Clarington

GTHA. “We are home to Darlington Nucle- ar–that is a $12.8 billion refurbish- ment going on right now. Darling- ton provides about 20 percent of the electricity needs of the Province of Ontario.That plant is four reactors and what they’re doing is refurbishing one at a time, so you’ve got a major project going on at the same time the oth- er three reactors are running. “The third is Port Granby. This is an historic, low-level, nuclear waste cleanup–this is stuff that they used to put in luminescent dials - that’s $300 million out of a $1.3 billion project,where they’re, essentially,moving that away from the lake and cre- ating a new, stable, modern landfill. At the end of the day,we hope they will be creating a significant, natural preserve.They’ve got a huge amount of land they don’t knowwhat to do with and we think it should just be left as a public nature preserve for the future.” Another project, destined to bring both people and jobs to Clarington, is the planned arrival of the GO Train line into town. GO Transit is Southern Ontario’s regional public transit system, employing both diesel trains and coach buses. It carries approximately 70 million passengers per year.“The Province has been kind to us,”Foster states.“The GO Train is slated for extension.We’ve part of Clarington is dotted with more than 400 farms; its urban centers are located in the south, on Lake Ontario,with connections to both road and water routes.“We’re one of the onlymunicipalities in Durham that has two north/south transportation spines, for transpor- tation to northern Ontario, along with two east/ west spines, being 407 and 401,which is a real benefit to distribution companies,” she adds. “We’re also within a two or three hour drive to U.S. borders for getting product down into the States and back up to Canada and we’re in close proximity to a deep sea water port.” Today, there is a great deal of growth and eco- nomic activity taking place in Clarington’s urban centers.“We currently host three of the top one hundred infrastructure projects in Canada,” says Foster,“The first is the Highway 407 expansion at $1.3 billion–that’s the extension of the high- way into Clarington–it goes right across the CLARINGTON, ONTARIO That’s one of the reasons that Toyota came here. The amount of work that our staff puts into showing the merits of the community. ADRIAN FOSTER MAYOR