LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Kincardine group petitions for Kincardine council to stop further wind developments 

Credit:  By Barb McKay, The Kincardine Independent, www.independent.on.ca 28 March 2012 ~~

Rural Kincardine residents are asking the municipality to step up and use its authority under the Municipal Act to stop further industrial wind turbine developments.

A number of residents are in the process of circulating a petition through Kincardine, which calls on Kincardine council to “defend the health, safety and well-being of our community … to stop further construction of industrial wind turbine projects in Kincardine until problems caused by the Enbridge projects are completely resolved.”

Rachel Thompson, whose property neighbours wind turbines, says the group is getting plenty of support and a number of businesses, including Eight Sisters, The Sugar Shack and Fine Fettle in Kincardine,

Bumpers Pizza and Daisy Mart in Tiverton, Cottage Grocery and Restaurant in Inverhuron and Lake Huron Rod and Gun in Underwood have all agreed to post copies of the petition.

Allard Eisen, who lives at the south-east corner of the soon to be constructed 180-megawatt Armow Wind Project, said he doesn’t have a problem with small renewable energy projects, like a small individually-owned solar panel, but has concerns with large scale industrial wind developments.

On his own, going door-to-door on Concession 5, the Northline, Highway 9 and the Southline, he collected 210 signatures.

“As I went up and down some concessions in the last couple of weeks, my suspicion was confirmed that the vast majority of rural Kincardine (residents) are opposed to industrial wind turbines,” he said. “As family after family signed the petition, I was puzzled how it could be that so much land was signed up on these Samsung-Pattern maps. The majority of that land must be owned by people not living on these concessions.”

Kincardine council has expressed a number times since the Armow Wind Project was announced that it does not have authority under the Green Energy Act to stipulate where projects are developed. Council members have been meeting with representatives from Pattern and Samsung to discuss components of the project.

Council recently threw its support behind a motion from the Municipality of Clarington, calling for a moratorium on the construction of industrial wind turbines for a period of one year until the concerns of municipalities are properly studied and addressed.

Source:  By Barb McKay, The Kincardine Independent, www.independent.on.ca 28 March 2012

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon