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6 The Acton Free Press Wednesday March 1977 Expropriation hearings make citizens unhappy Continued from page two the transmission lines had to go where they are planned Ontario Hydro maintained that it was only concerned with the acquisition of certain scattered pieces of land Ontario Hydro produced one witness Anthony a project engineer whod been working on the project for about a year Mr Jerschw told the hearing that the Environmental Hearing Board recommended an alignment which was adopted by the provincial lity over its preferred route The Ontario Hydro witness detailed points along the middle section of the line which are slated for exprop riation Mr Jerschw how ever was dismissed by the Opposition as a per son with insufficient know ledge of the project witness who around before 1976 honestly answered what he knew not opposition lawyer Par told the hearing In one of his summaries Ontario Hydro lawyer Tom Marshall told the hearing The need for an electrical transmission line is not an issue here Nor is the need for such a line In the local as issue He told the hearing officer that he had before him an order in council the re port and the minister state ment It is apparent that the considered a number of alter natives and it made said the Hydro lawyer No one seems concerned with specific affects on fie properties Mr Marshall said Just thai the line ought not lo be here at all II s not my function lo demonstrate that the pro posal is the best in the entire province the entire county You the expropriation of have no evidence that there is anything better Taking he minister of energy decision on the go ahead for the northern part of the line as an example the opposition lawyers attempted lo poke holes in Hydro case The provincial utility main lamed that it was concerned only with getting a narrow strip of some feel width through various properties Opposition lawyer Alan S headed the thrust of the argument First he quoted from the energy minister 18 page Reasons for Decision The inquiry officer FL Miller and I concur thai the Ihree criteria of fairness soundness and reasonable necessity which he must con require lhat the ex propria ting Ontario Hydro demonstrate a the adequacy of the planning process used in arriving the scheme pro posed for the flchiovLmenl of its objective including the evaluation of alternatives b that the concerns of the affected landowners have been fully appreciated in and weighed with all the other factors in form ulaling this proposal and thai the land require ments are not excessive quotation is from the same document which Mr received from the ministry last Wednesday home On part especially the evaluation of alternatives Mr Blott took tht tact that Ontario Hydro failed to ade quately consider alter Hydro relied upon the report which wis compiled from about four weeks of testimony during meetings in summtr of at Hills burgh Mr pointed out that which he con inadequately fied for the job ended a route which Hydro In selecting its route Hydro used a two volume environmental study The study wos not entered as an txhibll lo the hearings at the Legion The lawyer wondered how Mr was going to compart the environ mental study prepared by experts thai of the EHB report I arts lb and were simi larly unfulfilled contended the luwycr Mr expanded his nt that Ontario Hydro had not considered alternatives for section of the line by taking up the decision by the divisional court on south of the line Tht divis court ruled in a 1 1 decision that alternate routes investigated in the southern part of Ihe corn dor to Milton of the work of the Sol andl Commission Mr the Solandt Commission was much superior to Ihe EHB In recommending routes Tht opposition lawyer said the Solandt Commission had many more txperls to draw upon for its report Mr the hearing officer was told by Mr that he t have Commission report lo reply upon Mr Blott reminded the hearing that he said lhat wouldn be by what went on in other parts of the corridor Tht EIIB report was based on series of 1 c meetings Mr said The tould not wit tould not swear in witnesses it did gel The major point Mr said was an indcptndcnl inquiry with indtpendent consultants pro a report lhat remark able in Us acceptance by the public Why is there no acceptance of the line here The selection lacks Ihe degree of indepen lhai was in the Solandl Commission Mr said Opposition lawyer Howiii went the nub of the matter when he addressed the hear officer on the Exproprla Act This hearing may be the only one in the history of in which no evidence was entered by either side Mr said Mr of Georgetown quoted the Act the inquiry officer shall inquire into whether the taking of the lands is fair sound and reasonably necessary Whether is the operative work To mt keeping in mind the historical background that word has the connotation that the people have some say in whether their land is to be taken said A few years ago there were no expropriation hearings under the law The Georgetown lawyer told the hearing officer that If he the narrow Inter prctation or the tion Act he lets tht people down If you accept my inter prctation then Mr argument follows that Hydro shown the taking to be fair sound an reasonably necessary and the onus Is on Ihem Hydro to do so Other lawyers added similar points A few citizens look opportunity lo add Ihclr comments Lome Brown of Last Garafraxa told tht hear officer that his town ship and County passed motions two years ago telling of their apposition to Iht proposed powtr corridor and asked hat it be else where such as paralleling the line as suggested by then area John Dave Coleman chairman f Ihe Central Corridor Committee pari of the ICG told the hearing lhat because Ihe citizens found lion and unacceptable Ihcy haven had an dent study as the line in the vulh Outrage was a more ac curate word than disappoint ment for describing citizen feelings Mr Coleman said I plead for you re commend rather than ask that you recommend 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