Clinton News-Record, 1974-03-28, Page 36Garbage to be used
for energy in future
WATTS FROM WASTE
Toronto garbage collected in
some routine pickups will be going
back into homes and businesSes in
a new form — electrical energy —
in late '76 or early '77.
During a two-year pilot study,
Ontario Hydro will be burning 500
tons of processed garbage a day in
one unit at Lakeview generating
station in Mississauga. Separation
of combustible material from re-
usable glass and metal and other
non-burning content will he
handled at an $11.5 million Metro-
politan Toronto owned plant being
built near Toronto International
Airport. The pulverized result will
be trucked 10 miles to Lakeview,
where Hydro will keep detailed
financial and operating records to
determine the net value of pro-
cessed waste as fuel. Modifications
to Lakeview costing $3.5 million
are expected to be covered by the
provincial government, which will
also contribute $1.5 million to the
separation plant.
A Watts from Waste study team
has predicted that the station
could ultimately burn about 10%
of Toronto's garbage, which now
amounts to 1,6 million tons a year.
Ontario Hydro Photo
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CLINTON ELECTRIC
YOUR
WESTINGHOUSE
KIRKE DEALER
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLINTON
PUC .
ON THEIR
60th
ANNIVERSARY
4
Look Back
to See Brow Far
We've Conte
since those horse and buggy days! Look forward to
see where we're going and the sky's the limit!
Ours is a town on the move, thanks to vision, deter-
mination, and just plain hard work on the part of
our citizens, our business community and tireless
forts of those who serve our town in positions of
public trust ... like our Public Utilities Commission,
members and staff.
SALUTES
CLINTON PUC
FOR 60 YEARS
OF HYDRO SERVICE
IN CLINTON
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, I974,21A
Jabez Rand still
interested in PUC
JABEZ E. RANDS
1954 - 1968
As a young boy, Jabez Rands was very interested in the
mysteries of electricity. When he went to high school, he took
up studying it and bought a few books on the subject.
Early in 1923, he went to the Utilities' office and won-
dered about getting a job on the hydro, but the answer he
received was not enlightening and Mr. Rands thought his
chances were not too good.
However, to his surprise, sometime later, Mr. H.B. Chant,
PUC superintendent at the time, asked him if he was still in-
terested in working with electricity.
After two days' consideration, he said he would take the
job for better or for worse and on May 1st, 1923, Mr. Rands
started with the Clinton Public Utilities Commission in an
engagement that was to last nearly 50 years.
The work was not too tiring because of the varieties of
jobs, including putting up line wires, wiring houses, doing
waterworks jobs, and reading hydro and water meters.
On January 1st, 1954, Mr. Rands became superintendent
of the Public Utilities Commission. Years later the title was
changed to manager. He held this position until the end of
1967 when he was made assistant manager and he retired at
the end of 1968.