Letters

Letter to the Editor, Dog friendly Community?? What makes a Meaford dog owner think it is 'dog friendly' to daily... indeed twice daily... leave their own front & back yards to walk their dogs along our streets and allow their dog(s) to defecate & urinate on a neighbour’s front lawn? What makes a Meaford dog owner think it is 'dog friendly' to...

Editor, I would like to thank Louis Bernard for his letter, published in the April 15, 2021, edition of The Meaford Independent, in relation to our proposed pumped hydro storage facility at Meaford. Feedback on our proposed project from community members is critical as it will lead to developing a better project for everyone. TC Energy has continued to advance the...

Dear Editor, I am a member of the aviation community at Owen Sound Billy Bishop Airport (CYOS) and a hangar owner. It perplexes me that, at a time when our Federal and Provincial governments are spending billions of dollars in aid for individuals and business, the town of Owen Sound has elected to turn the airport in to a ghost...

Editor, Once again I am moved to write about the TC Energy Proposal. I am wondering where everyone is. The project fails in at least three key categories. It is not 'green', it is not economical and it does not produce one erg of NEW energy. New energy is what we need right now. First it is not green. It will...

Editor, This week, the Grey-Bruce Vaccine Distribution Task Force met for an update from Dr. Ian Arra and the health unit team on two pressing issues – the spread of COVID-19 and the progress on vaccine distribution. The Task Force is a team of public institutions, community partners, health providers, businesses, Indigenous communities, agricultural sector, and people committed to supporting...

Mr. Editor, At the risk of clogging your letter box, some positive news to help celebrate Earth Day. Despite some media companies warning us about ‘climate change impeding food production’ as in: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/2/this-is-how-badly-climate-change-has-hurt-food-production, the UN agriculture database says this not the case: http://faostat.fao.org/static/syb/syb_5000.pdf. This UN data shows world food and meat production are up by about +56% from 1997 to 2017,...

Editor, Today is an exciting day for engineering and science. NASA engineers and scientists successfully achieved powered, controlled flight of a helicopter. On Mars. As far as we know anyway, this is the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet. The engineers at NASA should be celebrating. It was one heck of a historic feat of engineering. Unfortunately, back...

To the Editor, As an engineer I have long been disturbed by the claims made by TC Energy in their Overview of the project on their corporate web site. Prominent bullet item benefits on the page include: - 1,000 MW clean energy - zero emissions - powers 1 million homes To begin with, MW is not a measure of energy. It is a measure of...

Editor, I would like to comment on the April 1, 2021 letter submitted by John Mikkelsen, Director, Power Business Development, TC Energy. His letter addressed the issue of 'Safety' of the proposed project. From my own experience in the mining industry, I can confirm that even the best engineered earth containment structures are subject to failure. There have been several recent...

Dear Editor, Dr. Jowett's thought-provokoing juxtaposition of these two areas of public concern begs the question: are we nervous of these issues because we lack enough facts or is it about contradictory conclusions drawn from the facts that we do have? Medicine and climate are areas of soft science where numbers can be used to suggest statistical correlations (e.g. CO2 and...