Bayshore Broadcasting
Officials in Meaford hope to meet with Staff from the Ministry of Energy at this week’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference in Ottawa. Meaford Councillor Barb Clumpus tells Bayshore Broadcasting News they want to discuss some issues they have with the Green Energy Act.
Some of the concerns include minimum setback distances for wind farms and how turbines impact the health of residents.
Meaford Council passed a resolution earlier this summer that it has zero interest in hosting any potential wind farm developments. Meaford was unable to get an audience with Provincial Energy Minister Chris Bentley at last year’s AMO conference due to time constraints. So Clumpus tells us they are trying a different approach — and hope to meet with the Minister by partnering with other municipalities.
Clumpus explains they share some of the same concerns.
The Annual AMO Conference takes place August 19th to 22nd in Ottawa.
“and hope to meet with the Minister”
Hope is all we get? I say if they do not want to meet and stop this nonsense and harm for the community then PISS ON THIS JOKER he is just another puppet servant that is suppose to be of help. We simple should do what our signs states STOP THE WIND TURBINES. Stand in front of construction sites on public property which we all own and need to protect. Drop your status as a slave to these thugs and stand up as a man against these few parasites that are pushing this harm. If the courts and Bentley and Dalton are not doing what is right we must. The federal government already feels that there is something terrible wrong with turbines with setbacks and related health issues.Lets push this envelope and push this creep of a premier of his high horse. He needs a good dose of reality from the rural people.
Dalton is receiving intelligent and informative letters by MPPs and MPs asking him to impose a moratorium and he has simply replied NO!
My council tried to get high level officials that have some power to change things to meet in their problem riddled area, lierally for years and they refuse. They send the employees from the regional offices who can’t answer any questions or do anything because their hands are tied by the Toronto ministry office. These employees openly admit this.
Incredible that this has gone on for sooo long
Much as I appreciate Barbara Clumpus making this effort, it seems to me we always remain stuck in step one of a three-step process: analyze the situation get information and communicate . Step two, devising a strategy to deal with the situation, and step three, executing that strategy, these often fall by the wayside and nothing is achieved. The by-elections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan spell opportunity. That will do more than chewing a deaf minister’s ear off.
Exactly! These two seats are very important as they relate to what can happen in the near future. Be assured that proponents to IWTs will be out in full force to win these seats