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The province sold out on wind energy plan
One term repeatedly used by people living with wind towers was disaster, referring to the loss and damage to their lives and farms, their community and the environment.
We heard plenty ...but not a word of support for wind power, the wind companies or the politicians who are enabling this disaster.
December 8, 2010
by D. Paul Briggs
in The Goderich Signal Star
Property and tax values adversely affected
I had to laugh when I noticed the large display ad by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA) on the back page of our local newspaper last week. In it, Mayor Lynn Acre describes the utopian benefits of the 26 km-long Erie Shores Wind Farm and encourages us all to come down and have a look for ourselves.
By coincidence, I happened to be performing a test flight on a new aircraft with another pilot over the Erie Shores Wind Farm just the day before our paper arrived. After the morning's flying, we repaired... [continue via Web link]
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