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Wind turbine project offers cash to neighbours
While other wind farms in Ontario pay thousands a year to landowners who actually have a turbine located on their property, developers of the K2 Wind Project have offered to pay everybody else with a home within one kilometre of a turbine, the substation or the transformer station.
August 17, 2012
by John Miner
in Toronto Sun
LONDON, Ont. - The companies behind the development of a massive and controversial wind farm near Goderich, Ont., are offering cash to their potential neighbours.
While other wind farms in Ontario pay thousands a year to landowners who actually have a turbine located on their property, developers of the K2 Wind Project have offered to pay everybody else with a home within one kilometre of a turbine, the substation or the transformer station.
The annual payment offered to homeowners is $1,500 a year for the 20-year life of the project - a total of $30,000.
K2 Wind, a joint venture of Capital Power,... [continue via Web link]
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