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Western Ontario reacts
Hydro
Editor's Note:- Recently a meet-
ing was held at Wingham to re-
ceive briefs regarding planning
for electrical power expansion in
Ontario.
The following account of the
meeting due to its length, was
not published at the time, but we
feel is still of great interest to the
residents of this area.
Three hundred persons from
Huron, Bruce, Perth, Wellington
and Waterloo counties attended
a preliminary meeting of the
Royal Commission on Electric
Power Planning in Wingham
recently.
"It is the largest crowd yet
and the most unanimous as far
as concern over a central issue,"
said Commissioner Dr. William
Stevenson, indicating the show
of unity was noticed by the com-
mission.
The issue was, the loss of land,
especially prime agricultural
land, for hydro generating stat-
ions and power lines. This conc-
ern was stressed over and over
again in the 14 briefs presented
at the meeting.
What did come as some surp-
rise to the commission, however,
were the voiced offers of co-oper-
ation from those present, both in
working with the commission and
in working together, and the
manifest agreement between urb-
an and rural groups.
n n i n g drawscrowd
CANTDU SPEAKS
The first group to present a
brief was CANTDU, a Goderich-
based group of activists who
focus mainly on the implicat-
ions of nuclear power use in the
country. CANTDU representat-
ive Donald McKee spoke for five
other groups that have joined
with CANTDU to present a united
front.
McKee 's brief was not so
much a presentation of concerns
as a request for funding to .study
certain issues for the ultimate
submission of findings at a formal
hearing. He asked for approval of
a total budget of $12,500 for the
group.
Mrs. Marilyn Penfold of R.R.6,
Goderich, followed in CANTDU's
steps with a short presentation of
concerns about nuclear power
plants and their effects on
society. "I would like to know
more about the implications of
thermal pollution by all the
proposed power plants," she
said. "What is the real cost of
nuclear power? Why aren 't more
funds being allocated for re-
search into alternative energy
sources? We can no longer speak
of energy, no matter what the
source, without considering cons-
ervation."
Mrs. Penfold's brief presented
the commission with a question
not raised in any meeting to date,
Dr. Stevenson said: What happ-
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ens to nuclear power reactors
when their life expectancy is
exhausted due to an increase
of radiation levels? In fact,. added
Commissioner Robert Costello,
he wasn't even aware that this
could happen.
ENERGY QUOTA
Mrs. Penfold also suggested
establishing an "energy quota"
and reversing the rate structure
as ways to conserve .energy.
"The more you use, the cheaper
it is," she explained, citing
this rationale as the reason for
energy abuse.
The brief of the Concerned
Farmers of the United Town-
ships, representing Turnberry,
Howick, Wallace, Maryborough,
Peel, Woolwich and Pilkington,
played the first note of the
theme that would run like a con-
necting link through the rest of
the briefs to follow:
"For the sake of our foodlands,
a thorough study and research
must be carried out, independent-
ly of Hydro, of the area affected,
before a decision is made on the
expansion of Bruce, the need for
a 'southerly' 500 k.v. transmis-
sion line route out of Bruce and
its related Goderich generating
station."
Lloyd Moore of Listowel, chair-
man of the United Townships
group, also raised the question of
farming hazards under hydro
lines. He described a demon-.
stration on electrical effects
in the Barrie area "with only
half as many wires as the ones
proposed out of Bruce."
"If everyone was to receive
the amount of shock in this room
right now as I did (in the dem-
onstration trailer, the room
would he cleared in a hurry,"
Mr. Moore concluded.
PRESERVE FOODLANDS
His concerns were echoed by
the seven representatives of the
participating townships. "We
have now one mistake, let's
not make more," George Adams
of Turnberry Township pleaded.
"The erection of transmission
towers on our top producing
foodlands will make farming op-
erations dangerous and ineffic-
ient„" Harry Winkel of Howick
Township concluded.
Eldon Vines of Wallace Town-
ship presented statistics to sup-
port the importance of Bruce,
Huron, Perth, Lambton, Wat-
erloo, Wellington, Middlesex
and Oxford counties in Ontario
agriculture.
The Peel Township represent-
ative voiced the major opinion:
"We conclude that it is morally
wrong to exchange our good food
lands for development and not
preserve them for future generat-
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