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From: Norm Negus [mailto:indianlinekennel@execulink.com]
Sent: May 1, 2011 8:48 PM
To: BoardSec
Subject: Request for Intervenor Status Board File No:EB-2011-0063







Email to boardsec@ontarioenergyboard.ca



Kirsten Walli

Ontario Energy Board

2300 Yonge Street, 27th Floor

P.O. Box 2319

Toronto, Ontario

M4P 1E4



Dear Ms. Walli:



RE: Intevenor Status Request on Behalf of Norman Negus for EB-20Il-0063:

Application for Leave to Construct Transmission Facilities for Grand

Renewable Wind LP

The purpose of this letter is to request that Intervenor status be granted to myself for the application pursuant to rule 23 of the Board's Rules of Practice and Procedure.

I understand the benifits of green energy programs but it is necessary to request intevenor status in order that the concerns of landowners can be brought to the Board's attention.

I just read the latest report from the Applicant GRWLP-Appl-LTC-update-20110428.pdf. In this it gives you the "Board" the opinion that all the landowners have been notified and everything is ok . I am Not ok with this overhead line. The health problems that WILL happen is a great concern, even the Applicant revealed this in their application , example( Magnetic field and Electrical Field) with this overhead line

I would like to point to information from a web site http://www.sqwlk.com/Q/high-voltage-low-demand in which the landowners were opposed to the construction of a 230,000 volt overhead line being constructed in Tsawwassen British Columbia. They filed a petition to the Auditor General of Canada in 2008 and after one year the Government purchased the 104 homes at the cost of $58.4 Million and it may take another 2 years to sell the rest of the homes. In the mean time, there is cost to have security and maintance for these Homes.

On the office to the Auditor General of Canada Http://www.oag-bvg.ga.ca/intarnet/English.pet_259-E31670.html I would like to point out a few health concerns about the potential health concerns as we are learning of new information relating to power lines being of close proximity to a residential dwelling as new information unfolds.

Key References.

Denis Henshaw, Professor of Human Radiation Effects at the University of Bristol said

"These latest findings not only strengthen further the evidence that children living in the proximity to high voltage power lines are at increased risk of childhood leukemia, but in finding effects up to 600 meters away, they invoke electric field corona ion effects as a possible cause mechanism. The fact that this study has looked at the birth address is particularly important because the initial damage that may lead to leukemia is thought to occur in-utero."



While the number of excess cases of the disease in children living near power lines may be around 5 per year, this may be the tip of the iceberg: (i) in terms of the extent to which both the magnetic fields and electric fields associated with the electricity supply may be a factor in the incidence of childhood leukemia, and (ii) in terms of the many other illnesses also associated with magnetic fields such as adult leukemia, adult brain cancer, miscarriage and depression.



A particularly important finding from Dr. Draper's work is the increase in childhood leukemia up to 600 metres from power lines, well beyond the range of power line magnetic fields. In order to understand this finding we need to consider the separate effects of the magnetic fields and electric fields associated with power lines.



For the magnetic fields, studies in human populations have shown that such fields are capable of disrupting the night-time production of the important hormone melatonin in the pineal gland. Melatonin is a particularly powerful antioxidant which acts as a natural anti-cancer agent in the body. Studies have shown the hormone to be highly protective of oxidative damage to human blood cells - the sort of damage that could lead to leukemia."



I understand the "Board" is aware that the ROW on the Haldimand Road #20 is 15M from road centre that will include a paved lane and a gravel shoulder (approx 7.8 M used for this) and the rest is the ditch that this compacts the requirement that is needed for a safe operation of the 230,000 volts, The steel poles are to be 600 meters apart. Is that enough clearance for swing of these cables to be of safe distance required for safety of the roadwa? This is not to mention the homes very close to the ROW. Some of these older homes were built a few feet away from property edge which means that the 230,000 volt line will be over top of some of these homes. I encourage the Board to have a good look at our futrue ..thankyou for your time.

Norman Negus

485 Haldimand Rd.#20

R.R. #2 Hagersville On

N0A 1H0 9905 768

indianlinekennel@execulink.com



The Applicant

Grand Renewable Wind LP

c/o Grand Renewable Wind GP Inc.

55 Standish Court

Mississauga, ON L5R 4B2

Attention: Mr. Jeoing Tack Lee



Tel: 905-285-1851

Fax: 905-285-1852

Email: leejt@samsung.com



Counsel of the Applicant

George Vegh

McCarthy Tetrault LLP

Toronto Dominion Bank Tower

66 Wellington Street West

Box 48, Suite 5300

Toronto, ON M5K 1E6



Tel: 416-601-7709

Fax: 416-868-0673

Email: gvegh@mccarthy.ca



AND



Kristyn Annis

McCarthy Tetrault LLP

Toronto Dominion Bank Tower

66 Wellington Street West

Box 48, Suite 5300

Toronto, ON M5K 1E6



Tel: 416-601-7624

Fax: 416-868-0673

Email: kannis@mccarthy.ca



Paper copies are being mailed to all parties concerned.