-.-epuns- arast cos s o language in tht cut.u1u y {""" pre, of Qu An ng Students must see both sides Qu �er­ 60 fail the In your editorial from the Brockville Right to Life ty to per cent. ti OJ out January 20 entitled would demand? Brockville's PUC boasted "Class Alt en- conflict" you not only con­ It is for that very same recently about the excellent 1988 its soc lic tradict yourself but you reason that it is not right to year had been with urn totally miss the whole point present only one side of the six per cent electrical I per of my argument. On nuclear industry to our growth. As a teacher the one tior students that m hand you agree with the students. Frank Findley would tell my rate is tak ng school board's policy which from AECL was there not a six per cent growth rate the rd protects our only to promote nuclear a disgrace for at that students from pla another nu­ , I teachers' personal views power but to sell nuclear we would need that nee but at the power. That is his job "sell clear power plant. Does same time you tha· state that nuclear power." You state view fit in with the school students are lan;. policy? Instead I thoughtful etc. and need no in your editorial that stu­ board's Osaga, S< special protection dents can think for them­ would talk about for stu­ ried January 2/89) dents will discover the selves. This is partially true Iowa (Time, gas awf weakness in the arguments but at the same time our who cut its natural 45 cent corr themselves. students are constantly be­ consumption by per You can't have bi l it both ways. ing bombarded by our adult and reduced its annual Hy) n commercials. Teenagers growth in electricity de­ n uni The policy came about in especially girls are starting mand by more than half, to !l tyi: 1979 when a taxpayer to smoke at the age of 14 less than three per cent a Otl .g complained to the school and Elinor Wilson of the year. nOJ board about my strong an­ Council On Smoking and Policy or no policy, I will zer s ti-nuclear views. The pur­ Health blames it on adver­ continue stating my views bei pose of the policy, even tising. Advertisements and for I agree with Lester es1 though not clearly stated, is Frank Findley are identical Brown from the World ot for teachers to present both for they both try to sell a Watch Institute who stated ch sides of an issue. If one of product. In the same man­ "We have not inherited the s ho our local high schools held ner the Canadian Nuclear earth from our fathers, we L, ha an assembly and Dr. Association, with its $20 are borrowing it from our ten Morgentaler was the guest million P.R. campaign has children." Th speaker, what do you think increased nuclear populari- Bill Borger bei

Propped up by propaganda ha ly. in our The Canadian Nuclear people of Augusta township dresses students job Association (CNA) is an of parochialism because of schools, the information OilJ definitely organization devoted to the their opposition to the given out is most jot because promotion of nuclear ENSCO incinerator. Fortu­ slanted and biased me nately for the students and energy in Canada and he is trying to sell nuclear tra for fair play, the classroom are abroad. To this end, the energy. Our students lar teacher had the foresight to when CNA, of which both Ontario being brainwashed cc Hydro and Atomic Energy invite an environmentalist they are being presented w to offer a different view of IT· of Canada Ltd. (AECL) are with a one-sided view. both PCBs and incinerators Times n members, is spending $20 The Recorder and so that the students could 20 ex­ v million in a massive editorial of January see both sides of the issues v publicity campaign design­ presses an extremely naive \\ ed to prop up this dying at hand. and simplistic view of polit­ ad­ \1\ nuclear industry by con­ ically-biased people The edi­ vincing people of its It is indeed unfortunate dressing students. sl. faith that students benefits. that some teachers at tor has wi· to deter­ BCIVS and TISS do not have the ability or mine both sides of an issue, tt Recently, two people from share the philosophy of but why then, do we need a c Onario Hydro spoke to a presenting both sides of policy to keep such teachers class of students at controversial issues. No one la as Jim Keegstra out of the in Ernestown High School. can honestly deny that nu­ classroom? th just west of Kingston. Dur­ clear energy is a controver­ The Recorder and Times C< ing part of their speech, sial issue. When a can not have it both ways! se they trivialized the dangers spokesperson from Atomic Peter Onstein K· of PCBs and accused the Energy of Canada Ltd. ad-

p - ,,La .. ._c on a request by .Jean their property.- Borger wants ENSCO barred when he met with POWI rep­ DOUG McCANN By resentatives in Brockville last Staff Writer Tuesday. However, Patten disagreed MAITLAND - An American with that approach, saying it hazardous waste disposal would set a precedent for other company is blackmailing the citizens' groups with similar Ontario government and requests. holding Augusta Township ENSCO is using its Augusta hostage, says a citizens' coali­ land buy as leverage to secure tion opposed to a proposed in­ environment ministry cinerator here. guarantees so it can build a Environmental Systems permanent hazardous waste Company (ENSCO) of Arkan­ incinerator somewhere in the sas is attempting to use its province, probably at land purchase in Augusta Smithville, Borger said. township to win concessions "The cabinet has the power from the Ministry of Environ­ to stop this nonsense im­ me nt, Bill Borger, a mediately and now is the time spokesman for People Opposed to do it,'' he said. to the Waste Incinerator "How can an Amercian (POWI), said Monday. company come into this coun­ "ENSCO's toying with our try and dictate what it wants provincial government to our provincial government amounts to blackmail and while holding a municipality Augusta township is the hostage? Where is hostage. That is how we see democracy?" Borger asked. it," said Borger, who reiterated On Friday, Augusta council his call for a cabinet order reported that ENSCO seems to dissolving the sale and preven­ want MOE help in finding ting ENSCO from building an anothe r site, as well as incinerator anywhere in the Augusta cash, in return for province. dissolving its 50-acre land buy Richard Patten, minister of in Augusta's industrial park government services, conced­ last fall. ed cabinet has such power Exchange a I 2 I WlllH!il*1a -· -...--.1 ...... : � j ... • Bill Borger continues environmental cause

