WOOLWICH BIO-EN CITIZENS LIASON COMMITTEE

As usual the above meeting took place at the Elmira Library at 7 pm. Chuck Martin gave a Bio-En update as the Chair Earl Brubacher could not attend. Doug chaired in his place. Chuck advised there was a firecall last week by a neighbour which turned out to be a false alarm. The flare for burning excess gas had been running at the time and the neighbour also incorrectly thought they had seen smoke. Woolwich Bio-En's Application for Amendment is still before the Ministry of the Environment. This concerns adding different forms of feedstocks to their approval such as papers and mushroom wastes. The Amendment is also to clarify the meaning around 80 trucks per day versus 80 truck movements per day. Also Chuck seemed quite disappointed that Bio-En's plans to provide energy to a neighbouring farm have fallen through due to the M.O.E.'s strict requirements. These requirements would have included two full REA's (renewable energy approvals) one for the farm and one for Bio-En. These approvals would have required studies including an archeological one. Chuck advised that for August and September Bio-En were at about 2/3 capacity.

A motion was passed that these meetings would continue every second month and after six months would be reviewed again. There was also a brief discussion around which documents and reports should be made available to committee members. Chuck suggested Annual Reports to the M.O.E. were appropriate but perhaps committee members would like to see more. This will be an Agenda item for the next meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for December 2, 2014, 7 pm. in the library.

There was an amusing story after the meeting as to how metamucil in bulk quantity does not flow well through the pump system at Bio-En.