HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-08-24, Page 5Wednesday, August 24, 2016 • Lucknow Sentinel 5
Bruce Power announces 100 Bruce, Grey and Huron student scholarships
A total of 100 of Bruce,
Grey and Huron counties'
post -secondary students
have received $500 scholar-
ships from Bruce Power.
The company, which
launched its scholarship
program in 2011, presented
the students with their
scholarship at a breakfast at
the Bruce Power Visitors'
Centre on Aug. 9.
"Each year, it gets more dif-
ficult for our Sponsorship
Committee to choose only
100 recipients from over 300
applications of students who
live in Bruce, Grey and Huron
counties," said Len Clewett,
chief nuclear officer. "Bruce
Power believes in the power
of education - if we can pro-
vide even a small boost to a
local student, it may help
them excel at their studies
and, hopefully, come back to
the area to pursue their
career, should they choose:'
The selection committee
was comprised of 15 Bruce
Power employees from a
variety of departments and
levels. The applications were
reviewed with system -gener-
ated reference numbers to
remove any name, location
or other potential biases,
and all personal information
was removed to ensure
anonymity.
Bruce Power will also
award $20,000 to 10 students
from the Saugeen and
Nawash Unceded First
Nations, through the Aborig-
inal Scholarship for Post-
secondary Education
Beyond -First Year.
Scholarship Recipients:
Hannah O'Neill, Tianna
Krampien, Lucas Meyers,
Liam Krahn, Luke Czucz-
man, Ali Rashid, Aiden
Simpson, William Fengler,
Jenna Easton, McKenzie Ste-
vens, Amanda Martin, Mor-
gan Padfield, Shauna Van
Osch, Tavia Caplan, Berean
McMichael, Graham Cook,
Laura Fullerton, Lindsay
Hummelink, Dustin Bell,
Ashley Stroeder, Brooke
Leppington, Zhiao Li, Benja-
min Lange, Kathleen Durfy,
Haley Wilder, Kayleigh
Shannon, James Gormley,
Tyler Donaldson, Tiffany
Graff, Edison Peel, Melody
Budau, Ceidlidh Shaw,
Christine Benney, Loral
Christie, Paige Concordia,
Megan Stansfield, Sana Hus-
sein, Corrine Schut, Grace
Schultz, Shaelin Green,
Claire Phillips, David
Edgcumbe, Kristin Marks,
Emily Cormack, Kira Mor-
timer, Hannah Diebold,
Ellen Neil, Khloe Moore,
Kyle Hiltz, Phil Bernath,
Hossam Gomaa, John Cam-
eron, Marcello Pagnotta,
Mackensie Klages, Cameron
Robbins Henderson, Garrit
Satosek, Braeden Skene,
Francis Lozada, Heather
deBoer, Steven Wilken,
Rebecca Rayner, Halley Byle,
Brandon Kober, Carly Tigert,
Olivia Nussey, Muhammad
Bilal Saleem, Madeline Dun-
can, Ellen Gavin, Bryce Mar-
tin, Lauren Tordoff, Steth
Popiez, Moly Halpin, Nicole
McLeod, Emma Clark,
Sukhmani Basra, Alex
Picket, Puneet Randhawa,
Rocio Villagran, Monica
Fritz, Quintin Graydon,
Nathen Smith, Elsie Shew-
felt, Jared Hertel, Neel Patel,
Kathryn Peach, Kristen Win-
ters, Virat Tripathi, Utsab
Roychowdhury, Andrew
Grose, Kyra Wright, Jayden
Shelton, Sarah McCaugh-
erty, Dvanil Joshi, Presley
Cormack, Sol Park, Michael
Adams, Jared Kirk, Sarah
Alton, Matt Thompson and
Spencer Linklater.
Submitted
Scholarship event held at
the Bruce Power Visitors'
Centre on Aug. 9, 2016. A
total of 100 students from
Bruce, Grey and Huron
counties received $500 post-
secondary scholarships.
Study calls for 18 -km wind turbine setback
John Miner
London Free Press
It's a standard that would
eliminate almost all of
Ontario's current wind farms
and the ones recently
approved.
In the wake of the release
of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service migratory bird
study, the American Bird
Conservancy is calling for
an 18 -kilometre buffer
around the Great Lakes for
wind farms.
"It is highly problematic to
build anywhere near the
Great Lakes," Michael
Hutchins, director of the
American Bird Conservan-
cy's bird -smart wind energy
program, said Monday.
"These losses are just not
sustainable."
Using radar designed to
detect birds and bats, the
Fish and Wildlife Service
monitored four sites along
the south shore of Lake
Ontario in 2013. The results
were released last month.
Hutchins called the find-
ings of a high level of bird
and bat activity in the zone
swept by wind turbine
blades "a smoking gun" that
proves the turbines should
not be located close to the
lakeshore.
The results from the U.S.
study would apply to the
Canadian side of the Great
Lakes as well, Hutchins said.
"There is no reason to
assume it wouldn't be as
bad on the (other) side as
well because these birds
are making their way up to
the boreal forest in Canada
to breed."
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has a standard that
wind farms not be located
within five kilometres of the
shoreline. The Nature Con-
servancy recommends eight
kilometres. The new evi-
dence points to an 18 -kilo-
metre zone as appropriate,
Hutchins said.
"These birds don't just
belong to Canada and the
United States, they are a
shared resource and they are
worth billions of dollars,"
Hutchins said, pointing to
their role in controlling
pests, pollinating crops and
dispersing seed. "We can't
afford to lose these animals,"
he said.
Ontario doesn't restrict
the proximity of wind tur-
bines in relation to the Great
Lakes, but does require wind
farm developers to monitor
bird and bat deaths for three
years. For bats the accepta-
ble mortality level is 10 per
wind turbine each year,
while the limit for birds is 14
birds annually per turbine.
Beyond those levels, the
wind farm company may be
required to take mitigating
action.
Data released last month
indicated wind turbines in
Ontario in 2015 killed
14,140 birds, mainly song-
birds, and 42,656 bats,
including several species
on Ontario's endangered
species list.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
radar study found that
migrating birds concentrate
along the shorelines to refuel
and rest before crossing the
lakes. The researchers also
found the birds make broad -
scale flights along the shore-
lines to explore wind condi-
tions and orient themselves
for migration.
Brandy Giannetta, Ontario
regional director for the
Canadian Wind Energy
Association, said wind farm
developers are attracted to
the areas close to the Great
Lakes because they provide
the most consistent winds.
The industry recognizes
bird mortalities from wind
farms can be a problem and
is committed to the proper
siting of turbines, she said.
But Giannetta said the issue
has to be looked at in
context.
Wind energy is designed
to respond to global warm-
ing, the biggest threat to
birds and other wildlife. Far
more birds are killed by
cats and collisions with
buildings and cars, she
said.
Hutchins agreed cats are
bigger bird killers than wind
turbines, along with pesti-
cides and building and vehi-
cle collisions. But that isn't a
reason not to deal with the
turbine issue.
"They all need to be
addressed," he said.
Jane Wilson, president of
Wind Concerns Ontario, said
the wind farm on Wolfe
Island in Lake Ontario kills
so many birds it is rated
among the deadliest wind
turbine projects in North
America.
Despite that, the Ontario
government just approved
another project a few kilo-
metres away on Amherst
Island.
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