HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-01-16, Page 19`Lucknow SentInel,,Wednesday January 16, 1985—Page 19
Farmers and hydro official discuss power line routes
By 'nines Friel
• HULLETT TWP. - Although one Ontario
Hydro official agreed the meeting was
premature, representatives of the provin-
cial corporation attended a meeting of the
Huron County chapter of the Federation of
Agriculture to answer questions about a pro-
posed hydro power line through the county.
The meeting took place at Hulled Central
School in Londesboro on Dec. 13..
The meeting;- suggested as premature
because Hydro has not yet fully defined its
requirements, was primarily a chance for
both Ontario Hydro and the Foodiand Hydro
Committee to air their points of view and
provide .a short summary of the events to
date.
Dave Abbott Public Involvement Chair-
man for the present study began, saying
that in 1981, Hydro decided to develop power
lines to fully utilize the power generated at
the Bruce Nuclear Power Development
(BNPD), and plan for the time the second
Bruce plant comes into operation, scheduled
for 1987. ' , •
After Hydro had waited for years for the
Kinloss council pass by-laws
Kinloss council met for the first 1985 appointed , as pound keepers and Frank
meeting on January 7. Present were reeve, MacKenzie, Currie Colwell, Ellwood Elliott
Barry Johnston and councillors David' and Donald Bushell were appointed as
Eadie and David Gibb. Absent were coun- fence vieWers. Appointments are for the
cillors, George McBride: and Bill Haldenby.- year 1985.
Applications for tile -drain loans were General accounts for $21,823 99 and
• accepted for Stewart Lane, for $9,000 and road accounts for $24,127.93 were approv-
for David Eadie for $3,400: • ed.
• By-law 24985 was passed authorizing
the clerk to borrow necessary monies for
, operation in 1985. •
As per by-law 1-1985, the remuneration
of/the reeve and council will be increased
$5.00 per Meeting .but remuneration for
special meetings will remain the same 'as
1984. The clerk and the road superintend-
ent each will receive increases. of 6% and
5.4% respectively and the drain -and build-
ing inspector's rate will increase .40c per
• hour. municipal drain.
• Robert Gilchrist, David Moffat and Uoyd • The application fcir a building permit was
Husk were appointed as livestock evalu- accepted for Theresa Thompson of Kin-
ators; Evan Keith, Charles Murray, Car- •lough to move an existing residence and to
man Whytock and James McEwan were •construct an addition.
, On December '14 three readings were
given a by-law to levy the cost of construc-
tion of the Sterling Municipal DraM Repair
and Improvement 1983 and third reading
Was given to by-laws for maintenance to
the McFarlan, Percy, Murray, Erner/son,
Johnston, Branch A B of the Murray and
Black Creek :North West Section drains.
A motion was passed accepting the letter
from William MacPherson, withdrawing
his petition for an extension of the Percy
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Holidays on Ripley farm...
*from page 7
are part of rural living, and make :our city
• ways seem rather cramped. This is not a
- few people living in close proximity, bit
rather, sometimes miles apart. It is a
• membership in a community.
The people I met will be an integral part
of my memories. It was an • unique
experience for both my wife and myself.
May friendships formed live for many
years.
• The Boyles are a close knit family, well
known and respected in the area. We love
• them. It is people who make places. The
Royal Commission. of Electric Power . to
complete its findings, the huge power cor-
poration approached a hearing established
to 'consider povver . line routes with sik
"all of them acceptable to Hydro," said Mr.
Abbott. .
Because Of the efforts of representative
Tony McQuail, concerned farmers and the
Huron Federation of Agriciilture, the hear-
ing officers recognized that Hydro's
favoured power line route, from the BNPD
to London, interfered with prime
agricultural land which the royal commis-
sion had cautioned against. •
•An alternate route; incidentally selected
by the Federation as the best route, from the
•Bruce plant to Essa near Barrie was chosen
as the course Offering the least interference
with this area's prime agrieultural land.
• The corridor designated N3 was chosen
and Ontario Hydro developed the plan to the
• point of actually ,deciding the general area
to place the towers. At that time, cottagers
and farmers in the Bruce area formed a
group to fight Hydro's plans called, the Cen-
tral Ontario Coalition, which contended that
both seasonal and permanent residents did
not receive proper notice; of . the provincial
• company's intentions. The issue was taken
to court. • . • . • •
"This so-called lack of notice was review-
ed and the three judges decided the move
should be quashed," said Mr. Abbott.
"Now We're doing it again. A study of the .
