The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-24, Page 74
Charge gov't slack about environment
G ODE R tioNAL-STAN, TII:URSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1978—PAGE 7
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BY JACK RIDDELL
M.P.P.
Recently Liberal
Leader Stuart Smith
called upon Premier
Davis to reconvene the
Legislature as soon as
possible to discuss the
total breakdown in the
Government's handling
of environmental mat-
ters. He set out a number
of issues which have been
mishandled by the
present Minister of the
Environment, who
assumed his position in
January of this year.
-The issues cited were:
absence of a provincial
policy for toxic liquid
industrial waste
disposal; withdrawal in
March of the ban on non-
refillable pep bottles,
govetpment handling of
the $35 -million suit
against Dow Chemical
for mercury pollution of
Lake St. Claire -dropped
in favour- of a paltry
$250,000 private -set-
tlement with affected
fishermen; failure to
make the Environmental
Assessment Act effective
and meaningful; failure
to develop a policy to -deal
with the serioussiroblems
of solid waste disposal in
Metro Toronto; failure to
act on problems of lake
acidification in the cot-
tage country-, where fish
can't survive; and the
inability of Ontario to
comply with com-
mitments to the
International Joint
Committee on tjie Great
Lakes clean-up.
Stuart Smith's
statement followed -
closely upon the an-
nouncement of the
Government's decision to
relax an eight-year-old
air pollution control order
on International Nickel
Co. Ltd., which has been
described as demon-
strating the hopeless
irony of Ontario pollution
enforcement policies.
In 1970, the Ontario
Ministry of the
Environment ordered
INCO to stop using two
500 -foot chimneys and
.ope 350 -chimney at its
smelting plant at Copper
Cliff, west of Sudbury.
INCO complied,
replacing the stacks with
a 1,250 foot chimney in
1972.
However, the Ministry
----a-t-the-same-tirrre--or-aered the company to reduce its
emissions of sulphur
dioxide, from 5,200 tonsa......
day in 1970 to 4,400 tons by
the end of 1974, 3,600 tons
by the end of 1976 and 750
tons by the end of 1978.
According to the
Ministry, this order was
based "on a need td
restrict tonnage
"emissions due to the
unpredictability of
dispersion under all
weather conditions" and
"on potential adverse
effects on vegetation, 'soil,.
and water in a large area
surrounding Sudbury." •
Today INCO continues
to emit 3,600 tons a day.
Yet the Ministry has
issued a naw order
permitting INCO to
maintain that level until
June 30, 1982, simply
requesting a report by
Decembet 1979
-.evaluating • the
feasibility of controlling"
the smelter's pollution.
Instead of penalizing the
offender, the Govern-
ment has bent over back-
wards to rationalize and
excuse failure to comply
with the 1970 pollution
control order.
• Apparently, 1976
statistics'indicate that
Sudbury sulphur
emissions accounted for
only four ' per °cent of
North American man-
made emissions, and only
k3., percent of global
emissions. Also, "the
problems of high ground
level concentrations of
sulphur dioxide and
widespread acute
vegatation damage in the
Sudbury area have
essentially been resolved
even at cutrent emission
rate"s."
As the Ontario
Executive members of Sheaffer Eaton Division of
Textron Canada Limited paid their annual visit to
the Goderich plant as part of an overall business
review last Friday. Left to right are J, W. Thomas,
vice-president, international operations, Sheaffer
Eaton Textron, Pittsfield, Mass.; B. S. Massie,
chairman, Sheaffer Eaton Textron, Pittsfield,
Mass.; W. R. Gardner; vice-president and general
manager, Sheaffer Eaton Cadada,-Goderich; C. F.
Chapin, group vice-president, Textron Inc.,
Providence, R.I.; and C. D. ° Roberson, vice-
president finance, Sheaffer Eaton Textron, Pitt-
sfield, Mass. (Photo by Joanne Walters)
New residence at CCA
Huron -Middlesex MPP
Jack Riddell said last
week that tenders are
now being called for
construction of a students
residence at Centralia
College of Agricultural
Technology at Huron
Park.
The student residence
is required by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food to provide
modern and expanded
facilities for year-round
use of students at the
college.
A single structure it
will contain a series of
five pods, each providing
accommodation for 40
students and one
supervisor. The pods will
be linked by a walkway at
ground level. This walk-
way will adjoin a students
lounge located , in each
pod allowing for social
interaction while
maintaining ' a com-
munity atmosphere,
The main entrance to
the new residence will be
combined • with the
existing Huron Hall. The
entrance will lead
directly to a common
administration area
containing offices, an
infirmary, change roams
and a manager's apar-
tment.
The heated and air
conditioned structure will
have a gross floor area of
approximately 57,090
square feet.
Specifications also call
for load bearing concrete
Nock walls with brick
facing, • double glazed
windows, precast con-
crete floor, steel deck and
beam frames for the roof
and site services that
include a paved access
road andlandscaping.
Design and con-
struction documents have
been prepared by
associate architect Paul
M. Skinner, London.
It is anticipated con-
struction will be com-
pleted by September 1980.
Blind meet in Clinton
The Bluewater
Canadian Council of the
Blind held their regular
meeting in the ,Orange
Hall, Clinton, the
evening of August 15th. A
good. attendance was
recorded of members and
friends.
President Gwen
Watson chaired the short
business meeting.
Club program con-
vener, Rachel Johnston,
introduced Mrs. Edna
Baker, who rendered
three lovely soprano solos
accompanied by Mrs.
Lorna Radford at the
piano.
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Brock Vodden, the
speaker of the evening
was introduced by Brock
Olde. His main topic
concerned the basics of
interpersonal com-
munication. He arranged
a group participation to
illustrate the practibility
of his theme.
Government sees it, th
International Nicke
Company is merely doin
the same. as everyone
- else: moreover, the 1,25
foot smokestack has
dispersbd the emissions
to some extent, which has
minimized the concern
which prompted the
issuance of the 1970 o
der.
Murray Gaunt, Liberal
Environment Czitic,
believes that if the
Government is not
prepared to agree to an
emergency debate on the
environmental I control
order, "the best thing
would be •for George
McCague (Environment
Minister) to resign...I
think he's sold out to big
business (in that he's)
agreed to almost five
times the previously set
limit for the next four
years."
Great Lakes has received
some publicity necently,
following release of a
report by the Pollution
from Land Use Activities
Group, which indicates
that both the United
States and Canada have
adequate laws to prevent
lake pollution, but the
lawsshould be enforced
more strictly. The group
is urging broader and
stronger control
measures.
During the last
Provincial Election,
Premier Davis, in a tough
statement, called for the
revision of the Canadian -
U.S. Great Lakes water
uality agreement, to
rovide for massive
million -dollar) Mies to
e paid into an en-
ironmental clean-uo
und, administered by
oth countries to aid
ollution research. An
fficial of the Ministry of
he , •Environment
ecently described this
tatement by the Premier
s a bit of "dramatic
ishful thinking".
As Dr. Smith has in-
icated, the Liberals
elieve that the recent
e INCO decision is the last
1 straw in a series of inept
g Government decisions on
environmental
0 issues. ."We are in a
period of drift and
inaction by the Gover-
nment, the results of
which could have far
reaching and deleterious
consequences 'for
Ontario."
He has indicated that
- the Liberal Party would
move that the Legislature
empower the Standing
Committee on Resource
Development to meet
without delay to review
the INCO decision. As the
Legislature' is not
currently sitting, a
special session would be
the only way that a
legislative committee
could be empowered, to
carry out such a review
prior to October, when
the Legislature is at
lit-esenf- scheduled- to
reconvene.
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