PORT RYERSE - A major criticism of the McGuinty Liberals’ green energy plan is its tendency to pit neighbour against neighbour.
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Evidence of that was on display Wednesday evening when 40 people gathered on Woolley Road north of Port Ryerse to protest a plan to locate four industrial wind turbines in this neighbourhood.
Woolley Road is as quiet a country road as you are going to find. It is a dead-end lane where the neighbours generate most of the traffic.
But the protesters had a reason for gathering here. The Port Dover & Woodhouse Horticultural Society was having its annual picnic at the home of president and master gardener Anne Faulkner. Faulkner and her husband Wally live in an old home at the end of Woolley Road. They are one of four families in the north end of Port Ryerse that has agreed to play host to wind turbines.
Everyone attending Wednesday’s picnic had to drive through a gauntlet of protesters.
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Suzanne Andrews of Port Ryerse, spokesperson for the protesters, says the timing of the event was no accident. The picnic, she said, presented a prime opportunity to picket Faulkner and others on Woolley Road who have agreed to host turbines.
“This was an available venue,” Andrews said. “Because all the proponents live on a dead-end road, there’s never enough traffic to do it here otherwise. Tonight there is. We love the horticultural society. That’s what one of our signs says. I’d say there’s more of us here tonight than people at the picnic.”
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