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Chatham-Kent airport turbines still not removed: company fighting Transport Canada order

03 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Turbines near Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport (Photo by Trevor Thompson)

Blackburn News, September 2, 2014

Photo: Trevor Thompson

An appeal to an order to have wind turbines removed at the Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport continues to move through the federal process.

Renewable Energy company GDF Suez is arguing that the turbines don’t pose any danger to incoming or outgoing aircraft. But Transport Canada disagrees, and has ordered them removed by the end of the year.

According to a Transport Canada email sent to BlackburnNews.com, a board is being formed to review the company’s appeal and hear the government’s reasoning for the removal order.

The government says the board will be made up of one or more impartial representatives. There’s no word on when the board will be formed or when the hearing will take place.

Read the full story and comments here.

Editor’s note: GDF Suez is headed by Mike Crawley, former president of the Ontario Liberal Party, and the Liberal Party of Canada. Anyone who saw the documentary Down Wind is aware of Mr Crawley’s success in reaping millions of dollars worth of wind power contracts from the ONtario government.

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Transport Canada demands removal of airport turbines for safety

07 Monday Jul 2014

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CTV Windsor
Published Sunday, July 6, 2014 6:14PM EDT 
Last Updated Monday, July 7, 2014 9:03AM EDT

Pro-wind power Mayor says “there is no safety issue”

Transport Canada has issued an order requiring the eight wind turbines near Cedar Springs be removed by the end of this year.

The organization originally issued a letter requesting “voluntary compliance” last year.

In a release sent out by the municipality, Chatham-Kent mayor Randy Hope, says,“there is no safety issue so we need to change the regulation rather than force the removal of the turbines.”

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The municipality had been waiting for a reply from Transport Canada on this proposal and was surprised this week to learn that Transport Canada had taken this new step of issuing letters demanding that the turbines be removed by Dec. 31.

The affected wind turbines are in a “no fly zone” south of the airport.

It is expected that GDF SUEZ, the owner of the affected turbines, will formally object to the order from Transport Canada and seek a hearing before the Minister of Transport through the process laid out in the Aeronautics Act.

Read more: http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/transport-canada-demanding-wind-turbines-be-removed-near-chatham-airport-1.1901446#ixzz36n9X6XXM

Read the full story and see photos here.

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