Steps to help restore…

Steps to help restore municipal planning authority regarding industrial wind will result in huge conflict of interest situations in municipalities that have allowed turbine development. In some cases (as in Chatham-Kent) the municipality has ownership/shares in some projects. Some municipal representatives have leases and/or relationships with wind companies. This leaves residents who are experiencing negative impacts, or those not in favour of turbines in a hopeless situation since the local government will certainly not have an unbiased view of the situation.

The proposed changes do nothing to address and resolve the negative impacts that people are experiencing due to wind turbines. To allow more turbines to be constructed and those in operation to continue operating when negative impacts have been reported for decades is unconscionable.

The full range of emissions from turbines has not been addressed in any of the previous regulations or proposed changes.

A government that is charged with protecting the health and safety of its' citizens should be acknowledging the problems and putting an end to them--not adjusting regulations to allow the injustice to continue, or shifting the responsibility to other levels of government.

Beyond the fact that negative impacts are being experienced by people and animals that are forced to live near turbines-- every citizen in Ontario is being negatively impacted. The turbines are unreliable and intermittent, so their contribution to our power supply is redundant, and as such the turbines are an unnecessary cost burden to everyone in this province.

Wind turbines have never made any economic sense, environmental sense, nor safety sense for Ontario. To allow harm from wind turbines to continue to be inflicted upon Ontario is criminal.

Please feel free to contact me regarding the negative impacts that are being experienced in my community due to wind turbine installations.