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With a lake freighter coming into port in
the background, Huron -Bruce MPP Carol
Mitchell announced that the Ontario:
Liberal government would inject $15.7
million into a harbour expansion project
that will create new loading berths, over
15 acres of new industrial land and create
up to 500 construction jobs. Goderich
Port Management manager, AI Hamilton,
Rowland Howe of Sifto Salt, Agriculture
Minister Mitchell, Mayor Deb Shewfett
and town Cao, Larry McCabe all worked
on the project and were on site for the
announcement Thursday.
Private/public
partnership between
province, Sifto, GPMC
It is a far cry from the $1,600 first .paid by
Samuel Platt in 1866, but the $47 million dollar
expansion of the Goderich Harbour will finally
be a reality thanks to a public/private parmership
between Sifto Salt, the Goderich Port Manage-
ment Corporation and the Provincial
government.
In making the announcement Thursday, June
30, Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell thanked
the tireless efforts of GPMC President Al Hamil -
ton, Mine Manager Rowland Howe, Goderich
Mayor Deb Shewfelt and CAO Larry McCabe.
"After four years of working with the town and
Sifto and the port corporation, we have finally
delivered on our commitment," Mitchell said.
"Providing $15.7 million for improvements and
expansion to the Port of Goderich
The remainder of the money will come from
Sifto and from increased wharfage fees, and will
not affect the municipal tax base at all. All told,
six new hectares (15 acres) of land will be created
off the north harbour, as well as two new loading
terminals and improvements to other infrastruc-
ture, including breakwalls and some work on
North Harbour Road.
The increased capacity will allow for the
agriculture, mining and aggregate businesses to
ship more by sea, and will create more than 500
construction jobs, and 150 new, local jobs.
"'This is our window to the world for all these
good things grown and mined in Ontario and
Huron -Bruce," Mitchell said.
It's been 13 -years since the acquisition of
Goderich Harbour from the federal government,
said Mayor Deb Shewfelt, and a new chapter is
about to be written on the very same harbour
that helped -incubate the Town of Goderich.
"The harbour played a part in the development
of the whole area," he said. "Generations will look
back and see this day as the start of a bright
future."
What helped make the project a win-win, he
said, was the goodwillfrom all sides ofvthe
bargaining table, noting the long hours that went
into negotiating the agreement. Though it was
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