Lakeshore Advance, 2012-07-04, Page 16Lambton Shores hosts sewer talk
Lakeshore Advance staff
Lambton Shores Mayor Bill
Weber reports stakeholders
islet to flush out issues sur-
rounding the planned expan-
sion and upgrade of the
.old Bend Sanitary Treat -
,..At Facility,
While acknowledging the
meeting, held on July 6, was
not open to the public, Weber
says the idea behind it was to
address miscommunication
by inviting stakeholders to
the table, including munici-
pal staff, engineers and Zone
3 community group
members.
"The meeting is to educate
ourselves," says Weber, who
adds there will be no binding
decisions or quorum
necessary.
When asked whether min-
utes would be recorded,
Weber said that is the likely
scenario and that, regardless,
a report would be generated
from it.
The next Tri -Municipal
Sewer Plant Board meeting,
which includes representa-
tives from both the Munici-
palities of South Huron and
Bluewater, is set for mid-July.
Moving Forward
Lambton Shores is contin-
uing to move ahead with
plans to update its five-year-
old strategic plan.
Mayor Bill Weber reports
one course of action being
considered is a survey in
order to gauge the public's
perception of which issues
deserve first priority in the
municipality that includes
the communities of Forest,
Arkona, Port Franks, Ipper-
wash, Northville, (rand Bend
and'lhedford.
"The new council want to
look at it, revise it, and set
some new goals and priori-
ties and we will be asking for
public input," says Weber.
Tho High
Lambton Shores is going
hack to the drawing hoard for
its plans for 'l'hedford's Leg-
acy Centre parking lot reno-
vation and rejuvenation after
viewing bids that all carte In
over budget.
At the recommendation of
community services' director
Peggy Van Mierlo-West,
council agreed to split the
Thedford project into two
parts in order to keep costs in
line,
Mayor Bill Weber notes
staff members have been
directed to revisit the design
of the lot and come up with
an "action plan."
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 • Lakeshore Advance 7
Meanwhile, the first phase
of the project, involving the
installation of wheelchair -ac-
cessible ramps, will be mov-
ing forward In order to meet
requirements spelled out by
Ontario's Accessibility Act.
Winning Bid
Ortega Construction
proved to have the favoured
bid for the Allen Street recon-
struction project in Medford
ata cost of $421,878,92.
The long-awaited project
will include new water lines
and is largely being rade
possible, reports Mayor B111
Weber, thanks to "a lot of
infrastructure dollars" from
both the federal and provin-
cial levels of government.
Facelift at Park
(rand Bend's Crescent
Street Park will be getting an
extensive facelift thanks to
community partners that
include the municipality,
the (:rand Bend Optimist
Club, the Grand Bend Horti-
cultural Society and the
Grand Bend Community
Foundation.
Among the highlights of
the approximate $48,000
project are updated play-
ground equipment, land-
scaping and a new 12 -foot by
18 -foot pergola.
Thedford area wind project jolts former politico
Sarnia Observer
News that the Liberal gov-
ernment is giving a FIT, or
Feed -In Tariff, to two large
wind turbine projects near her
family farm, has jolted Dona
Stewardson out of "activist
retirement"
"This is an injustice to our
community," said the former
Bosanquet politician, whose
family has farmed in Lambton
County since 1870.
1 believe people on both
sides of me have signed options
(to lease land for turbines)$
Stewardson said.
1 have to fight this for my
children and my grandchil-
dren. There are not enough
health studies yet to know if
(turbines) are safe"
Stewardson lives on Ridge
Road near two of 25 green
energy projects Ontario
approved last week.
Jericho Wind Energy Cen-
tre, owned by Nexthra Energ
Canada in Burlington, is
planning a 150 MW wind
farm in the Medford area.
And Suncor Energy Inc.
wants to build a 100 MW
farm called Cedar Point Wind
Power Project down the road
near Forest.
"will still need
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environmental approvals,
public consultation and to
determine if the money is
available within the com-
pany," said Suncor spokes-
man Jason Valliant.
Receiving HI' approval is an
important step that allows
companies to get government
subsidies for green energy
project, but it's early in the
process.
Valliant said it could be sev-
eral years before construction
begins.
"While the contract is wel-
come news, it's by no means a
done deal"
A spokesperson front Nex-
tEnt could not he reached.
Stewardson is a member of
Lambton Shores Concerned
Citizens, which attracted
about 13(1 supporters to a
meeting in early lune.
"We've talked to people
who have had a lot of health
troubles living near these
wind farms," Stewardson
said. "And l personally don't
like the look of them. The
aesthetics of our rural coun-
tryside will be ruined."
Most people in her group
are not necessarily against all
wind energy projects, she
said.
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"We're against so many in a small
area. lin hoping the municipalities will
be given back their power that the
Green energy Act took away. Give the
power hack to our municipalities and
they can decide the distance between
the turbines."
She called on the Mend government to
leave rural Ontario alone to produce
food, not be industrial wind farms"
Jutta Splettstoesser owns a fann in the
Kincardine area, where a number of wind
farms operate.
She was a proponent at the
announcement with Ontario Ministry
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