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COMMUNITY NEWS
Government should have input
enough foralcohol abuser on Hydro transrnission line
Treatment alone is not
In the last article, the services
available for problem drinkers were
listed. Nine different ways to help pro-
blem drinkers were noted. No doubt
there are other methods being pursued in
Goderich to help these people, but even
so, it would seem there ought to be
enough help for everybody. Aftenall, how
many. heavy drinkers can you have in a
community of 8,000?
Let us suppose that suddenly there
were several hundred poisonings in
Goderich. Where could that number of
people be treated? The hospital, with 94
beds available, would soon be swamped.
Clearly, the town would be faced with a
terrible crisis. That is just how the social
agencies mentioned in the last article
may see the situation for problem
drinkers in Goderich. .
But alcohol abusers are not like ac-
cidentally poisoned people. Heavy
drinkers have apparently chosen to drink
to excess whereas a mass poisoning can
occur from tainted food, which no-one
chooses to eat. At, various points in
history, problem drinkers have been
seen as morally blighted individuals, or
as being sick and diseased or`bven just
good-time fun lovers. The view today is
that problem . drinkers are just like
everyone else except that they drink
more alcohol. Of course, the older views
are still current in some circles and form
other sides of the -ever present debate
about the problem drinker.
But all workers in the addictions' field
agree that any problem drinker who is
trying to cut back or quit drinking will
have a hard time in our "wet" society. In
this respect, think of how hard it is to cut
out smoking. You look at a magazine and
there is someone on a horse selling tobac-
co. You go to the movies and the hero or
heroine lights up. You buy candy or gum
and there are the cigarettes sitting by the
cash register. Even some of your best
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friends sit around blowing smoke in your
face. No wonder smokers have so many
relapses!
Well, it's the same for drinkers. Every
time you pick up a magazine, you see a
frosty bottle of vodka, or some beautiful,
lusty woman telling you to get ac-
quainted with vermouth or happy, pretty
people busy drinking. You go to the
movies and the hero lights up and takes a
shot of whiskey. You turn on the TV and
everybody is drinking with beer com-
mercials about every ten minutes. Yeti
go out for dinner with friends and the
first thing the waiter/ess asks is if you
would like something from . the 'bar
(sometimes even before you can see the
menu) . And your friends are always try-
ing to give you a beer to relax or saying
things like "But wine isn't alcohol, it it?"
Is it any wonder people trying to cut back
on drinking have so many relapses?
So, even though Goderich has a lot of
apparent. help for people with drinking
problems, the best source of help is not
always available or if it is, not used. For
most problem drinkers, the best way to
get help is to have a close friend or
spouse give support to the drinker is
using one of the prof ssional sources
listed in the last article. The best help is
suggesting the drinker seek assistance in
the first place. Once you have persuaded
your loved one to seek"help, your biggest
task may be in keeping a haven where
people can enjoy themselves free from
the pressure to drink.
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Ontario Hydro has been studying alter-
native transmission systems within the
Southwestern Ontario region for the power
which is coming on stream at the Bruce
Nuclear Plant. Ontario Hydro's stated pur-
poses for studying these systems are
threefold.
1. Connect the Bruce Power Plant into the
existing system,
2. Supply a reliable electrical supply to meet
the demand in Southwestern Ontario.
3. Maintain an adequate interchange
capacity with Michigan.
It has been stated that it is indefensible to
have surplus power "bottled up" in the
Bruce Nuclear Plant.
There appear to be five parameters
which Hydro deemed "requirements for a
good system".
1. Two entirely separate 500 KV lines are re-
quired to bring power to the London region.
Should one line be lost the second line would
be available as a back-up as the odds of both
lines being lost are remote.
2. Reliability and security of the systems is
important as stated previously.
3. Improvement on the "transient stability"
of the northeastern American transmission
system. Essentially transient ability allows
for ' the adequate distribution of power
surges throughout the entire northeastern
American system. If these surges are not
distributed and absorbed, black -outs will
result as lines will "burn -out" and cease to
function. The best example of such happen-
ings was in 1965 when the entire Nor-
theastern United States were without power
as a result of the significant power surge in
the Ontario system. Transient stability is a
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4. Although it is not part of this undertaking,
a future 500 KV line must be constructed
linking the London area transformer station
with the Michigan system. According to On-
tario Hydro the faster a system is able to get
the "bottled up" energy from the Bruce
Nuclear Plant into the existing system the
more economically and in effect the better it
proves to be.
