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Nuclear build could come soon: Mutton Mayor confident announcement will be made soon BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE - Claring- ton mayor John Mutton says he thinks there is some "urgency" when it comes to getting started on the environmental assessment assessment process aimed at having new reactors built on the Ontario Ontario Power Generation-owned land next to Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. £The comment comes on the •fièéls of a Canadian Press report saying such work could begin "within a month" of the Ontario i Power Authority report, meant to' lay out ;a plan for ;how the Province iwill meet > n e r e y •*MTin the future, which is supposed to be released next week. Jhe report was first supposed tcÇ.be released Dec. 1, but has Bjjèn delayed until Dec. 9. ÎBoth the Municipality of Clar- fngton and the Region of Durham Durham have endorsed resolutions balling for new nuclear on the sife next to the existing Darling- iSji station, and Mayor Mutton said he's confident construction will eventually go ahead. "All indications are that Darlington Darlington will be the first (nuclear) new build in North America. I see the environmental assessment assessment starting within a month or. two of the OPA report release," said the mayor late last week. Energy Minister Donna Cans- field said last week that no final decisions would be made until the OPA report had been considered. considered. ►*'. -files from Torstar News Service John Mutton ONTARIO'S MON., WED., FRI. Z: 7:30 am - 6:00 pm : TUES. &THURS. t 7:30 am - 8:00 pm * SAT. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY WHITBY OSHAWA Honda 300 THICKSON RD. S. WHITBY 666-1772 hojvda ^^^^jwwW|honda1^eon^^^ Clarington Communities/A7 Dog breeding at Kendal Hills Kennels Election 2006/A5 Candidates outline their platforms $ F Statesman ♦ Pressrun 24,150 ♦ Founded 1854 ♦ DECEMBER 7, 2005 ♦ 56 Pages ♦ Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$1 Newsstand Jk - j ll I Hydraulic oil spills into local creek r-l ilBiijF Photo by Mike Pochwat t *'■ ..'wt;-**;,,. ?:<■ ■ . : ■ . ■ • ' ... • • . ... . . • CLARINGTON - The Bowmanville Eagles hosted the Wellington Dukes in a provincial junior A hockey game on Sunday. Eagles' captain Brad Dormeidy avoids getting hit by Dukes' Joe Hall, while looking for a pass in the first period. The game ended in a 3-3 tie. Skilled trades perfect for women says Bowmanville business leader Ministry of Environment called in to investigate spill BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE - Detox Environmental was brought in Sunday to clean up after a small leak of hydraulic oil from the Goodyear plant into Bowmanville Bowmanville Creek. The leak was reported to the Ministry of Environment (MOE) Spills Action Centre Sunday; said John Steele, MOE spokesman. spokesman. "We don't know how much it was, but it was reported as a fairly small spill," he said. No negative impacts had been noted, in the creek, but samples had been collected for analysis with results expected in the next few days, said Mr. Steele. It was a spill of less than 100 litres, which was quickly noticed, captured, and cleaned up, said Goodyear plant manager Wally Hicks. Munici The leak came from a machine called a closed loop hydraulic oil cooling unit, which was shut down while officials sought the source of escape, said the MOE spokesman.' Goodyear staff shut the machine down immediately, which caused some interruption to production at the plant, but "you have to make the environment the priority," priority," said Mr. Hicks'. The MOE investigation continues. continues. In 2001, Goodyear paid $125,000 after pleading guilty to pollution charges stemming from a 1999 incident in which fuel oil spilled into the creek, which neighbours its downtown Bowmanville facility. It has since made a number of upgrades to fuel storage containers and built a cement berm between fuel containers containers and the creek. The most recent leak comes on the heels of an unrelated large diesel fuel spill into Darlington Darlington Creek, as the result of a three-vehicle collision involving a tanker truck last Tuesday. In that case, approximately 19,000 litres of fuel was spilled. Detox was also working to clean up that spill. looking to add a to its ~ BY CARLY FOSTER Staff Writer DURHAM - Women need to be more informed about rewarding rewarding jobs in the skilled trades, a local business woman says. There is too much focus on university and not enough on math and science and women are missing out; Deborah Patrick, Patrick, finance manager of the Bowmanville Foundry, recently told the crowd at the Durham Region Local Training Board annual general meeting where she was guest speaker. "So much of our focus in the past few years has been on the knowledge-based society," she said, pointing to downloaders and artists fighting over music on the Internet. "Somebody still has to build the buildings we're working in," design and fix the computers we use,, record music, colour grey hair. 