Letter to the Editor
Editor,
I entirely agree with the writer who is frustrated at the lack of information on the proposed TransCanada-Energy Project on federal land and Georgian Bay.
This information should be shouted from the rooftops. Everyone living on the land between Collingwood and Tobermory should be informed and extremely concerned.
Georgian Bay and Nottawasaga Bay are crystal clear, clean and drinkable water. They are prime fishing areas and tourist attractions. There are not many pristine bodies of water left in this polluted world.
But all that would change with the proposed energy project.
The three billion dollar project would draw three million cubic metres of water (two thirds of the flow over Niagara Falls) every day, sucking up the fish as it goes through the pipes up the mountain and then dropped from a height of 150 metres through the turbines, chopping up the fish, and putting both water and chopped fish back into Georgian Bay. The fish pieces will then rot and pollute the Bay. This whole process will stir up the clay base of the Bay, causing it to become ‘milky’ and cloudy.
This is a simplified version of what will happen on a daily basis, but one that everyone living on or near the Bay can identify with. The project is an environmental disaster, ruining the fishing, displacing our shore birds and contaminating our Bay.
It behooves all of us to try to save our clean lake, our fish, and our environment. Sign the petition, send a letter to Ottawa, spread the word.
Elizabeth Appleyard, Meaford