of PANDA "it was hard slugg­ only to be hauled up short by By MIKE MORALIS ing," but there was over­ public opposition. StaffWriter whelming public support for Recently an agricultural POWI. herbicide used to kill weeds Some things never change. Since the municipal election, was banned, but Borger is ir­ . Long-time environmentalist "a whole lot of things are going ritated at waging the same Bill Borger is tireless in his ef­ on behind the scenes." battles over and over. tOtts to advance his cause, More public meetings are "Why do we have to fight ctirrently as co-chairman of scheduled to raise public the government over and over the public relations committee awareness, and "we want to to get these things off the of People Against Waste In­ know where everybody market?" cinerator (POWI). stands,'' said Borger. He said he is driven by two ' 'Jn that capacity Borger He wants to find out where principles, the belief that spoke to the Kiwanis Club Nitrochem and Du Pont "everyone has a right to a job, Tuesday and gave a speech Canada stand regarding the because a job means dignity," s.lmilar to one he made to the proposal, and at the same time and the conviction that group in 1978 as chairman of POWI is mounting campaigns "everyone is entitled to live in the anti-nuclear group People to influence "school boards, a clean and healthy environ­ Against Nuclear Development industry. agricultural groups ment." Anywhere (PANDA). and (municipal) councils.'' Since the 1962 publication POWI was formed earlier The 'group wants to be of Rachel Carson's landmark this year to oppose the a haz­ prepared for a long figbt book The Silent Spring en­ a'rdous waste incinerator pro­ although "this could be a short vironmental concerns have posed forAugusta township. battle" if the company that won increasing support, After deposing the entire wants to build the incinerator Borger said. municipal council, POWI's backs down. He ran through a list of "main priority is to get If the plant ever goes books which he recommended MIKE MORALIS/ THE RECORDER AND TIMES everyone on-side,'' said through, "we are going to be to members of the club, and Bill Borger gives Time a plug for its issue about en­ �orger, a high school teacher the toxic waste dumping held up a recent Time maga­ vironmental hazards in a talk to the Kiwanis Club. "I on sabbatical. ground in Ontario," he warn­ zine which stressed the need J thought I'd do that," he said. Things haven't changed to ed. for people to change their never �my great extent since 1978, Meanwhile, Ontario Hydro lifestyles. et,ecept that he now has some and Atomic Energy Canada The buzz wo rds have which "meets the needs of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant grey hair and reading glasses. Limited are still promoting changed over the years and people without compromising accident in the Soviet Union But we still live in a nuclear power, and the gov­ the current catch phrase is the the ability of future genera­ and the gas leak at the Ul}ion ·�throw-away society" with ernment still promotes use of ''sustainable development,'' tions to meet their own Carbide plant in Bhopal, India mounting waste disposal pro­ chemicals without adequately Borger said. needs." highlight the growing risks; blems, said Borger. Jn the days examining long-term effects, That means development Recent incidents such as the Borger said.

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' danger to students: board Augusta council is now on ardous waste incinerator in The board is adding its voice By DOUG COWARD record as opposing the ENSCO Augusta township. to the growing protest in the Staff Writer region over the ENSCO plan. The board's opposition scheme. There are so many children Public school trustees here focuses on the possible impact "If there is an accident, there in the area who could be af­ said no to ENS CO Monday. of an incinerator ''because of are a number of schools in the fected that the board should In a 12-2 recorded vote, its possible detrimental effect fallout plume based on prevail­ state its opposition, she said. members of the Leeds and on the health of the children in ing westerly winds in the "We have enough pollutants Grenville County Board of a large area surrounding the area,'' said Cardi­ in this area already,'' Education made clear their proposed incinerator,'' noted nal-Edwardsburgh Trustee Brockville Trustee Grace opposition to the proposal by the resolution presented by Lawrence Levere. Wyatt added. Environmental Systems Com­ Augusta Trustee Eleanor Trustee Bob Hartley was one Trustee Don Davis (South pany (ENSCO) to build a haz- Filewod. of only two members to vote Elmsley, Kitley) said the board against the resolution, saying should also consider its trustees should not be directly emergency preparedness involved in matters not related planning, looking not only at to the school board. individual schools but on a Hartley, who represents counties-wide basis. Athens,Front of Yonge,Front Davis ·and Gananoque of Escott and Rear of Yonge Trustee Larry Steacy also and Escott, said he would not questioned Filewod's figures in be a critic of ENSCO or the resolution, which claim 35- neighboring chemical plants or that all residents with a whatever moves through the mile radius of the proposed region on the rail lines or waste incinerator could be highways. adversely affected by the facil­ Prescott Trustee Jo hn ity's operation or an accident. Emerton argued, however, Trustees supporting the res­ that if there is a danger of con­ olution were: Filewod, Levere, taminating the air then it Emerton, McGrath, Wyatt, would affect students in the Davis, Steacy, Doug Burns area. (Brockville), Mark Darroch Trustee Elizabeth McGrath (Brockville), Harold Emmons (Oxford, Wolford, Merrickville) (F ront of Leeds and agreed the board had to steer Lansdowne), David Gordon clear of municipal politics, but (Kemptville, South Gower), and board chairman Bob Flood. Voting against the resolution .. were Hartley and Sam Flem­ ing, trustee for Bastard and Burgess, North Crosby, Westport and Newborn.

