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0 0 mm TOSWWWAÿ'»*" ■« 4«y! piimMiM durhamrcgion.com THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ AUGUST 24,2005 ♦ PAGE 5 Clarington lobbying for new plant r ' From page 1 "What he said ... is that we're certainly ►Jiol ruling it out at this point," said Angie tjfeobson, noting, "decisions arc coming fcto us pretty quickly." £** Currently, the Ontario Power Authority Authority is putting together a plan for how the "Province will meet energy needs in the ïjfùture. An initial report is expected by ^December, with more specific decisions N)n when and where new generation is to £be built to come next year. The process • will include a great deal of public con- i sultation, said Ms. Robson. ! "Should the Province decide to go I ahead (with new nuclear), then decisions | around where" such construction would • (occur would be made, she said. At present, there is "no preferred loca- '•tion," said the Minister's spokeswoman. £*; "Tlie whole notion of new build hasn't •jwen gone to cabinet, so it's too soon f\jk) talk about where" it would go, if a » "decision on nuclear was made, said Ms. 7 Robson. j- But Clarington is the obvious choice, j, said the Municipality's mayor. i "We're ready for it," he noted. 1 Clarington has been "at the forefront, 7 "lobbying for new nuclear," said Mayor ; Mutton, noting the former proposed i ITER site, next to the current Darlington i Nuclear Generating Station, would be ; the ideal place to build such a facility. | "They need new baseload on the east- 1 'em end of the GTA," said the mayor. ■ Ontario Power Generation, which runs ! Darlington, isn't commenting on the ! specifics of the idea. | "We support the search for new energy, ; for a safe reliable supply," said spokes- i woman Jacquie Mclnnes. But, OPG ! won't get a say in the matter. ! "That's the minister's bailiwick," she ! said. -- Files from Torstar News Service Local area misses worst of storm From page 1 cover the overtime of regional staff who had to be called in to work. The remainder remainder is the estimated price tag to clean up around the sewage plants. "Because it occurred late Friday, the shift ends at 3:30 or 4 p.m.," he said. "Most of the guys had to be called in." Axel Starck, executive vice-president of Veridian Connections, estimated that at the height of the storm 8,000 customers customers in Durham were without power. The first outage occurred at 3:50 p.m. in west Pickering, and the longest, just over three hours, was in the Tudor Avenue area of central Ajax, where lightning struck a transformer on a hydro pole. In Durham, Veridian serves Ajax, Pickering, Pickering, Clarington, Uxbridge and Brock. He, too, said the damage could have been a lot worse. Most of the incidents "were isolated and certainly minor," requiring very little material replacement or construction. Mr. Starck estimated the cost to Veridian at around $25,000. Whitby Hydro reported that approximately approximately 5,000 customers in the southeast end were without power for up to four hours. The Durham Regional Police also reported an evening free of major incidents, incidents, but experienced a few moments of concern after lightning struck Telus headquarters in York Region, affecting several towers that facilitate police radio communications. "The Telus headquarters took a direct lightning hit and lost all their communications, communications, but we managed to make sure all our calls were answered," said DRPS Communications Supervisor Cindy Flynn. "Our call volume went up so we were stretched to the limit, man- power-wise, but our service level was not affected. Everything was handled in an exemplary manner." Police also dealt with having to close flooded intersections and clearing fallen limbs off the roads, said spokesman David Selby. James Geuzebroek, senior communications communications officer at the Insurance Bureau of Canada, says more than 6,000 claims have been filed with insurance companies companies from southern Ontario customers, including 50 commercial claims. "That is less than half of the industry reporting at this point," he noted. "It would be safe to say that the losses for this are going to exceed $100 million." Mr. Geuzebroek said as a rule, flooding is not covered in insurance policies, but it's how the water got in that's important. If it seeped in through a window or basement basement wall, homeowners would be out of luck. If the water was as a result of a sewer drain back up, most people are covered. Clarington got lucky during last Friday's Friday's storm. "We were very lucky. 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