TC Energy has received permission to do a feasibility study for an open loop system Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Plant (PSP) on the federally owned shoreline of the Department of National Defence (DND) Training Centre in Meaford. This proposed facility has serious and potentially harmful implications for local communities, the environment and Georgian Bay’s aquatic ecosystem.

This is what you can look forward to if it goes through:

Approximately 500 acres of forest destroyed and its inhabitants displaced

375 acre man made partially excavated reservoir with a 20m high embankment dam around its perimeter will be cut into the escarpment. The dam will be built above hundreds of existing homes, cottages and farms.

The intake area will be at Blackpoint within Seagull Cove and will draw 23 million cubic meters of water (6+billion gallons) out of the bay and release it each and every day for the next 50 years.

The offshore intake area will entrap and kill fish and destroy spawning areas and aquatic ecosystems.

Water will be pumped in and out of the bay every day creating constant water turbidity and affecting quality of water turning the blue water brown

Save Georgian Bay and make your voice heard.