Upper Canada District School Board continues tradition of fiscal responsibility

Iroquois is on the cusp of 1,400 km of new pipeline that will be constructed to carry oil eastward.

TransCanada Pipelines is converting 3,000 km of an existing natural gas pipeline that runs across Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Eastern Ontario into an oil pipeline. 

That gas pipeline runs through South Dundas.

The proposed conversion ends at the Iroquois pumping station, and from that point on, the new construction starts.

The purpose of the project is to move oil from Alberta to Quebec and New Brunswick, including marine facilities for shipping exports to other markets.

TransCanada’s Energy East project will carry 500,000 to 850,000 barrels per day of crude oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in Eastern Canada.

Enbridge, which has existing oil pipelines that run through South Dundas, is also in the process of a project that will carry 300,000 barrels a day from west to east. Their project is a flow reversal rather than a conversion and is not a new build. Inspection work for the Enbridge flow reversal project is taking place locally later this summer. 

Application for approval of this TransCanada conversion and new build project will be filed late this year with the National Energy Board decision and final approval expected in 2015.

Pipelines operate with a 99.99 per cent safety record in Canada, which is significantly lower that railway and truck transportation of oil.

Presently, 75 per cent of oil refined in Eastern Canada is imported from overseas. Projects like these will bring more Canadian oil to consumers.

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Friday evening, January 11, at 6:15 p.m. homeowners returned to their County Road 18 residence to find their house full of smoke.

They could see flames around the furnace area so they called 911.

“The owner did try to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher, but the fire had travelled across the crawl space to the opposite side of the house,” said Chris McDonough, fire chief for South Dundas Fire and Emergency services.

The fire was quickly extinguished by firefighters from the Williamsburg and Morrisburg stations who attended the scene.

“Upon investigation, the cause of the fire was an electrical short in the wiring below the furnace area,” said McDonough, who estimated damage at about $10,000. 

The fire chief also noted that no working smoke alarms were present.

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Morrisburg’s old high school now has a new name. It will be the South Dundas Municipal Centre.

South Dundas council decided on the new name after a very brief discussion at the May 8 council meeting.

The word Centre in the name was the only part that was debated. Council bandied about the words centre, complex and building and the majority decided centre was most appropriate.

It took only minutes for council to make this decision.

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