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From isotopes to fuel: Living with potential harm RICHARD MAHONEY richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca emergency management coordinator for Champlain and Alfred-Plantagenet, who also acts as a consultant with Russell Town- ship. township’s emergency response capabili- ties. But, he comments, “We are not bullet- proof.”
Airborne mining assays RICHARD MAHONEY RICHARD.MAHONEY@EAP.ON.CA
No trains hauling hazardous materi- als travel through Alfred-Plantagenet and Champlain. But trucks carry materials such as radio- active medical Isotopes which are used in cancer treatment. Fuels, such as propane and gasoline, are among the potentially dangerous sub- stances that are hauled by truck. Explosives are used in quarries, but they are not stored on site, adds Holmes. Each municipality is required to have in place an emergency response plan. Emer- gency planning committees meet to carry out fictional scenarios to ensure they would be able to handle any wide-scale emergen- cy, from a fire that may force the evacuation of a village to a disease that spreads to epi- demic proportions. Many strategies draw on experience gained during the 1998 Ice Storm. “The big thing is knowing who to call,” points out Holmes. Coordination is also key. That was evi- dent when nine agencies responded to the 2012 fire that claimed two lives at the Place Mont-Roc senior citizens residence in Hawkesbury. About 90 elderly people were quickly relocated on a Friday night. Holmes recalls that the 2006 house explo- sion in Vankleek Hill was a good test of the
While the Lac Mégantic train derailment has raised concerns about the dangers of railway cargo, trucks remain the preferred mode of transportation when it comes to moving merchandise. Large quantities of goods, including an assortment of hazardous materials, are moved every day on highways. Thus, road mishaps involving dangerous goods are more likely to occur than railway accidents. An array of cargo is transported on area roads, relates Daniel Holmes, community
R. Bruce Duncan, Interim CEO and Direc- tor of Canada Carbon, noted that shallow graphite rich bodies at and near surface are extremely conductive and the depth, location, and orientation can be identi- fied using VTEM surveying technology. The quantity of graphite produced at the mine is unknown but it is reported that 25 rail cars graphite were shipped from this deposit in the year 1900 and sent to the Globe Refining Company of Jersey City, N.J. This yielded 32 tons of clean crucible graphite. The Morgan Crucible Company of London and J.H. Gauthier and Compa- ny, of Jersey City, used some of this graph- ite in their crucibles and pronounced it equal to the best graphite known to come from Ceylon, now Sir Lanka. There is no certainty that the assays will lead to fur- ther mining of the deposits.
GRENVILLE-SUR-LA-ROUGE | One of the oldest graphite mines in the country has attracted the interest of a Vancouver- based company. Canada Carbon carried out helicopter airborne testing last week at the Miller Graphite Mine, located in Grenville-sur- la-Rouge. The Miller Lump/Vein Graph- ite Mine has unknown graphite reserves remaining. Located on a 15-square-kilo- metre parcel of land, the mine was worked in 1845 and was probably the first graphite operation in Canada. Canada Carbon has contracted Geotech Ltd., of Aurora, Ontar- io to complete the Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic and Horizontal Mag- netic Gradiometer Geophysical Survey.
North Glengarry cyclists killed Two cyclists fromNorth Glengarry were killed in a highway accident Tuesday afternoon in northwestern Ontario. Irene Booth, 69, and Robert Booth, 65, were part of a group of 25 cyclists travelling on the TransCanada Highway west of Nipigon, when the accident occurred at about 3 p.m. An eastbound pick-up truck hit two of the cyclists, reports the Ontario Provincial Police. The pick-up then hit two westbound vehicles, another pick-up with a cargo trailer and a transport trailer.
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