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At our Edwardsburgh Citi­ vision' plays a leading role. months. The real family doc­ zen's Group's first public Secrecy about the project seems tors that I have spoken to seem meeting with an MOE official to be the norm. to think that our health and that two years ago, (about our il­ Let's hope that the MOE of­ of our unborn children would legal dump) we were told by him ficials involved will come to be at risk. Does the provincial to think of him as a family doc­ their senses and rescind their Ministry of the Environment tor. Show him the problem he permission to ENSCO to build a want us to take these risks? I'm said, and he would try to cure it. Frankenstein monster. The sure most of us do not want to. This official worked out of the plant would be physically in Therefore, I advise the pro­ Kingston office, at the local Augusta, but the toxic fumes, vincial· government to set up level, and I think he was very pollutants and heavy metals will and fund a private watchdog honest. drift and spread over a very group, made up of citizens who After that first visit he was large area. This would include would live by and understand the removed and replaced by his Edwardsburgh, Dundas County problems regarding landfill, to superior. As the troubles and the northern USA. Like Dr. work in conjunction with MOE mounted, so did the levels of the Frankenstein, Ministry of the regarding the installation of officials who became involved Environment officials cannot landfill sites right from their in­ in our problem. Our 'family imagine what havoc would be ception. The use of these people doctors' rose in prominence. wreaked, once the 'monster' would add a lot more credibility The highest level of participa­ gets loose. to decisions regarding the tion occurred with the in­ Do we have to accept living de velopment of waste volvement of the Director of with the dangers involved with management facilities. Southern Ontario. Now, this this incinerator? It will belch Robert Glenn for leads me to the meeting in Tor­ out tons of toxic fumes and Concerned Citizens onto's Ministry of the En­ heavy metals over a period of of Edwardsburgh Township vironment's office, between ENSCO and MOE officials, con­ cerning the siting of a toxic waste incinerator in Augusta Township. Who was the 'doctor' at MOE headquarters in Toronto that time? Dr. Frankenstein, I presume. The problems in Augusta township have only begun, if your MOE 'doctor' is willing to allow an incinerator to be set up in this area. It just goes to show you, that the higher up the ladder the peoplE are, who you have to deal witt in government, the more 'tunne City and district j Ministry adopts hands-off pol icy fn ENSCO debate By MIKE MORALIS Staff Writer

N 'fory MPPs got the brush-off from Environment Minister Jim Bradley in Queen's Park Wednesday when members Bob Runciman '.:'�md Margaret Marland questioned him about the hazardous waste , -incineratorproposed for Augusta township.

• . Runciman called Augusta a "small rural council" that was "easy p�ckings" for Environmental Systems Company (ENSCO) when it .w&slooking for land to buy for an incinerator plant. And he accused Bradley's ministry of leaving the township in the lurch by adhering to the letter of the Environmental Assessment Act, waiting for a formal proposal from ENSCO, which is not ex­ pected for about a year.

· The ministry is taking a "hands-off approach" to the situation until then, which didn't sit well with Runciman or Marland.

� "If every time I did not like something or a ministry official did not like something that was about to be proposed, we said 'Don't bother proposing anything,' the province would, in effect, come , to.a standstill," Bradley told the legislature. ENSCO's proposal will be evaluated once it is received, he said. Runciman claimed ENSCO has breached the Environmental Assessment Act "by identifying only one site," although he con­ - ceded there is no legal requirement for the company to follow the ·act. . Runciman and Marland demanded to know if Bradley would re­ quire ENSCO to undergo environmental assessment hearings. Bradley indicated that he would call environmental assessment hearings, which for private sector projects are at the discretion of the minister. "They will be required to follow the Environmental Assessment Act if indeed they ever put a formal proposal to the government of Ontario," he said. Runciman said this morning he's happy to have that on the r.ecord, although it's "still fuzzy." An exchange between Marland and Bradley was less conclusive. '1'1 do not know how the minister can assess something en­ vironmentally when he does not have a benchmark against which to measure the operation," Marland said. - Bradley pointed out that the hazardous waste incinerator for the Ontario Waste Management Corporation will be "right in my back 20 1 yard, if you will, about miles from my house as the crow flies."

