Featured on the Goldhawk radio show on Zoomer Radio AM 740 Toronto today will be two Ontario citizens expressing concern about a wind power project and the threat to a gas well in the Wst Lincoln-Hamilton area, and the local water supply. Ed Engel and Anne Fairfield will be on the show at 11:15 to discuss.
"This is about a Gas Well situation on Sixteen Road that was properly installed many years ago near the Road Allowance. Now the HAF Wind Energy Project wants to bury the Electrical Collector Line within 5 metres of one Gas Well," says Anne Fairfield. "The MNR Policies and Regulations say that nothing should be installed within 75 m of a Gas Well, and the proponents have no Engineer's Report (required) to say otherwise, nor were they asked to produce one.
"The problems are these:
This case has reached the point where the Health and Safety of a very densely populated rural area of West Lincoln and Hamilton is threatened if no immediate action is taken. There are 244 homes and families (not just receptors) within 2 km of these five Industrial Wind Turbines.
"Members of our community told the Ministry of the Environment last year in the commenting process about our gas wells concern, yet the proponents and the Ministries granting approval have not been held to account."
Non-commercial natural gas may be odorless, tasteless, and colourless, Fairfield explains. A private gas well may also produce gas containing hydrogen sulphide, which is poisonous and should be treated with caution It is fatal to humans in small concentrations and causes rapid corrosion of pipes.
"These gas well pipes are very old, and do not need to be corroded any more. They also connect to a house. When we can smell sulphur at our water taps, it is a good indication that hydrogen sulphide is around.The very fact that we have gas wells in West Lincoln, and most of us rely on our water wells, indicates to us that we have a very short term problem now and a longer term problem ahead with fracking for the gas."
Tune in and call in with your questions or concerns to 1-866-740-4740 or 1-416-30-0740 to Dale Goldhawk on Zoomer Radio Am 740 after 11 a.m. Listen LIVE at zoomerradio.ca
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