The Rural Voice, 1979-04, Page 37of the BVD vaccine would be a good idea as
the disease hadn't been as big a problem
when they didn't have the three-way
vaccine.
Charles Gracey, manager of the
Canadian Cattlemen's Association in
Toronto has said he expects the problem to
go to court because of the animal deaths.
Power grid will circle foodlands,
farmers tell Porter Commission
The charge that Ontario Hydro is placing
prime agricultural land in jeopardy
climaxed the opening day of the Royal
Commission on Electric Power Planning
(Porter Commission) hearings held in
Wingham last month.
Pat Daunt, representing The Concerned
Farmers of the United Townships (these
are Turnberry, Howick; Wallace, Mary -
borough, Peel, Woolwich and Pilkington),
told commissioners "Where in Ontario the
next 500 kilovolt line goes may be the most
significant decision regarding agriculture
here."
Mr. Daunt said the problem of land
gobbled up by power corridors like the one
running from the Bruce generating station
to Milton is bad enough, but the con -
Tony McQuail, director of the Huron F of Commission on Hydro.
A, presents the group's brief to the Porter
sequences of such a power grid are far prime agricultural part of the province.
more serious. He said if the next Hydro grid goes down
The consequences Mr. Daunt outlined along the lake, it will create a circular grid
were that the prower grid will encourage around the foodlands of Ontario - Huron,
urban and industrial development in a Perth, and parts 'of Bruce and Grey
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