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John Pickernell

Assistant Board Secretary

Ontario Energy Board

416-440-7605

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From: Paul Martin [mailto:paul@martingroup.ca]
Sent: July 7, 2008 10:45 AM
To: BoardSec
Subject: RE: (EB-2008-0050)
Importance: Low





-----Original Message-----
From: Martin's Storage [mailto:mps@martingroup.ca]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 1:30 PM
To: pc@martingroup.ca; paul@martingroup.ca
Subject: [SPAM?]
Importance: Low

Sunday, July 06, 2008



Kirsten Walli

Board Secretary

Sent via e-mail: boardsec@oeb.gov.on.ca



Ms. Walli



Thank you for the call re: (EB-2008-0050) Canadian Renewable Energy Corporation expropriation of our land:



1. A permanent easement through land owned by Carylanne Martin in trust, having an approximate area of 101 square meters, designated as Part 10 on the draft reference Plan of Survey prepared by Leslie M. Higginson Surveying Limited bearing File No. KI'N2-10 LMH 27-1, being part of Lot 10, Concession 2, in the City (formerly the Geographic Township of Kingston) in the County of Frontenac;



2. A permanent easement through land owned by R. Paul Martin Construction Co Ltd., having an approximate area of 104 square meters, designated as Part 11 on the draft reference Plan of Survey prepared by Leslie M. Higginson Surveying Limited bearing File No. KI'N2-10 LMH 27-1, being part of Lot 10, Concession 2, in the City of Kingston (formerly the Geographic Township of Kingston) in the County of Frontenac.



My previous correspondence of April 18, 2008 I asked the following Questions:



Could you please explain how the Ontario Energy Board makes its decision for expropriation? What is section 99 of the Ontario Energy Board Act 1998, S.O. 1998, C. 15 (Schedule B) (the "Act")? Why is it the Board's opinion that is in the public interest to expropriate our land?



Would you please explain subsection 99(5) of the Act? Why is the Board able to recommend expropriation but it is not involved with compensation? Please explain section 100 of the Act and section 27 of the Expropriation Act. Please also explain how the Ontario Municipal Board process works.



The only correspondence that I received from this was a letter from Board Secretary Kirsten Walli dated April 24, 2008. There were no explanations to my questions, only a www.oeb.gov.on.ca <http://www.oeb.gov.on.ca/> web site to go to. This did not answer any questions. This website made it very hard to understand and frustrating as a lay person to actively participate in this process.



If the board is sincere in having active public participation, it needs to be much more user friendly. As stated in my request for an oral hearing, communication and dialog must take place.



Please note I have not been able to obtain subsection 99(5) of the Act authorizing CREC to expropriate the land. If it is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to do so, would you please forward a copy to me including the act.



CREC argument for expropriation is that OEB has awarded them a contract to supply electricity, and then approved CREC transmission line path. Now CREC is asking OEB to approve expropriation of our land. How can this process not approve expropriation? Please answer, I am very sincere.



Is it in the public's best interest to take virgin land, contaminate it with large high voltage cables, which we think affect the electro-magnetic waves that will mitigate from the ground? Or is it in the public's best interest to keep our electricity and utilities services in one utility path instead of having it strung out all over? Maybe the most direct, least costly route for today may have far detrimental consequences in the future. Land use planners are now analyzing conservations and best land use designs. Encumbering virgin land mass will have consequences in the future.



I respectively ask that the board study and ask input from municipal, provincial, and federal planners on this issue. You the board are not land use planners.



Keeping all utilities together in the same area makes them easy to service and easy to identify for safety. This is in the public's best interest! We have existing established utility corridors; let us not pollute more virgin lands.



Respectfully submitted,





Paul Martin



Please note: If OEB approves this expropriation for easement it should only be done for (1) 20 year period and then reverted back to no encumbrances or easements. It should not be a permanent easement.