1. FOCA March Elert – click here
2. Biochar plant (note below – The OMB has set up a one day hearing to consider the two motions. The date of the hearing has been set for April 21 at 10:30 AM in the Township of Dysart Municipal Offices. Anyone is welcome to attend and listen.)
This is a further update on the Biochar Plant that is proposed to be built on Kennaway Road. As mentioned in the last update the proposed zoning by-law was appealed to the OMB by four members of our association in early February.
The plant is proposed to be built and operated by Haliburton Forest Biochar (HFB). The executive and the four appellants had tried on several occasions to get additional information about the proposed plant. The latest communications we had from HFB was that they were holding a Board meeting on March 9 and that they would get back to us after that meeting and let us know whether any additional information would be forthcoming. To date we have heard nothing.
HFB have hired a lawyer to represent them on the appeal of the zoning by-law. Their lawyer has filed a motion that one of the appellant’s appeal is not a valid appeal. He has also indicated that HFB will be filing a notice of motion that the appeals filed by the other three appellants are frivolous, vexatious, purely for the purposes of delay and they do not set out any apparent planning grounds for the appeal. The four appellants have also retained a lawyer to represent them at the hearing.
The OMB has set up a one day hiring to hear the two motions. The date of the hearing has been set for April 21 at 10:30 AM in the Township of Dysart Municipal Offices. Anyone is welcome to attend and listen.
In my last update I indicated that the application for the Biochar Plant needed an air and noise Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC). I also indicated that anyone on Drag or Spruce Lakes can comment on the application whether they appealed the zoning by-law or not. To make your comments please go to the following link;