All systems are technically evaluated on
their ability to handle stress or unusual cir-
cumstances. The better a system can handle
this stress the more preferred it is technical-
ly. Hydro officials stated that their ability to
.evaluate individual systems hap improved
significantly since their initial studies in
1981. This is especially the case with com-
puter modelling of transient instability of
power system.
Two major components of this evaluation
are a direct result of the previous delay in
the study. It has now become very impor-
t tant to have the "locked up" energy out of
the generation source as quickly as possible
for two reasons; cost and the need -1n reduce
the consumption of coal from coal thermal
generating plants that cause acid rain emis
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is easier to construct, shorter in length
therefore, may be completed approximately tely
10 months earlier. Hydro claims that $4 to $5
million of locked up energy Is wasted a mpA-
th. Therefore, this line could result in sav-
ings of $40 to $50 million.
One may then conclude that any system
with a Bruce to Esse component will have a
significant cost saving advantage over one
that does not.
In the 1980 system study, six transmission
systems were identified as alternatives and
were called Ml to M6. Alternatives have
now been narrowed down to three of the
original systems and the one newly in-
troduced potential alternative. I will
describe each alternative individually.
Plan Ml - consists of one two circuit
transmission line from Bruce to London and
one single circuit line from Nanticoke to
London. This was the preferred system in
the 1980 system study. Hydro evaluation is
medium cost and technically good.
Plan M3 - consists of one double circuit
transmission line from Bruce to Esse and
two single circuit lines from Nanticoke to
London. This was the system that was ap-
proved by the Joint Board after the system
plan hearings on the matter in 1981. Hydro
evaluation is most costly and least
technically acceptable.
Plan' M5 - consists of two single circuit
lines from Bruce to Londonand one single
circuit line from Bruce to Essa. Hydro
evaluation is least costly and technically
good.
Plan M7 - has just been introduced and
consists of one single circuit transmission
line from Bruce to Essa. One double 'circuit
line from Bruce to London and one single
circuit line from Nanticoke to London.
Hydro evaluation is medium cost and
technically the best.
To determine the total .cost of each in-
dividual system plan, three components are
identified.
1. Capital cost of construction.
2. Cost of electrical losses as a result of
system transmission capabilities. Major
losses through resistance are a function of
line length, and power loss is also affected
by the- number of circuits leaving the
generating source.
3. Getting "bottled up" energy out of the
Bruce Plant as quickly as possible.
Using these components Hydro officials
have costed out the four alternative
systems.
The total cost of Plan Ml is $467 million;
Plan M3 $513 million; M5 - $372 million; M7 -
$437 million.
These costs include the capital costs, the
extra power losses for the first twenty years
and the cost of locked up energy. These
costs are approximate in 1985 dollars and
relative in nature. Therefore, they should
only be used for comparison purposes. As
you can see Plan M5 is $65 million less ex-
pensive than the nearest alternative.
Hydro officials have not yet given any in-
dication of their preferred system. The only
conclusions one can draw at this time are
that Plan M3 will not be the recommended
system plan of Hydro and Plan M5 which in-
cludes two single circuit lines either on the
same or different right of ways from Bruce
to London is a very good candidate for being
Hydro's preferred system.
The following is a schedule for the remain-
ing portions of the.preconstruction project.
June 3rd - Final input into the proposed
system plans.
Mid -June - Preferred alternative systems
and routes within the systems will be
established.
July 8th - Hydro Board will make the under-
taking public.
August 4 - Environmental Assessment will
be presented to the Ministry of the Environ-
ment for their evaluation.
November Ilth - Earliest start of the Joint
Board hearing with respect to the undertak-
ing. -
Despite the efforts of Huron and- Mid-
dlesex Counties Ontario Hydro has not
changed a previous position that the system
evaluation will not be public and the deci-
sion on a preferred system will be made ad-
ministratively. This is the only information
that will be provided by Hydro prior to the
preferred system being chosen and as you
can see from the information that I have
provided, arising from a third study report
which was completed for the Middlesex
Planniit feta lttee, system consideration- -
seems to indicate that Hydro's preferred
system will not be M3 as previously chosen
by the Joint Board.
If the Ontario Government is sincere
about its preservation of farmland policy, it
will surely have some input into the decision
making process of Ontario Hydro.
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reg. O.H.A.A.
hearing aid specialist
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