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Lakeshore Advance, 2013-04-24, Page 8"We're Your Cottage Contractor" Fax 524-5784 Cell 440.8111 524-9008 J PLAN NO. 14111 1 ,.•n nw II 0, MUNN 8 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Bluewater's IWT building permit fee challenged Melissa Murray OMI Agency Bluewater will have to defend its industrial wind turbine build- ing permit fee bylaw. Last week, the municipality of Bluewater received notification that Next Era and Northland Power are challenging the municipality's industrial wind turbine building permit fee. Bluewater's Chief Administrative Officer, Steve McAuley, said in a phone interview, the municipality was given notice of an application to quash the municipality's bylaw, which was passed earlier this year. The bylaw set the building per- mit fee at $14,000 plus another $420,000 in securities for decom- missioning, health affects and legal fees. The application comes from the lawyers for all three wind projects proposed for the municipality. Representing Next Era and Northland Power are Torys LLP from Toronto and Bor- den Ladner and Gervais also of Toronto. McAuley said the application is "brief and vague" and was passed on to Eric Gillespie, the lawyer the municipality hired to draft the bylaw. McAuley expects more information wilI be exchanged before the preliminary hearing date of April 23. "Iron) what 1 understand, there is no intent for anything to be presented at that meeting. It's just to set another time for the full hearing," said McAuley add- ing, he expects the hearing to be set for this summer. "'Phis is no surprise. Next Era was fairly clear when we passed the bylaw that they had issues with it. So we will go through the process to defend our bylaw." Bluewater has three projects proposed for the municipality. Next Era's Bluewater project proposes 37 turbines for 60 megawatts of generation and their Goshen project, which is. located in both Bluewater and South Huron proposes 63 tur- bines generating 102 megawatts. Northland Power's Grand Bend project is located north of Grand Bend in the both Bluewater and South Huron and proposes 48 tur- bines for 100 megawatts of generation. McNAUGHTON: affordable energy needed With Hydro Rates Set to Rise, Liberals and NDP Join Forces to Defeat PC Affordable Energy Bill Corning immediately on the heels of an Ontario Energy Board price increase, this afternoon, the Liberals and the NDP once again joined forces to defeat PC Deputy Energy Critic MPP Lisa'Ihomp- son's Ensuring Affordable Energy Act. 'Ihe PC bill would've ended expensive wind and solar government subsidies and returned decision making back to local municipalities. Lambton-Kent-Middle- sex PC MPP Monte McNaughton spoke in favour of Thompson's bill. 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Last week, the Ontario Energy Board announced, effective May 1st that smart meter pricing is set to increase by three to seven percent. Off-peak rates will go up 0.4 cent to 6.7 cents per kilowatt hour. Mid -peak rates will go up 0.5 cents to 10.4 cents per kilowatt hour, Peak rates will increase 0.6 cents to 12.4 cents per kilo- watt hour. "It's a lot of money considering electric- ity rates were a fraction of that (4 cents/ KWh) a few years ago. And, certainly hard to swallow considering the increase is due to the McGuinty-Wynne Liberals paying rich subsidies to foreign wind and solar producers for power that we don't need and later have to pay other jurisdictions to take," said McNaughton. Wind and solar energy in Ontario is inefficient and expensive. The Liberals green energy scheme is increasing hydro bills, costing Jobs and hurting Ontario. "High energy prices are hurting families and costing jobs. 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