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The Acton Free Press Wed December 1 McMurtry explodes at startled Reed When Julian Reed asked a question at Queen Park Friday about revelations at Ontario Hydro hearings of necessity in Acton he aroused an aggressive Attorney General who accused the Halton Burlington of using Innuendo and conflict of interest allegations to create a cloud of suspicion Reed asked the AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry in Friday morning session of the House that since the Bradley Georgetown corridor hearings were called off at noon yesterday to obtain a judicial ruling on admissabillty of evidence would the Attorney General avail himself of the time between now and next April when the hearings resumes to study the revelations made there in the last few days namely the evidence that Dr Solandt owned property close lo one of the corridor options in the study an option that was dropped and two that the lawyers representing Hydro is on loan from the office of the AttorneyGeneral as is the hearing chairman And no such loan of personnel was offered to the farmers and land owners And would the AttorneyGeneral satisfy himself and this House that these revelations do not constitute any conflict of interest The questions brought the Attorney General to his feet angry and shouting Opposition members jeered as Mc Murtry hollered I am not of the delails related to these two hearings of the past two days I assume the member is making an allegation of conflict of interest by his father you know in lypicol third party fashion creating a cloud of suspicion and innuendo about people who are serving the public to the best of their ability A shocked Mr Reed and other opposition members asked Mr McMurtry o withdraw his statements but he refused saying he had nothing to withdraw Tht speaker of the House Russell Howe said Ihcdignity of the Legislature was being lowered by the debate but later Mr McMurtry agreed to come up answers Dr Solandt is reported to have said he mentioned during the Solandt hearings that he had property near one of the proposed cast west corridors from to Pickering The expropriation hearing was told Wednesday that Dr Ormond Solandt a one man commission appointed by the Government rejected a route favored by Hydro that would have passed sight of his property Instead he chose a route approximately 15 miles away which required two crossings of the Escarpment rather than one and made the BradleyGeorgetown corridor a priority when it could have been eliminated Earlier in the week the hearings were started to hear both the chairman of the hearing and Hydros lawyer Tom Marshall came from the Attorney General office The usually mild mannered McMurtry outburst startled the Legislature Hydros bible No surprises at proposed Solandts report full of holes landfill site near Milton The best entertainment in Hills last Wednesday was the hear logs of necessity in Acton legion hall with lawyer Leon grilling representa lives of Ontario Hydro and dor took Mosherovcr was limited to the miles of a wet Beverly Swamp which corridor and he would not purported to show Hydro had expand his terms of rtftrcntc supplied incorrect informa He said he was sympathetic lion to Dr Solandt regarding but that was the way ht the swamp bottom the low Mr was asked lo happy with the Hydro lawyer Tom Marshall restrain his zeal in questioning strictures of Ihe law countering with arguments of Mr and Moshcr was but this Is not forum to his own asked to answer the questions deal them There was complete silence directly ins tad of skirting the we can shake the bejabers in the hall when hearing of issues Mosher admitted i report and Donald Meyriek told Hydro had not gone into the sav matter the heanng that evidence swamp to test the bottoms hut complained lawyer Dick regarding alternate routes for had taken test drills on the the corridor could not be led penmitre an admission Mr The strictures of law Primary reason he gave for Paroian found difficult ii us no other conclusion his decision was that several from an engineer Mr studies have been made and a Moshci said the Hamilton route selected and he felt it Region Conservation would not be the proper con Authority would not allow sideration of the hearing Ontario Hydro to drill test He said he would continue to holes in the swamp hear evidence of Studies showed bedrock was routes but it would have no only about 10 feet below the bearing on his report He said surface but work on the 15 his ruling should not be towers has determined the narrowly construed Parties depthof bedrock intheswamp may attack the objectives or to be from to feet below the expropriation authority as the surface and an extra related to their immediate is being spent to con property in their immediate struct 15 towers through the vicinity swamp MPP Julian in the Was this known to audience told this newspaper Solandt asked the chair the hearing chairman was man loading the dice since he No replied had already accepted Hydro Hydro testified