We are committed to informing the people of Ontario about the many concerns surrounding industrial wind power.
Wind Concerns Ontario is a province-wide advocacy organization (federally incorporated not-for-profit) whose mission is to protect the health, safety and quality of life of the people of Ontario, and the environment. Our position is that the answer to the global challenge of climate change is to choose smart solutions. Industrial wind power, with its many environmental impacts, is not the answer to protecting the environment.
WCO Provides
PowerPoint Presentations
WCO can provide PowerPoint presentations or content for presentations for community groups or individuals to take to their municipal councils. This is for Wind Concerns Ontario members and member groups in good standing, only.
Signs
Be seen! We can provide artwork for signs, highlighting the harm that comes from wind turbines.
Brochures/handouts
WCO can create fact sheets/handouts on impacts from wind turbine noise emissions to help with your cause.
We Recommend
- Get organized–form a community group and establish a board or leadership group.
- Choose your name carefully: you want to be a source of information not an expression of anger (be careful of the acronyms possible, too).
- Incorporate: this gives you a degree of protection from legal action and establishes you as a serious community organization.
- Read, read, read everything you can.
- Plan to hold a public meeting as soon as possible so your community knows what’s going on (we can help you with what to present).
Work with your municipal council to provide the facts, counter to wind power developer spin.
What We Do
Wind Concerns Ontario supports responsible, environmentally sound solutions to our energy demands and environmental challenges. The plan, which began with Ontario’s Green Energy Act, to locate industrial wind power sites at an accelerated schedule, with little oversight and no cost-benefit analysis, is tearing apart the very fabric of rural Ontario. Along with transformers, transmission lines, overhead distribution wires and substations, industrial wind turbines threaten people and the environment in serene, historic, rural communities, on prime agricultural land, migratory bird paths and close to sensitive wetlands, designated wildlife areas and pristine shorelines.
Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of individuals and grassroots citizen’s groups from across Ontario. Wind Concerns Ontario is incorporated with Industry Canada and receives no funding other than membership fees and donations. We are a strictly volunteer organization and, save for legal advisors and other consultants, rely on the dedicated work of members of citizen groups throughout Ontario.
contact@windconcernsontario.ca