It is time for Alberta to allow municipalities the option to declare that they are “unwilling hosts” of giant industrial wind turbines that threaten not only pristine viewscapes, but the entire biodiversity due to infrasound, now proven to harm a host of life forms, including humans.
by Farmers Forum staff, Ottawa, farmersforum.com
Wind project developers will have much less Ontario real estate to work with as the province prepares to issue a call for more energy development that could include more wind turbines. That’s the impression left by a recently released map that starkly shows a great swath of the Ontario landmass now off limits for new wind projects, based on the 159 municipalities that have officially declared themselves “unwilling hosts” to new turbines.
The Ford government — which was first elected on a 2018 platform opposed to wind energy but has since softened that stance — says it will honour the wishes of these unwilling communities. In fact, under Ford’s new rules, local councils have an effective veto over any proposed wind project: The developers can’t proceed without explicit municipal support in the form of a council resolution — a departure from the McGuinty-Wynne government years when power projects were forced on some communities.
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Wind Concerns is a collaboration of citizens of the Lakeland Alberta region against proposed wind turbine projects.