West Lincoln not a willing host to turbines

"Alderman’s motion of declaration receives unanimous support"

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West Lincoln is not a willing host.
That is the message council is sending to Premier Kathleen Wynne, several of her Liberal ministers, Niagara Region, the Association of Municipalities Ontario, the local utility company and the proponents of two separate wind farms planned for the municipality. Ald. Joanne Chechalk brought forward a motion at Monday’s planning, building and environment committee meeting to declare the municipality an unwilling host to industrial wind turbines. The motion cites a lack of information on long-term health effects, potential negative impacts on property values and long-term negative economic implications to the community resulting from the two applications before the provincial government for approval as the reasons the township is unwilling to become a home for towering industrial wind turbines.
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While committee discussed Chechalk’s motion, just down the street, at Smithville District Christian High School, WLWAG held an information meeting. The meeting, which featured guest speaker Parker Gallant, a retired banker and Financial Post writer, was targetted to residents who won’t be living next to the towering giants.
“This will cost everyone,” said Switzer of the province’s push to increase renewable energy production to 10,000 megawatts by 2018. “It’s not just a one-time deal like the gas plants, this is the something we’ll all be paying for for the next 20 years.”

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