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Red
Deer County residents will continue to pay the same recreation admission
and registration fees as Red Deer city citizens as a result of the
extension of the agreement to pay the city $120,000 each year. The
agreement will be reviewed in 2010. The county also has similar
agreements with six other urban municipalities.
Representatives
of Plasco Energy Group were available at an open house yesterday at Red
Deer County Centre to answer questions about the proposed gasification
plant that will turn garbage into electricity. About 30 people attended
with mostly positive comments. The cost of the plant had been pegged at
$100 million, but that price has dropped to $70 million as a result of
the initial 300-tonne-a-day proposal being down-sized to 200 tonnes of
garbage per day. Work on the site, likely next to Red Deer County's Horn
Hill Waste Transfer Station east of Penhold, should begin next summer
and the plant could be operational in 2010.
Earthwork
Begins on Penhold Multi-Plex
There are currently no heritage sites in Springbrook identified for Red
Deer County's inventory of potential future heritage sites, it was
revealed at the open house held today. Two sites had previously been
identified. The rifle range dating back to around 1941 was demolished
during the summer to make way for a storage facility. The former CFB
Penhold administration building was removed from the list at the request
of the owner. County designation is voluntary. Very few other structures
from the former base meet the strict standards required to be designated
as a future historical resource.
Sites in the area that have made the
final list of around 30 sites in the county include the Alberta Central
Railway Mintlaw steel river trestle, Mission Hill, Horn Hill and Antler
Hill. 
Red Deer County has learned that the
$11 million Springbrook infrastructure
rehabilitation project, of which $3 million was completed this year, that includes the replacement of most underground
water and sewer lines, must be completed next year in order to keep the
grants received by the provincial and federal governments. The county
had planned to stage the project over three to four years due in part to
the shortage of construction labour. However, recent economic
developments have reduced the pressure on contractors and the price of
asphalt and diesel fuel is expected to go down as a result of the decrease in the price
of oil.
