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11A.4.".*• THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MAY 10, 1979
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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
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'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
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An Expositor Classifie
you tried one? Dial 52/-0240.
will pay you diVidends. •Hav
Hannam so),s-
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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.
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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
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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
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ace
seatorth Farmer's C0.,0p "'L
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• 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
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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.
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Bayfield 565-2522 • Exeter 229-6223 • .• SeafOrth:527-1860
. Clinton 482-3268 • Goderich 524-2756. Wingham 357-1594
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