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BY sea" HIS" the enacts Of time pligns on the the future, following a brief representative of the FbiW Land remaining ones scheduled for
"M charge that Ontario Hydro, province's jaost precious period of levelling off, and Stowing Committee,Quatioaed, tended afternoon session of
bw the routing of its power resource, its, hmdkm&. suggested the "ad toward Mr. Palmer's Chatham and Samia. the royal commission and about
torridore, is setting the pattern Even after Hydro was par- reduced consumption will con- power pre"an About 75 persons (ung 100 turned out for the evening
co*umption in 'b6 br- those connoc'ad with the COM- session, maku
for uxtintrial development in the maded to cooperate with a sb,* tinue. ming sector will continue to grow missionig these the Largest
province and. placing prime on classification and ranking of The federation brief lz,i, o��,J at as high a rate as in the pW Or Ontario Hydro) at- turnouts yet for tbe'commisec)
agricultural land in poW* foodlands, it failed to use the doubt that farm energy use will and Dr. Porter expressed some
climaxed the first day of results of the'study in its latest continue to increase at the rates concern over the1aformal natura
bearings by the Royal Com- report on requirement for ad- Hydro seem to suggest, noting of the forecasting process.
mission on Electric Power ditional bulk power facilities in that the process of replacing Mr. Palmer indicated he besed
PlannWit at WingbAm Monday. Southwestern Ontario, the group human labor with electric motors the forecast of continued VVIN4
charged- has largely been completed. on observations -and informaAW
"Where in Ontario the next 500 Mr. Daunt declined to Tony McQuafl, a federation gathered from contacts with
kilovolt line goes may be the speculate on why Hydro didn't aurector, noLea In preawLlug Lite staff, ;&I,&"
most significant decision use theinformation it possesses brief that farmers have become representatives of agri4xisine$s
regardigg agriculture bare," Pat on foodIza commenting mmenting he still more energy conscious in their and the minis" agriculture
of & . tum
Daunt, a member of The Con- has some friends in Ontario choices. Five years ago a farmer and food, the I" banking
cerned Farmers of the United Hydro, but said he can't am that didn't consider energy in community, electrical and
Townships, told Dr. Arthur the utility has -given any con- calculating his farm costs but budding contractors, 2411pliers,
S,ots q0t you
Phrtl�r, e-hibirman of tho onm_ • side"tinn in its rpnort to the that's no longer true, he said. developers and others.
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mission, and co�missionws BID impact its , plans have for Energy conservation on the farm Dr. Porter observed that in the r P
Stevenson and Stmlange Plourde- agriculture. is just beginning. future one megawatt Of
Gagnon. I Bruce Campbell, a lalkyer for He also declared that while generating capacity may
down?.Stains
A line now runs from the Bruce OntarioHydro, denied the utility farmers would go along with represent an investment of $1.5
generating station to Milton, he is planning development in the expansion by Hydro to meet a million and said he would have d r i v i n
noted, &W it we next fim goes province. It is not and shouldn't need for more power, ilia otx uo preferred a mwe fo.—.-=! --"-I 1 9 YOU
down aloag,the lake It will creat be Hy&v's job to say where evidence that such a need exists. of projecting need. -the walP.
a circular arlu all around the development will go, he said. So lorig as C. &ive to the He noted at the outset of the up
foodlands of Ontirio—kurdn, Those decisions should be made cities and see office buildings all Wingbarn hearings that Hydre's
Perth ind Puts of -Bruce and by government. lit, up in the middle of the night, reluctance or inability, to
Grey counties. The power grid Mr. Daunt agreed, but added the streets almost brighter than demonstrate the nod for ad -
will encourage urban and in- that these decisions have not daylight and every parking lot ditional bulk power facilities has
dustrial development in this been made by government looking like high noon they won't hampered the commission. At
area. because it isn't politically ex- fed any moral responsibility to one point last week in Ifitchener
The problem of land gobbled up pedient right now. go along with more building, just he had threatened to call off the L st
by the power corridors them- .By its actions Hydro is so qkore power can be wasted. hearings, but he said Mond0y he
-selves is -bad onough,.Mr. Daunt making those decisions-," he The brief also expressed has decided to carry on because
declared, but the other con- declared• serious reservations about he felt people would be disap-
Ysequences of such a power grid Mr. Campbell also said Ontario Hydro's export goals. pointed if they were deprived of
are far more serious. This block Hydro is "More than aware" of "It has been bad enough to the chance to present their
of land is unique, he said, not, the work agricultural groups have rural Ontario bearing the concerns to the commission. john
because we live here but by have done to address these cost of Hydro's expansion plans He added that he hopes ad=
virtue of its suitability for Problems and urged the farmers supposedly for 00ario con- ditional information from Hydro
agriculture. not to <be discouraged because sumers. We do not want Hydro will surface during the course of
"Me volume of food that work is not included in the building plants and transmission the hearings in Wingham or the
here is vital to Ontario and will be "Particularity bf response to lines in Ontario to supply U.S.
