August 30, 2011
Ontario
Ontario
Anti-wind group targets minister
Stratford Beacon Herald, By DONAL O'CONNOR, QMI Agency, www.lfpress.com 29 August 2011
Stratford Beacon Herald, By DONAL O'CONNOR, QMI Agency, www.lfpress.com 29 August 2011
Wind turbine protesters intend to whip up opposition to Environment Minister John Wilkinson at a rally outside his Stratford campaign office Wednesday evening.
Spearheading the protest is the province-wide coalition Wind Concerns Ontario comprising 57 community groups – including one in Perth County – opposed to provincial policy on wind-power generation.
The coalition supports a moratorium on all wind development in Ontario “until proper health studies have been done,” said organization president John Laforet in an interview.
“There hasn’t been a proper third-party epidemial health study done,” said Laforet, adding that more than 135 Ontario families have experienced negative health effects from industrial wind development.
Laforet said he is expecting a turnout “in the hundreds.”
Wilkinson said Monday he hadn’t been invited to meet with the demonstrators and plans to be out campaigning.
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