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Hydro hearings.start
By Stephanie Levesquie
It was a sense di deja vu, or that I've
been here before feeling which permeated
the Guelph Holiday Inn as farmers;
lawyers, planners and media represen-
tatives•gathered for the preliminary hear;
Mg of Ontario Hydro's application for
transmission lines. -
The .two-day preliminary hearing, Oct.
16 and '17 at least established the ground
rules for the bearings which will now start
On Wednesday, NoV.,13. Originally set for
Nov. 12, the joint board' chairman Robert
Eisen said the date was changed becauseit
conflicts with the municipal elections be-
• ing held that same day across the pro-
vince.
The joint board will be considering
which plan and route will be Used to get
power which Ontario Hydro says is bottled
up in the Bruce Nuclear Power Develop,
ment. Hydro's aim is to get power to thema-
jor Ontario and Michigan markets, and
• build up the transformer station at London.
don. . • ,
The jointboard is made up of two
members from the Ontario, Municipal
Board (OMB).. James Mills and R. Ward
Rodman. The board chairman is from the
Environmental Assessment board.
• Twenty groups, including Ontario
• Hydro, • various provincial ministries,
Huron 'Co.utity, Energy Probe and. the
• Foodland Hydro committee all asked for
. party status in thebearings: This indicates
/ • these groups will have representation
• throughout the entire hearings..
There was a request for participant
• \ statusfrom 35 groups and individuals, in-
• cluding Hay ' Township, Goderich
• municipal and Perth County. Par-
ticipant status means the groups or in-
dividuals Won't necessarily be at the hear-
ings full-time.
The joint board decided to follow' Ontario
Hydro's plan of action which calls for the
• utility's evidence on the overall plan to, be
presented in Guelph. • Individual route
plans will be presented in fur places,
Markdale, Cinton, London and Simcoe. No
:dates were confirmed by the 'board
however, .Hydro lawyer Bruce Campbell of
Toronto expect it will be after Christmas
before the hearings leave Guelph. .
• It is. expected that members of the
general public or those who alreadY .ha<7'e
party or. participant ,status will make
briefs to the board at the four local hear-
ings.
• The joint board agreed to meet f rom
Nov. 13 to Dec. 12 from Tuesday to Friday
of each week.
Tony McQuail of R.R.1, Lucknow, chair-
man and contract employee of the
SPECIAL
Foodland Hydro committee, presentedan
• alternative to Hydro's plan of action. He
commented later he had "sympathy" for
sthioen. board in its attempt to make •a deci-
,
' He wasn't so sympathetic in other mat-
ters though..
McQuail first notes that the hearings to
start next month differ greatly from the
• 1982 hearing: At that time, Foodland-
Hydro's version Of plan M3 - from Bruce to.
Essa then along 401 to London - was upheld
• by the joint board. It was later quashed by
acourt of appeal.
The Huron County farmer say$ the 1982
• hearing was to determine which plan On-
tario Hydro should take, from a choice of
• five plans. Now, the 1985 hearings are to
consider which plan of three and the exact
route ('if a plan is approved) transmission
lines out of Bruce Nuclear Power Develop-
ment will take.
This past summer, OntarioHydro said- it
prefers plan M7. .This plan/ ,has
transmission lines from Bruce to. ssa
( near Barrie), from Bruce to London
through Huron County and then from Lon-
don to the Nanticoke Generating Station.
TWo other plans which hydro considers
•
to be the only othor viable plans are M1
• and M5. They also .dve transmission lines
• running through Huron County.
/ The Foodland Hydro committee intends
to bring M3 back before this current joint'
board. However, Hydro spokesperson
• Gillian Bennett said the public utility says
• M3 is "not technically feasible".
But McQuail and Foodland Hydro don't
.give up SQ easily. McQuail said he is "very,
very displeased" that on Thursday the
joint board ruled that Hydro was given suf-
• ficient notice even if M3 is brought back
before the board.
• The Lucknow area man said all
residents within the M7 route received
mail notification while those in .the study
area, which.includes a portiOn of M3, only
receivednotification through adver-
tisements in various publications.
McQuail fears that because of the dif-
ferent notification process, these hearings
could be thrown out as were the 1982 hear-
ings. •
He intends tO devote as much time to the
hearings as possible. For the farmer, Um.,
means he has to hire someone th look aft
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