To the Honourable Ryan Williams, MP-Bay of Quinte.

I want to voice my concern and disgust at your apparent support of allowing Picton Terminals to become a container port here in Prince Edward County.

My wife and I have resided in The County since 1990 and our frontage is on County Rd 49. Our property is north of the Picton Terminals location and we are subjected, constantly, to the heavily loaded eighteen wheelers exceeding the speed limit as they transport their loads from Picton Terminals towards Hwy 401.

Picton Terminals has already demonstrated its total lack of concern regarding zoning laws and pollution risks at the facility it is operating here in The County. It is beyond my comprehension that you, as the elected representative of the citizens of The County, believe that allowing a container port at the entrance to Picton Harbour will be of benefit to anyone, except the owners and operators of Picton Terminals.

By linking your support of the use of public money to rebuild County Rd. 49 to allowing a container port is sheer lunacy and hints of collusion. You should be ashamed! Have you investigated the documented corporate irresponsibility of Picton Terminals ?

This alone is sufficient cause to reject any further plans to allow expansions of an operation which are a blight on The County.

We urge you Mr. Williams, to put the citizens of Prince Edward County, the environment, and common sense, ahead of this disastrous idea of a container port.

David & Lynn Edward Sophiasburgh