WOOLWICH BIO-EN & THE CLC LAST EVENING

The public meetings with the Citizens Liason Committee and Woolwich Bio-En, as of last evening, are taking place at the Elmira Library on Arthur St.. A concern was expressed again that the Minutes of prior meetings aren't making it onto the Bio-En website prior to the next meeting. That being said the Minutes were e-mailed out to the CLC members prior to the meeting anyways. Earl Brubacher had been certain he'd checked ahead of time and saw them on their website. Bob Jonkman in the visitors gallery advised that he'd checked an hour before the meeting and they weren't available to the public. Bob suggests that what Earl might be seeing are Minutes on the internal Intranet for Woolwich Bio-En versus them getting onto the Internet. Further investigation will ensue.

Earl gave an operations update. Product is being received and the digestor and engines are all running. When running they are now producing power which is going into the grid. There will be a slowdown however as Waterloo North Hydro has advised Bio-En that from May 14 until June 6 they cannot accept electrical output. Therefore Bio-En will be having to flare off their gas for those same three weeks.

A Material Receiving Report was distributed which shows the number of truck movements plus total tonnage of incoming raw material for the month of April. As expected there were significantly more truck movements early on in the month to get operations going than during the last half. We were advised that normally there will be two operators on site on any given day. During off hours there will be remote alarming with one operator always on call for problems or emergencies.

Robert Musselman discussed his research into Incorporation, Letters of Credit and a bank account for the CLC. All areas are quite available on short notice and of course it would be wonderful if Woolwich Township were willing to donate some funds to be matched by Woolwich Bio-En if required for peer reviews. It was clearly explained and understood that Bio-En are willing to match funds for peer reviews but not for costs such as lawyers' fees. There was also an interesting discussion regarding charitable status and the difference between advocating versus lobbying.

The next meeting will be Tuesday June 3/14 at 7 pm., again in the Elmira Library meeting room.