1 that proposal, like the one ENSCO is expected to submit, will be evaluated according to criteria from the World Health Organiza­ tion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environ­ ment Canada, Bradley said. "We're not satisfied with the responses we got," Runciman said. �ity and district

. ,,,. ;ENSCO must consider earthquake Ii ne: ·Borger By DOUG McCANN .''The same applies to the ENSCO proposal. ·Staff Writer Fifty or 100 jobs, most of them high tech, do not . lYIAYNARD - Earthquake tremors that shook outweigh the dangers of spills-in-transit or the houses in this area Friday night will definitely furans and toxins spewed into the air from the .become an . issue in fighting the proposed haz­ burning of PCBs and other hazardous wastes " ·ardous waste plant for Augusta township, if it said Borger. ' .ev�r gets to the Ministry of Environment hear­ profile events such as the POWI-WOW ings stage, plant opponent Bill Borger said High the Johnstown-Ogdensburg interna­ Monday. march on tional bridge two weeks ago "are nice, but, now, · "We will fight to keep the proposal from ever the hard slugging begins," he said. getting to an MOE assessment stage, but, if it POWI will mount a public education blitz con­ does, the dangers posed by our vulnerability to the impact of the ENSCO incinerator earthquakes will definitely become an issue " cerning upon the entire area, not just upon Augusta �aid Borger, a founding member of POWI Township, he said. .(People Opposed to the Waste Incinerator). "We will be approaching all local municipal • J\. fault line running through the Iroquois area to get their formal opposition on the prevented establishment of an Ontario Hydro councils record. So far, only Prescott council has done nuclear power station there about 10 years ago, that. Brockville Council has not stated its formal recalled Borger, who was a founding member of opposition, although (Mayor Stephen) Clark People Against Nuclear Development Anywhere his personal opposition;" Borger (PANDA), a citizens' coalition that opposed the has expressed noted. station. Friday's earthquake may indicate the fault line "The work is just beginning," he added. has widened to include the proposed En­ POWI will also attempt to pressure the MOE vironmental Systems Company (ENSCO) in­ into forcing ENSCO to include the site selectiori cinerator on the Blue Church Road near process in its application for a hazardous waste Maitland, said Borger. incinerator permit. , Discovery of the Iroquois area fault line If ENSCO had to undergo the expensive site P.fOmpted Ontario Hydro to scratch two pro­ selection procedure, "it would back off," posed nuclear power station sites on either side Borger predicted. o,f the community off its list of four proposed "The Ontario Waste Management Corpora­ sites. The fault line meant an additional cost of at tion has never considered 'eastern Ontario as a least $100 million to Ontario Hydro to build the possible site for a hazardous waste incinerator station near Iroquois, which wanted it at the because it is a relatively low producer of haz­ tlirie,Borger said. ardous waste and because of the lengthy The other two proposed sites were the Blue distances between the region and southern On­ Cl].tirch Road in Augusta Township and Edward­ tario, where most of it is produced. sb�rgh Township's landfill site, Borger recalled. "It is the mandate of the OWMC to select a •. PANDA fought those two proposed sites by proper site for an incinerator that will handle all waging a public education blitz, then changing the of Ontario's hazardous waste," Borger added. m!nds of the two municipal councils when they So far, Minister of Environment Jim Bradley I'_ealizedthe immense public opposition, he said. has not responded to POWI's request for a SIMILAR CAMPAIGN meeting, he noted. POWI will begin launching a similar blitz in its "I have a feeling Bradley is going to force us battle against the ENSCO incinerator, he added. into an environmental hearing, which we do not "''PANDA· proved the boom-then-bust aspect of need or want. It would be an easy fix for him to a nuclear power station; the potential hazards plunk an incinerator down in Augusta and take out�eigh the relatively insignificant economic the heat off himself in his own riding, where a be.nefits of a high-tech operation that creates hazardous waste incinerator is also being con- very few jobs. 5idered,'' said Borger. Wfio protects the environment? I would like to respond to the MacDougall site and were to the interests of ordinary citi­ some of the coments made in forced to drink the water from zens. We have a toxic waste in­ your article of December 17, the wells in the neighborhood. cinerator proposal to worry "Waste site clean-up proposal MOE has alwys followed the about in Augusta township. The stalled by government". philosophy of ignoring a pro­ MOE's actions in the Mac­ Unfortunately, this whole ar­ blem until it magically goes Dougall toxic waste area cer­ ticle was written with input from away. Mr. Cook may feel that tainly don't inspire confidence the Ministry of the Environment the toxic chemicals (leachate that they will deal any more only, and therefore, the net plume) has dissipated (disap­ responsibly with the ENSCO result is misinformation and a peared). Mr. Cook should get proposal. general trivialization of the back in touch with reality. If On Thursday December 22, problems suffered by the resi­ there are no more toxic wastes i.here will be an Environmental dents that live near the O.E. to worry about, then why spend Protection Board hearing held MacDougall Ltd. toxic waste $250,000 to clean up the site? at the Elizabethtown Township dump. These people must put up MOE officials promised the Hall. O.E. MacDougall Ltd. with polluted wells, health pro­ residents that they would spend wishes to operate 24 hours a blems, loss of enjoyment of $600,000 to clean up the Mac­ day. At a previous hearing of their property, and the general Dougall site, starting in 1987. this same board, 0.E. Mac­ uncertainties and apprehensions Now, $600,000 has become Dougall's hours of operation which go hand in glove with liv­ $250,000, but nothing has been were set from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., ing next to a toxic waste opera­ done yet. The excuse, that a yet he has consistently operated tion. missing document is preventing virtually 24 hours a day right For a public relations person the clean-up, would be laughable from the start. The MOE refuses such as Dan Cook to say that if the issue weren't so impor­ to interfere because they feel the problem hs been blown way tant. The MOE is acting like a that the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ruling is out of proportion for years, bunch of Keystone Cops. unenforceable. Who, then, is underscores the flippant, ir­ People in our area should pay looking after the interests of the responsible attitude that the en­ close attention to this ongoing people in the area? Just whose vironment ministry has con­ three-ring circus saga. History side is the MOE on, anyway? sistently taken towards toxic has a way of repeating itself, and People opposing the ENSCO waste dumps. I'm sure Mr. the MOE has been entirely pre­ toxic waste incinerator - Cook's attitude would change dictable and consistent in its beware! dramatically if he lived next to dereliction of duty with respect Peter Onstein

