Eastern Ontario Open Houses for power developers attempt to win over residents
Ottawa Wind Concerns has posted a story from a recent edition of Ontario Farmer, reporting on Open Houses held by wind power developers as the multi-national corporations proceed on the “green light” for Eastern Ontario, for the 2015 round of wind power contracts.
But, based on comments made to the reporter, many residents of Prescott-Russell and Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry are not fooled by the maps and save-the-world chat. “This is going to end badly,” said a farmer who refused to sign a lease for wind turbines.
Note that the executive for power developer EDF is David Thornton, former staffer in Dalton McGuinty’s office, and who also served as a senior policy advisor on renewable energy. (Guess he figured out where the rainbow ends…)
Read the story at Ottawa Wind Concerns, here.
2 Comments
Khris
The old fox in the hen house. Glad to see the farmer win this time.
Greg Latiak
I recall asking an ‘engineer’ at one of the Amherst Island sessions why the turbines were packed in so tightly when the best available science I could find talks about mutual interference and downstream turbulence. The response was to get mad and claim they had special ‘science’ to allow them to do this. My guess was they don’t care if it runs efficiently or not — they will get paid anyhow. The previous ‘tech’ was telling me sound cannot propagate through rock (ever hear of seismology?)
All we need is for someone to say the plant was laid out by following lines of cosmic force from ‘Cancer’… no doubt. And none if this will save the planet — since we are burning more gas than ever to keep the lights on.