The Rural Voice, 2001-07, Page 10Perth County Plowing
Match
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will be held at the farm of
David Carson
east of Listowel
on Line 86, 91 1# 5515
on
AUGUST 18, 2001
tplease note this date is earlier than usual)
For more information call 345-2827
PARTS & EQUIPMENT - NEW & USED
R.R. #2, Teeswater,
Ontario NOG 2S0
Phone 519-392-6111
Fax 519-392-8099
TRACTORS
MMG 1000 S3.500.
AC D 19 gas S3,500.
MM Jet Star w/loader 53.500.
Belaris 520A 4 WD. w/loader S6,500.
Oliver 88 standard (mint) 53,500.
JD 2120 w/loader 59,500.
Case 700 new paint 54.000.
Farmall Super M 52,500.
Case 1175 510.000.
DB 1200 Mechanics special S2,000.
McCormick W 30 52.500.
Cockshutt 1850 gas S4.000.
1950 Dodge 1 ton w/hoist, nice 52.500.
AC D 14 53,500.
White 2-85 510.000.
MISCELLANEOUS
NI 5109 haybine S6,000.
JD 35 harvester 52.000.
NI 483 baler, excellent 56.000.
Olivi rake S3.250.
New Holland 46 trail mower S250.
Owattona haybine S750.
New Douglas 6' finishing mower .. 51,775.
Duck Enterprises dump trailer... S2,300.
Several 4 & 6 row corn scufflers from . 5400.
Versatile 400 12' swather S2,500.
NH 707 harvester 2 heads 51.000.
JD 24T baler 5900.
WRECKING
Many makes of haybines, harvesters,
swathers, forage racks. balers
& Case IH 8575 big square baler.
JUST IN FOR WRECKING:
JD 6400, 7400. 8200, 8400 all w/4 WD
Styre 8160
Wanted tractors & equipment for salvage and resale
6 THE RURAL VOICE
Robert Mercer
The church and climate change
I am not in favour of the Church
taking political stands. I would rather
see the complete separation of the
Church from the state. But at times.
and in certain cases. the Church can
effect
progressive
change. Today.
the religious
community has.
more than any
other group.
worldwide and
long term
established
interests. It has
presence in
developing
countries, those
developed and in
third world
countries. The Church community is
organized and active globally.
The problem of climate change is
also global. The atmosphere is a
global commons. It belongs to no
one. It is to be shared by everyone.
Because of human activity we are
causing our one and only climate to
change. We are fouling our air and
threatening the long term stability of
world civilization.
Earlier this year the world
religious leaders started to engage in
the issue publically. The last co-
ordinated effort in this type arena of
global justice was for relief of third
world debt which the churches
brought before the G-7 nations
successfully.
' The World Council of Churches
has set up the Inter -Church
Committee on Ecology. A main
objective is to get the wealthier
countries, who have higher per capita
emission levels of CO2, to live up to
their moral responsibilities to cut
those emissions by reductions, and
not by trading their obligations away
and leaving this planet as smoggy as
ever.
I attended one of the local
Church -sponsored workshops on
climate change organized through an
ecumenical project that was
educationally -based and promoted
actionby the individuals in their own
lifestyles. There were excellent
handout materials, government
position papers, backgrounders and a
copy of a letter sent to U.S. president
George Bush from the U.S. religious
leaders objecting to the U.S.
withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol
in March.
In part. I was interested to find if
there was any information in the
handout package on the benetits of
ethanol as a method of reducing CO2
emissions. I was only able to see one
reference to the Iogen Corp. work
with Petro Canada to produce ethanol
.from agricultural residues. It seems
our government has not yet fully
embraced the benefits of ethanol in
its approach to the climate change
debate.
It may seem strange to write about
a religious movement to tackle the
needed momentum in the climate
debate, but my view is that it can
help motivate the ground swell
required to force political global
action.
The changes needed are costly,
but inaction is costly too. I am fully
convinced that the Kyoto protocol is
a start in the right direction, that
emission reductions must start to be
made now, and that start must be
made in North America.
If a workshop of this kind comes
to your community there are two
reasons for at least one family
member to go. One, to present facts.
that will inform others about ethanol
and its role in reducing greenhouse
gas emissions (GHG). The other
reason is to support this movement
and to learn from it.
When one litre of ethanol replaces
one litre of gasoline there is a 39 per
cent reduction in GHG emissions.0
Robert Mercer was editor of the
Broadwater Market Letter and a farm
commentator in Ontario for 25 years.