A resident furious about the spread of wind farms has warned of dire consequences if major developments proceed. Annie Gardner lives on a property east of Macarthur and formed a local Landscape Guardians group in 2005 after Southern Hydro announced plans to build Australia's largest wind farm on her boundary.

After hearing a report from Town Planner, Danielle Truax regarding the limited and potentially costly remedies available to municipalities with regard to wind power, Kingsville Council has decided to make a concerted, cohesive, and collected effort to deal with matters concerning the potential impact of offshore wind turbines.

Centre Welling­ton council's committee of the whole heard on Monday after­noon that several farmers who signed lease agreements for wind farms near Belwood are willing to back out of them. A delegation led by Dave Hurlburt, Laura Humphrey, Gerry Ellen and Darryl Burnet came to council to ask for its help in opposing the wind farm planned by Invenergy.

Residents, landowners, politicians and interested professionals turned up at the Lucknow Community Centre March 9, to have their say in a proposed wind project from Capital Power. While information was provided as to the environmental approval of the project, there was still notable concern from the public about the unknown. "We have (turbines) all around us," said Rita Tigert. "I've read a lot about health problems and concerns."

With well over 1,000 people in attendance - and most of them in an unpleasant frame of mind - a public information session about the proposed Belwood Wind Farm project was held at the Lions Hall in Belwood on Tuesday, Mar 9. Invenergy Develop Manager James Murphy attended the meeting to answer questions about the proposed project, but spent most of the evening in damage control mode.

If a proposed East Garafraxa wind farm goes ahead, people will lose faith in politics and move away from the area, Judith Llewellyn said last week, outside an open house hosted by Invenergy Wind Canada. "People are extremely upset about the undemocratic nature that is revealing," the 12th Line resident said of Ontario's new Green Energy Act, which removes planning authority for renewable energy projects from municipalities.

Turbines spinning in the breeze out in the lake could become a reality, if a massive offshore project moves ahead. ...If approved, the 1,400-megawatt project would be constructed on submerged Crown lands in Lake Erie, more than two kilometres from the shores of such communities as Leamington, Kingsville, Wheatley and Cedar Springs.

The province's Green Energy Act has hamstrung residents ability to fight wind turbine proposals for lakes Erie and St. Clair by putting the financial onus on opponents to prove any harm to human health or the environment. Municipalities need to do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of studies to fight 715 wind turbines proposed for the two lake, Gord Meuser, a member of Citizens Against Lake Erie Wind Turbines, told Leamington council Monday.

With the growth of the wind energy industry in Southern Alberta, the development of protocol to protect the province's migratory bat population is now underway. Lisa Wilkinson, a species at risk biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife and head of the Alberta Bat Action Team (ABAT), said Alberta was a North American pioneer in establishing pre-construction guidelines for wind farm operators.

Months have passed since anyone has waved hello to one another in Waterman or Shabbona in rural DeKalb County. Some people claim they've even stopped going to church to avoid having to talk to former friends. "It's gone. The country way of living is gone," declares Susan Flex, who lives in Waterman with her husband and their nine children. The animosity stems from the greenest of energy sources: a wind farm.

Fryer originally put forth a notice of motion Feb. 22 stating that "local municipalities should have a voice in matters that affect local watershed planning" and that "we all are concerned about the potential impact that offshore wind turbines might have on water quality, human health along with animal and plant life." The motion called for all other municipalities in Essex County and Windsor to endorse it as well and that these concerns be forwarded to the area's MPs and MPPs.

On Earth Day 2009, New York Power Authority (NYPA) President Richie Kessel unveiled plans to industrialize Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with near shore wind turbines clustered in 120MW to 500MW arrays in waters 150 feet deep, or less. Some arrays would consist of 500 turbines towering 450'from the lake levels. NYPAs proposal was unveiled without input from the shoreline communities or businesses that will be the victims. Currently, Jefferson, Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne Counties are working towards unilateral opposition to this NYPA project in Lake Ontario.

A group of more than 100 area residents gathered at the Mills and Petrie Building on Saturday afternoon to hear the negative impact of having wind turbines in the area. A group of representatives from the DeKalb area, as well as attorney Rich Porter spoke ...DeKalb residents who have been battling with wind turbine companies since 2003 said their presentation was to educate the citizens on the adverse effects they've personally experienced.

A Leamington-based company that is proposing to put 700 wind turbines in lakes Erie and St. Clair has hired a high-profile Michigan public relations strategist and former spokesman for the mayor of Detroit. Daniel Cherrin, who was chief communications officer under former Detroit mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., said Thursday he was hired last week by SouthPoint Wind to speak on its behalf about the controversial project.

Oceana County commissioners agreed Thursday to send the request from an offshore wind development group on to the county's planning commission for its input. Despite pressure from opponents of the proposed offshore wind farm to end the plan, commissioners decided to refer the memo from Scandia Wind to the planners for review, study and a recommendation.

The Oswego County Legislature passed a resolution Thursday that opposed the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) proposal to seek contractors to develop a Lake Ontario-based wind farm to be located near the shores of Oswego County. The resolution passed after numerous residents from Oswego County and surrounding communities spent nearly two hours addressing the Legislature, voicing their concerns with the project and, in other cases, their support of the wind farm.

On March 8, council discussed a petition from 20 area residents. Some are neighboring property owners, while others are residents of Arthur. The petition was about concerns about a project on Lots 2 and 3 on Line 2. "We submit that the location of this project, less than a kilometer from in excess of 2,000 people, is very poorly thought out.

Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Rick Johnson has written City of Kawartha Lakes council in the aftermath of local school concerns over wind turbines. The Trillium Lakelands District School Board has officially given its backing to the Manvers Gone With The Wind group, which is looking for the Ontario government to produce an independent study on the health effects of wind turbines.

A petition signed by neighbours and adjacent landowners expressing "serious concerns" about the wind farm being built on Lots 2 and 3, Line 2, Wellington North was presented to council Monday evening. Those signing the petition said the project, "less than a kilometer from an excess of 2000 people, is very poorly thought out.

In the discussion of the proposed underground energy corridor between New Brunswick and Maine, there are two major misunderstandings. Some Mainers believe that Canadian power is so cheap that we should do almost anything to get it. Some Canadian suppliers believe there is an unquenchable thirst in New England for power from Canada, especially green power.