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There are three alternatives suggested
to the dam. One is a suggestion of a
sewage pipeline to Lake Erie from London.
The local organization for the Protection of
the Upper Thames had suggested a series
of smaller dams and reforestration to aid in
flood control. The third solution is
improved sewage treatment that would
return treated water to the river in the
same quality as it was taken out. Costs
have been cited as the main argument
against such a sv stem.
Energy Conservation
Centre to be set up
in Huron
A centre to promote conservation will be
set up in Huron county under the federal
government's Federal Labour Intensive
Program (FLIP).
The centre will be headed by Tony
McQuail of Lucknow. It is one of a series of
centres in such places as Sarnia and Owen
Sound established by the department of
Energy, Mines and Natural Resources. The
grant for the Huron centre will be about
$49.300. Mark Riley. a regional co-ordinat-
or for the department said the idea is for
the centre to generate enough public
interest that another group will take over
funding for the centre when federal
funding ends in eight months.
In the meantime. the staff of seven will
try to increase interest in conservation. Mr.
McQuail, after attending a training course
in Ottawa will set up the centre.
Marketing boards
suffer through
ignorance
Ignorance of the marketing board
concept is the biggest problem the
marketing boards face, George Collin,
chairman of the Ontario Farm Products
Marketing Board told the Federation Day
of the Perth Ag. week at Stratford Feb. 15.
Consumers, the media and many
farmers themselves don't understand the
differences between various marketing
boards, he said.
He said the greatest concern of the
OFPMB is complacency: that farmers will
become too complacent about marketing
boards and the boards will fail. He said he
had recently spoken to a group of 55
agriculture students at the University of
Guelph and described their attitude toward
marketing boards as complacent and
ignorant. He said that farmers have been
concerned about modern production
techniques for too long and haven't taken
the time to become "market oriented."
While production may be advancing at
great strides, he said, "nothing happens
until the sale is made."
He said farmers had to make greater
effort to become involved in the marketing
aspects of their business, perhaps by
serving on marketing boards. He asked
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THE RURAL VOICE/MARCH 1978, PG. 17.