The Creemore
Echo Happy Canada Day!
Thursday, June 30, 2011 Vol. 11 No. 26
News and views in and around Creemore
WIND ISSUES AT COUNCIL by Brad Holden Wi n d p o w e r w a s t h e dominant topic at C l e a r v i e w ’s C o u n c i l meeting Monday night, with agenda items relating to industrial wind turbines and/or the proposed Fairview Wind Farm coming up three times over the course of the evening. The most prominent, and perhaps most resonant, was their direction to have Mayor Ken Ferguson send a letter to the Minister of Energy and the Ontario Power Authority pointing out that the Notice of Draft Site Plan for the Fairview Wind Farm issued by wpd Canada on June 8, at the same time they announced their July 13 Public Open House, is drastically different than the one that was included with the company’s Notice of a Proposal to Engage in a Renewable Energy Project, issued in early 2010 immediately after the company was awarded a
FIT contract by the Ontario Power Authority. With six of eight planned turbines moved to an entirely new area (and four on the other side of County Road 91, Ferguson’s letter reads that “this submission is essentially an announcement of an entirely new project affecting a different and larger area and should accordingly be processed as a new project rather than an amended project.” As the original Notice of a Proposal to Engage in a Renewable Energy Project is considered a regulatory notice to potentially impacted lands, the letter states that “the project has not been amended to relocate proposed turbines within the original study area. Instead, new turbine locations are proposed in an entirely new and substantially expanded study area. This substantial shift in location and (See “Council” on page 3)
THE FUTURE AWAITS Strath Metheral and Ian Rowe were just two of the 33 graduates looking sharp on their arrival at NCPS Tuesday night. For more pictures of the glamorous arrivals, as well as a full list of grads and award winners, see pages 8 and 9. Congratulations to all.
Echo Briefs The Winning Ducks
Wind Movie at Station
The winners of last week’s Upper Mad Duck Race were Samantha Lowe (first), Janessa Bremner (second), Sandra Micks (third). Congrats to all 199 entrants.
The award-winning documentary Windfall, an “eye-opening movie that should be required viewing for anyone concerned about the future of renewable energy,” will have two complimentary showings at the Station on the Green on Saturday, July 2, at 11 am and 5 pm.
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LOG CABIN PROGRESS Four and a half years after the decision to save
the George Street Log Cabin, the ground was broken this week at its new location beside the Creemore Library. A slab foundation is to be laid over the next two weeks, and after that you can expect to see the old cabin gradually reappear. For more information on the project, visit with members of the Creemore Log Cabin Service Board at their booth during the Legion’s Canada Day festivities.
Intuitive Expressionism
On Georgian Bay
Sue Miller is set to reveal her secrets.
Fred hits the waves and lives to tell all.
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