Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 5 Winnipeg free press thursday january 8, 1976 Public must watch metric ripoffs Ottawa up the fed eral metric commission will rely on consumer protest and Media coverage to ensure that retailers do not profit from the conversion to metric units conic ii Rin chairman s. M. Gossage said wednes mesday. Or. Gossage said the com Mission responsible for the conversion program has investigated one or two cases of stores replacing old Imperial measured packages with smaller metric measured packages and charging the same Price. It was found to be a mis take on the part of the store or. Gossage said at a news conference. Either he did t realize what was happening or he got con or. Gossage said in an in i Tecu Steak furniture 1469 St. James St. Pm. 7744339 Mon. To Fri. 10 to 9 sat. 10 to 6 Ter View that some retailers might try to reduce sizes and charge the old prices but i Don t think we Are going to have a massive attempt by retailers to get into Price most store managers would not risk jeopardizing the company s Good the most effective Safe guard win be the protest of Consumers and the co opera Tion of the Media in making that kind of protest he said. But Herb Gray Liberal my for Windsor West and former consumer affairs minister said in a later interview that it is unfair of the govern ment and the commission to expect Consumers to take the initiative in making com plaints about possible rip some food products such As sugar already Are being mar k e t e d in metric measured packages in some parts of the country. The commission has set 1980 As the target for almost total conversion to the metric system. Or. Gray said the govern ment should establish a body liquor licensing Board a meeting of the licensing Board will be held on monday March 1st, 1976. And tuesday March 2nd, 1976, com mencing at a.m., at the head office of the commission 1555 Buffalo place Winnipeg Manitoba. To enable applicants to be heard at that meeting formal application together with supporting documents As required by the liquor control act and regulations must be submitted to the Secretary of the Board at the head office of the liquor control commission by monday january 26th, 1976. A. T. Jackson Secretary licensing Board to Monitor switches to metric and to investigate consumer complaints about Price gouging. It was unrealistic Consumers to detect All. In creases in prices As a result of metric conversion particularly in instances where the Price increase on an individual article was slight. Through that slight in crease and the Sale of hundreds of thousands of boxes the profit could run into millions of or. Gray said. Or. Gossage said that Al though conversion to the met Ric system is voluntary co operation from Industry has been Good. Any individual firm has the right to choose when and How to or. Gossage said. He said Trade minister Don Jamieson will meet Provin Cial representatives Here Jan. 15-16 to discuss ways of co operating on the program. Or. Gossage said Canada s Converson to the metric sys tem will be heavily influenced by the recent passage in the United states of a Bill authorizing establishment of a Board to co ordinate a pro Gram of voluntary conversion in the . Beaufort sea Bleak Oil spill picture painted Ottawa up the Ca Nadian society of Environ mental biologists painted a chilling picture wednesday of the irreparable damage which would result from even an average Oil spill during current drilling operations in the Beaufort sea. Or. David Lane an Acqua tic biologist with the Federal environment department in Edmonton told the society s annual meeting that the effectiveness of existing methods for cleaning up spilled Oil and even for stopping an Oil Well Blowout would be limited by conditions in the area. To demonstrate his Point he referred to a scenario set out in a paper prepared by department biologists which predicted the effects of a hypothetical Oil Well loss of control of a Well Dur ing drilling when underground pressures Force Oil to the surface. The first step in dealing with a Blowout in Southern areas is to Drill a Relief a separate Well which goes at an Angle into the Oil Pool from which Oil is escaping. Under Normal conditions for example in Southern Al Berta this might take about a month but in the Beaufort sea this would be impossible be fore the summer of ju77 if the Blowout occurred in the fall of 1976, he said. In the meantime tens of thousands of barrels of Oil would have escaped much of it gathering under ice in the area. Or. Lane said if conditions were Ideal 90 per cent of the spill might he burned off but in the turbulent weather conditions of the area at that time of year this would be unlikely. What would probably Hap pen he said would be that Oil would be blown on to beaches said into lagoons and Bays and the Mackenzie Stiver Delta would be contaminated. Normal cleanup operations involving skimming would be All but useless during the Winter and the Natu ral Drift of the ice to the Vest might leave an Oil Trail As much As 300 Miles Long Well into alaskan Waters and per haps even into Waters of the .s.e. During the Winter Between 35 and 64 per cent of the total Seal population might be affected in the Region he said. 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