Power line to run over school yard, new survey
News Now • Thursday, October 8, 2015 • Page 5
“Surprise” power line location has detrimental effect: consultant By Mike Williscraft NewsNow The consultant for a residential developer has been left scratching his head after finding out a power transmission line will be extended over his proposed West Lincoln development. Steve Megannety said he was shocked to find out last week the chosen route for the power transmission line for the wind turbine project will go over a 300home development he has been working on for seven years, and a school yard for a proposed new Catholic elementary school. “Essentially I have two weeks to rally
for change,” said Megannety, who said he found out when developer Boralex reached out to bring him up to date on the power line’s construction. “I don’t know how this could happen with nobody knowing. I called the Region and Township. The mayor (Doug Joyner) told me, ‘this is not where it is going’.” The township and Niagara Region’s commission of public works, Ron Tripp, also – as of late last week – believed the power line had been rerouted to one of the other two altermative routes suggested in an initial study. Quoting a study
conducted by Lansink Appraisals and Consulting 2010, Magennety said, if the line remains where it is now purported to go, it could mean as much as a 58 per cent reduction in ultimate real estate sales values. “It’s devastating,” said Megannety. In an email, West Lincoln Mayor Doug Joyner said the issue has been “a bit of a moving target very, very, high level Provincial conversations,” adding Megannety is a “government lobbyist” who “knows what the Township knows and he continues to have open dialogue with the IWT owners.”
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