evidence At this juncture then queried Paroian Leon Paroian told the hearing They were in error I could not waste his client JC to the tone and refer money He might as well go said Hydro lawyer home and leave the matter to Marshall went on to say the A recess was called during matter was important which Mr Reeds interviewed because Dr Solandt placed his by this newspaper said his reasoning for going through interpretation of the intention the swamp on the fact the bed of the expropriation hearings rock was not far below the entirely different from face Consultants hired by the the chairman His decision Commission has closed the door on jus mendedtheeast westcorndor he said Hearings of go around the swamp There Necessity were introduced to would have been no need for a administer justice What the north south corridor if the ruling says as I interpret is commission accepted the BUI Sorry folks but the Hear recommendations Paroian ings of Necessity are a sham said suggested We ve been had Hydro could have saved S3 Hydro lawyer Tom Mar million if they had taken the shall obviously tired of being route through Rattlesnake portrayed as the villain of the p instead of through piece told this newspaper that Beverly Swamp Mr prior to the expropriation act disputed the contention saying there were no rights to the morc expensive lowers would public The Act was intro have been required to go to allow the public through Rattlesnake Point limited participation to blend with the terrain Mr Marshall said Ontario but Paroian noted Solandt Hydro is often blamed for had recommended them at their choice of routes when points near they are political deci this juncture the chair Inquiry officers make man he would only use reports and then the Minister testimony about holes in the reads the report and makes Solandt report for historical background a fact which Following the recess Mr incensed Mr I Mr Howitt and Ms mightas well bags Susan Tanner representing hesaidagain clients opposing Ihe line The chairman again rei agreed to continue with their that his jurisdiction case despite the ruling of the chairman However Mr Paroian suggested the interpretation of the Act was narrow and felt his guide lines had been exceeded by other hearing officers such as at the recent hearings in Durham The chairman reiterated he had said he would not narrowly construe evidence However he was not disposed to consider a route in some distant part of theprovince be cause it was not appropriate or fully within his jurisdiction At this juncture the strategy of lawyers representing land owners changed Art Mosher of Ontario Hydro was called to the stand and Mr Paroian waved a deed in front of the hearing showing Solandt owned property in Albion township within sight of one or the proposed hydro corridors between Nanticoke and Pickering If the one man commission headed and staffed by Dr Solandt had picked the socalled middle route only one crossing of the escarpment would have been necessary and it would have eliminated any need for the Bradley to Georgetown alternative Mr Paroian noted the deed was registered In 1971 prior to Order in Council appointing Solandt in June of In efforts to further dis credit Ontario Hydros rch a nee on the Solandt Report considered Hydros bible for answering questions about the Bradley to Georgetown corn Asked why the Durham hearings of necessity had allowed input on and why could Ik two ex t runes in two different hearing by John Sell nuder of the Inttristul Mr Mtyrick replied thai with limt will wisdom and this be in Court The hi ad milted it was Preliminary findings iron drilling undertaken at the proposed regional landfill site the Tremaine lid site have not uncovered surprises according to Wills a consulting representing M n Mr Wills slid lhal in a of pi ills the drill rig had struik what initially appeared as rock surface tight feet down but more extensive drilling that samples of the soil being analysed now in the firm labs lie noted that any tion resulting from Ihe lab likelv reveal reason that would mitigate against the site as suitable landfill site He said the process would the besl inii most manner in Ire Mr Wells said findings of the would be presented to council in January He said it wouldn I be possible to collect ill ihe dala prior to the new council taking off Council defeated a notice of motion calling for a halt proceedings on Sile F until studies on sites and ire eomplcle Other than the Watson and seconder the motion atlracted support from three councillors ICG asks for hearing delays The Interested Citizens Group ICG will ask for delay of other expropriations hearings reports and also for a revision of the Expropriations Act a spokesman said Thursday We re asking that the on the middle portion of the line be postponed chairman Bill Mann salt after the Acton expropriations hearings until April We also ask that Ontario Energy Minister Dennis Timbrel delay release of Miller s expropriation report from the Durham 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