Local TC Energy pumped storage critics are raising alarm about a drilling rig in the bay.

Tom Buck sees the barge from his waterfront home along the Meaford shoreline, near where the utility company wants to build a multi-billion-dollar hydro-electric generation project at the local military training centre property.

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He considers potential diesel spills, the lubricant used by the drill and the act of stirring up sediments are among the rig’s potential threats to bay water, which shoreline residents drink.

He’s one of three directors with the advocacy group Save Georgian Bay, which is a constant project critic on environmental and economic grounds, and advocate for an alternative answer to relacing fossil fuels than pumping water in and out of the bay.

Buck said that

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