WOLWICH BIO-EN FUELS

Ed Speers of the Elmira Bio Fuel Citizens Committee has a letter to the Editer in the Sat. July 24/10 Woolwich Observer on Pg. 10. Tomorrow, hopefully when it's on line, I will post a link to it. Ed raises two points which particularily get my attention. The first is the size of this project. This will be the biggest one in Canada! Don't get me wrong. The time will come when Woolwich will be happy to have power generation within their borders. I forsee a future where nuclear and fossil fuel are finished and local generation will be the mainstay. Within Elmira proper and next to a residential subdivision however is not the way to go about this energy revolution.
Secondly Ed asks the question regarding the non eroding of property values "Should we expect any less?" My answer is good luck. Look around at the proposed gravel pit(s) in West Montrose as well as the two pits proposed near Winterbourne/Conestogo. Look at the hell Duke St. residents went through a decade ago. Look and remember Rothsay Concentrates and Scavenger Recyling. Varnicolor Chemical stunk of solvents off their property and yet the M.O.E. denied and covered up for them until affidavits, photographs, testimony , video and years old groundwater reports finally became public.
Sulco used to have noxious air releases. My understanding and hope is that they have radically improved over the last decade and a half.

Neither this Council nor any past one have ever given more than lip service to protecting citizens health or property values. Committed local citizens whether in West Montrose, Conestogo/Winterbourne or Elmira are the ones who have always carried the load. This will not change.