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“Top-down” policy ignored community concerns, health impacts, research team says
![3-MW turbine south of Ottawa at Brinston: Ontario. Communities had no choice. [Photo by Ray Pilon, Ottawa]](https://ottawawindconcerns.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/brinstoniwt-raypilon.jpg)
3-MW turbine south of Ottawa at Brinston: Ontario. Communities had no choice. [Photo by Ray Pilon, Ottawa]
By Tom Spears
Ontario brought in wind energy with a “top-down” style that brushed off the worries of communities where the massive turbines now stand, says a University of Ottawa study.
The 2009 Green Energy Act gave little thought to the transformation that wind farms bring to rural communities — problems that even revisions to the act “will only partially address,” writes a group headed by Stewart Fast.
Fast personally favours wind energy, “but only if it’s done right.”
In Ontario, he says, much of it wasn’t.
Read the full story here.
Ottawa Wind Concerns 