Thursday, August 28, 2025

Letters

Reader: TC Energy’s Claims of Transparency Don’t Hold Water

Editor, TC Energy continues to claim that safety and transparency are top priorities in its proposed Ontario Pumped Storage Project in Meaford. Yet these claims ring hollow in light of recent events. At a meeting with the Meaford Pumped Storage Advisory Committee (PSAC) on August 8, 2024, Clark Little, a representative of TC Energy, stated that the company will “release the...

Reader Thankful For Local Healthcare Providers

Editor, First, I want to say thanks to Marjori and the other staff at the IDA here in Meaford. I needed to locate a piece of home care equipment immediately but found out all the medical supply stores in the area are closed on Saturday and Sunday. When Marjori heard about my problem she went to work on the phone...

Reader Expresses Support For Pumped Storage Proposal

Dear Editor, I am writing to thank Bruce Mason, our verbal pugilist, for eviscerating the erroneous arguments espoused by the Save Georgian Bay acolytes about TCE’s pumped storage project. Even though TCE’s project is the quintessential green plan, TCE has made one fundamental error. When the Save Georgian Bay advocates were putting up signs opposed to TCE’s project, TCE should have...

Concerns About the Sudden Appearance of the TC Energy Barge

To the Editor, The sudden appearance of TC Energy’s drilling rig off Meaford’s shore was a shock. From my cottage, I saw it arrive just days after a flyer was quietly dropped in my mailbox. Was this timing meant to inform me—or to ensure I wouldn’t notice? Many residents are still trying to make sense of the rig’s presence. Some assumed...

Ontario Pumped Storage Project Team Explains Current Underwater Study

Editor, As several weeks have passed since we first notified the Municipality and residents about our geotechnical program, we wanted to take the opportunity to share details about the work we’re doing and its purpose. Regarding our communication approach, we first published a notice about the geotechnical program in The Meaford Independent on June 26 and it was re-published for...

State of Our Healthcare System a Top Concern

Dear Editor, Please remind your readers that this health care crunch is not new. It started when professional advisors told Bob Ray that he needed to cut medical classes, knowing doctors would be retiring together. Now too many ex-premiers are on the boards of directors in private clinics. What chance does public health care have when premiers take advantage of...

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Reader Suggests Meaford Military Base be Repurposed

Dear Editor, It has been just over a year since I wrote you a letter suggesting that the Meaford training base be repurposed into a drone training centre. A lot has changed since that time. The war in Ukraine and Gaza continues and has evolved into drone warfare, Donald Trump is looking for stronger border security, and our sovereignty in...

Concern About TCE Testing on Georgian Bay

To the Editor, A massive drilling rig has appeared off the shores of Meaford, and many residents are asking: What exactly is being tested beneath Georgian Bay? TC Energy says the drilling is part of “geotechnical investigations” for its proposed $7 billion Pumped Storage Project. But this vague explanation doesn’t address the real concern: the geological sensitivity of the site. The...

Reader: How Do We In Meaford Look At Sustainability

Editor, I frequently look over the view of South Georgian Bay from atop Grey Rd. 7 and I think: How do we in Meaford look at sustainability? Should it involve TCE and their PS project? The Niagara Escarpment has a solid history of being a protected geologic anomaly simply because by its very nature it was too difficult to develop. However, times...

Landlord and Tenant Board Overburdened

To the Editor, As a property manager in Grey-Bruce County, I’m sounding the alarm on an urgent and worsening crisis. Government programs like the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), meant to help vulnerable people, are being grossly abused — and landlords and working taxpayers are paying the price. ODSP is funded by taxpayers — the hard-working class of this province —...

Reader: Why Is Ontario Giving Millions to a $67 Billion Company?

Editor, Why is Doug Ford’s Ontario government gifting $285 million of taxpayers’ money to TC Energy—a publicly traded company worth more than $67 billion—for pre-development work on a proposed pumped storage project in Meaford, Ontario? This enormous sum could be used to build hundreds of much-needed homes in the Grey-Bruce area. Instead, it’s being handed over to help a corporation with...

Reader Shares Thoughts on Batteries, Toxic Metals & Unexploded Munitions

Dear Editor, For someone who is always so critical of others' research work, Mr. Mike McTaggart’s letters never fail to amuse. Using Mr. McTaggart’s own research methodology, I proved that car accidents in Ontario were practically non-existent between 2015 and 2025. How? I only counted the ones that involved Teslas. How could someone hoping to convince Meaford that Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)...

Reader Offers Thoughts on New Developments

Editor, The letter of July 17, 2025, in the Meaford Independent newspaper by Jim Molineux hit the nail on the head! After reviewing the Heritage Advisory Committee meetings held earlier it seems there is need for further clarification from the developer on the current site plan for this proposal - especially as discussion of this showed many details were not...

Reader Offers Thoughts on Recent Pumped Storage Letters

Dear Editor, In response to Roberta Docherty’s July 10 Letter to the Editor, I will try to eliminate Roberta’s confusion. Tesla Fire is an online site that tracks all Tesla fires from worldwide newspaper articles, including cars and Tesla Megapacks. Megapacks are used for electrical grid scale energy storage. Out of 232 Tesla fires documented since 2013, there were only 3...

Reader: How Soon We Forget

Editor, Is there no one around to remember Hurricane Hazel anymore? Here we are, about seventy years later, planning to build an entire apartment block on a flood plain. Although Meaford was not the hardest hit by Hazel, it was bad enough and there have been other events since with the potential to present a significant threat to life and...

Reader Shares Thoughts on Proposed Condo Development

Editor, The floodplain condominium development to be constructed directly behind the Meaford Library and alongside the Bighead River has been a hot topic in your newspaper. A recent letter to The Independent indicated that the original proposal was for a massive structure that would be almost 3 times larger than any other building in Meaford. It now appears that one...