The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-02-28, Page 1,„ w'..I! -.
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By Shirley J. Keller million years' added 'Mrs.
While rumors have been ram- Shanahan
CANT.DIJ has made its
pant in Huron County since the feelings known to Member of'
' provincial by-election in 1:y973, Parliament. for Huron, Jack
last Friday was the first time Riddell. Conta ted' at his home
n ` t1 ere-, , was _• any... 'Official in- d Contactad. _
Sa,turclay.morntng, Riddell con-
-dicativxi-.that.. a. nuclear power. , firmed the . -truth° of the
station is planned by Ontario ataterrmirt in,.•,._county council
Hydra"for this area. •
session Friday that some
At Huron County Council's
nuclear development is plan,
regular February session in the ned for Huron County in the
council chambers at Goderich near future.
Friday morning, however, a • "I would say there is no
hefty delegation of Ontario ' 'question. about that," said.Rid-
Hydro representatives spilled dell.
the beans and confirmed what When asked; for his corn -
the public and .press has been ments concerning the announ-
surmising for months. o cement, Riddell admitted he
Two Hydro spokesmen, Art had mixed emotions.
Mosher,, ,P. Eng, for ° right -of "If in fact; Huron 'is looking
way planning and Al Nevin,. ier more industry,: there is no.
systems, -planning division, com- question .that a power " plant
mented on the planning for a will entice new, industry," said
station in Huron along the Riddell. "But we don't know..
lake. ` what we're heading for when
It was Ed Oddleifson, reeve we look at it from the long
of Bayfield and a former Hydro range ;point of 'view."
employee, who pressed Nevill- "We have no idea what
for details. e ' potential dangers •there are in
Nevill .told council that while connection `with these power
"do ,definite site has been plants," said Riddell. "We are
established" it would, probably , being -self-centred. We are not
be "within 20 or 30 miles" of :thinking of what future
Goderich. He said the plant -is._..,_ -generations will •have to .•con -
expected to be operational by tend with because of our
1985 and would supply hydro decisions."
to mainly 'the southwestern ' ,. ,, Riddell suggested that not
Aregion...of the province, London, - ,, enough government money, is'
..Windsor,'" Sarnia with some, beingspent, to- investigate the
hookup to. the, Kitchener- alternatives to nuclear energy --
Waterloo area. " °/ , tidal energy, 'wind, solar
'time, '<New Democratic, Party energy,geothermal energy. -y,,,
'candidate, Paul Carroll, ,,, d
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Hydro for not appraaching.
'Huron' County' planning of- But "if Ontario Hydro is
ficials with some notification of determined to go ahead ' with
intentions. plans ' for, a nuclear power
Although defeated at thedevelopment in this area of the
polls in that by-election, province, Riddell .is working to.
Carroll has remained in- ensure. that it does not eat up
terested in the -environmental "p'rime agricultural land
aspects of the production of "This can be avoided," said
nuclear energy; an has been Riddell: ' V'
keeping in c1osa touch with all Riddell: spoke of a brief '`
phases of the questions through 4 drawn up by the Bruce -Huron
membership in a committee Hydro Negotiating Committee,.:
calling itself CANTDU and en- which was presented -to Hon.
compassing five ern-mi•ttee William A. Stewart recently.
ole from.. Goderich and, area.: ��'
people This brief; basildirect
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4 relation to the BruceNuclear
Enylronmental 'Aspect ° Power Statins at Douglas
Point, was presented toHuron
One member of;that4comrnit- County Council .Friday.. It
tee. is. Mrs. Patrick Shanahan of , deals specifically with the
Goderich. When contacted •con- , power corridor from Douglas
cerning° the official soundingPoint to'Seaforth through' parts
news of a' nuclear -development of Huron and Bruce.
in Huron County, Mrs. Farmers along the proposed
•Shana.harn - commented, "I • corridor, said secretary Dave
would '-hope that Ontario McCallum, have raised several
_Hydra's plans don't become thousand dollars out of their
'Quality." own pockets to compile the Sim
"I hope that before much bald Study which show's that .,
• longer and before plans 'become • the, 68 -mile corridor wilt con- '
much more entrenched, that ' sume many acres -of valuable
the `public hecomes informed as farmland
• to the issues ; involved about According to -the. brief, for
this proposed site and nuclear every mile of 9Q0 foot corridor,
power in general," said Mrs. . the loss will be 108- acres, for
Shanahan. - , every mile of 540 foot corridor,
Mrs. Shanahan said the the loss is 80 acres.
