Letters

Editor, It has been noted by Mr. Johnson in a letter last week that TCE pays for trips associated with the project. However, it is my experience that council invoices TCE and TCE then settles these expenses. However, the funds used by TCE originate from the $285 million allocated by the provincial government. As a result, these costs are ultimately...

Dear Editor, Meaford Councillors and staff members who visited the pumped storage plant at Ludington, Mich., have returned and, judging from a letter in last week's Meaford Independent, they would have found that the nearest homes are kilometres away from the Ludington plant, that the site had not been contaminated with toxins (i.e., poisonous substances) and that fish kills have...

Dear Editor, I read Clair Balfour’s letter and agree the councillors should ask tough questions in Ludington. The good news is that most of the answers are already public and reassuring. - No homes sit directly below the Ludington reservoir. The nearest houses are several kilometres away in a rural area. - Early seepage problems were fixed decades ago with extra drains...

Editor, Re: No Need to Write a Book About Water and Toxic Chemicals I do thank a fellow contributor for providing a rather long essay regarding what he feels is unnecessary water testing. My short answer is that the existence of toxins from farmers one hundred years ago and/or toxins from the 4-CDTC operations over the past 80-plus years must be...

Dear editor, In a previous letter (Aug 7, 2025), I wrote that the Meaford military training base was highly contaminated. The worst area is called the ‘impact zone’. I’ve been told that it is extremely dangerous because of high concentrations of white phosphorus, which when touched would burn the skin severely. In this letter, I’d like to propose how this...

Editor, Hoekstra, Vance, Trump don’t like Canada. Before you get into this, I want you to know that I have no issues with the American voters, especially those who were hoodwinked by Trump’s populist rhetoric to vote for him. We are all victims of the Trump administration. As a dual Canadian/US citizen, I am embarrassed. I write this to vent some of...

Editor, Could you please pass along something to Mr. Everitt and council that came up at the latest PSAC. Shawn Everitt is evidently taking a trip (with TCE?) to the Ludington Pumped Storage project: Besides, is he an engineer? I am not aware that he posses (sic) any special knowledge with regards to energy storage. I have outlined for 4 years the...

Letter to the Editor, At the November 13, 2025 Pumped Storage Advisory Committee meeting our newly appointed CAO Shawn Everitt announced that he and a group of Meaford councillors will be touring the PSP project in Ludington, Michigan sometime this month. Ironically, 7 years minus 2 days after this project was introduce(d) to the former Mayor in 2018 (Freedom of...

Dear Editor, So, Meaford Councillors will visit Ludington, Mich., to see the pumped storage plant there that was touted as the model for TC Energy's proposed $7 billion plant in Meaford. They should have done so before giving carte blanche to the proposal in February 2023, a decision taken as though they had no interest in due diligence on behalf of...

Dear Editor, I suspect the Pumped Storage Advisory Committee convincing Meaford Council to pursue baseline water testing on properties that have nothing to do with the TCE Pumped Storage Proposal won’t have quite the effect they were hoping for. The image of someone pointing both barrels at their own feet and pulling the trigger comes to mind. In business or academia, anyone...