The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-05-03, Page 6PAGE 6 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 3 , 1979
Victoria Public School,.St. Mary's Separate School
and Robertson Memorial Public School all held tree
planting ceremonies on Tuesday morning in honor
of Arbor Day. The ceremonies were to have been
held last Thursday but had to be postponed due to
inclement weather. Here Chip Wilson of the town's
Parks Department holds a maple tree steady while
Victoria students Juergen Schulz and Mary Anne
Littlechild take a turn at the shovel. Principal Don
O'Brien and the other students look on. (Photo by
Joanne Buchanan)
Shell may drill here
BY JEFF SEDDON
If Shell Canada doesn't
find oil in Huron County it
won't be because county
council stood in the way.
Council agreed Thursday
to lease mineral rights on
1,186 acres of county
owned land to Shell.
The lease, for one
dollar per year per acre,
is a ten year pact. Shell
leased all county owned
,land between. the .. Lake..
Huron shoreline a'nd
Highway 4. The bulk of
the property is in
Colborne, Ashfield, East
Wawanosh and West.
Wawanosh townships.
The lease on most of the
plots is subject to the
approval of the ministry
of natural resources. The
land is used for county
forestation projects and
the- province picks up
part of the costs for those
projects. The provincial
government does not
. advocate private leasing
arrangements on publicly
owned land and . in the
past has refused-. to
permjt such leases to be
granted.
County clerk Bill Hanly
said no word has yet been
received from the
province as to whether it
approves of the leasing.
B lrhe explained that the
lease with Shell may not
upset natural resources
since -Th Contains a no
entry clause.
He said the ministry is
anxious to protect the
forest land pointing out
that the Shell lease does
nothing to upset the
natural growth on the
property He said the
lease is for mineral rights
only and does not permit
Shell to go on .the land for
any reason.
Hanly said he did not
know how county council
would react to a ministry
disapproval. He said
_council. ,may. .just . go
ahead with -the ' lease
contrary to the province's
wishes or may forget the
whole thing.
David Johnson, a
spokesman for Shell, told
the development com-
mittee his firm was
anxious to get a handle on
the lands in Huron near
the lakeshore. He said
much of the land • had
already been leased but
explained that if oil is
found' on one , property
neighboring properties
must be credited with
that find. Because of that
any money arising from
oil found on land Shell
had leased would have to
be shared with neigh-
boring landowners if
Shell did not have leases
on those properties.
Johnson told council his
firm was not interested in
drilling test wells if it did
not have land surounding
those test sites leased. He
indicated- at -the March --
session of county council
that unless the . county
granted mineral leases
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no test drilling would be
done. -
Johnson told council
seismic testing done in
the county last, summer
had indicated there may
be oil deposits here. He
said it was impossible to
tell how much oil was,
here or if there was any
just that there may be
some.
Johnson refused to say
where-- Shell was in-
terested in drilling its test
well and would not even
tell the development
committee. He. said the
search for oil was very
competitive and he could
not', for those, reasons,
give anything away.
Hanly said the . corn-
mittee did not really.
press Johnson for any
particulars on the test
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