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Chatham ethanol plant a warning to Oshawa
Wednesday, April 23, 2008


Dear Editor:

Re: Letter to the Editor, April 9“Ethanol plant needs a fair hearing” I can understand (the ethanol plant) as some have said that if it creates jobs, we need it. But we have to look at the long-term picture. This would be a long-term lease that your children’s grandchildren would have to live with.

Are fifty jobs worth six acres of prime waterfront land to be signed away while we are going through a downturn? Is an office building providing ten times the jobs not an alternative? The “recreationalists” do not want the harbour for exclusive use but w ish it to be developed to its potential, a people place that enhances Oshawa, something to be proud of instead of the present disgrace.

The“recreationalists” could get out their wallets and make an offer, but unfortunately they would be competing against themselves as the government offers our money to these firms to build the plants, $22 million in Sarnia’s case.

The suggestion of visiting Chatham is a good one but don’t visit it on a bright sunny high-pressure day, instead a day of temperature inversion or those cool days when the plume comes down. When an upscale subdivision was recently built in Chatham the howls went up due to the odour.

The plant stack height was increased, which I am sure didn’t solve the problem but at least it was someone else’s. We are especially vulnerable as on those hot sultry days, when the land heats up and the lake is cool, that sea breeze starts up and it will be bringing something along with it, and all of Oshawa will know it.

Norm Bear
Oshawa

 
 

 

 

  
 

 

  
     
     

 
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