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NATIONAL POST: Wind farm foes have lawn signs stolen
I was disgusted to hear that someone was low enough to steal lawn signs from Guildwood residents who are opposing Toronto Hydro’s proposal. The National Post wrote the following piece on the incident. Guildwood residents have also reported the thefts to the police and are hopeful that through increased evening patrols our freedom of speech will be protected from the intolerant eco-bully vandals that saw fit to steal residents signs.
Wind farm foes have lawn signs stolen
Guildwood Village
Meghan Housley, National Post Published: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Residents of Guildwood Village along the Scarborough Bluffs have no idea who is stealing their signs.
The residents have been using 12-by-24-inch lawn signs reading “Save our Shoreline” to voice their opposition to the planned windmill farm two kilometres off the Bluffs. According to John Laforet, who lives in the Guildwood neighbourhood, at least 40 signs have vanished in the middle of the night. Mr. Laforet said the Toronto Wind Action group has not had any luck in convincing the city, the province and Toronto Hydro that a wind farm would harm the community.
“We’ve been very aggressively fighting the city on it,” he said. “But we have no idea who would actually go to this length to co-ordinate taking down signs going street by street overnight.”
On South Marine Drive, where signs were up in front of a third of all the houses on the street, only a couple are left standing.
Mr. Laforet said Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Green Energy Act was designed to take away the rights of such communities as Guildwood to oppose these projects. “Instead of having an informed discussion about the pros and cons, we have been stripped of our rights to oppose. We have some real concerns about potential environmental damage done through the construction, and real concerns about whether Toronto Hydro’s even in a position to borrow the billion dollars that it’s going to take the build it.”
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