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Breslau Public School held a World Awareness Day on Mar. 23 encouraging students to learn and become tolerant of other cultures. Nii Addico (left) taught students about African drumming while other students learned how to dance hip hop. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]
Woolwich ponders appeal of biogas plant approval Council, Elmira citizens’ group disappointed with province’s decision to give project the green light STEVE KANNON In approving a biogas plant for Elmira, the province is “spitting in the face” of residents, says the head of the citizens’ group fighting the project. This week’s decision came as a shock to Dr. Dan Holt of Elmira
Bio Fuel Citizens’ Committee, who felt the government had heard the public’s message and was prepared to see the plant moved to a site elsewhere in the township. Instead, Bio-En Power Inc. has been cleared to build the facility on Martin’s Lane, just north of downtown Elmira.
“It flies in the face of everything that’s been done – we made a case against the location and found a better place, where they actually want it (the plant),” he said of the provincial decision. “It’s kind of like spitting in the face of everybody who lives here.” Notified that the project had
been cleared to go ahead – receiving what’s known as a Renewable Energy Approval – Woolwich officials are now looking at the township’s legal options to appeal the decision. Addressing the issue in council session Tuesday night, Mayor Todd Cowan said he was “ex-
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