BS CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 7, 1983

The high-tech
revolution:
can we cope?

GOVERNMENT STUDY SHOWS: sss
Unleaded gas may contain lead

OTTAWA (CP) — The un-
leaded gasoline you buy at

premium prices may be-con- S|

taminated with enough lead
to ruin your vehicle's cata-
lytic conyerter, says a federal

d by the
society, but can
Canada cope with the impact, good and bad? This story is a
general look at the high-tech scene in Canada.

OTTAWA (CP) — The high-tech is

Department of-
ficial.

About six per cent of all
unleaded gasoline tested by

rippling through Canadian society, carrying some to
undreamed fortunes, but engulfing many others in its wake.

Kanata, the microchip haven on Ottawa's western
frlugc that has become a symbol of tomorrow: scarcely
existed 10 years ago. ©

Now it isknown internationally as Silicon Valley North,
a high tech Sh: La of
mansions and circuit board millionaires named after its
California counterpart.

In the last decade Canadians have been i to

the dep in 1982 con-
tained more than the allow-
able limits of lead, frequently
in levels high enough to ruin
the converter and to con-
tribute to the serious health
problem of lead pollution
from car exhausts, said Joe
Labuda of the department's
oil, gas and energy division.
D

such high-tech wonders as home computers, video games,
pay television, electronic bank tellers, robots, talking cash
registers and watches that go beep in the night. Now they
take thém in stride.

But not all is“ fr
brave new age.

The same 10 years of changing technology have dealt a
body blow to wiping out
many of the jobs that gave Canada three decades of post-war
growth and prosperity.

About 1.6 million Canadians are looking for work and
the government offers little hope that will

dly” (read d) in the

officials are
also frustrated by the prob-

lem of'nozzle switching by hydrocarbon and carbon

filling: station by 80 to

meter nozzles are 90 per cent.

put on leaded gasoline REMAINS

pumps, allowing customers _

to fill cars designed for un- ment’s recently released re-

leaded gasoline with cheaper port on its lead levels shows

leaded fuel. ; contamination in unleaded

; both problems, gasoline has been a problem

and’ they're both having an for several years. .

impact on what is being done Just 1.8 per cent of the

to reduce air pollution,” La- gasline exceeded the federal

buda sald in a recent inter- limit of 0182 grams of lead a

view. litre in 1975, the first full
Regulations governing the year samples were taken

quality of unleaded gasoline from retail outlets.

were issued under’the fed- | Between 1976 and 1978,

eral Clean Air Act in 1978. the viol

PROBLEM
- Statistics from the depart-.

1981, departmental figures
show.

- Although refineries have
“good: quality-control _pro-
grams,” the contamination
occurs during the delivery
and. storage of the fuel to
service stations, the report
says.’

In some instances, the un-
legded gas is delivered in
trucks that previously car-
ried leaded gasoline. In other
cases, unleaded fuel is dump-
ed’ in a storage tank. con-
taining leaded gasoline or
where leaded gas can seep in

A couple of tankfuls of Een aptedainaee:
leaded gasoline will ruin a It climbed to 5.6 percent in
vehicle's catalytic converter, 1979 and 5.9 per cent in 1980,
a device that can reduce dropping to 3.9 per cent in

from a ig valve, a
department official said.
The problem seems worse

dent truckers are hauling
leaded and unleaded gasoline
in the same tanker, the offi-
cial said.

Newfoundland’ and New
Brunswick have the highest
violation rates, the report
notes. The violation rate in
Newfoundland fluctuated be-
tween 24.8 per cent in 1976 to
10.7 per cent in 1980. The
violation rates in New Bruns-
wick have been as high as
29.8 per cent in 1976 and 12.3
per cent in 1977.

The problem of nozzle-
switching is also a threat to
a gains made in fighting pol-
lution, said a recent report by
the department's Quebec re-

at independent gas stations, gion.
possibly:

becaiise ineerer:

It ‘found 73.4 per cent of all

DISCOVER

decline significantly before the end of the decade.

A confidential government study, leaked last spring,
forecast that up to two million jobs will be wiped out by
1991, with a majority of the casualties in the manufacturing
sector.

The result will be a wider gap between rich and poor,
harder times for women, natives and young people, and

d such as crime,
and family ‘break- -up, the study said.

Former employment minister Lloyd A hy warned
that Canadians could turn into 20th-century Luddites,
emulating the factory-storming British mobs of about 150
years ago, if technology plunges ahead heedless of its impact
on people.

Labor leaders such as Shirley Carr, executive

vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress, agree the-

outlook for workers is pncertain at best. But others are more
optimistic.

Robert Long,
T says i for all its draw-
backs, is the key to the future. Without it many more than
two million jobs will be lost, he cautions.

The Science Council of Canada agrees.

The agency that such’as
aided design and manufacture will continue to displace
workers, as will robots on the production line and computers
in the office.

But it believes the good will outweigh the bad once
Canadians adjust to the new economic order.

“The day will come, and some speculate before the turn
of the century, when many of us will work, shop, bank and
take classes at a computer terminal in our homes,” the
council says. 3

“Burglary and fire alarm services hooked into the
cable-TV system, public information retrieval systems and
home tutoring via special cable channels will be features of
everyday life.”

Canada was slow to acknowledge the high-tech revol-
ution despite ample warning of its inevitability.

When Canadian parliamentarians visited the Nether-
lands last year for a first-hand look at its science and
technology policies, their hosts were amused. Dutch policies
are based on a 10-year-old Canadian Senate report that
Ottawa ignored. 8

One sign of the scramble to catch up is pressure on uni-
versities and other educational institutions to match gradu-
ates with jobs of the future, a trend some educationists
oppose on grounds of quality.

Science Minister Don Johnston sees no alternative.

“Young people who are graduating from high schools, or
even primary schools, should be aware of the opportunities
they will have, providing they take the right disciplines,”
says Johnston.

Astudy released last spring by his department forecast
Msb demand for the balance of the decade in a broad range —

head of the Canadian Advanced

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ANNOUNCEMENT

FLORENCE (Saliken) RYAN
Block Bros. Western Best Sellers are pleased
to announce that Florence Ryan is back and has
joined our sales staff.
During her absence from real estate, Flor-
ence married Calgary businessman Dennis O.

73

webec gasoline retailers had
otalled at least one ‘nozzle

enough to allow drivers to fill.

cars designed for unleaded
gasoline with cheaper leaded
fuel. In Ontario, 48 per cent
of the stations checked had at
least one improper nozzle.

There is no federal’ leg-
islation prohibiting the
switch of nozzles and few
provinces have adequate leg-
islation to prevent the prac-
tice, Labuda said.

The problem could be min-
imized, however, if Envir-
onment Minister Charles
Caccia follows through on
recommendations to reduce
the lead levels in regular
gasoline or even ban all
leaded fuel.

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