more vital in the coming years." these particular terms of consumers.11
The Province already has a reference". Hydro understands
surplus of electrical power but is the problems and isn't un-. The CANTDU brief outlined a
number of steps mfflnbm have
a net im•porter of food, he noted, sympathetic, he promised. taken to reduce energy con- Two alarms
and he suggested that one of the The C. - .:.. � :' ' Farmers of the sumption in their homes and *
Most important factors in United Townships, taking' in suggested that if Hydro must in
last week
maintaining an agricultural Turnberry, Howick, Wallace, keep expanding its activities it
community is an immunity to Maryborough, Peel, Woolwich A car fire at the comer of
should'do so in the area of con
urban development. and Pilkington, is a group formed Josephine and John streets and a
The brief presented by the in 1974 when Hydrofalse alarm at the Kilgour fur-
's planning servation, providing low interest
loans to home owners and
Concerned- Farmers Monday department proposed budding niture factory on Victoria Street
night three 500 kV lines through this I. Z. for reinsulation, solar
blasted Ontario Hydro for wafer' hea rs were the two alarms answered by
CarrYingout Its planni from an area. Since thein: it has been stimotion ;heaters and proven con -
reducers instead of Wingharn firemen in the. last
ivory tower with no concern for.:. wqrking to Fire Chief Dave
force Hydro to building new' generating week, Crooers
jj o: agricultural reported Tuesday.
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capacity,
and was instrumental in gaining Earlier in the afternoon the At leas44100 damage was
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public hearings on the proposed by Va to a vehicle driven ki gn't
Weekleuchre expansion plans, _U
y commission heard a brief Kerwin of RR i, Wroxeter
Prepared by Walter Palmer,
LOAD FORECASTS manager of Hydro's Clinton area Friday when the car c�ught, fire
Seven tables of euchre wereat the mai intersection in
CHALLENGED (which takes in most of Huron
played at theBelgrave weekly At the Monday session the County ),outlining load whwhaln-
euchre last Wednesday evening Porter Commission also heard forecasting for the am. Firemen were called to the io'hn' hates dirt. And'spot4,
6:15 pm. Saturday after the Cihn tc
in the WI Hall at 8 p.m. The briefs from the Huron County Power consumers are divided scene of the furniture plant at
winners wee: high lady, Mrs. Federation of Agriculture and into three sectors: farilk, be sure'that when i
Hazel Davidson; - low lady, Mrs. CANTDU, a local group in- residential and industrial- factory's own alarm system f h; ,
James R. Counts; most lone terested in energy �ation commercial. The farms, at 40 per sounded- After an inspection of a U hdering dr dry cleanii9s
the l
pant foreman Bill
bands in club's lady, Mrs. Mil- and alternative . sources of cent, are the biggest users of factory,dirt i'
&W Stewart;.,high man, Mrs. energy. power in the area, followed by Hanuin di,:, J a malfunction .0 a --Place where it wo
Lawrence Taylor (playing as a Both briefs took issue with residential at 30 per cent and in a sprinkler system valve had family again 1
man); low man, Gordon Walker; Hydro's prediction that the industrialcommercial at 23 per caused the furniture alarm to 90
most lone hands in club's man, demand demand for electric cent of total consumption. Off.
George Johnston. power will rise more sharply in Elbert van Doc' 6_Iq,-:.1, a Mr. Crothers reported that■
every fire department in Huron
County was represented Monday
evening at a meeting of the -W'Ingham Dre
county mutual aid association.
The firefighters heard a talk
about the dangers of tanker truck
and railway car explosions,
which could happen
CAR FIRE--WkVh&m fl mew dkkYt have far to go Friday nuirning when a car bslorg
Ing to Vsughn Kerwin of RR 1, Vt , a . , taught " at the , .. . -tion of jog"hjft and
JdNn A T%vy am dwan hW* PuOft the vdft% off the ognop wasmkw.
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Cars44r_u�cs- * Buses
Conc,2, Morris
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