Bruce Wark reports at this link: As work begins on access road, neighbours worry about PROENERGY’s proposed gas/diesel plant on the Isthmus |
“I’m trying to run my business here and teach kids how to ride,” says Katie Hess who operates the 300-acre Howling Creek Farm just across the road from where machines are clearing the woods for the PROENERGY access road.
She says she worries about the dangers of giving riding lessons and working with horses with all the noise and disruptions.
Her farm has about five kilometres of trails and the barn can board and feed 18-20 horses.
In her online comment to the federal Impact Assessment Agency, Hess says she has extreme concerns about the proposed gas plant.
“When I hear of the amount of water to be used and its potential impact on the water table around us and that spent/treated water will be dumped in our ditches with high concentrations of iron and other materials that will potentially run right directly into our spring-fed well and local water table, it is very concerning, to say the least,” she writes.
Hess says her family has invested more than $1 million over the last 11 years in the farm and equestrian centre and she worries that a big, polluting gas plant would threaten the farm’s existence.
“And, I’m definitely not super thrilled to be raising my three-month-old next to a power plant,” she says."
Artwork above at the entrance to the Town Hall of Tantramar on Main Street
More reporting here from CBC's Erica Butler:
Tantramar council turns down call to oppose proposed natural gas power plant | CBC News
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