OV �II CH:'.>V TOI In Al I problem similar to ENSCO I'd like to respond to Friday's be labelled as a personal vendet­ WS news program concern­ ta, unless, of course, wanting g 0. E. MacDougall's appeal the promise which has already for increased working hours been given to clean up the site which are necessary for the granted immediately, not operation of his business; par­ delayed next year or the follow­ ticularly, the plant manager's ing after that, is such a vendetta. ersonal comment. As for no other complaints, This has been the 21st year -I you just have to remember to ave been a resident on the sixth open your ears and listen. concession road, therefore, I Although many are silent, just think I deserve the right to ex- ask yourselves would anybody ress my concerns. want or agree to live with a sit­ uation like this, whether they Our problem may not be as complain or not? enormous as ENSCO, and even Cindy Beaudoin though we lack support from other residents who are af­ fected, it is similar, only in a smaller scale with less media coverage, as the situation in Augusta Township. The sixth concession is not a non-residential area, as it was labelled when the M.O.E. per­ mitted MacDougall to first put his operation in practice. Thankfully, I have no working relationship with the company, therefore, my argument will not Celebrating a nuclear Christmas

It is amazing how soon we chance of getting cancer. The electricity on peak power. Peak forget. Right after the nuclear problem with radiation is that power demands generally come accident at Three Mile Island you can't smell it, you can't early morning or late after­ and Chernobyl the polls showed taste it and you can't see it. It is noon. Brockville's peak for the that the majority of people silent, insidious and cryp­ month of January 1988 was 6:15 were opposed to nuclear togenic. The latest accident at .p.m. I phoned the local Ontario power. Even the Decima the Chalk River Nuclear Hydro office to see whether On­ Research poll of May 1987 Laboratories (Dec.8/88), is a tario Hydro still had a policy showed only 42 per cent of peo­ good example of how the nu­ regarding a time that Christmas ple supported nuclear power. clear industry releases radia­ tree lights should be turned on. Today, according to Decima, 60 tion, tritium in this particular Several years ago there was a per cent of Canadians favor nu­ case, into the environment. The policy that stated Christmas tree clear energy. Could this increase radioactive vapor was released lights should be turned on after of support be due to the Cana­ into the atmosphere while the peak hours. That policy no dian nuclear industry's $20 mil­ employees were confined to longer exists, Hydro explains, lion public relations campaign? their offices for three hours. "we do not have a peak pro­ It is sad that people have to be The rest of the radioactive blem anymore." Then why is bribed by a public relations water entered the Ottawa River. Peterson saying we need campaign to support nuclear In both cases the government another nuclear power plant? power. scientists stated that there was Also, what time does At the present approximately no danger to the public. But Brockville's 'Symphony of 50 per cent of Ontario's electric­ tritium is radioactive for 12 Lights' and downtown ity comes from nuclear power, years and therefore for 12 years Christmas lights of 30,000 bulbs an industry that does not have a this radiation will be in our (10 watts each) get turned on? solution on what to do with its foodchain. Ask yourself, who is What time do you turn your waste. The high level radioac­ at the top of the foodchain? Christmas lights on? Remember tive waste fuel bundles will The Peterson government 50 per cent of all those lights get release radiation for 500,000 who promised change, such as their energy from nuclear years. As Canadians we use no more nuclear power plants, power. more energy per capita than any is now looking at another nu­ other country in the world. On­ clear power station. Yes, the There are many similarities tario wastes over three­ same government who allowed between the construction of quarters of its energy. (McKay, ENSCO to buy land in Augusta more nuclear power plants and 1983) The Porter Commission Township for a toxic waste in­ the present ENSCO toxic waste in the late 1970s recommended cinerator. Peterson's argument incinerator proposed for not to continue with nuclear for more nuclear power is bas­ Augusta. Our whole society is power unless a solution to the ed on the increase of electrical based on economic growth. As waste problem was discovered. consumption. For the 1987-88 a society, if we wish to continue this process we must then accept If no solution exists, which · is year, Brockville's electrical feasible, maybe in 10 or 20 years growth will be approximately more nuclear power plants and the government might suggest six per cent compared to the construct toxic waste in­ that since we all use electricity 1986-a7 year of only 1.1 per cent cinerators. Politicians are .each municipality should look growth. There are two major pushing this growth ethic after some of the waste in a type problems that exist with Peter­ regardless of the consequences of mausoleum. The municipali­ son's argument for needing to the environment. The easy ty would have to guard the more electricity. The first deals route out for our elected waste for 500,000years. with the lack of