POLITICS and THE ENVIRONMENT

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how all the significant hearings, dates and meetings are scheduled for after the upcoming municipal election? Think about all the ongoing local Woolwich environmental proposals including the O.M.B. hearing for the Interim Control Bylaw (Montrose Pit), the Safety-Kleen appeal, Woolwich Bio-En, Hunsberger Pit, Hawk Ridge Homes etc. All of these proposals/applications have been ongoing for years now, and our Woolwich Council have stickhandled nicely around and through them. That being said the best stickhandling they have done is to ensure, to the best of their abilities, that they as a Council aren't committed for or against, until AFTER the upcoming election. Now that's leadership!

Regarding the latest Letter to the Editer, from Ed Speers of the Elmira Bio Fuel Citizen's Committee, I wasn't initially going to comment. This letter is in today's Elmira Independent (pg. 5). For me the main news is a word of mouth conversation with a neighbour of a biogas plant in England. Allegedly the odour is bad and bad at quite a distance. The reason I reconsidered posting a comment on an anonymous opinion from England is my recollection that the proponent here in Elmira felt comfortable in using unsubstantiated positive references from abroad to bolster his position.