'We need people who know how to do things well, whether they do things with their brain or their hands.' -- Deborah Patrick "We need people who know how to do things well, whether they do things with their brain or their hands." Those skilled trades - with the exception of some fields such . as aesthetics and nursing - are largely dominated by men, but would be perfect for women, Ms. Patrick said. Women have" been cottage industry workers since time began: building fires in caves, running farms, sewing. sewing. During the Second World War, women worked in factories and had to "know their way around a tool box" while the men were away fighting. Now, women make up 46 per cent of the workforce in Ontario, Ontario, but make only 84 per cent of men's wages, and experts are See WOMEN, page 4 Must be a General Motors product, says mayor CLARINGTON - The Municipality's Municipality's newest pickup truck will likely be a GM hybrid. Clarington's General Purpose and Administration Committee passed a report Monday calling for the inclusion of such a truck in the 2006 budget, subject to vehicle replacement schedule requirements. . Thé report stems from a suggestion suggestion from council earlier this year, asking staff to look into the cost and availability of such vehicles. According to the report, hybrids, , which are powered by electricity electricity from on-board batteries and a conventional internal combustion combustion engine, tend to be slightly more expensive, but the trade-off is a reduction in fuel consumption and pollutants. Of all the types of hybrids currently currently available, a half-ton pickup truck was deemed to be the one most likely to be purchased by the Municipality. Within the last month, GM has made available a half-ton Silverado pickup for demonstration purposes. ' Given recent lay-off announcements announcements at Oshawa's GM plants, Mayor John Mutton said it is important to go with GM when choosing a new hybrid. "If they're building trucks in Oshawa, we need to be supportive," supportive," he said. • SERVICE 1 • PARTS House arrest for woman involved in fatal crash Judge cites 'mystery' behind erratic driving BY JEFF MITCHELL Staff Writer WHITBY - Calling the case before him a "mystery", a Superior Superior Court judge has sentenced an Oshawa woman to a term of house arrest for criminal negligence negligence that caused the death of a , young police officer. There's no clear explanation as to why Lorrie Mullan's car drifted across the centre line and came into contact with the Chevy Blazer being driven by 23-year- ' old Daniel Lee on the night of ' Aug. 7, 2003, said Justice Bryan Shaughnessy. The collision, on Simcoe Street near Raglan Road, caused the Special Constable's car to go airborne and flip; he died several days later of injuries sustained in the crash. Ms. Mullan pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal negligence causing death. No proof of impairment or underlying medical condition could be found, in spite of an extensive police investigation, the judge noted in imposing sentence sentence Tuesday in Whitby. He said there's also no concrete explanation explanation for more than a dozen other incidents of erratic driving by Ms. Mullan that was witnessed by police officers, co-workers and others. According to the statement of facts read into the record by prosecutor Glenn Brotherston, Ms. Mullan, 45, had been taking medication for health issues and had been seen to "nod off" on occasion by co-workers and family family members. She had also been pulled over numerous times for erratic driving, but did not show the usual signs of impairment, he said. "I'm left with a mystery," the judge said. "That type of driving has to have its genesis, its root, in something." Nevertheless, the judge said he couldn't draw conclusions on his own about the woman's questionable questionable driving. "The court cannot proceed' to infer or assume that alcohol and/ or drugs (were) involved in the death of Daniel Lee," Justice Shaughnessy said. According to an agreed statement statement of facts, Ms. Mullan was northbound on Simcoe Street around 10 p.m. when her Buick drifted a metre across the centre line, swiping the rear of Mr. Lee's southbound automobile. The Port Perry man, who was working as an officer in the courts in Durham, Durham, sustained severe head and body injuries that led to his death several days later. Ms. Mulian's car had neither its headlights or tail lights on at the time of the crash, court heard. She told police after the accident she had no idea what had happened. happened. • The judge heard Tuesday from distraught members of Mn Lee's family, who described a promising promising young man who dreamed of becoming a police officer; he had studied at Durham College and his family received his acceptance acceptance to police college shortly after his death, court heard. "This is a tragedy; an absolute tragedy," Justice Shaughnessy See JUDGE, page 4 HWV.ft 1 mi m » tL s / 8^ "•JMICMOLI E 401 ! 9 O y IÔÔBUB& Por1^^ 903-436-2227 Soviet 903-436-2221 Body 6 hint905-436-2229 2728 Courtlce Rd./HWY. #2 CourHce 905-436-2222 Toll Fra* 1-866*885*8822 ■ . roynkho1imotors6gmconoda.com www.roynkholsmolors.com Sm (Motor dam. ■ CHEVROLET bMM » J jzxtmmm hv/'v7*>"vV'-*r : gi:r Ifiear* uMsvtmcm