,best possible route from Bruce to London
will enable us to go back to a hearing and
have in-depth • information on various
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routes," said the Hydro official.
He also stressed that although.' Ontario
• Hydro was investigatingthe direct Bruce to
London course, this study would not
necessarily mean, that route Would be
especially pushed as the *lost favourable.
• Tony McQuail a West Wawanosh. Town-
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• places may be forgcitten; the people will be
remembered. Sometime in the net too
distant future, we hope Francis and Irene
may visit us in our own home; they are
welcome.
Oh, did I mention the farm, the stinky
pigs and yappy ewes, the friendly dog and
all the sparrows in the trees? Did I mention
• the friendly people on • every farm,
everyone waving at everyone else, helping
to bale and, stow away in the barn about
1,800 bales of straw? Did I mention I
enjoyed it? Well I did.
OBITUARY
JAMES DAWSON LOWRY
James Dawson Lowry, a former
businessman of Ripley, passed away after a
lengthy illness in Kincardine and District
Hospital on Tues., Dec. 18, 1984.
He was born in Lisburn, Huron Twp. on
Mar. 3, 1910 to obert J. and Lavina Jane
(Jones) Lowry.
• For many years he ' was manager of. the
Toronto plant of Canadian Johns -Manville
Co. Prior to this he was plant engineer at St.
Catharines Steel Products, St. Catharines.
He also was- engineer at Welland Chemical
Co. Niagara Falls and at International
Nickel Co. at Sudbury, Ont. , • ,
Surviving to mourn his loss are his wife,'
the former Marie Isabel MacDonald of
Ripley, two sons, Don Of Agincourt and Ran-
dy of Woodstock; one daughter -Diane (Mrs.
John Hinckley) of Ajax; eight grand-
children, one brother Elden of Huron Twp.;
two sisters Olive Needham of Kincardine
and Myrtle Anderson of Millarton.
He Was predeceased by one sister Ada
(Mrs. Orma Pollock) of Kincardine..
A private funeral and: committal service
was held at the MacKenzie McCreath
Funeral Home in Ripley on Thursday after-
noon. bee. 20 with Rev. Hugh Nugent of Knox
Preslpterian Church officiating. , •• •
Mollie writes from Ireland
*from page 18
promised to write for the Legion magazine.
We enjoyed our stay enormously, though I
had one complaint - they fed us too well
and I put on weightlr
In November, too, my husband's broth-
er-in-law came to stay with us, bringing
with him copies of the Lucknow Sentinel
and the Goderich Signal -Star and photo-
graphs and messages from Marie Park and
her family. He has spent a month in
' Canada with one son in Montreal and
another in Kincardine and made a special
point of visiting -Dungannon, Ontario, on
my behalf. That was a big surprise and a
big thrill for me. Tell Todd Park I hardly
recognized him, he's grown so tall. The
wedding photograph was lovely with every-
one looking very smart.
Later on, I'll send you an article I've
written about my brother which I think will
be of interest to you and your readers. My
love and good. wishes to you all.
Mollie Whiteside,
Dungannon, Ireland.
'ship farmer and a member of the Federation.
said the process was now primarily a polit-.
• ical one:
After working at the hearings to point out
that Hydro's favoured route would com-
plicate farming operations and waste
valuable land, the hearing decision the
F/ederation supported was overturned in
court., •
Mr. McQuail suggested that • because
, many of the cottagers in the region. of the •
• • proposed line are lawyers, stock brokers
and. other, influential people; the provincial •
government did not defend its hearing's fin-
dings. "Asa result, the court overturned the
• hearing's recommendation on the grounds
of notice." . .
And at this time, said Mr. McQuail,
going to be in limbo for awhile," because it
• is a "political hot potato.',' He said that with
a provincial electionin the near future, the
• hearing, framework / Ontario Hydro needs
from the provincial' government to • make .
progress On the project will not be developed
„ until after the next government is elected.
The West ' Wawanosh Township. farmer •
also 'said that • when the next hearings are
• conducted; every *farmer with a point to
• make should try to attend and 'express their
concern with the Bruce to London route.
Hydro officials were not able to answer
many specific questions fanners had con-
cerning the routes because .of the lack of a
• 'hearing framework, but the question • of
compensation. was investigated. A booklet
outlining the many various types of compen-
•sation available was distributed.
As one farmer said, "I don't think we'll be
able to stop the line so I'm just going to go
for the money." •
Dave Abbott and the other Hydro officials
offered to attend another • Federation
meeting in March when the route corridors
should be narrowed down.
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