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Roger Champagne comme nouveau chef intérimaire
Mayors quiz Enbridge Gas rep on future plans
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
for East Hawkesbury. “Canwe have some discussions, some one-on-one talks?” askedMayor François St-Amour of The Nation. “We have some big farmoutfits around our villages.They’d be big customers.” Alfred-Plantagenet Township Mayor Fernand Dicaire also invited McGill and other Enbridge officials to meet with his council during one of its committee of the whole sessions to talk about a pos- sible natural gas extension to the Village of Curran and other related issues. McGill noted that both the villages of Saint-Isidore inThe Nation and Curran in Alfred-Plantagenet Township are “right on themargin of qualifying” as possible new service extension projects for Enbridge under the revised OEB guidelines. Hawkesbury Mayor Jeanne Charle- bois asked whether there would be any provincial funding grant aid to help Enbridge with any of its expansion pro- posals. McGill noted that the province but that money is not available in the 2015 provincial budget though it may be part of the 2016 budget. He added that provincial officials have also indicated natural gas outfits should work through the OEB application process first to determine “how little of that (sup- port) money they might need to spend” so that both the loan and grant funds are available for community extension pro- jects which are on the edge of economic feasibility under the new guidelines. The revised guidelines now include a “community expansion surcharge” which may be applicable to a project. McGill des- cribed it as “one-time lump sumpayment” by customers that would be part of their monthly service bills and could amount to between $400 to $500 a year spread over a period of fromfive to 10 years depending on the size of the project. has indicated it will provide $230 mil- lion in loan funding and $30 million in grants-in-aid for natural gas service extension projects
The mayors on counties council hope theymight soon have some good news to report about the chances of natural gas becoming a future fuel option for many homeowners in their municipalities. Steve McGill of Enbridge Natural Gas sat downwith the UnitedCounties of Pres- cott-Russell (UCPR) council during its Oct. 28 regular session to provide an update on where the company is on its plans for expanding natural gas services into Eastern Ontario. He noted that, during the past year-and-a-half, the provincial government has shown “a strong interest” in helping natural gas outfits extend their services into rural communities.This past February, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) sent out invitations for proposals to revise the economic feasibility guidelines which have prevented Enbridge, Union Gas and others from considering many new or early next year,”McGill said, adding that Enbridge planned to test how the revised guidelines would work. The project Enbridge has in mind is outside of the Five Counties region but if it works out, McGill noted, then the com- pany will start reviewing its past reports on possible service expansion into Eastern Ontario communities.“Some of them in your jurisdiction,” McGill said. Several mayors expressed delight at the news, noting that there have been several petitions in The Nation Munici- pality, Alfred-Plantagenet Township, and East Hawkesbury Township about natural gas service extensions from the existing Enbridge mainline running through the counties. “We are the onlymunicipality in Pres- cott-Russell without access to natural gas,” said UCPR Warden Robert Kirby, mayor expansion projects because they were not financially viable. “We will be filing an application ei- ther later this year
Daniel Gascon, sur les lieux d’un incendie le 14 octobre.
Le 16 novembre, l’ancien chef pompier duCantonde Champlain, Roger Champagne, remplacera officiellement le capitaine Daniel Gascon au poste de chef pompier par intérimde la Ville de Hawkesbury. Selon lamairesse Jeanne Charlebois, cette embauche permettra à Daniel Gascon d’exercer pleinement ses fonctions de pompier permanent et d’officier d’entraînement, lui qui assure le poste de chef du corps de pompiers demanière intérimaire depuis le départ de Ghislain Pigeon en septembre. Cette charge de travail supplémentaire n’était pas idéale et empiétait sur ses autres fonctions à la caserne. Selon la mairesse, Roger Champagne a été embauché sur une base temporaire, jusqu’à sixmois, pour permettre à la Ville de lancer le processus d’embauche en bonne et due forme. Le nouveau chef devrait travailler environ une vingtaine d’heures par semaine à la caserne. (SL)
“We have some big farm outfits around our villages. They’d be big customers.” Mayor François St-Amour of The Nation
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