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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown L7G Ontario DAVID A BEATTIE Publisher and General Manager DAN TAYLOR Advertising Manager Second Clan Mall RrKbtrrrd Nuclear crunch is coming BRIAN Editor Phone 8772201 Page THE HERALD Wednesday April 1989 Its a political fight The Acton quarry is looking more like a quick fix to Torontos garbage crisis every day Halton Chairman Pete Pomeroy said of the Acton quarry last week I think people should be aware the site is under discussion While he didnt go so far as to say the newly formed Greater Toronto Area committee has discussed the Acton quarry he did warn us of that prospect And some councillors are shocked They shouldnt be The announcement should be a surprise to no one But during last years municipal elections local politi cians consistently said there is little chance of the proposal by Reclamation Systems Incorporated being successful Even now Mr says the proposal by RSI doesnt have any possibility of ever being approved Dont be lulled into complacency by such statements No politician wants to be caught saying yes theres a chance the landfill site in Acton could happen But thats just the case it could happen Soothing words by local politicians claiming that the landfill site cant or wont happen are just the thing RSI is looking for It would seem that a crucial piece of advice offered by Lois Gibbs the leader of the Love Canal battle has slowly been forgotten At Georgetown District High School last year Ms Gibbs said the fight against the dump has to be a political fight Those who fight dumps entirely on scientific grounds generally lose she said Its great that the town is setting aside to fight the landfill site next year but Ms Gibbs advice shouldnt be forgotten We know Metro Toronto is watching Now more than ever it is a political fight All the news Editors Notebook Brian MacLeod Herald Editor na will be able to catch on quickly Here at Guelph St the door will remain open to comments let ters and opinions not just from the politicians but from you the Things will be a little different around the Herald on Monday nights from now on Former editor Mike Turner has taken the reins of a newspaper and for me that means poring over stories siz ing photographs and grease- pages Instead of taking in town council meetings on Mon day nights Its Donna Kell wholl be cover ing town council and making the trip to the big green building in on Wednesdays to report on developments from Region But after two years of covering town and Regional council and after covering federal provincial and municipal elections and after countless meetings and stories on the most explosive issue facing Hills residents in the com ing years waste disposal I havent become jaded Here at the Herald well still attack those Stories the way we always have I know Donna Is looking forward to what will prove to be a challeng ing interesting and at times con troversial Job In the part two years I have found that our local councillors en joy good constructive debate with focal Journalists and sure Don- In the coming years we will con tinue to bring you all the news thats fit to print At the Memorial Arena hundreds of figure skating fans turned out to watch four performances of Just Cruisln the carnival put together by the Georgetown Figure Skating Club The southern theme was coupled nicely with action packed performances by guest skaters Daynia Cammick who us ed to skate with the Georgetown dub and Jeff Gavin The junior pairs skaters finished eighth in Canada this year Queens Park Derek Nelson Thornton Strvict The crunch time for nuclear power in Ontario is rapidly ap proaching An Ontario Hydro recommenda tion that four more reactors be ad ded to the current 20 is expected to be before the provincial cabinet sometime this spring Simultaneously the federal government appears ready to abandon its support for the Cana dian CANDU system with the par tial aim of forcing Ontario Hydro to pick up all responsibility for future nuclear research and development This is in line with Ottawas desire to end subsidies to Crown corporations Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd AECL benefitted from federal grants to the tune of million a year until just recently That is now down to million and another million is expected to be cut this year Ontario Hydro has upped its con tribution to AECL research and development to million this year from million four years ago in addition to the million the utility spends on inhouse research A recent series of interviews by Nucleonics Week reporter Ray Silver a 31year veteran on the Canadian nuclear scene indicates the federal theory is that because of its current 20reactor invest ment Ontario Hydro cant afford to allow all nuclear and to col lapse and will therefore have to take over AECLs current role Im worried about them get ting out of nuclear funding altogether Ontario Hydro chair man Robert