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SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday January 184 page Dioxin issue raised at EFW talks By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer Any plana to build an Incinerator lor a garbage shouldnt Ignore the dangers of dioxin pollution an Oak resident told a regional last Wednesday night The region should declare a moratorium on its search for an energy from waste plant In Halton until the question has been answered Paul Taylor said Ha I Ion has been con sidering a municipal incinerator or energy from waste plant a solution to its garbage disposal problems Private companies have been Invited to comment on how they could use an to produce steam and elec tricity for their own purposes But In two recent federal reports municl- Incinerators are dentlfied as principal sources of pollu Hon CANCER A particularly toxic chemical comes in varieties and has been blamed for causing cancer in laboratory Its found In pesticides wood and transformer oils among other industrial uses Studies on havent conclusively determined their effect on humans although some scientists suspect hey may lead to genetic detects Im not certain this is a real danger Mr Taylor said But Im not sure should make a decision to build an plant two years down the road when may take several years to assess the threat Chronic emissions problems at Hamiltons 12yearoldSWARUinci iterator prompted that citys council to ask Hamilton Wentworth region to shut down the facility where onethird of he regions trash la burned Incinerators are believed to spread dio over area through particleladen emissions Industrial land needed in towns urban areas BUNDLED UP It was colder than a polar bears nose aver the weekend even cold enough to make Dean Bagleys nose crinkle up at the crispy weather The was out with his friend Shawn Anderson braving be elements but well clothed for the occasion Saturday afternoon Break A break in at Structural Steel on Georgetowns Armstrong Avenue resulted In the theft of worth of cutting equipment and acetylene regulators Thieves entered by smashing a window on the west side of the building sometime between Sa and Monday By CHRIS AAGAARD Herald Staff Writer Town councillors should concentrate on building up an Inventory of Industrial land In he towns Acton and Georgetown urban are as not in the surround ing countryside a con sultants report to the region maintains Youve got a real problem here Carolyn Kearns told Monday nights town council meeting as she forecast a growing demand for Industrial land with sewers and water ser vices which the town may not be able to meet Right now she said the town could use MS acres of serviced land to have enough variety of locations to Interest investors Ms Reams noted that about acres are already envisioned in new areas of land taken in by Georgetown expanded urban boundary There a another sandwiched between Steeles Avenue and Highway But that a seen as set aside for dry un- Industries like warehouses In the towns official plan The study authored last year by Peter Barnard Associates suggests the town save this land for full servicing which may come in the future With full servicing that land would be more attractive to heavier industries which tend to employ more people Dont expect the demand for rural trial land o Increase Ms Reams said Town officials should work on reducing the amount of rural industrial land In the official plan and concentrate on getting more provlncially- serviced land in Acton and George town Nevertheless rural Industrial land should still have an important if smaller share the towns total Industrial land Inventory she said An excellent area for rural Industrial develop ment along Trafalgar Road between and the Highway junction the study says While it may not be serviced with sewers from Georgetown it could one day tap Into the communitys water supply The availability of water Is important not because of the heavier industrial uses it would allow but because It would reduce the cost of fire Insurance for rural Industries 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standards more stringent than those of the province of Ontario The technology la available Ontario has set some tentative allowable levels which will be In use when Londons Victoria Hospital opens its Incinerator in 1MB the ministry of environ ment Mike Pratt said NEW TECHNOLOGY The technology for testing for dioxin Is relatively recent he added so Its effect on health hasnt completely deter mined The SWARU plant hasnt been using state of the art pollution equipment regional chief administrative officer Dennis said Nobody Is trying to tell anybody that the EFW operation will be pollution free Mr But I cant believe that we have to stop our search at this point Believed to have started when a space heater was knocked over near a basement chair the fire took two hours to put out Thanks to the smoke detector a sleeping man and his sleeping baby escaped the smoke that was spreading throughout the house Nobody was hurt A construction deficiency in a chimney flu was responsible for worth of smoke damage to an Acton home on Churchill Road North Thursday according to the Halton Hills Fire Department The chimney fire took place at IS a at the home of Roy and Heather Knapton The smell of something burning brought firefighters to an apartment at 21 Raylawn Crescent Thursday night Forgotten In the oven of residents was a pitta a very blackened pitta Sheldon argues against Glen modification Property north of Wldlwood Road In Glen Williams should be included in the Glens secondary plan town councillors reiterated Monday night They supported a pro posed modification to the plan which would allow developers own ing about 43 acres in the area to go ahead with subdivision plana But Coun Sheldon argued that councils support of the modification should be delayed at least until the town has reviewed the results of transpor now underway Before further consideration of the property for develop ment purposes is con sidered she said council needs answers on how it would affect traffic flow 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