The windows will sometimes rattle in people’s homes kilometres away when artillery shells blast into the escarpment at the military base in Meaford.For more than 80 years the Canadian Armed Forces has conducted live-fire training at the 4th Canadian Division Training Centre northeast of downtown Meaford.Read more

Emails obtained by The Narwhal show city staff advising Industrial Plastics Canada on response to citizen concerns and media requests.Read more

TC Energy’s business development director for the project, John Mikkelsen, presented a slideshow of the proposal to sporadic jeers and taunts not to build it. But he never wavered. There was dead silence when he finished his speech. Not a single person clapped. Keep reading

ANALYSIS: As EVs become more capable and more popular, they could be used to pitch in at times of high demand — reducing the need for new power plants.Keep reading

TC Stands for Too Costly Many questions need answering about TC Energy’s (TCE) proposed pumped storage project on the Department of National Defence’s training base in Meaford (“The Megaproject on Georgian Bay,” Summer 2023). In particular, queries about the cost of the scheme and who is paying for it.Costs have more than doubled from $2.2 billion in 2019 to $4.5 billion in just five years, and TCE recently agreed to cap the scheme at $7 billion!Costs are clearly a concern to the Ford government. In a January 9 letter to Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), Energy Minister Todd Smith suggested that TCE seek federal government assistance to reduce the

Council voted unanimously at its meeting Monday to conditionally support TC Energy’s pumped storage proposal subject to the completion of all assessments and consultations, and the approval of Saugeen Ojibway Nation. The city will send a letter to TC Energy advising the company of the resolution.Read more