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It was a sense of deja vu, or that
I've been here before feeling which
permeated the Guelph Holiday Inn as
farmers, lawyers, planners and
media representatives gathered for
the preliminary hearing of Ontario
Hydro's application for transmission
lines.
The two-day preliminary hearing,
October 16 and 17 accomplished set-
ting out the ground rules for the hear-
ings which will now start on Wednes-
day, November 13. Originally set for
November 12, the joint board chair-
man Robert Eisen said the date was
changed because it conflicts with the
municipal elections being held that
same day across the province.
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 Development. Hydro's aim is
to get power to the major Ontario and
Michigan markets. build up the
transformer station at London.
The joint board 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 Assess-
ment board.
Twenty groups, inclu jng Qatario
Hydro, various provincia1 ministries,
Huron County, Energy Probe and the
Foodland Hydro committe all asked
for party status in the hearings. This
indicates these groups will have.
Fire levels
Huron barn
Fifty pigs were lost Wednesday
night in a fire of unknown origin that
levelled a barn about cline kilometres
west of Seaforth.
The animals, owned by Dale Jones
of Brucefield, were housed in a barn
rented from Joe Pospl of RR 5,
Clinton.
Brucefield and Seaforth fire depart -
representation throughout the,entire
hearings.
There was a request for participant
status from 35 groups and individuals
including Hay Township, Goderich
municipal airport and Perth County.
Participant status means the groups
or individuals won't necessarily be at
the hearings 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 four places, Markdale,
Clinton, London and Simcoe. No dates
were confirmed by the board,
however, Hydro lawyer Bruce Camp-
bell of Toronto expects it will be after
Christmas before the hearings leave
Guelph.
It is expected that members of the
general public or those who already
have party or participant status will
make briefs to the board at the four
local hearings.
The joint board agreed to meet
from November 13 to December 12
from Tuesday to Friday of each week.
Tony McQuail, of RR 1 Lucknow,
chairman and most recently made a
contract employee of the Foodland
Hydro committee, presented an alter-
native to Hydro's plan of action. He
commented later he had "sympathy"
for the board in its attempt to make
a decision.
He wasn't so sympathetic in other
matters though
McQuail first notes that the hear-
ings to start next month differ great-
ly 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 a court
of appeal.
The Huron County farmer says the
1982 hearing was to determine which
plan Ontario 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) transmissions lines out
ments responded to the alarm about of Bruce Nuclear Power -Develop-_
8 p in: and aked for several hours menf`will fake:
to prevent fire spreading to nearby This past summer, Ontario Hydro
silos and other buildings. Damage to said it prefers plan M7. This plan has
the two-storey, frame barn was transmission lines from Bruce to
estimated at $50,000. Essa (near Barrie), from Bruce to
for hearingon Ontario Hydro lines
Stewart all of Ailsa Craig and Brian
Urbshott of Ilderton put the float
t l ethe
SENIORS RALLY — The annual rally of Huron senior citizens was
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London through Huron County and
then from London to the Nanticoke(
Generating Station.
Two other plans which hydro con-
siders to be the only other viable plans'
are M1 and M5. They also have
transmission lines gunning through
Huron County.
The Foodland Hydro committee in-
tends 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 so easily. McQuail said
he is "very, very displeased" that on
Thursday the joint board ruled that
Hydro has given sufficient notice even
if M3 is brought back' before the
board.
The Lucknow area man said all
residents within the M7 route receiv-
ed mailed notification while those in
the study area, which includes a por-
tion of M3, only received notification
through advertisements in various
publications.
McQuail fears that because of the
different notification process; these
hearings could be thrown out as were
the 1982 hearings.
He intends to devote as much time
to the hearings as possible. For the
farmer, that means he has to hire so -
meone to look after his farm in West bu5tow of RR. 6 Goderich; Gordon
Wawanosh Township. Hill of Varna; Vince Lavey of Ilder-
Bill Jongejan of RR 2 Goderich, ton, Gerald Rose, Jane Rose and John
vice-president of Foodland Hydro
said while the group has legal
counsel, the London firm of Lerner
and Lerner Associates, it would be too
expensive to have a lawyer at the
hearings every day. He said a lawyer
would cost about $1,500 a day.
Admitting McQuail is being paid,
Jongejan wouldn't release the salary
figure. He says the amount is con-
siderably less than a lawyer would be
paid. McQuail said if any Foodland
Hydro member wanted to know the
amount, they could contact their local
director.
"We have the greatest trust in
Tony," said Jongejan.
There are 1,200 paid up members in
Foodland Hydro, the only non-
government group representing
farmers at the Hydro hearings.
Members pay a $1 an acre fee.
The group's members came with
green ball caps, donated by a well
known seed company and outside of
the -hearings was a float made by
members.
The float features a "Paul Bunyan"
type of character caught among
transmission lines. At the farmers
feet are a barn and silos. The groups
public relations committee, Gerald
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