public has not been informed in - It has been estimated that if
an unprejudiced way of the. op- a power line crosses a -100 acre
tions to nuclear energy: She farm, as much as one-fifth of
said many people areA of the the farm could be lost to some
.opiniof?that nuclear energy is aspects or agriculture"
clean and safe. If they knew ;'Since we have an in -ter -
the issues,'Mrs: Shanahan said, national . protein shortage and
tario. Hydro. ccordtng to the
committee that is "not enough
money" to Ju ify using up
prime agricultur 1 land.
The route prop ,sed by kiydro
uses up 153,112 imeal feet of
Class 1 land and 3,200 lineal
feet, of ' Class; 6' -la d'according Jack Riddell said that the
26 acres of improved farmland
per hour.
If present trends continue,
committee' members pointed
out, Huron County's primeUfar-
3 mland" could be used up in
three .-years, • e,
to the . committee. The route'
, proposed by the committee
takes. 75,856 lineal feet of Class
1 land and 48,576 lineal feet of
Class 6 land.
Gordon f ill, president of the
Ontario . Federation of
Agriculture, estimates that On-
tario farm land is being taken
from production at the rate'of`
W`R
brief .presented by the commit-
tee was well received in
Toronto.
"Bill Stewart is most sym-
pathetic," said Ftiddell. "We've
got to take a look at this waste
of agriculturall.an„d and
definitely consider the, alter -
ti
' Hydro Concerned
Too.;
Dr. Bob Walker, $enior
Ecologist with the Forestry
;Departtnent of Ontario Hydro,
seems to agree with this
premise -and told members of
Huron County Council s¢'.
"Soil is not a limitless
resource," said Dr. Walker;- "It
must be protected. It is, being
,used up at an astonishing rate.
Ontario Hydro is being very
careful to make sure we are not.
using :it up at the rate -in-
.' dicated;"
Dr. Walker said that on the
hydro lits to Georgetown, for
instance, Ontario Hydro is
crossing "prime :agricultural
land".... but in over 176,miles
of -right-of-way, they are using
only 40 acres_ of Claes 1 and 2
land. `
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He: said tower bases are
presently., estimated to take a 35
foot square area plus again
that much land to permit farm
machineryto turn easily,
around them. He suggested
that planners already have
designed a tower which
requires much less 'land area
than .this, but that calculations
4.1
iri this case were made on the
'present tower size.
Another'. Hydra szgkesman,r
.Art iMos,her, , said - Ontario
Hydro is listening to the people.
He said, , V rheirever • possible;
lines are following ' back lot
lines, towers are being placed
opposite each other, tree plan-
ting is done to cover unsightly
installations etc.
"We appreciate the nuisance
factor," said Dr. Walker.
"The total community
benefits in'the routing of these
lines,' added Mosher.
„The brief from the farmers
had shown the importance of
producing, nuclear energy closer
to the need. In this way, the -
brief reasoned, valuable far. -
mland would not be crossed: to '}
take hydro -electric power to the
cities where vast amounts of
energy are required. ,
Mosher pointed out_, that
Toronto is presently 'producing
more power than is being used, - in Toronto. Eyen so, by 1987,
the energy produced by the first
stage .of Bruce Nuclear Power.
Development, for instance "will
be all used up".
Mosher also reminded coun-
cil that modern, efficient farm
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they would seek alternatives.
She urged people to forget
the "foreign sounding scientific
agricultural products are in
great demand, the' price of
productive land' has doubled
words" and look at three main and tripled," said the brief.
facts about nuclear energy. "This- has happened since this '
They .are: no amount of, line was planned. We think
radiation, no matter how small, this corridor needs a fresh ap-
Can be described as safe; once proach," ,
radiation is loose, there is no "Ontario Hydro maintains..
way of gathering it up, again; they . are listening to the views
and that storage of Plutoniurh 'of the people" the brief went
"239, a substance encased in the 4 on to say," •but we have very
spent fuel in a nuclear power little evidence 'to substantiate
program in Canada, is crucial, that they will co-operate with
e Onthis final point, Mrs:-- public opinion for change."
