{"id":1697,"date":"2013-11-07T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:41:45","slug":"notes-from-the-clc-meeting-on-6-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/2013\/11\/notes-from-the-clc-meeting-on-6-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the CLC meeting on 6 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took some notes at the Community Liaison Committee meeting held on Wednesday, 6 November 2013. These are not the official minutes; I&#8217;ll post a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-en.ca\/minutes.html\" title=\"CLC Meeting Minutes at Bioen Elmira\">Bio-en CLC Minutes<\/a> page when I see them appear there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Construction update: Lots of activity.\n<ul>\n<li>A pre-treatment tank has been installed, one digester is done.<\/li>\n<li>The floor for the repository tank is to be poured.<\/li>\n<li>Q: Height? The tallest builing is 14 metres, the exhaust stack is 28 metres. The bubble domes are about 14 metres. The flare is about 8 metres high.<\/li>\n<li>Construction is slightly behind schedule. It was behind at the start because of delays in obtaining building permits, slightly ahead during the summer, now behind again because of the rain.<\/li>\n<li>Start of operations will be sometime in January 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Acquisition of feedstock will take about three months.<\/li>\n<li>The first power test will be in February, the first power for feed-in in March.<\/li>\n<li>Waterloo North Hydro won&#8217;t be ready for power feed-in until February.<\/li>\n<li>The base for the stack was laid today (6 Nov 2013), the stack will be raised the next time the crane is available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Michael Purves-Smith circulated a document with the text for presentation to Council to request matching funds for technical research.\n<ul>\n<li>There was discussion on whether advance notice should be sent to the Councillors, the media, members of the <abbr title=\"Elmira Bio Fuel Citizens Committee\">BFCC<\/abbr>, or the appellants.<\/li>\n<li>The CLC will send a notice, but not the actual document itself.<\/li>\n<li>Chuck Martin will represent Woolwich Bio-en in the presentation to Council.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Musselman and Marg Tassey Kreller will represent the CLC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Who is responsible for announcing the existence of the CLC?\n<ul>\n<li>Woolwich Bio-en has met its obligations by publishing CLC minutes and agendas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-en.ca\/communications.html\" title=\"Communications at Bioen Elmira\">on their web site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Who informs Council, sends notices, &#038;c? (for Council presentation)\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Purves-Smith will do that.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure Chuck Martin is available for the proposed presentation date.<\/li>\n<li>Can CLC get confirmation from Woolwich Bio-en of their Letter of Credit prior to the presentation? Earl Brubacher will find out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tour? Still too early; maybe end of December.<\/li>\n<li>There will be no &#8220;Grand Opening&#8221;, no press release to the media.<\/li>\n<li>Next meeting: Tuesday, 7 January 2014.\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting will likely be at the Woolwich Community Centre.<\/li>\n<li>Woolwich Township has stated that since the Community Liaison Committee has no Woolwich Township staff members on it, they can no longer use the rooms in Woolwich Township hall.<\/li>\n<li>Department of Safety (?) may require hard hats, safety shoes and an occupancy permit for a tour, so the decision for a tour date will be made at the next meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My thanks go out to Earl Brubacher of Woolwich Bio-en for patiently answering all my questions, even though I am not a member of the CLC.<\/p>\n<p>Also have a look at Alan Marshall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/elmiraadvocate.blogspot.ca\/2013\/11\/woolwich-bio-en-citizens-liason.html\" title=\"WOOLWICH BIO-EN CITIZENS LIASON COMMITTEE\">CLC meeting report on the Elmira Advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Bob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took some notes at the Community Liaison Committee meeting held on Wednesday, 6 November 2013. These are not the official minutes; I&#8217;ll post a link to the Bio-en CLC Minutes page when I see them appear there. Construction update: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/2013\/11\/notes-from-the-clc-meeting-on-6-november-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,264,5,3,73],"tags":[299,17,18,201,446,447,531,532,364,525,40,457,414,449,438,453,454,267,249,251,391,456,448,444,77,128,451,455,445,443,452,186,450,280,103],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chuck-martin","category-citizens-liaison-committee","category-committees","category-upcoming-meetings-past-meetings","category-woolwich-township-council","tag-alan-marshall","tag-bfcc","tag-bio-en","tag-bio-fuel-citizens-committee","tag-bubble-dome","tag-building","tag-clc","tag-community-liaison-committee","tag-construction","tag-council","tag-digester","tag-earl-brubacher","tag-elmira-advocate","tag-feed-in","tag-flare","tag-grand-opening","tag-hard-hat","tag-letter-of-credit","tag-media","tag-michael-purves-smith","tag-minutes-2","tag-occupancy-permit","tag-power","tag-pre-treatment","tag-presentation","tag-press-release","tag-research","tag-safety-shoes","tag-stack","tag-tank","tag-techical","tag-town-council","tag-waterloo-north-hydro","tag-woolwich-bio-en","tag-woolwich-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}