Letter to ROMA from Multi-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group Comprised of Elected Officials from Bruce, Dufferin, Grey, Huron, Perth and Wellington Counties
To all ROMA members and Conference delegates:
Yesterday’s letter from the Board of Directors of ROMA requires clarification. The people who are going to be walking out on Premier Dalton McGuinty are not some radical‐fringe opponents of Green Energy but rather members of your Association who have actual firsthand experience in dealing with the impact of industrial wind turbines on our communities.
With all due respect for ROMA’s past successes, industrial wind turbines are the largest planning issue currently facing many municipalities across rural Ontario. The Green Energy Act stripped the municipalities of their planning authority to respond to the concerns of their citizens. People are getting sick and are being forced from their homes. Citizens are banding together and taking every means possible to resist new turbine developments. Municipal Councils are now caught between valid local concerns and a provincial policy that is out of touch with what is actually happening in rural Ontario. Continue reading









