Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free press saturday june study clearly Cloudy Ottawa up a dozen govern ment scientists and technicians Are taking part in a meteorological Experiment to examine the life Cycle of Clouds environment minister John Roberts announced yesterday. The canadians Are among 200 scientists from five countries and 25 research organizations involved in the three month Experiment which began in mid May. The other coun tries Are Britain Italy Switzerland and the United states. Roberts said in a statement the Experiment is one of the most comprehensive Ever held in North America. It is taking place within a radius of Iso Kilometres around Miles City Mont. Scientists Are trying to determine such things As How hailstorms form the correlation Between rain and Hail How thunderstorms organize in a Large system and How severe weather forecasting can be improved. The Experiment involves the use of 17 aircraft eight weather radars 125 satellite linked ground stations and dozens of weather balloons. These will be intensive studies of Cloud types which bring life giving rain to both the Canadian Prairies and the american High Plains Dur ing the the minister said. The canadians Are from the environment department and the National research Council of Canada. Led by Bob Schemenauer they will use a specially equipped twin Otter aircraft and will contribute about towards the Experiment. The project called the co opera Tive convective precipitation Experiment is organized by the . National Centre for atmospheric research and the Bureau of Recla mation of the . Department of the Interior. Meanwhile Roberts attended a slide show yesterday on acid rain in Montreal at Man and his world. Acid rain is the theme of the Environ ment department s display at the Complex. Roberts lets umbrella do the talking yesterday in Montreal. Canada extends food Aid plan . Interest May Speed Labrador Power project St. John s. Fld. Up Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford said yesterday that american utilities interested in buying Labrador Power May be Able to get the electricity sooner than previously expected. Peckford told reporters at the end of the annual conference of Eastern Cana Dian premiers and new England Gover nors that Quebec objections to proposed Federal Energy legislation would not delay future exports of new Power from Labrador s lower Churchill River. The legislation violently opposed by Quebec Premier Rene Levesque who boycotted the two Day conference Here would give Newfoundland the right to Export Power across Quebec. Quebec insists that All Power crossing its territory be bought and resold by Hydro Quebec. Levesque said thursday that his province sure As hell won t be a Carrier for Newfoundland Power through our reported threat published reports said Levesque had hinted that any Newfoundland Power lines through Quebec May not stay in place too Long. Peckford said the Federal govern ment s proposed legislation which would empower the National Energy Board to expropriate land in Quebec to make Way for an Export corridor for Labrador Power had heightened the View during the last week that the lower Churchill development would be seeded up. Newfoundland s plans to develop the potential of the lower Churchill depend on Access to Export markets As Well As availability of a major Industrial customer. Joseph Fitzpatrick Massachusetts Energy Secretary said Massachusetts As the largest Energy consumer in new England would like to encourage Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to create some Competition for Quebec. In a related development an expert from Winnipeg testified thursday Only minor adjustments would be needed for maximum use of. The Churchill River Power potential As a court Case begun May 25 was recessed until nov. 9. The testimony from Ronald Harri son an electrical engineering Consul Tant and senior vice president of Tesh Mont ltd., said realization of the maximum potential of the River would require a technical agreement Between Newfoundland authorities and the Churchill Falls Labrador corp. Harrison was being Cross examined by Thomas Hentzman one of two Law yers representing Hydro Quebec which opposes a Newfoundland govern ment request for recall of 800 me to Quebec under an agreement signed in the 1960s to develop the upper Chur chill River station. Newfoundland proposes to bring the lower Churchill Power out of Labrador by a submarine Cable under the Strait of Belle Isle then on land lines Down the great Northern Peninsula of the Gaw atts of Power currently being sold Island Section of the province. Canada to pull out of International whaling authority Ottawa up the Federal government yesterday announced that Canada will withdraw from the inter National whaling commission a move which Drew immediate opposition from conservationists. Mark Macguigan and Romeo Leb Lanc ministers of external affairs and fisheries respectively said in a state ment that because Canada banned commercial whaling in 1972, it no longer has any direct interest in the Kaplan defends ramp Inper Ottawa up an ramp officer acted As an interpreter during an inter View Between a Canadian prisoner and peruvian police solicitor general Robert Kaplan said yesterday. But contrary to published allegations he did not witness any brutality Kaplan added. There was a particular incident in which a member of the ramp acted As an interpreter i Peru but that was a simple translation he told the commons. Some of about 30 canadians being held in Peru on suspected drug offences told two Quebec reporters who visited them recently that they suspected ramp officers were present when they were beaten during interrogations. Ramp officers Are posted abroad to help in the worldwide Effort to stamp out drugs. Whaling Industry or in the related activities of the commission. The decision was taken after a re View of Canadian whaling policies re cent changes in commission operations and efforts to renegotiate the 1947 International convention for the regu lation of whaling. The government has notified the commission of its withdrawal effective. June however it will maintain observer status at meetings of the commission established to conserve whale stocks and promote orderly whaling. Decision protested the late afternoon announcement promptly Drew a protest from Mark Roberts executive director of the whale project who said the project an Alli Ance of 30 environmental and Conser vation groups was surprised and Dis at a time when nations Are joining the commission to press for a moratorium which would ensure the whales continued Roberts said Canada s withdrawal is a regrettable abdication of responsibility for the survival of the world s whale Many countries which once had Strong whaling industries have banned them leaving Japan and the soviet Union As the world s leading whaling nations. The announcement said Canada will continue to support the commission s conservation activities. Ottawa up Canada has agreed to extend for two years its food Aid program of at least tonnes of wheat and Cereal each year for developing countries the government announced yesterday. The action was taken so Canada could continue to be a member of the 10-year-old International wheat agreement senator Hazen argue minister responsible for the wheat Board said i announcing the Deci Sion. External affairs minister Mark Macguigan called the Extension one of particular extra Billing banned Victoria up the . Legislature yesterday outlawed the surcharging of patients by doctors for their services. Health minister Jim Niel sen said the ban is retroactive to april 1 and any doctor who extra Bills his patients May be expelled from the medicare program and will be required to return those payments. The Bill which received unanimous support was presented to the legislature March 31 after doctors rejected by 93 per cent the government s 15.2-per-cent fee increase offer. About 86 per cent voted to begin extra Billing april 1. Fee schedule earlier this month the government and the fee for service doctors agreed to a new medicare fee schedule which gives them a 40-per-cent Gross pay raise Over two years and will Cost taxpayers an additional million. Controversial provisions of the Bill allowing the govern ment to end the fee dispute Between the . Medical association and the . Medical services commis Sion through binding arbitration were withdrawn be cause they were redundant Nielsen said. The new democratic party opposition favored the ban on extra Billing but was vehemently opposed to the provisions in the Bill which would have allowed the Cabi net to appoint an arbitrator or arbitration Board and set the terms of reference. Under the previous con tract the average salary for a . Doctor after expenses but before taxes was Esti mated at the new agreement would raise that to an average of importance because a number of major International meetings planned for later this year Are expected to Deal with the special problems faced by developing nations. North South issues Are to be Given top priority at both the economic Summit in Ottawa next month and the North South sum Mit in Mexico in october. Canada will continue to play its part in assisting developing countries through on going provision of food Aid and through improvements in the existing system of world food Macguigan said. June 24 and july 1 tickets Good for july Bio Bonus pri1cs i Over Bonus Cash prizes Salvage auction every 1981 pless1s Road Winnipeg. Units sold on an individual basis a listing of All vehicles available at . Voted Nestray giving ample time Tor inspection. 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