Franklin is quoted as saying AECL wants to develop a third- generation reactor called CANDU3 but this would be im possible without major federal or provincial and support Another pointer is a plan by Ot tawa to sell off the profitable parts of AECL including Nordlon the world leader in sales of cobalt60 for cancer therapy industrial Ap plication and food pur- Cobalt60 is a byproduct of- the nuclear process at Ontario Hydros reactors and some estimates sug gest million a year in sales could be made during the next decade But even more critical to a nuclear future will be the Liberal governments decision on new reactors SPLIT Several cabinet ministers in- eluding Treasurer Bob Nixon and House Leader Sean Conway whose riding contains the nuclearresearch complex of Chalk River are publicly supportive of nuclear power But others including former energy minister Vlnce Kerrio and Premier David Peterson have in dicated in the past that nuclear power is finished in Ontario They prefer importing energy from Quebec although the cost figures are horrendous and building the necessary transmis sion lines is likely to prove politically difficult They also want to push conserva tion even though many observers believe Hydro will have trouble meeting its existing conservation targets never mind doubling them which would be required if a new fourreactor nuclear station or equivalent coalfired plant does not go ahead The real competition to nuclear is coal although a special study set up to review Hydros cost estimates apparently it has yet to be formally released endorses Hydros conclusion that nuclear is cheaper by to 50 per cent However nuclears main drawback compared to coal anti- hysteria generated by ac tivists in organizations such as Energy Probe still exists Whether cabinet can summon up the nerve to reject such Chicken Littles remains in doubt The almost total Liberal cavein to en vironmentalists on various other issues from hunting to Temagami doesnt augur well for CANDU One bright spot is that there doesnt appear to be any shortage of friendly sites for a new reactor station There is wide local support for a further four reactors at Darl ington east of Oshawa Two other possible locations are the north shore of Georgian Bay near Elliot Lake and at Chalk River in the Ot tawa Valley There were some good sports events on around town for those who happened to be out and about on the weekend Down at the Georgetown squash club the club championships produced some ex cellent competition While I was shooting the final between Wayne Terry MadiU Satur day night I was sort of pleased to notice that even the experts run in to the same kind of problem that we rank amateurs do that is they too can get in each others way Somehow though Wayne and Terry made the countless deflec tions off the side walls look easier than Ive experienced Oh yes Wayne edged Terry in an exhausting five game match LOOK LIKE Put something back into Canada Dear Sir I consider myself fortunate to have lived in Caledon for the past 10 years This has meant that I have been part of a very large and diverse Federal riding Prior to last July we were known as York- Peel and now our new riding is called HaltonPeel Since I have always been one who feels you should put something back into your community society country etc one of the ways I try to do this is to be involved in the Federal Riding Association of my choice where one doesnt just criticize but attempts to make certain the right candidate represents your principles Hopefully heshe is then elected to represent you and your fellow constituents In Ottawa For these past 10 years I have been associated with the Pro gressive Conservative Party and I have been fortunate to have my choice sitting in Parliament For this past election a whole new riding was created and we had to start from scratch to find the right candidate As luck would have it he found us Garth Turner came to us because he believed it was time for him to put something back into this country and not to just criticize Garth Turner does something else that all too few politicians forget he represents everyone in the riding no matter what party they support whether they support his philisophical views or whether they differ com pletely with his beliefs We and I mean we all of us not just Pro gressive Conservatives are for tunate to have elected a Member of Parliament who truly believes that everyones view ideas etc are important and deserve a hearing in Ottawa An additional bonus is that Garth Turner works as hard as anyone to obtain your input and views and that is very difficult with a riding as large as ours My point is simple Get involved and put something back into this great country of ours Dont just criticize but rather speak with your Member of Parliament He cares is easily accessible and wants to hear from you We are ex tremely fortunate to have elected Garth Turner So get involved President HaltonPeel Progressive Conservative Association