Wind Power News: Ontario
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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Picketers assemble at wind farm open house
AMHERSTBURG — A second open house was held by Gengrowth pertaining to a wind farm they are proposing just north of Malden Centre but those who live in the area were ready to air their views as well.
A group of area residents picketed outside the Amherstburg Community Church where the open house was held and held up signs and gave out pamphlets to any passing motorist that was interested. Gengrowth is proposing the five wind …
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Disturbing wind brewing
An article written in response to articles published in The Chatham Daily News April 15, “Gengrowth wind turbines approved,” and April 17, “Open house held, another wind farm project proposed.”
Don Quixote, in Cervantes’ classic by the same name, gallantly road off on his faithful steed, to slay the haunting, implacable, and ever-present giant — the windmill. Poor Quixote didn’t have a chance.
Concerned residents of Chatham-Kent feel the same frustration as independent companies, such as Gengrowth, …
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Wind farm forum draws 300, farms jeered
The prospect of wind energy development in Essex County received mixed reviews Wednesday during a public meeting to hear comments on the county’s proposed policy for commercial wind farms.
Visual and noise impact, whether or not wind energy is a viable solution to global warming and other issues dominated the session attended by about 300 people, as well as county councillors.
Amherstburg lawyer Anthony Leardi warned that wind turbine developments are not public utilities, and if they …
Report slams planned Hydro One line
A proposed transmission line from the Bruce nuclear power plants to the Milton switching station has been highly criticized in a report prepared for the Saugeen Ojibway Nations.
In his report, public utility consultant Whitfield Russell says the proposed project “cannot be justified as a better project than the reasonable alternatives.”
Hydro One Networks Inc. is proposing to construct approximately 180 kilometres of double-circuit 500 kilovolt (kv) transmission lines adjacent to the existing Bruce- Milton transmission corridor.
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Setbacks deferred; C-K Council seeking more information
A motion to implement municipal wind turbine setbacks was deferred for more information on Monday.
East Kent Coun. Jim Brown had requested various mandatory distance requirements, depending on whether the property was residential or commercial in nature.
While there are already guidelines from Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Brown said much more needs to be done before any more wind farm applications come forward.
“I don’t believe we have formal enough zoning in place — we have to …
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Turbine turmoil in rural districts
ESSEX — It’s no longer about the 3 Bs — birds, bats and butterflies. It’s about people, politics and money.
With a dozen companies poised to build as many as a 1,000, 120-metre-high wind turbines, rural life in this area could change forever, says Bill Anderson of the Essex County Wind Action Group.
When the wind turbines first started being proposed a few years ago, they were opposed by people worried about migratory bird routes and the …
Noise caused by turbines a nuisance
(Re: New report questions turbine noise study, April 30 edition of the Examiner)
So the wind power industry and consultants hired by the government tell us Ontario’s noise rules for wind farms are ‘very good’ and ’strike a balance’.
Why then are some families caught up in wind farm developments walking away from their homes?
We have all observed that on many evenings the wind slows down as the atmosphere becomes stable, but the scientists at the Ministry …
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Turbine proposals outnumber capacity
Municipal administration will ask council for a deferral on a wind energy policy on Monday.
During the April 14 planning meeting, councillors voted for staff to create a report on the potential proliferation of wind turbines and ways to mitigate the impact.
The report would come before the Ontario Power Authority proceeds with its next round of request for proposals (RFPs).
Also during the April meeting, four small-scale proposals from Toronto-based Gengrowth were approved.
There is a grid capacity …
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Dust-up over wind farms
Report: Noise from turbines meet guidelines
There’s no scientific proof wind turbines make disturbing levels of noise and, although more study is needed, Ontario’s guidelines are sound, a long-awaited consultant’s report for the ministry of the environment says.
The report by Ryerson prof Dr. Ramani Ramakrishnan was finished in December 2007 but was only posted on the government’s Environmental Registry website on Monday.
It reviews the work of a Dutch scientist, Dr. G.P. Van Den …
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Wind turbines threaten economy
With the current threat of some 725 industrial-scale wind turbines proposed for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent many local residents have begun to alter their plans for the future.
These altered plans will have a serious economic spin-off for our municipality.
The following is a list of some economic opportunities that are being lost due to the threat of industrializing the countryside with wind turbines:
Home renovations have been suspended and will not continue if wind project goes ahead.
Withdrawn …
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