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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 9 Palermo site one of several new GTA power plant options Notice: Safety Recall Black & Decker Deep Fryer Applica Consumer Products Inc. is voluntarily recalling the Black & Decker Deep Fryer (Canadian Tire product number 43-1701) due to a potential safety concern. It has been determined that due to a manufacturing defect, the plastic base that houses the fryer may melt when the unit is on, potentially causing the unit to tip and to spill the contents of the fryer. While there have been no reported incidents of personal injury, Applica Consumer Products Inc. is aware of a few incidents in which the base melted causing the unit to tip resulting in damage to countertops. Applica Consumer Products Inc. is asking customers to discontinue the use of these appliances immediately and to return the products to Canadian Tire for a refund. Continued from page 1 The proposal is in the early stages of an environmental screening process with the Ontario government -- CMS just published notification of its intentions. Elgar said he believes it to be one of numerous competing interests as the Ontario government looks to contract new power plants to produce energy for the GTA West. Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn said the project is a Request for Proposal (RFP), a competitive process, to the OPA, which operates at arm's length of the provincial government. Flynn however outlined that such proposals are being entertained across the province as Ontario moves to close down polluting, coal-fired plants, while aiming to meet the energy needs of a growing population. At the end of the day, Flynn said the province hopes to retain the 50 per cent of Ontario energy that comes from nuclear plants. With coal-fired plants gone, Flynn said the remaining energy comes from a combination of gas-fired plants, conservation and alternative energies such as wind, water and solar power. "In order to shut down coal plants and meet growth needs, we need to conserve and grow at the same time," said Flynn, who also noted that the RFP and environmental approval process are two distinct processes. There is a need for more electricity in the GTA and talk of power plants, and proposals for them, have been present for nearly a decade. Last December, Town of Oakville council heard the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) was investigating a proposal to put a 1,000 megawatt power plant near Trafalgar Road and Burnhamthorpe Road. There was concern it could short circuit planning for north Oakville as Trafalgar Road is to be the "spine" from which north Oakville development will flow. At that time, the OPA had informed council of the possibility of a 1,000 megawatt plant, but provided no specifics as to size. It was looking at a plant built within five kilometers of the Trafalgar Transformer Station in Milton on Ninth Line -- along the Milton/Oakville boundary and into Mississauga. The proposed Palermo Clean Energy Centre would link to the Palermo Transformer Station just east of Bronte Road, south of Lower Base Line. In 2005 the OPA issued news of a critical need for electricity west of Toronto. The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), the agency that operates Ontario's electricity system, has identified the GTA-West as a priority electricity zone. Priority electricity zones require significant new power sources to address critical local electricity supply needs. The IESO has warned that without new generation, priority electricity zones could face power supply problems. The Ontario Minister of Energy directed the OPA to contract for new cleanpower generation in priority electricity zones, including GTA-West. The OPA announced it would be seek- ing to build a 1,000 megawatt new electricity supply in the western GTA to come into service as soon as possible and preferably before the summer of 2009. It identified an "immediate and growing need to prevent overloads in the transmission systems in Milton, Mississauga and Oakville." Now, CMS Generation Co. has prequalified with the OPA to submit its proposal to design, build, own and operate a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant, with a capacity of approximately 600 megawatts, in the Palermo area. Fueled by natural gas, the Palermo Clean Energy Centre would be a combined-cycle power plant, producing electricity two ways--through gas-fired combustion turbine generation and steam turbine generation. First, thermal energy would be produced by burning natural gas in a combustion turbine generator, creating mechanical energy to drive an electric generator to produce electricity. Secondly, heat energy from the turbine exhaust would be captured by a heat recovery steam generator and this energy would then be used to create steam for the steam turbine generator to produce additional electricity. The Palermo Clean Energy Centre would house two combustion turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine generator, a cooling tower, condenser and other auxiliary equipment. The natural gas supply for the proposed Palermo plant would arrive via a pipeline owned and operated by Union Gas. Electricity produced at the plant would be delivered to the electric grid through the existing Palermo substation adjacent to the proposed site. A key "green" feature of this proposal is the use of treated wastewater from the Mid-Halton wastewater treatment plant as cooling water for the heat recovery steam generator process. The water will be piped to the site from the Mid-Halton Wastewater Treatment plant on the QEW. That would eliminate the need for Halton Region to expand its water treatment facilities to supply the proposed power plant with cooling water by using treated wastewater that would otherwise be discharged into Lake Ontario. The proposed site is just north of Burnhamthorpe Road and Hwy. 407 and east of Bronte Road. Its use would be consistent with Halton Region and Oakville's Official Plans and Oakville's zoning bylaws. The proposed plant would create 300 construction jobs, but only 25 permanent jobs. CMS Generation Co. has begun public consultation to assess the plant's impact on the environment and community. It will include open houses, information newsletters, a 1-800 information line, a Web site and a Stakeholder Liaison Committee. The first public meeting was held Wednesday night in Oakville. No others have yet been scheduled. More information is available at www.palermocleanenergycentre.com. How the unit can be identified: The fryers included in this recall are branded Black & Decker and contain model number DF 400 on the unit. HULL & HULL LLP Has now opened an Oakville office · Rodney Hull, Q.C. Counsel · · · · · · · · · · · Ian M. Hull David M. Smith Suzana Popovic-Montag Justin W. de Vries Craig Vander Zee John O. Smith Paul E. Trudelle A. Sean Graham Bianca V. La Neve Jordan M. Atin Associate Counsel · · · · Estate & Trust Litigation Capacity & Power of Attorney Disputes Complex Estate Planning & Administration Estate Mediation Anne Werker Associate Counsel Toronto office 141 Adelaide St. West Suite 1700 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5 TEL: FAX: Oakville office 228 Lakeshore Rd. 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