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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-04-02, Page 4Page 4k:...tuc1anw, Sentinel, Wecbsesday, April 2, 1984 e art rr Q.0004.9,$,Park' ' Established 1873 Published Wednesday The OW SENTINE Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow.',N00.2HO Business and;Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Second clasS'inail registration number -0847 • - • CNA '4.R SHARON J. DIETZ Editor . ANTHONY 'N, JOHNSTONE : Advertising and 11=') MEMIER. General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter ABC MARY MCMURRAY - Ad Composition Subscription rate, 5,12 per year hi advance A SIGNAL Senior Citizens rate, S10, per year in advance TI07,1 U.S.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year In advance Sr. Cit. U.S.A. and Foreign, $19.50 per year In advance 000titotwfits.V0p0. fling, made the remarkS at a presi conference as '-he released a 22S-page After five years and SS million spent report containing .88 recoMMendations, looking at Ontario Hydro's long-range few of Which are RIMIY. either to trouble planning, Arthur Porter concluded this Hydro or pacify its.. critics. must be kept open, and it would• be "merely guesswork" to- predict an . average growth, in "the demand for electricitY- ' Dr. Porter, chairman of .the Royal 'turn to page St commission on Electric Power Plan- e cc):iWerrt*. "The SepOY Town" On the Huton4Biruce Boundary BY MURRAY GAUNT week that "all viableT energy options" dealt With the controversial 'nuclear power issue, -the ,royal . coilifilission - not 'move significantly beyond' a con, cluSion it reached• in 1978 that nuclear Although 28 of its recommendatiatt Farmers can produce energy Mechanized farming in Canada is dependent on petroleum fuels, a condi- tion which presents very little security for the future. Canada ,wilt not be able to supply all her energy needs in the future and the cost to farmers is increasing to the point where fuel costs to run machinery figure considerably in the cost of production. Farmers need to take a hand in their future as farmers, It is time to consider alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuel. Previously, the use of methane or ethanol on the farm was considered uneconomical and superfluous. Sinee OPEC in 197'3 and the threat of oil supplies being cut off at the whim. of a mad. Ayatollah in Iran, there is a serious concern about the long term security of energy suppliei for food production. This week's Farin Edition, a. supple- ment 'to our regular issue, contains two articles which discuss the _need_ fOr—a___ continuing supply of fuel for , the farm industry. H. M. Lapp, professor, at the depart- ment- of Agricultural Engineering, Uni- versity of Manitoba, states in his study, Alcohol Production for Farm Fuel, that the' production of alc'ehol can be used for production of food crops, but would not provide all—of Society's energy—needs. Agricultural production consumes only 3 per cent of our national per capita energy use. Lapp contends that some portion of agricultural production acreage may be used to produce biomass crops for the production of fuel to supply the farming industry. He points out that in the pre-tractor era of agricultural production, approximately one-quarter to one-third of all cultivated' land was required to produce feed and fibre for work horses. He estimates self-sufficiency in alcohol energy fuel could probably be provided by using 12 to 15 per cent of our agricultural land. The technology for producing and using alcohol for motor fuel is known. The decision to adopt methanol and ethanol as motor fuels will be on a political and economic base not a technological one, claims Lapp. The Ontario Government's Department of Energy in particular is directing serious attention to the production of alcohol for energy purposes. The use of anaerobic digestion systems to produce methane to.:__power farm machinery is another alternative source of energy for the farm industry. A Pennsylvania 'farmer who produces biogas, a mixture of metitititt and other gases, mostly carbon dioincle, from cow manure, fuels a 140 horse• power diesel engine to generate 90 kilowatts of power, more thafi enough to run every motor and light on his farm. `The local utility company wants to buy electricity from himl The diesel engine has .a dual-fuel carburetion system, that burns biogas, diesel fuel or a mixture of the two. We have the technology to produce a supply of energy which would provide security for the future -of our food producing industry in 'Canada, but the big question is the cost. The company which built .the methane system in Pennsylvania expects a similar size turnkey system to cost over $150,000 with a payback time of , five , years. As energy costs increase and amount to more of the farmer's production costs, such a system is, going tO become more economical. We, may well be approaching the time when farmers are, ready to consider such 'a. system for their farms. Dr. Les Emery, Speaking at the recent Western Ontario Farm Show, indicated farmers have it within" their means to provide their own energy supplies, but it will take co-operation and organization. If 20 farmers banded together to put--up $5,000 each, they could construct the necessary equipment for , production of ethanol and they would be "laughing all the way to the bank," says Emery: _The problem is not the investment but getting farmers to co-operate. With each increase in energy costs and each development in Iran, Ontario farm- ers .may be getting more serious about energy production • on the farm. Their industry and occupation may depend on it. The supply of food for Canadians in the future hangs in the balance. Dear Editor: We.are writing concerning The House League Hockey in Lucknow during the 1979-80 season. At once time hotise league' hockey in Lucknow was well organized; the teams were evenly divided, there was always referees for games and it was fair for each team involved. The players enjoyed playing and looked forward to the games. There was six teams with three NI lines on each team. House League was allowed three hours of ice time Saturday morning . for games and two hours once a week for practice, which worked, out well. 'This past season however, has been a • different' story: To• begin, there are only four. teams. When the season began there were 46 players, which allowed two lines per team, but, as time.went on several plaYers were taken off house league for Atom, Pee Wee .or Bantam B teams. As a result,_ house league teams were left with eight or nine players. each. We realize boys of minor hockey age are limited, but when they sign , up for house league they should play. with that group 'for the •season, and not be --persuaded to• play on another° team. - As there are only fem.' teams they only need - two hotirs of ice time Saturday morning_ for "'games, . but they need' practice time through the week which they were not allowed. The excuse' the players are given is there isn't enough ice time' for house league because the B teams' need the ice for practice. The only time they hadextra ice time was whenthe ' Pee Wee B or Atom team" needed someone to practice with them, and tItey made up .a house league team and made fun 'of their poor playing, House 'League players pay the same fee as organized hockey players do.and we feel they should be allowed the same privileges: Very rarely has there been an unbiased referee , at the games, Usually a ' coach from one of the teams playing puts on a pair of skates and referees the game. It is usually the coach's team that wins, as the other team gets all the penalties. You can imagine , the frustration, the losing team feels. - are —becoming disconraged indluding It might he7-difficult for Some people 'to understand that all boys cannot play organized hockey for various reasons. Some clon't .have the ability, others can't afford the expense of , travelling to • different towns or cannot lose the amount. of sleep that is involved because of school • work. There are farm boys who have to hdlp at home and cannot be away four, nights a week,' It seems too bad if these boys are deprived of playing house league because a few people think this league isn't important. Several people Signed Concerned Parents. These two young sailors "went to sea" hi their own back yard' on the weekend. The melting snow and rain created flood problems for some coaches and players vvith the way house leagye was run this year. Dorirt lefa few-people ruin a good thing for a number of our young boys. Let us make house league bigger and better than ever in the 1980-81. Season, but for Joel Wright,-left and his brother,. John, it was a lot of fun: The boys are sons of Bob and Sally Wright of Dungannon.