The WPD wind project…

The WPD wind project proceeded without some stages of approval. Major one being the proceeding with construction for some aspects of the project during the active season of Blandings Turtle migration and activity which was NOT to take place between May and October of a year. Another such instance was proceeding with construction of turbine erection before final approval. This was approved after the start by the Liberal gov. of the time. In essence, rules set down within the contract were blatantly violated or ignored on the part of WPD, therefore it only stands to reason the project should have been canceled on the grounds that the company failed to follow the rules/law.

Over and above this, going back to the Dalton McGuinty tenure in government, the rural municipalities lost their democratic right to control industrial development in their communities with the introduction of the Green Energy Act. That meant that industrial projects that could alter the destiny of those communities could go ahead, approved by the Provincial government of the day ruining the vision those communities planed and altering their economical potential by giving International Corporations the green light to expropriate local rights to their advantage and capital earned would leave the Province and Country at the expense of the rural land owners and tax payers, their land values, tourist destinations, rights having been removed. The revocation of the GEA and fit contracts were long overdue. It is only right that we the communities of rural Ontario have control over what and where industrial projects take place.