My Comments to the EBR Registry Consultation On Offshore Wind Setbacks
The proposed guidelines are pitiful. There is no science to suggest health concerns or environmental concerns are addressed at this point. The ministry needs to recognize this is our drinking water and not an opportunity for industrialization. Ontarians should have a right to lands to grow food, and fresh water to drink as a base level of environmental protection. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that this government does not care about the negative environmental effects this industry has on our province, or the long term economic damage crippling electricity rates will either. What’s clear is that no setback for lake based turbines makes any sense and this policy has been fatally flawed from the start.
Wind Concerns Ontario will continue to fight against these irresponsible projects and bizarre regulations that literally ignore existing science to advance the cause of a flawed industry that can’t meet any of the basic requirements for most industrial activity as it relates to supply and demand or commodity pricing.
We will look back at these decisions years from now and wonder what could ‘they’ have been thinking while approving these projects. By setting the rules in a way that allows harm to happen, this government is abdicating its responsibility to the people of Ontario. Residents are standing up, and will continue to stand up to protect our communities, our homes, our families and our environment from the destruction happening at the hands of this provincial government.
I do not support the proposed regulations because they do not go far enough. No turbines in the lake would be a far better policy. Decisions around the grid and electricity supply in Ontario need to be based on economics, and cost benefit analysis. Wind is not the answer on land or offshore on an industrial scale.
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