conservation of members is the "quick fix People who are in favor of electricity. Ontario Hydro's aim method", for example, build a nuclear power forget that acci­ is not to conserve electricity, nuclear power plant to produce dents in the nuclear industry oc­ for if that was the case we would more electricity or build toxic cur all the time. But the whole all be conserving electricity and waste incinerators. Alternative nuclear fuel cycle, starting with Brockville would not have a six solutions do exist, such as mining, emits radiation into the per cent rate of increase of elec­ defined by the United Nations environment. In every single tricity for 1988. Neither Report, Our Common Future medical textbook, it says that Brockville's population nor its 1987, which recommends, "that no person should be exposed to industries expanded by six per the goals of economic and any more radiation than is ab­ cent in 1988. The second concern social · development must be solutely necessary. No level of deals with peak power con­ defined in terms of sustainabili­ radiation is safe. Every little bit sumption of electricity. Ontario ty." of radiation increases your Hydro bases its demand for William Borger Augusta introduces bylaw to scrap deal with ENSCO

council claims the old guard and secure provincial funding Tuesday was the first time the ALEXIS MANTELL By missed a November 15 for the construction of a new council had seen the POWI let­ Staff Writer deadline, when the purchase Highway 401 interchange at ter, dated December 30. agreement was to have been the Blue Church Road. The deputy reeve wouldn't MAYNARD - Augusta re-executed. However, additional costs speculate if the rescinded township council gave a bylaw Tuesday's bylaw to rescind associated with the new inter­ bylaw will land the township two readings Tuesday night the October 5 bylaw authoriz­ change - such as surveying in court. that will recind the original ing the land sale came the and upgrading the existing "This council doesn't want bylaw authorizing the deal to same night council received a road to handle the extra traffic to go to court, but we will do sell industrial land to ENSCO, letter from the group opposing volume - would have to be what we have to do." the American company wan­ the planned incinerator, POWI borne the township. Andrew Gransden, head of ting to build a hazardous (People Opposed to the Waste Such expenses would mean the POWI legal committee, waste incinerator. Incinerator). seeking government funding, said he would have preferred a Third and final reading will money that otherwise would On behalf of POWI, Prescott full three readings of the come after the rescinding be requested for other lawyer Peter Adams offered bylaw, but indicated the bylaw is reviewed by the township projects such as road council a pre-worded draft township's cautious attitude township solicitor, said Deputy improvements or a new truck, bylaw rescinding the original was not unexpected. Reeve Adrian VanSchie. It said VanSchie. ordinance. could be ready for final Though the POWI letter and "It's very encouraging, at 7 Both the POWI letter and passage by the February rescinding bylaw are similar in such short notice, that we got council's bylaw cite the same meeting, he said. argument, VanSchie said first and second reading." "We had a resolution last reason why it ought to be meeting declaring the pur­ struck from the books. chase agreement null and They state the original bylaw Four arrested void. This is really a is illegal because it makes no housekeeping item to clean up mention of the requirement in the bylaws," VanSchie said the Ontario Municpal Board after the meeting. Act that an outgoing council after foot chase At its inaugural meeting may not saddle an incoming and gave themselves up December 6, the new council council with heavy financial PRESCOTT (Staff) - Four without incident. declared the controversial sale burdens without board ap­ Ottawa youths have been "I just kept chasing until agreement for 50 acres of in­ proval. charged with possession of a they stopped," said Sluytman. dustrial land with En­ The letter and the draft stolen car following a chase on "I guess it was too cold to vironmental Systems Com­ bylaw refer to costs that would foot by a lone Prescott police keep running," he added. pany (ENSCO) of Arkansas be incurred by the township to officer early today. He arrested one 18-year-old made by the former council to upgrade the Blue Church Road Constable Gary Sluytman male adult and three young of­ be illegal and void. The new to Highway 401 interchange was on patrol shortly before 1 status . a.m. when he began following fenders. Police are withholding .. The original bylaw 2060 in­ a suspicious vehicle, which the name of the adult, pending cludes no provisions for even turned into a Water Street an appearance in provincial conditional OMB approval, and apartment building parking court at Prescott by all four was passed without OMB ap­ lot. accused on January 12. proval, reads the rescinding Four people jumped out of They have all been charged bylaw. the vehicle and began running, with possession of stolen mer­ The bylaw also states that a with Sluytman pursuing them chandise of a value exceeding condition of the sale agree­ on foot. The suspects stopped $1,000. The vehicle had been ment was that ENSCO pay for after fleeing for about a block stolen from an Ottawa owner. llsta ready to lose books on ENSC

