farm audiences how impodant • agriculture is to the economy, while at the, same time, his Cabinet colleagues cut his feet* out from under him by cuttinig his budget", he said. • Hannam said farmers need to know what sort of commit- ment the government has to the food industry. They can no longer tolerate • being forced to plan CM a day to day basis. Therefore,. the Brief outlined three major policy recommendations for restoring the confidence of the province's fanners. The first is ten-year strategy for agriculture. The OFA recommended all ministries work to gether with farmers to develop a set of realistic goals. achievable within 10 years. Central to. any program must be a strategy to obtain those goals, Farmers are receiving conflicting signals from the governmetn and only a major commitment such as this would allow farmers to plan for flier needs of the future. raised "serious doubts in Japan" and:there, were con- cerns at unnecessary alarm spreading.: (He told' reporters laterhe spent much , Sunday explaining the ,-rd••• ports to Japanese officials.) The Hydro vicepresident said that while many of the Schultz statements were ac- ecirate many others were Misleading. Describing the . Significant Event Reports as highly technical and not written • in layman's language, he said they never contain references to follow- up actions taken and doe't. address the question of publc Safety. Fireinspectors would have the right to enter any; pro- perty in the province for fire safety inspections, according to a proposed Ontario Fire Code published in the_ Ontario Gazette. • Anyone refusing to admit an inspector could . be ehlTreed under the code. • 1 t was published in the, Gazette along With a request for public comment and can be revised. according to the • Government. • Frank Drea, Minister of. Consumer and Commercial Relations; indicated that any • change would have to be • introduced allegislation. The Ontario government has helped Several large COmpanieg in. the province to advertise in foreign news- ' ‘cpapersrke.rsfor highly skilled v Sources at Canads Man - power revealed that in the past fourteen months seven Ontario • companies - • includingGeneral • Motors of Canadart.Ltd. - have received • permissipe, from the federal :government to • hire from overseas a total of 395 skilled tra desmen and university graduates. • Last week, spokesmen for General Motors said they •'could not find in Canada the 95 skilled'. wOrkers they. re- quired. Officials in the mill- wrights' • and electricians' unions maintained that they had qualified members who were unemployed, but the 'unions had not been notified of the vacancies. If ttle,a4dressitibel on the, 'front of y.Otit01):0!'sayi • Feb,. 24-04 Mar, 2-1-0-9 • Apr t 240-9 Your :subscription -DUE NOW. • • • . tt % was introduced by .Mrs. Bray end she spoke on the topic, Herbs in Ontario„ 'She grows many of the herbs. in King TOwnship and Stressed their medicinal properties and why our early settlers used so many of them. She spoke t of portolaca, May onion, garlic; dandelion'v, ild ginger and many others that are found growing wild in Huron County and especially between Auburn and Clinton,. Miss Helen Arkell of Teeswater thanked the speaker for her inspiring 'Address. Prize wininng slides efffowers, planters and trees and Mrs. C. Hemingway of Brussels won in all the categories. Mr, Herb Markel spoke of the coming O.H.A. 1 convention in London, Mrs. • William Klie of Hanover brought: 'greetiegS: and urged all to attend the. annual meeting in June of the Ontario Horticultural Societies to be held at the Holdiay Inn London in June. She outlined her woxk this past year as president or the ,Q.H.A. and stated that she has 253 societies with a membership of 06,000 Mr. Ed, Fielding of Wingham spoke of the international Ploughing Match and thanked all for assisting in the Horticulture tent. Mr. Gordon Baxter of Wingham gave the financial statement. Showing a balance of $408A4 for District The, next, nvention will be held in thes1ey in 1980 and in Hanover in 1981. Mrs. William Klie_pre- sided for the election of officers which are as follows: Direc,tor - Mrs. Maisie Bray, Lion's Head; Assistant Directors Roy, Bennett, Wingham; Mrs Ruby !Abbott. 11-112, Owen *Mild; -Secretary - Mrs. Iris Morrey, Wingham; Treasurer - Gorden Baxter, Wingham: Auditors - Mrs, Margaret Bennett, Wingham; Mr, Fielding, WIP8hant; .Membera-at-Large, Miss Helen Arkell, TeeS- water, Mrs, Eleanor Brad - nock, Auburn; Mrs. P.A, Ferguson, Chesley; Mrs. , M.McCharles,, Lucknow, • R.R.3, Mrs. Effie Stephenson, Seaforth; NoMinMing committee - Miss Helen Arkell, Mrs.. Ruby Lobban. Mrs. Iris Morrey. . • "What this- colin ...is effective leadership.", Aftoira COuper, Ed Brooldbent NDP Bayfield 565-2522 • Exeter 229-6223 • .• SeafOrth:527-1860 . Clinton 482-3268 • Goderich 524-2756. 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