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Orono Town Hall BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 62 Temperance St. 1.1.04 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 3A8 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday April 30, 2003 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Canada's ITER bid doesn't stack up The fact that Canada's bid to host the $12 billion international international fusion energy research project, called ITER (pronounced (pronounced eater) is in serious jeapordy, and has been since last December, led Mayor Mutton to call a special council council meeting last Friday afternoon. afternoon. All the local MP's and MPs along with other community leaders were invited to speak at this meeting. Clarington's Mayor John Mutton opened the meeting by stating that Clarington is running running out of time and needs an answer from Ottawa.on a revised bid that includes the financial commitments from both the provincial and federal governments. Clarington is being put forward forward as a host site for ITER by the Canadian delegation, and is now in competition with France, Spain and Japan for the location of this 30 year project. Canada's bid to host ITER will be finished if the Federal Government does not come up with a funding commitment by June of this year, according to ITER Canada head Dr. Murray Stewart. The next set of international negotiating meetings are set to take place in Vienna on June 19,2003. Canada tabled their bid to host the project last December when the three other competing competing host countries, Japan, Spain and France put forward bids with strong governmental support. Canada's original bid put forward by Mr. Jim Campbell of Natural Resources Canada, in June of 2001 in the Russian round of ITER negotiations consisted of of a public/private public/private partnership. The Provincial Provincial government had committed committed $300 million for the length of the project, but only if the facility was to be built in Clarington. In June of last year, Canada withdrew their bid in Barcelona, when they realized their bid without a federal financial contribution was no longer competitive. Dr. Stewart said in a phone interview interview with The Times on Saturday, "While the federal government is negotiating on behalf of Canada, they are not a financial partner. With no financial contribution, it undermines the real commit ment of the country," stated Steward. "The other partners are saying, "Why would you expect us to put the last stage of a huge research and development development project in Canada, when Canada is the only country country that says they don't believe in fusion as a research and Development project." This has put a lot of stress on our viability to host ITER," he said At Friday's special council meeting MPP Jim Flaherty, ITER Continued page 3 Police are treating the fire that destroyed trailers 13,14 and 15 at the trailer park at 1037 Arthur Street Newcastle as suspicious. suspicious. All four Clarington Fire Department pumpers and five tankers responded to fire which was called in to 911 by a neighbour neighbour at 12:16 p.m. Monday. The fire started in the trailer occupied by Mr. Jerry South and his family and due to the high winds quickly spread to the two adjacent trailers. The Ontario Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of the fire. Noise restrictions removed from Mosport Park Mosport park now no longer has to adhere to the noise restrictions placed on it by the Municipality in 1997. Mayor John Mutton introduced introduced a resolution at the General Purpose and Administration committee meeting of April 22 directing staff to prepare a by-law repealing the sound limitations limitations at Mosport. The resolution which received unanimous approval by councillors last Tuesday and again this Monday at council meeting stated that Mosport Park is unable to continue its racing activities if required to meet the restrictions restrictions outlined in these various by-laws. The by-laws set maximum sound levels for different times of the day, with the lowest lowest sound level being between 12:01 a.m. and 9:59 a.m. Mr. Clayton Taylor, Chair of the North I: who were so instrumental in putting the by-law in place to protect residents. Taylor said he only became aware of the move to repeal Clayton Taylor the noise by- Clarington chair,North Clarington law > whea h ® Ratepayers Ratepayer's Association ° , Association ! Clarington's stated in a phone interview interview the The Orono Times requests in a "... to defer the decision to repea the by-law to a later date. I' last Saturday, "it is shocking to me that the Mayor would introduce such a motion without without first con- suiting with any of the resi- Creamer took the complaint dents, especially our group and informed Taylor that the fill» by-law officer, Mr. Len Creamer, last Friday morning morning to complain complain about the noise at Mosport which had just woken him up. noise by-law was in the process of being repealed. According to Creamer, he has received no more than one or two Mosport related noise complaints a year. In a letter addressed to council, Taylor requested that councillors meet with him for an informal discussion on the issues with respect to this bylaw bylaw and to defer the decision to repeal the by-law to a later date. Before voting on the resolution resolution to repeal the by-law, Mayor Mutton said a meeting would be arranged between the Ratepayers group, management management at Mosport Park and Municipal Staff to address the concerns.