Lisa Gervais, The Lindsay Post
PONTYPOOL - Referring to her family as “north receptor 102″, Michelle Stacheruk-Prince, holding six-month-old baby Brielle, captured the emotion of hundreds of people at the final Settlers Landing Wind Park public meeting Thursday night in Pontypool. Stacheruk-Prince lives on a 100-acre farm at 492 Wilmont Rd, not far from Sprott Power Corp,’s proposed five industrial wind turbines.
“I want her (Brielle) to grow up there and love it too,” Stacheruk-Prince said of the family farm. She said they live in rural Pontypool because of the natural beauty of the area. Now, she said they will have direct views of the turbines. She pleaded with Sprott officials to find people who believe in the project as much as they do and “take it to them.”
“We may not have a lot of money . . . but I’ll do everything I can to ensure she’s not ‘north receptor 102′,” Stacheruk-Prince said of her daughter.
Ward 16 Coun. Heather Stauble said 600 people had signed a petition opposing wind farms in the last week but despite the obvious message that they are not welcome in the former Manvers Township, the companies are proceeding. Sprott officials faced another emotional, angry and well-informed crowd as they fulfilled their final meeting obligation to the government of Ontario. They are also behind another five-turbine project known as Snowy Ridge. Another five are proposed by wpd Canada and named Sumac Ridge. Read article
What happened to McGuinty’s statement that “Communities that do not want these projects will go to the back of the line”? It is obviously just another lie designed to shut people up and make it look less like a dictatorship.. We do not even want to go to the back of the line…. we want out of the line altogether. By the way…I wonder where all those imaginary communities are that he claimed would be glad to have them….they need to step up now.
As we all know, the property values will drop like a rock. Perhaps it’s time for litigation against the wind companies and the land owners who are hosting these monsters. Is this not another project on the once protected Oak Ridges moraine? What’s up with that????!!!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!!
Does anyone need to be remined that Hitler employed doctors as well!
People need to be educated that these kinds of things have happened before.
It is most unsettling to realize that doctors entrusted with your care are wilfully acting negligently. It’s hard to put this in perspective. It is a traumatic situation.
Baby Brielle could be a rock in the eyes of the stinking turbine builders. Greenbacks always
finish first simply because they have more value than any human being in the eyes of these
financial gluttons. The only cure is more of what happened in Haldimand County whether you
like it or not.
What about litigation against McGinty? Can that be done?
Ms Gervais has apparently not done her homework in preparing this article. The salient point should be that the Stacheruks are ‘noise receptors’, not ‘north receptors’ Accurate reporting would have brought forward the fact that, while the government and turbine companies insist that the sound of the wind turbines won’t cause harm, the homes of the people residing near them are referred to in the wind turbine company reports as noise receptors. The entire premise of locating wind turbines more than 550 metres away from a ‘noise receptor’, based on some pseudo scientific regulation also coincides with the halfway distance between concession roads, for convenient placement of wind turbines.
The 550m was designed so that they could fit the turbines in the more densely populated 100acre farm communities. There was nothing scientific about it. It was designed to make as much money as possible by cramming in as many turbines as possible.