No News is Good News. Right?

Well, after asking you to keep checking the blog, as you can see, there have been no new posts for a couple of months. It seems to be the nature of this process, from our perspective, that bursts of intense activity are interspersed with long stretches of wait and see. What's happening is that nothing is happening as far as we can tell.

The County has not received the requested revised plan of subdivision from the proponent at this time.

We have received Dr. Smart's report and you can read it here. We are in the process of sharing the report with the relevant agencies, politicians and planners as well as the proponent.

Environmental Defence was to consider our submission in late May and we are still waiting to hear from them.

Also, Dr. Beth Parker has responded with interest to our suggestion of the potential for a small groundwater research project in our area, but we have yet to sit down and talk to her. We will continue to try and arrange a meeting with Dr. Parker.

In March, we wrote a letter to Environment Minister, John Wilkinson. He has responded positively, with the suggestion to contact the Water Resources Supervisor of the Southwestern Regional Office. We will be doing this in the next few days.

Thank you to everyone who completed and sent in their survey. If you have not done so, you still have time.

You may have seen the notice in the paper or on the Grey Highlands website. There is a public consultation scheduled for Tuesday, June 28 at 7 pm at the Centre Grey Complex in Markdale to outline the Water and Wastewater Master Servicing Plan.

Perhaps of interest to some members of the BVRA, is a town hall meeting on Saturday, June 18 at 2 pm at the Centre Grey Complex in Markdale called, Truth About Industrial Wind Turbines.

Please, if you have any suggestions or comments, you can add them here or email or phone one of your directors. We will continue to keep you posted when we have news to share.