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Will 2010 See an Independent Health Study Into the Effects of Wind Turbines? The Toronto Star and Ottawa Sun Would Like It To
Wind Concerns has had an amazing 2009 that has seen our movement ground leaps and bounds in the face of attacks by the industry and government literally designed to shut us down. We’ve stood up, we’ve re-calibrated and pushed forward with our message in the corridors of power, and in meetings across Ontario. The media went from an attitude of indifference to one of support. We’ve been joined by a number of media outlets across Ontario in calling for an independent health study into the effects of Industrial Wind Turbines.
When Wind Concerns Ontario was founded in October 2008 it represented 21 groups coming together to stand up with one voice. By August 2009 when I became President Wind Concerns Ontario had thirty three groups, and as the year ends – we count ourselves present in 43 communities across 27 counties in Ontario and growing. The Toronto Star and Ottawa Sun have most recently joined a call echoed by the Barrie Examiner and others for an independent health study into the effects of wind turbines. The Maine Medical Association, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and four dozen municipal jurisdictions in Ontario representing 1.5 million people have joined the call of Wind Concerns. Those four dozen communities all support a moratorium until such a study is done.
We’re hoping in 2010, when Premier McGuinty appoints a new Minister of Energy and Infrastructure we’ll begin seeing a willingness to listen to medical experts, municipal leaders and Ontarians who are suffering and fund a study that all sides – Wind Concerns, the Government and the Industry Lobby can agree is fair, science based and designed to get at the heart of what’s happening in Ontario.
As President of Wind Concerns Ontario – I look forward to the year ahead, and some of the changes our organization will see moving forward. We’ve been busy preparing a number of improvements that will begin rolling out soon. With such a great force at work across Ontario I’m sure we’ll get results – or at least new politicians who will give us the results we seek.
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