Haldimand’s cash for turbines deal

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Linda Rogers is a nurse practitioner who lives on a 52-acre farm near Selkirk, where she also breeds dogs. She says she’ll have 16 turbines within 2 kilometres of her home.
Rogers says 30 per cent of people suffer some ill effects from living close to turbines, and she thinks the county caved in.
“There’s no amount of money you could pay me or my family to be exposed to these emissions,” she said.
The county council supported a moratorium on turbines in the spring of 2011, she said. By fall, the deal had been struck with the wind companies.
“Wow. What a change,” she said. “The community felt betrayed. We were betrayed.”
“The people we thought were going to champion our interests, our concerns were saying: ‘What the heck, it’s coming, we’re going to get some money out of this.’ ”
Rogers doesn’t even see it as a short-term financial benefit. The wind companies’ money is coming out of higher power prices paid by the residents, she argues.
Hewitt has heard the accusation that the county sold out, that it accepted a bribe.
“It would be true if I had a choice,” he said

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