Shanahan pointed out that it • According to the brief, the
takes 1,000,.000 years .for route chosen by Ontario Hydro
Plutonium 239 to reach the for -its line passes - through
radioactive level 6f' natural prime agricultural land.
uranium. Presently, • this'
"Although it may be more ,,
Plutonium 239 is stored in econo;ra.i�al to construct a A
-•facilities with a life. span of
only 100 years, she -said, and power corridor on the excellent
while there may be new longer- conditions of classes 'one and
life'd storage, facilities on the • two farm land, we contend that,
way, they are e611 not the extra expense in' construc-
'developed.tion would be well repaid in the
° productive land saved," ,..the
'Hydro says Plutonium 239 brief read.
storage is safe as ;long as it is ' "This concerns us even more
managed," . said Mrs. after the' recent announcement
Shanahan. "But management of • the doubling of the Bruce
is_ecrucial. It is a high risk ` Generating 'Station when..even
thing." more land may be required to
CANTDU believes that convey power," the brief con
nuclear: energy clearly is an tinned. "We ask you to con -
issue for value judgement as aider that this nuclear power
well as a' moral issue which complex will . replace
could Affect many generations agriculture as the •major in-
to come. -. • dustry in our counties." '
CANTDU feels it is unfair to Figures presented by the
give the responsibility for committee of farmers indicated
managing Plutonium 239 -to it would coat about $4,000,000
people "yet. unborn who have more to build the powet line
no saay". ° 4 :.- through the corridor suggested
"It is uhwise lo, count •on •the by the committee than through
stability of society.`or the next the corridor proposed by On-
At their regular meeting last
evening the Harron -County.
' Branch of the Architectural
• C'onservancy.of Ontario learned,
that the Historic Sites and
Monuments Board of Canada •
have approved designation of '
the former Huron County Jail
at Goderich as being - of
"National architectural
significance" and the erection
pla'4' e so stating. . •
. The conservancy was infor
med of the decision "in a letter
from Peter Bennett, secretary
of the board. ,
"You will recall your- • 03( -
change of correspondence with
the department of the Secretary
.,of State for Urban Affairs con-
cerning the intent of the
regional assessment office in
Goderich to construct a new of-
fice on the -property-now oc-
cupied by the exercise yard of
the former HurAp "County •
Jail","lvlr,„a Bence,tt itlined• .
"That department referred -
the matter to us and, while at
the time we could 'take no ac-
tion to prevent tiva .••zxecc .
yard from being used, we did
arrange to have _the jail placed
on the agenda of the Historic
Sites and Monuments Board of
Canada at its fall meeting.
"The Minister has now'ap-
proved the. recommendation
arising ftorn..that n.eeting'','the
letter explained, . "and I am
pleased to inform you that the
jail has been declared• to be of
national. architectural'
significance fora com-
memoration by the erection of a
plaque".
Mr, Bennett further rioted
however. ,that the. com-
memoration in such a form did
God'ertch Mayor Harry Worsell, Who refereed lhe°,CKNX-Sidnal Star benefit hockey gama.on
Sunday, presented Me Silver Tissue Achard to Try -Hard team captain and goal 'tender Ray
Baynton and center Robbie Strong following the Try-Hard'a 7-6 victory over the Paper
Lepf.ii. Plans are already afoot., however, for a rematbh in Wingham at which time the Pappr
Leafs will attempt to bring the trophy home to its rightful owners. (staff photo) '
rudge match
as LeafsIosec out
not give the structure any legal
protection...,
"We understand however",
he added, "that the possibility
that it might be a national
historic site combined 'with the
concentrated .'efforts of in-
terested groups has led to what
appears to be the realization def
ederal
oints a
set
The benefit hockey game bet-
ween the 'Goderich Signal -Star
Paper Leafs and the Wi"ngham
CKNX Try-Hards, which had
been billed ,as the match of the
century, was held Sunday after-
' noon and although the -home
town team went down to a 7-6
defeat organizers report the
event was a resounding success.
Proceeds from the event were
presented to 'Evelyn Carroll,
representing the Goderich and
Distrtict Association for the
Mentally Retarded, The cheque
totalled $800. John"1ichholz of
Huron Road in Goderich was
lucky winner of a hind;, quatter
of beef in the accompanying
raffle.
