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Tilt Wednesday July Put IS If CONTINUES JULY 13th 14th 15th Georgetown Market Expropriation hearings Continued from Page 1 search for it launched Arguing that Hydro has to provide the rationale which led it to ignore the Bruce to route Mr suggested that a study of the route could be made during the hearing a five week Hydro he said now Ignoring the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision that evidence of alternative route studies must be provided at the expropriation hearings II Is to me that the very of Appeal and others wanted us to see here won be provided hearing officer Donald Meyrickagrced for resolved This Im porlont intervening event court ruling requires a new look the situation We must determine what The Essa alternative is and to what extent it was examined by Hydro A route to was never studied Mr Marshall responded pointing out that the proposal was never con a valid nil ma live Isn that all you need to know Evidence a reasonable probe into the routing is found in the Solandt report ion an east west Obstacles face opponents in bid for Hydro information Opponents of Ontario Hyd ro plana to expropriate land in lhu municipality for the Bradley loGeorgetown Iran emission corridor continue to meet obstacles in their at tempts to have alternative routes considered during on going public hco rings in Acton Despite a recent ruling by the Ontario Court of appeal that evidence concerning ternate routes can be solicitors for the affected landowners have been unable to pin down Hydro sole wit as to the viability of proposed alternatives Art Masher a land use ex pert for Hydro spent his see day Tuesday giving on the utility s appraisal and development of certain Representatives of the cor rldor opponents John Schnei and Leon how ever v ere repeatedly con fronted by Mr Mosher a lack of knowledge and expertise in the specific areas they have to implore during Work continues on hydro While the parties involved await the resumption of ex propria l ion hearings for the southern section of the Brad ley to Georgetown slon lines construction will continue on the northern most section and could begin on the central section The apparent inevitability of the completion of the entire line regardless of the outcome of the ongoing hearings leaves the corridor opponents with little left of their original They re going to push the thing through Bill Mann chairman of Iht Inter Ciliztns Group ICG admitted Wednesday This whole hearing is a farce The battle against the corridor is virtually over for the landowners along the northern section most of whom were represented at last summer expropriation hear in Durham by the Grey County corridor committee a wing of the ICG Leonard Mamon for one predicted that the line will be completed no matter how in tense the remainder of the battle becomes The Arthur Township beef farmer never theless urged landowners in the southern section to preser vere and indicated that he and his neighbours to the north will be paying careful attention to their activities Mr Manion and the other Grey County landowners last week received Ontario Hydro offers of purchase for their properties The offers he said yesterday have still to be finalized but promise much more than it the owners had put the land up for sale on the open where the pre of the corridor would have a detrimental effect on the value Installation of the Hydro tower footings is well under way on the properties to either side of Mr Manion farm which is itself already ed by two lines Mr Manion contended that the government cares little about the fate of such farm land because of a surplus of farm produce in Ontario You can get out of the driveway because of the trucks so why not sell out and move hi asked bitterly Let the next genera worry about the land Mr added that her factor in his decision to relinquish his hold on the property was his concern for his family s health Mrs Man in in particular he said suffered he ill effects of expo sure to he high voltage energy as a result of the many hours she working beneath the lines that already cross the Mr Manion will be moving his farming operation la River in Northern Ontario long way from Hydro is transmission grid and hopefully a long way from the memories of a cosily four struggle against the Crown corporation deter mined forts to usurp his land Efforts to collect taxes in arrears Property owners owing back taxes to the municipality and are making no effort to meet delinquent payments will find their properties being regis tered for back taxes accord lng to a recommendation by the finance and administration committee Monday Hal Ion Hills deputy treusur Enforcing dog bylaw Dog owners who refuse to purchase togs for their pets could find themselves in court defying Hit Ho lion Hills canine control bylaw Finance and administration commute decided Monday evening com mend that council utilize the provisions in their bylaw before it loses public respect Dog owners who are prose cuted face fines plus court costs under the provisions of the bylaw Town deputy treasurer Grant Usher estimated that 30 dogs are Involved at this point In 1979 17 tags were sold and so for this year about 19 tags have been he Bays er Grant Usher old the com mittee that vacant properties can be registered after one of dehquent payments occupied properties must fall behind by three years before the municipality can move to collect its money Usher soys that properly owners still hove year to m their properties after a lax certificate Is registered against them Once the ccrtlfl is registered the proper tics must be appraised and any buildings on them must be Insured In redeeming their property the taxpayers would also hove to accept the legal costs involved by the registra the properties are not redeemed they become vested In the town name and may be kept or sold the discretion of council Mr Usher says the own will not be registering properties where the owners are making an attempt to meet their pay Although there arc probably about 100 properties owing back taxes only about face registration he says He could not estimate the amount of taxes Involved by these prop erties Despite an invitation by hearing officer Donald Mey rick to call more suitable witnesses Hydro solicitor Tom Marshall maintained that Mr Mosher could provide all the relevant testimony needed ring Iht hearing Mr Meyrick called Mr Par suggestion that he invite Solandt to testify inapproprhte Solandt a J inquiry inlu to Pickering Hydro corridor during which important Information con the Bradley to Georgetown line was heard A lot of these mutters tan be produced in by Mr Schneider and I as he will do so Mr Marshall commented at one point That s very flattering Mr Schneider replied but 3U re under the misappre that we have doe we don Much of the cross exam was aimed uncovering reasons for rejecting a suggested route from Bradley on the Bruce Peninsula to near The ICG which has represented the con of affected landowners for past four years has pointed to this route as a shorter less damaging alter Mr Mosher testified that the was told the Bruce to route has been carefully studied but only from the paint of view of the overall system design No study was made of the posslhk environmental Impact on such roule admitted Mr Meyrick acknowledged Mr statement that Mr Mosher has no personal knowledge of Bruce to Lisa study He pointed out Hydro s stance however thai the route was never actually considered to be an alternative and need not be examined during the current As result despite the court of appeal decision in the land owners favor that alternatives must be examined the lawyers are still unable to confront Hydro alleged f to adequately study the Bruce to Route Dick another lawyer or the landowners rtiieraled the concern he first txpressed when the hcan opened seven months ago Solandi mission report which based its own findings on Hydro hour say evidence has come to be accepted as gospel he said despite the lawyers Hi shortcoming no Hydro witnesses arc to be brought forward so that host findings can be tested Mr ian most of five hour session attempting lo trace through Mr the sour ccs and destinations of Hydro electric power throughout the Ontario Grid system Both existing and proposed corridors connecting genera ting and transformer stations in Brute Mil Ion oner Delphi Point Mcaford Woodhndgt Sea forth Owen Sound and were described and their relative capacities calculated Mr established lhat a suggested from Bruce to Kitchtner would be some miles shorter than the mile distance between Bruce and Milton At a cost per mile of plus land purchases the shorter route would save Hydro approximately million as well as some so megawatts that would be lost over the additional distance Inquiries were Into the amount of en crgy the Bruce generating sin lion is capable of producing ihe allocation of Its 1 gen erated megawatts and the effects of running corridors side by side as 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