Update on the Proposed Biochar Plant Planned for Kennaway Road
from Karl Gonnsen, DSLPOA President
Last Monday, November 7, 2016 there was a Public Meeting under the Planning Act regarding an application filed by the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve to re-zone property that they recently purchased on Kennaway Road. I recently posted an alert on this website (see below). The Haliburton Echo has an article in this week’s paper regarding that meeting – see below for link.
As the Echo says the meeting was well attended and for the first time we all learned a bit about the process. No information regarding the process was available prior to the Public Meeting not even in the Township’s own files. As your President I attended at the Township office on the morning of the Public Meeting and read the one and only report in their file, a site evaluation report which addresses natural heritage matters which I suspect is the least of the adjacent property owners concern.
We are all concerned with odour, noise, dust, and truck traffic. The plant will process by pyrolysis, 100 tonnes of sawdust down to 25 tonnes of biochar. The other 75 tonnes goes out the smoke stack.
To read the full Update – click here
To read the DSLPOA submission – click here
To view a copy of the Echo article – click here