Try -Hard coach Crawford ,
Douglas -was all smiles
following Sunday afternoon's
game heaping much of the
praise of his team'' -s -victory on
o:
'the shoulders of such'perennial
stars as John Strong.,"
"The, vtkiole Strong line, was
effec`tive," ` Mr., Douglas noted..
He was rete ring t'o the line of
John titrong, -his son Fergus
and his grandson Robbie. Rob -
'hie was in fact, chosen first star
of the game"
C,KNX, goal tender Ray
Baynton took a turn at center
ice as the ,;second star and Noel
Flynn represented the Paper -
Leafs as third star.
Signal -Stat -coach .Ed Byrski
had little to say 'regarding his
squad's ,defeat but did place
some of the blame on referee
Harry Worsen and linesman
Dave Gower.
"In addition to skates and n"
whistlf their equipment should
include a white cane", he obi
served.
During post -game ceremonies
1.
Try -Hard captain Ray „Baynton
accepted the coveted Silver
Tissue •Trophy which he
promised would!; find a
prominent place in the CKNX
trophy case at Wingham.
The Paper Leafs are not
satisfied with the game out-
come, however,' and plans are
already, afoot tor a return
match in' Wingham. No date for
that match has been set but in-
dications are a that it will' be
held in early April. Proceeds
- from that competition have
been pledged to an Adult
Workshop', project undertaken
by the Wingham Association
for the Mentally Retarded.
-The 'Paper•-L"e fs are pledged
to bring the Silver Tissue
Award back" to its rightful
owners at that time.
IIA
Goderich, citizens in having the
building preserved'''.
M.etnbers of the Architectural
Conservancy said they were
•very pleased with the board's •
° announcement, and noted that
in the near future they.,.hoped' to
• see the fowler jail given a new.
lease' on life through new plan,*
for its use.
The sand. bar at the mouth of
the. Maitland 'River -in Goderich
has been a point of concern for
Town Council, and up. until •
last' week, members .or that
fnunicipal body were getting
nowhere 'fast, '
Council' had approached the
-federal government, the.pravin-
�7 a
m
cial governent and the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority to determine under
whose jurisdiction it comes.
It wasn't • until last 'week,
however, that• it become clear
that such work as drging the
mouth of the Maitland ..is the
responsibility of the MVCA,
. This word came from J.J.
Maingot, departmental
assistant to the Minister of -
Public Works for Canada.
Council''s representative to
MVCA, Frank ,Walkom•.
suggested that members -of
MVCAinvited to attend the
next com ittee meeting slated
for March 14.
He e'zplaired that. the land
along the', Maitland which is
flooding because of the sand
bar is flood plain land •
-and "Will remain so until dykes
are built along there".
Deputy -reeve Stan Profit °
suggested. that a "strongly" wor-
ded 'letter.." be sent to MVCA
asking -that organization ",to,get
off their butts and try and. `do
something concerning the
mouth ".of" the river".
"We are spending, $13,000
-every year for nothing," .sa•id- -
Profit. "For $13,000 we .should
be getting` more than nice
C
words from the MVCA. It is
just. silly. " •
Councillor .Dave Gower who'
has bden opposed•,to, member-
' 'ship in MVCA told council it •
should "withdraw .its member-
ship"
`.We should put our money in
the bank and save it until we.
need it," said Gower. "We will
get little or no help from the
Association." '
•
now here
to assist
Birthright, an . organization
offering free emergency
pregnancy -counselling, is now
in operation in Goderich,
Birthright promises im-
mediate, personal and complete
confidential help with unwan-
ted pregnancies. When a pall is
placed to Birthright 'a concer-
ned , trained volunteer will be
there to kisten,carefu°lly to the
problem and discuss the
situation. •
'Whether the need' is a home,
a place, to' live here or out of.
town; a temporary job, medical
and obstetric help, legal aid;
clerical or other co>fnselling the
group ,can offer its assistance.
—Birthright co-operates with
existing social agencies and if •
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line-up assured
for '74 stickers
CA I
I.f figures indicate anything, then Godetich residents will en-
counter long lineups at the license" bureau, 42 Church St."todey.
Soles of stickers to validate last year's.license plates number
about 600 behind last year's sales, Mrs. Olive Sttl'rdy said on
Monday. M
-She expected quite a rush of custoher4 this week:
"We've still got a lot to sell," -Mrs.,- Sturdy said. -
Deadline for getting the stickers on ears is tonight,' 'tbruary
28� at 12 midnight. p
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