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Flynn wants transparency Yo-Yo expert Continued from page 1 5 · Wednesday, March 24, 2010 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com Windsor Dr. site, are listed on its website and include such things as environmental assessment, municipal and regional approvals, community outreach, equipment availability and fuel supply. Not enough, says Flynn. "What we tried to do in our request was we tried to very specifically ask for all the information that would allow the OPA to explain to the people of Oakville how on earth they picked a site that was between 300 and 400 metres away from all the sensitive uses that we know of over some of the other sites that were available," said Flynn. "I don't think any one of those sites is suitable, but if I had to rank them, Oakville is clearly the least suitable of the four sites." Flynn said the requests dealt with things like the technology TransCanada will use in the plant and why this technology was chosen over what the other proponents were proposing. Was any of the proponents' proposed technology better? Questions were also asked about the plant's environmental impact and if any of the other sites were better suited to absorbing it. "It (TransCanada) seems to score points for things that people just can't explain like, `Do you have your municipal approvals in place?' Clearly they don't because the first thing they had to do was take a 900-megawatt plant to the Committee of Adjustment," said Flynn. "The Committee of Adjustment is for sheds or for when your steps are too close to your neighbours or for when you want to put garden gnomes on Town property. It's not for a 900-megawatt power plant. So the things they appear to have received credit for in the selection process make people suspicious that the OPA can't back up their assertion that they picked the best site. Oakville residents at this point would be very justified to think the OPA has done a very poor job and has indeed allowed the worst site to be picked." Flynn said he will be filing an appeal with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. "If the process was truly transparent, members of the Oakville community would have been provided this important information relating to their health and safety," said Flynn. "The credibility of the OPA in Oakville continues to be at a low point and unacceptable responses like this only exacerbate a poor situation." NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER FASTER THAN A SPEEDING YO-YO: Joey Harvey, 9, watches Yo-Yo pro Rob Kitts make Yo-Yo's bend to his whim at Mastermind Toys on Saturday afternoon. Kitts ran mini Yo-Yo clinics and ran through a catalogue of tricks with a variety of Yomega Yo-Yos. Ladies, Heading South?? i H i S Visit Watch Us Fashions First! sit Watch Us Fashions 1131 Nottinghill Gate (Glen Abbey) 905-827-2271 Open 7 Days A Week