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Another solar power project shines in Alfred-Plantagenet
they are all co-op projects with community ownership, through local investors in the project. The Alfred development is part of a four- site project this year for OREC. The $2 mil- lion development will include the ground- mounted solar setup in Alfred and three rooftop developments around the Ottawa area. The company is raising the capital for the project. OREC has scheduled a public informa- tion open house April 10 at the Alfred Rec- reation Centre, to explain its latest project to residents and also provide information for any potential community investors, in both the Alfred project and OREC’s other planned projects. Mazur-Goulet noted that the Alfred project and its three companion projects around Ottawa are going ahead as the company will have the $2million finan- cing needed for them. The open house is part of the company’s standard community information campaign. The company has its 20-year supply-sale licence agreements with the province for the energy generated from the Alfred site and its other projects. Mazur-Goulet noted that even after the 20-year sale agreement ends, the Alfred site alone will still be in good enough condition to continue pro- ducing solar power with at least 80 per cent efficiency for another 10 years. concerned and focus more on revisions of the free trade agreement sections dealing with Mexico. But some of the political voices in D.C., both in the White House and in the Senate and Congress, still seem to be calling for extensive rewriting of parts of NAFTA dealing with some aspects of Canadian/American trade like the dairy industry. At least one senior Wisconsin senator is calling for an end to the supply management system Canada has in place to safeguard its farmers from unfair dumping of American dairy products and eggs. “We havementioned that we would reta- liate,” Drouin said, regarding attacks on the supply management system. “The official stand is we will defend it.” There are growing demands among some senators and members of Congress for a new “border tax” system between Canada and the U.S. “I think, at the end of the day, there are a lot of senators calling for a border tax,” said Drouin, adding that Canada’s lobbying ef- forts at both theWhite House and on Capitol Hill are focused onmaking all parties aware of both the reason for supply management and how a border tax would do more harm on both side of the border than it would help American trade. He noted that the U.S. Chamber of Com- merce organization has stated that it is happy with NAFTA “as it is” and is reluctant to see any major revisions. Drouin also observed that for 35 American states “their first custo- mer is Canada” and that a border tax would hit them hardest. “It’s amatter of toning down the rhetoric,” Drouin said. “Our biggest challenge is that we don’t know exactly what it is they (Ame- rican government officials) want.”
Alfred-Plantagenet est l’endroit le plus récent d’une série de projets d’énergie solaire de propriété publique. La coopérative d’énergie renouvelable d’Ottawa (OREC) effectue déjà des tests de sol sur un site du village d’Alfred, pour un système d’énergie solaire monté au sol de 500 kilowatts. La compagnie informera le public à ce sujet lors d’une journée portes ouvertes, qui aura lieu le 10 avril au Centre récréatif d’Alfred. —photo OREC
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
DavidMazur-Goulet, OREC spokesman, du- ring a phone interviewMarch 31. “It should be completed sometime this summer.” The Alfred project will complete a ba- ker’s dozen such small-scale solar power developments for ORECwithin the Eastern Ontario region, producing onemegawatt of electricity, in total, for sale to the provincial grid. The company specializes right now in small-sized solar projects but has plans for larger ones in future. The main distin- guishing feature of OREC’s projects is that
It seems that Alfred-Plantagenet Township is becoming a “hot” place for solar power projects. Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-Op (OREC) has a crew out doing soil tests at a site within the village of Alfred. OREC intends to build a 500-kilowatt ground-mounted solar power station on the site, before the year is over. “We’re in the early stage right now,” said
MP offers reassurance on NAFTA dairy trade reports about the discrepancy between the latest statements from both Washington, D.C. and Parliament Hill, about the latest talks between President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The state of the trading relationship between Canada and the United States is becomingmore andmore a “who is saying what now?” situation under the adminis- tration of President Donald Trump. The situation is creating some uneasy feelings for the Canadian dairy industry but MP Francis Drouin has declared there is no cause for alarm at present. “Canada is heavily engaged in lobbying efforts in the U.S.,” Drouin said, during a visit to Rockland over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The new Liberal MP for Glengarry-Pres- cott-Russell acknowledged political pundit
During his presidential campaign and soon after his election, Trump talked about either “rewriting NAFTA” more in favour for American jobs and industry or withdrawing the U.S. from NAFTA altogether. The new president has since seemed to soften his protectionist position on the agreement, at least where Canada is concerned.The latest reports on the discussions between Trudeau and Trump have the president saying he just wants to “tweak” NAFTA where Canada is
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