Government must put a stop to turbines
The Green Energy Act, conceived and drafted mainly by the wind energy industry, is a blatant abuse of power by Premier Dalton McGuinty and Energy Minister George Smitherman.
Our rights were seriously eroded before it came into existence and they took it a step further.
In a very short three years, major wind projects have been put into operation.
The significant health problems that surfaced can be attributed directly to the provincial government’s woeful ‘guidelines’ for turbine placement.
This government did not do their homework, they let the wind industry do it for them.
Municipalities with projects in their areas know, first-hand, how much trouble they are.
When they tried to stop existing projects from expanding, they were taken to the Ontario Municipal Board where they were told they had to allow turbines because the provincial government said so.
Rather than putting a check on wind energy development and setbacks, this Liberal government has decided to do minimal homework with no independent study.
They have wrapped dictatorship up in a ‘we care about the environment’ blanket and are using it to try to cover their lack of accountability and to smother our rights.
There needs to be an inquiry into the whole process. There needs to be accountability and reparation to the people who have already been harmed because of a lack of diligence by government.
The wind industry is scurrying to get projects up this summer before new government regulations are set.
While this government dithers along trying to figure out what regulations they should go by, there needs to be a complete halt on any more development.
It is nothing less than criminal negligence for any more wind turbines to be built in this province until regulations that protect our health are in place.
Lorrie Gillis,
Flesherton
9 July 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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