logo
Article

Wind Turbine breaks in half in Chatham-Kent

CTV Windsor |Jan 19, 2018
OntarioSafetyStructural Failure

The toppled turbine was discovered by a hunter scouting for coyotes early this morning in Harwich Township, according to The Blenheim News Tribune. The huge turbine blades and motor assembly crashed to the ground and the support structure appear to be folded in half.


A wind turbine has snapped in half and is currently sitting bent over in an open field in Chatham-Kent. 

The turbine is located at Drake Road and 16 Line in South Buxton.

John Norton, the general manager of community development with the municipality says the fire chief is on scene, as well as police.

The company that operates the turbine is Terraform Power. Norton says crews from Terraform are also on scene investigating.

The toppled turbine was discovered by a hunter scouting for coyotes early this morning in Harwich Township, according to The Blenheim News Tribune. The huge turbine blades and motor assembly crashed to the ground and the support structure appear to be folded in half.

Monte McNaughton, the Conservative MPP for …

... more [truncated due to possible copyright]

A wind turbine has snapped in half and is currently sitting bent over in an open field in Chatham-Kent. 

The turbine is located at Drake Road and 16 Line in South Buxton.

John Norton, the general manager of community development with the municipality says the fire chief is on scene, as well as police.

The company that operates the turbine is Terraform Power. Norton says crews from Terraform are also on scene investigating.

The toppled turbine was discovered by a hunter scouting for coyotes early this morning in Harwich Township, according to The Blenheim News Tribune. The huge turbine blades and motor assembly crashed to the ground and the support structure appear to be folded in half.

Monte McNaughton, the Conservative MPP for Lombton-Kent-Middlesex, took to Twitter to alert Chris Ballard, the Minister of Environment and Cimate Change of what happened.

"17 families in Chatham-Kent cannot drink their well water and today, this from one of your local wind turbine projects," McNaughton wrote on Twitter. "I again call for an immediate moratorium on North Kent and Otter Creek wind projects."

No houses or barns were in the immediate area of the toppled structure.


Source:https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/wi…

Share this post
Follow Us
RSS:XMLAtomJSON
Donate
Donate
Stay Updated

We respect your privacy and never share your contact information. | LEGAL NOTICES

Contact Us

WindAction.org
Lisa Linowes, Executive Director
phone: 603.838.6588

Email contact

General Copyright Statement: Most of the sourced material posted to WindAction.org is posted according to the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law for non-commercial news reporting, education and discussion purposes. Some articles we only show excerpts, and provide links to the original published material. Any article will be removed by request from copyright owner, please send takedown requests to: info@windaction.org

© 2026 INDUSTRIAL WIND ACTION GROUP CORP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
WEBSITE GENEROUSLY DONATED BY PARKERHILL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION