Concerns about the St. Columban Wind Project to address in the municipal consultation form to the Ministry of the Environment were debated at last Tuesday’s meeting of Huron East council.
A three-person delegation from Huron East Against Turbines (HEAT) urged councillors to include the need for a baseline sound study on the consultation form, a suggestion supported by Mayor Bernie MacLellan who said, “It makes perfect sense to me.”
“A baseline sound study could be added to the consultation form so when you do other sound studies, you’ll know what the difference is,” recommended HEAT member Tom Melady, adding that two acousticians HEAT has consulted, Bill Palmer and Rick James, could be used to conduct the study.
...getting a baseline sound study done is very similar to farmers taking preliminary electrical readings to make sure they don’t have problems with stray voltage after a wind project is operating.“This could become valuable information if we proceeded to a lawsuit. I don’t see the harm in asking the proponent for it,” said MacLellan.Continue reading at the Seaforth Huron Expositor
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