It’s amazing to us that, here in North Gower, Ontario, there are still people who are unaware of the proposed industrial turbine development for farmland that is very close to homes and other farms in the village, and to homes in part of Richmond. But there are people who haven’t paid attention or who thought the turbines would be all on one farm, and affecting very few, if any, “involuntary neighbours.”
Not so: if you consider that new setback regulations in Europe are for 2 km between turbine installations and homes (in Germany [Saarland] in fact it is 2 km from the boundary of a residential zone), and the fact that the Mars Hill,NY health study (not yet released) indicates in its preliminary results that 82% of people within 1.5 km of the industrial wind turbines are experiencing health effects, there are a lot of people in North Gower and Richmond who should be concerned.
So now, more people are asking what they can do.
First, join your local wind action group, wherever you are. (In North Gower, contact them at northgowerwindactiongroup@yahoo.ca )
Sign a petition asking for a moratorium on these developments until third-party, objective health studies are done—health studies that involve interviews and examinations of real people, not literature reviews.
Read more on the issue. In Ontario, go to http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com
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DONATE to the efforts: legal fees, mailings, advertising, sign purchase etc all costs money, currently being borne by volunteers.
CONTACT your City Councillor and your MPP. Don’t accept the “it’s out of our hands” response. True, the Green Energy Act essentially removed the ability of municipalities to plan their own communities and protect their citizens (how they let that happen is a mystery, but probably due to the green brainwashing that took place), but that doesn’t mean it’s right. If every affected municipality rose up and protested, something would have to be done.
Get lawn/window signs, talk to your neighbours, and above all learn as much as you can about this issue. When you start reading about it, you’ll learn that all is not what it seems. This is not about the environment, it’s about money and votes.
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