Reporting, editorials and letters
Picton Terminals started blasting away the White Chapel Road escarpment Tuesday morning without a permit.
The MZO for Picton Terminals, and Councillors who oppose but are not willing to debate.
Council’s settlement hands oversight of the Terminals and the escarpment it has agreed not to alter without “approvals” to the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of the Environment, and Quinte Conservation. Yet these ministries either have inadequate powers or limited jurisdiction. Each thinks the other should be the one in charge. An effective system — if washing your hands and passing the buck at the same time is the game you want to be playing.
Picton Terminals, Wellington Wastewater Infrastructure, and the Queen Elizabeth School on the agenda
Parrish & Heimbecker confirms plan to built a grain shipping terminal on Picton Bay
Certainly, anyone who cares about sustaining local farmers, or the County’s primarily agricultural economy, or just about plain farmland, never mind the history of this place and its revered farming families, would have felt pulled in at least a couple of directions at the news that P & H was partnering with Picton Terminals to build a grain shipping port on Picton Bay.
Letter states, “there can be no valid or binding agreement between Council and Picton Terminals.”
Promise of new bulk grain shipping facility at the port brings back memories of days gone by
There is only one way to say it. Forcing an international container shipping port and industrial zone on a small, scenic harbour at the centre of a County trying mightily to establish itself as a world-class destination of outstanding natural and cultural beauty is just plain wrong.
Victor Lind considers Council's offer to settle with Picton Terminals
Council's latest about-face defies belief. It already tried to reach a settlement. Just last year. There was, shall we say, a sticking point.
The municipality needs another water treatment plant — or two. Either development pays for it, or rate and tax payers will.
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