accepted the withdrawal settle­ municipal 01111·1· at Maynard noxious industrit'� t 1y lo come about half of 11 w 1•;Nsco settl ment, he said. would b� •.111111'11'111 if only 111," he vowed. mcnt payment 111 lh n1rrent 19 set­ reporlc-rs ljttnu I. I >11 t organizers < 'ouncil's seconcl 111ovc will be operating budg1·1 When asked if details of t he hi , which it a tlement represent good news, arc <'XJH·ct g s1·v11• ·;1I 111embers of to <'Onsider selliug llw same 50- proved last wcck. :111d it has t Augusta Coons answered "It's as good as the p11l>lic ' t o attc•1ul .ind rejoice 11 n· site to 1111 interested n ·st in reserve fwicls , said Coons. I planning a we're going to get" 10111-: hoped-for l>11slnessmah who l1as already I le does not ''-'IHTt heav nee for this The $50,000 settlement figure scttk111111t,· said aid he is willing to p.1y $100,000, � pt 1 hlie criticism ol 1111. ENSCO unce that "could be less and it could be Coons. t li;tl 1 cason, the t lac same price I': NS< '() agreed to 1[ 111111cial settlem<'11I I w<'ause th withdrawn more," said Coons. Mai t la 11cl 111111111111.v 11;11! is be­ p.a y. said Coons. 111:1forily of Augusto n·sidents a incinerator ENSCO has spent about ing C'o11sld 't•cl :1s ;a possible site I I!' declined to gl\' any details. l1�11cll11g a numhc:1' of prates rid for a set­ $50,000 in real estate crnnmis­ for tlw a11n lll:c:1111•11 I , lie· added. 11111 assured th<· prnposed use w!ll 111n·l l11gs last fall s:tlcl I $50,000, fees and otlH·1 <'X­ lu .in industry I la111 Is acceptabk hey woul sions, legal Co111 wil. hll'la W41S c'kl'ICd in a p:1y ;a11ything lo slop the Coons con- penses associated with tlw Oc­ In llaccommunll_v in landsI le 11· ·trny l:1sl November l'i11l'1.1lor. l'hc township paid abo11I tober 5 purchase of 50 acrl's in p111 pww ol killing I :tMH,000 for 17!1;1111· s of farmland Coon ng media Augusta's industrial park lrnm ilwl11crntrn· cl1·al and -; said the fo1 11111 August ENS( 'O to create its coi1111·1J ce on notice the former council, c· M:iltlancl nwa site, \'111.111t industrial made a porn· judgmen » st 24 hours spokesman Robert 'Jay' Marsh a p:11 k a few y1:• 1 1 ago, Coon call hy 1;1'lling the la 11cl Io ENSCO 1 Algh of 1e�lil I when 11T.llled. If Hw 111\\ 11ship sells Ih1 hut Ill' la.arbours 11 a.m. joint said last week. The company 11 Is finally 1111vciled, no a11l1110sity. to be reimbursed fo1 110 flo acre site 101· $I 00,000 alfr1 "Tl11 • lormer council cllcl whafi gusta coun­ wants said ( 'orn1s. : (roup People more than what it has already 111 p.1ylng ENS<'<> 11io11t $50,000 101 tho11p,lal was right rn1cl we'll hav la.wk lo r11111d11g the Incinerator vested, Marsh Haid. lh return, ii \\'Ill have recoup1d lo llv1 : \\ii ll it. Lurin�� Industry td ENSCO and New Enviro1111w11- .1cl1angc.··11. o.;aid. 11 'l investm<'ll i ot .ibout $98,oov an i11d11til1ial park 1:1 the mos ' I Ion he wlII rccom- news from tal representatives are not 1•x­ 1111d still hav(' :alio11t 129 acn·s nt comp1·ltllv1· cutthroat l>11siness i� mend co1111 1 l.1ke, hown n. is to ent of New pected to attend Saturday's 11<'ws I 11 clus trial la 11 cl to q('( I, he said. Ontario today. We ll<'l'cl industry1 111 lal ind11sl1 l;1I WI' .ed, the Ca­ conference, Coons said Tuesclay. remov1 llae 1 zon­ l<:ven aft<·1 p•1y111g off ENS<'<>, and 1ll'cd a Highw:av 401 ac­ ing th.al .1l '"' ll'cl ENS<'<> lo the rn l of En­ Council and POWI arc "'Ill tile township ·il1011ld not b(' 0111 cess 111 p Io the indusl1 1.11 park. site iii I 111 Ii t pl. te·c. said< 'oons . 'l<'e .Company of deciding wherl' to stage thl' 1·011 .111y money, lw '<.lief. "I <'ii11 why 11 ll'y (former "W<· 11 gel 111 lo plug 111.tl loop 11 " O's execu- fcrcncc. In the 1111 111time, how1·v11• couneill1 ) did it a11d I have no ectors have The small l\11gusta town'

