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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1997-11-05, Page 8• Page 8 — Luucckuneew Sentrincil, iiredlraesday, NaAvatmalbel' 5, 1.997 Elect Gordon Hs Srndfev for REEVE in West Wawanosh on Noveenter ➢� "He's fighting for what sou want!" VOTE For -Donnie BI:ack for Council Ashfield Township Vwur Vote on November 10th would be greatly appreciated On November 1Qt 1.: ask for your support Township of West W avanosh I pledge to contribute to.... *an .organized unbiased counci *resolutionof the legal issue community involvement, in council matters *Community involvement in amalgamation .'VVEST ,WAWM(SH Lt's :'Turing For A Changes• For sogneorne who: *:Is .open-minded! • .arid approachable *. Believes iza . ` teworl ', - ' *Is 'ai. *,Is Responsible Bruce loyees s from page 7 power from neighboring utilities and independent power. producers. Morgan wants' an independent auditor to investigate the operations of Ontario hydro. "The fiscal mismanagement of Ontario Hydro is so large that it is difficult to comprehend. It needs a bright light to illuminate what is really going on here," Floyd Laughren, committee member said , "The same people who got Hydro into trouble are saying they can save it. 11 agree there should have been an independent study." °Doug Galt, a member of the committee, said electri- cal competition is down the road, "You're confident your plants can compete?" Jake Hunter, a Power. Workers Union divisional chair a the Heavy Water ]Plant, said, "In:, order to, keep the pl,.,: is running you have to keep them fixed." arb Fisher, Bruce MPP and a member of ;the com- mittee, said she believed the Bruce plants could be brought back to nuclear excellence. She, discussed a British proposal where over a period of time all sectors of British Power was privatized: Hergott said British Power workers made it clear that management andthe unions must be able to communi- cate. "There is a cohesiveness between management and the union in Britain: As a worker at Ontario Hydro, I feel we are going in the opposite direction:" Hergott said the. IIPA report says there is a problem with labor relations. "On the union side, we see our representatives being extremely flexible and open in their desire to discuss and, act on the changes that may be required to achieve nuclear excellence, • "Qn themanagement side, thereis an obvious desire to get 'things .accomplished in a hurry, a behavior dri- ven by the need .for ,improvement and •the, relatively short period of time, (three years) that the consultants have to demonstrate significant improvement. This cre-, ates tension because the employees and their:represen- Fisher praises community for backing Bruce A by.litiv Fry' The community did anexcl1ent job in presenting its case .for keeping Bruce'Generating;Station 'A open, MPP Barb Fisher said., Fisher' is .a member of the provincial legislature' -:s. select,committee on` Ontario Hydro's nuclear affairs. The• committee was i•rl Kincardinelast' Wednesday and: Thursday hearing submissions from the public. Fisher said she told the committee Bruce A; was in her backyard and she would be fighting.for its survival. "I told them when they came up •here they'd be walk- ing into an educated, wel l -mannered backyard: 'l:. don't believe,they really expected what they got:" Fisher saidafter the committee hearings,.the commit- tee talked about the presentations, "They felt, . people were well, prepared, passionately aware of the human roblems •Hydro's,decrsion will cre p .. ate; and well educated on . what needs to be done." Fis;her'said she doesn't expect,the same type of response when. the committee meets in Pickering': on.. Wednesday � `Up until last Tuesday, there were only three appli cants wishing to' speak. before the committee." ' Fisher said that was to be expected.. "Laying up Pickering A won't be a negative inipact to their community. They don't want it We do." 18", 24", 30" SATELLITE DISHES Starting at $29/ We carry ECHO STAR, SONY, RCA, .HUGHES, •HITACHI, CANADIAN STAR CHOICE. & EXPRESS VD • 7aft 4 fte.e liamoVesea evitie ft CALL. A.1 ENTERPRISES 1100.1293•2378 GRAND BEND ek answ rs tatives feel they are fully capable of managing the change as participants in the process rather than being excluded." . Hergott said employees are told labor relations and their collective agreement is "somehow seriously hurt- ing the company." .. He said the employees have been told the PWU has made offers to management to talk with them and address the concerns. "We understand that no one from management will talk to them. "The employees see a union that, while being por- trayed as a big bad .union, is in fact .acting in a proac- tive way. "As an example, the union is offering volunteer labor and hard cash for the preservation of the Bruce '. Heavy Water Plant." In his submission to the, committee on Oct. 21, John Murphy, PWIJ president said the heavy water plant had a profitable four-year contract to supply heavy water to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. for its interna- tional operations, but the contract was being aban- doned because the plant cannot be run economically without steam from one of the Bruce A reactors:: "Therefore. the fate of the heavy water plant is tied in with the fate of the Bruce A reactors." He said without. trace heating in the heavy water plant,. irreparable damage will happen to the pipes and equipment with the first hard frost, "which will certain- ly come before this committee makes its decision on what should happen to Bruce'A-" He said nitrogen needs to be blanketed' inside the pipes and towers of the plant "The PWU is offering to provide voluntary labor to carry out the nitrogen blanketing in the plant as well as,. the funds to: help pay for the trace heating necessary to. prevent damage to this plant , "This offershould be acted" on quickly; because if the plant is 'damaged, a decision of this committee , to • keep Bruce A in 'operation might come too latefor our billion -dollar heavy water facility:" Laughren said the committee was told the heavy water plant was, a "do do bird" and. would be complete,- ly dismantled, ; that Ontario Hydro had enough heavy water until 2015. Hunter said there were new technologies. available to produce heavy water, "but ours are bought and paid for. New technology comes with a price tag. We have a plant that runs well, Operates safely and has been with- in the budget for 25. years:" • rachet from page 5 ,r go by in the past. "Weare, Teachers' Federation fed up and we are not tak-, (OPST.F), said the, mei_ • ing anymore,"was her sage the teachers need .to.'', response, which met with spread is that the bill'`is not a loud cheer from :the about quality' education, audience. • it's about the government "If we do nothing to taking control: fight this bili, I feelwe are. "You're doing what you. accessories.: to .this crime," rightfully have to do to said Peggy1Vonroe, of the • protect thestudents 'that Ontario Secondary School are in the schools now, but. Teachers' 'Federation even better., for the std.., •(OSSTF) occasional .'dents who will be in the: teachers.branch. schools in the .future," M ienroe said the 'on! 'Couture said. y •`difference between occa- Paul Inksetter, vice -prey signal teachers and teach- ident of the OSSTF, said ers in the classroom is a the high energy and strong contract„ If Bill 160• commitment of teachers is beconus law, there won't the same everywhere in be any, contracts, she said, Ontario . • and all teachers Will be Letters of support from occasional. across Canada were read She said the 260plus by Barry.; Wolfe, president page bill°shifts the control of. the local OPSTE There of all .aspects of education 'was also support Prom t� the provincial govern- some educators i.n' the me and maintains :the , United States as' well; as, aids of education as the CAW and PWU. ers pupil ' "The me§sage'• is we are u lvlarg Couture, of the not alone," said Wolfe. provincial office of the "Our cause is just and Ontario Public School together we ate.better,"