The 30MW wind power project at Brinston Ontario has been under construction for just two weeks now, and the wind power developer EDP has been providing residents with an almost daily update on the construction. At this point, it's mostly trucks full of stone, going down formerly quiet country roads, to construct the access roads to the turbine sites.
A local pilot photographed the activity from the air, and we bring you a photo of what a turbine construction site looks like from above. This is just ONE turbine and actual construction on it has not really begun.
What's interesting about Brinston is that the wind power project, which was opposed by local residents, represented by WCO member South Branch Wind Opposition Group, will be up and running next spring, just months before Ontario's municipal election in October, 2014.
By then, residents will be experiencing the brunt of what it's like to live near 500-foot, 3-megawatt turbines.
We're sure that experience will help them make decisions as to whom to vote for on the South Dundas Council. Despite numerous well-researched presentations by local resident, many councillors just threw up their hands and said, there is nothing we can do. Or worse, they actively supported the power project, citing the wind industry claims of job creation and benefits to the community.
Time will tell.
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