http://www.thestar.com/article/922197--walkom-how-mcguinty-s-windmill-dreams-became-a-nightmare
Selected excerpts:
When Dalton McGuinty embraced wind power four years ago, it seemed he couldn’t lose...
Critics of the premier’s ambitious schemes were dismissed as cranks and nutters infected with a not-in-my-backyard syndrome.....
To ensure that these self-seekers and know-nothings didn’t interfere with the government’s bold plans, Queen’s Park stripped municipal councils of their power to regulate wind turbines.....
On paper, the plan seemed a sure winner......
..provincial medical officer of health Dr. Arlene King issued a report saying no scientific evidence exists to show that wind turbines harm human health......
McMurtry countered that this is because no one has ever conducted a proper studyDozens of rural municipal councils, angered by the province’s decision to take away their regulatory authority, have passed motions of complaint......
There’s a real level of anger there,” he told me. “Rural Ontario is on fire....”
I wonder if the municipalities who courted this highly subsidized "industry" via tax dollars when they still had planning control to say no are wishing they had used their powers then?
And I also wonder if they have taken a lesson from this and are realizing that they must take every available option open to them now to stop this "industry" from proceeding further and the aggregate industry from digging the biggest hole in Ontario on prime agricultural land on the source of more than 1 million Ontarians drinking water.
Did everyone get the lovely little flyer in the mail today informing us the we are about to be bled dry to pay for the turbines our neighbours are investing in? Nice they can take such a big chunk of my paycheque. No bother, my kids didn't really need those winter boots.
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