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In the Recorder and Times of Ontarians to be? chemical incinerators would opposition to die down, March 8 you published a On October 6, 1988 it was be built, the first to cost $25 doubtless the Ministry of the report on the efforts of Mr. announced in The Recorder million. In addition ENSCO Environment is hoping for the Meredith of ENSCO to allay and Times that ENSCO would would contribute to the cost of same. I suggest that it would J.ny fears that local school develop an area of 100,000 a cloverleaf at the junction of be timely for The Recorder and boards may have regarding the square feet on which $45 mil­ Blue Church Road and the Times to reprint the series of proposed incinerators in lion would be spent resulting 401, further, ENSCO would reports written by Mike Augusta Township. Just how in 100 jobs and an annual pay the full cost of building an Moralis from El Do rado, 1988 oaive does Mr. Meredith take payroll of $1. 7 million. Three interchange and access road Arkansas, in October into the industrial estate. All with special reference to the this expenditure for what Mr. environmental violations Meredith says will be two or alleged against ENSCO in three truckloads of waste each 1981, '82, '83 and 1987. day; on October 19 he said there would be about half a If ENSCO is allowed to pro­ dozen loads daily! On that day ceed with its plans, God help also he said that the Augusta the St. Lawrence for it seems Township councillors - obvious that the government "aren't patsies," presumably and the Ministry of the En­ all other Ontarians are. vironment are loath to do so. H. It would seem that ENSCO is John Field waiting for the storm of public Maitland

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Augusta taxes may increase five to 10 per cent ·.. �UC�CTA TWP. lfDRAR\' MAYNARD (Staff) - Au­ said. Whether the township stays vices. and public health. Van­ gusta ratepayers could see a Council's budget in 1997 with provincial police then Schie estimates additional tax increase of five to 10 per was about $4 million, includ­ has not been decided. costs to the township of cent this year. largely due to ing $2.8 million for educa­ Residents will get the same about $1.5 million, more provincial downloading, pre­ tion. level of protection - the than eating up the $1.4 mil­ dicts Reeve Adrlan VanSchie. Based on estimates of $90 equivalent of 1 ¥2 officers pa­ lion the township gains in The chief culprit is the cost a household, OPP seIVice will trolling the township on a 24- "tax room" through the prov­ OPP of policing, VanSchie cost council about $225,000 hour basis. ince assuming half the mu­ said. thJs year and the next. lhat ''Til.is is not an enhanced nicipal tab for education. to 'We're getting grants off­ cost will increase to about seIVice we will be paying for." set some of the expenses but $550,000 when the province The township faces other The 1998 budget might not we're still looking at signifi­ shifts the full cost of policing new costs for items such as be ready until late summer. cant costs over last year," he to municipalities in 2000. ambulance seIVice. social ser- VanSchie said. Township to lim.it cost of brush chipping

antees the work will be fin­ added. equipment will allow him to By MARK CALDER the deadline. A new ished by June 19. or the pay­ The agreement was struck meet StaffWriter to $400,000 Vermeer tub grind­ ment drops $90.000. during a special council ses­ er to be delivered Monday will "We felt we had to do sion Wednesday with com­ MAYNARD - replace the three chipping Fearing bal­ something because the cost pany owner Lawrence Knapp. teams. looning costs. Augusta town­ to the taxpayer was becoming Council expressed concern ship council has capped the prohibitive," VanSchie said last week over the growing Unlike the chippers. the amount of money it will Wednesday. cost of the program. which new machine is self-loading. spend for brush chipping in some feared could exceed with a hydraulic arm that a the wake of January's ice While township expenses are $300,000. worker operates from an air­ storm. expected to be recouped contract involves the conditioned cab. Th e contract signed through the federal-provincial The chipping of brush along Wednesday,with LA Knapp ice-storm relief fund. Van­ The machine will reduce and lights of Construction Ltd.. limits the Schie said that doesn't matter township roads Knapp's overhead because he as well as the Maynard cost of the program to because the money all comes way. can complete the work with a landfill site and all township $257,000, said Reeve Adrlan from the same taxpayer. two-man crew. a truck driver parkland. VanSchie. About $137,000 There are no guarantees and operator. rather than the has been spent since April. the relief fund will cover all Contractor La wrence six used to operate the chip- A performance clause guar- expenses submitted, he Knapp says