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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com CTION Involved in an Accident? Need Autobody Repairs? COLLISION Lifetime Warranty. Insurance Specialists. 1079 Speers Road, Oakville, ON 905-844-7586 30% OFF WINTER CLOTHING Scenes from Haiti Living WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 3-334 Lakeshore Rd East, Oakville P. 905.842.2756 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 39 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" 76 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Green light for Blades are champs power plant at new hospital Council confident small plant will adhere to air quality bylaw By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Hospital costs questioned at forum By Kim Arnott SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER A second gas-fired power plant is coming to Oakville, however, the Town is not fighting this one. Oakville's Planning and Development Council voted Monday night to change the zoning of land, located northeast of the new Oakville hospital site at Third Line and Dundas Street, to permit the Townowned corporation of Oakville Hydro to develop a 9.6-megawatt District Energy Facility. When complete the 12,000 square metre facility will provide heating and cooling, hot water and emergency electricity to the new hospital and the surrounding employment lands. The District Energy Facility will be 17 metres in height with stacks extending to 30 metres. It will also have a three-day emergency reserve of diesel fuel in tanks within the site, which will allow for the safe operation of the hospital in the event the gas is cut off. While this new plant is a world away from TransCanada's 900-megawatt gas-fired power plant, which council is fighting to keep out of Oakville, the two plants do share some similarities. Like the proposed TransCanada plant, the District Energy Facility will use natural gas as a fuel, which will be brought in from a line located along the west side of the Third Line unopened road allowance. The District Energy Facility will be located close to sensitive land uses with only a few metres and an extended Third Line separating it from the hospital site. It will also be approximately 550 metres away from an existing residential area south of Dundas See Hospital page 4 JON KUIPERIJ / OAKVILLE BEAVER CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT: Oakville Blades captain Mike Ingoldsby jubilantly hoists the Buckland Cup trophy after the Blades won the Ontario Hockey Association junior A championship Monday in Newmarket with a 6-1 rout of the Hurricanes. The title is Oakville's second OHA crown in three years. See Sports for the story. Natalie Mehra said she was convinced someone had gotten the number wrong when she first heard that Oakville residents were being asked to kick in $530 million toward a new hospital. As director of Ontario Health Coalition, Mehra is well aware of the provincial formula requiring local communities to cover 10 per cent of the capital cost of a new hospital, along with providing the equipment for the new building. But she still can't figure out why a new Oakville hospital is going to cost so much more money than anything built elsewhere in the province in recent years. "The local share of (other) hospitals has never been anything like the numbers you're looking at in Oakville," she told a public meeting on Thursday night. "That's enough money to build an entire hospital ­ and a big hospital, at that." A 494-bed hospital completed in Peterborough in 2008 cost a total of $288 million, including all its equipment, she noted. "That's half the cost of your local share alone," said Mehra. "I think that questions should be raised about this." See Opponents page 10 MacLachlan College IB World School Interviews and testing now being scheduled for September 2010. For further information contact Nancy Norcross, Director of Admissions. , ON / 905.844.0372 ext. 235 | admissions@maclachlan.ca / www.maclachlan.ca Optimize Performance (Adults and Children) · Attention span is short · Difficulty organizing & completing work · also helpful for Asperger's · also Psycho-educational testing ADD Centre Neurofeedback and learning strategies can provide a lasting improvement. Co-author with Pediatrician William Sears of The A.D.D. Book: New Understandings, New Approaches to Parenting Your Child. 337 Trafalgar Rd., Director: Lynda M. Thompson, Ph.D., A co-educational university prep school Kindergarten to Grade 12 905-803-8066 www.addcentre.com