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Prowind being sued by Woodstock area residents for $28 million

26 Tuesday Nov 2013

Posted by ottawawindconcerns in Health, Ottawa, Renewable energy, Wind power

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Residents of Norwich Township near Woodstock Ontario have decided that legal action is the best way to protect their community from property value loss and potential health problems related to the environmental noise and vibration produced by large-scale wind turbines.

In a news release dated today, the community members say they are filing a “draft” of the intended legal action, demanding $28 million; the legal action is directed at Prowind Canada, Gunn’s Hill Wind Farm, and the property owners leasing land for the wind power project.

Prowind Canada developed a power project just south of Ottawa at Brinston, which it sold to EDP Renewables, and is the developer responsible for the Marlborough wind power project near North Gower and Richmond in the City of Ottawa.

Toronto-based environmental lawyer Eric Gillespie is acting for the Norwich area residents; he can be reached at 416-436-7473.

Gillespie is also the lawyer for Ottawa Wind Concerns, which objects to the Marlborough project, within 3 km of more than 1,000 area homes. The Marlborough project, if it proceeds, could reduce property values for nearby homes by $134 million.

ottawawindconcerns@gmail.com

Mirror,mirror on the wall, who is the tallest building of all? (in Ottawa)

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by ottawawindconcerns in Health, Ottawa, Renewable energy, Wind power

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Recent news reports tell us that many residents of downtown Ottawa are disturbed by the prospect of a 42-storey condo tower in the Preston Street area. “Not in keeping” with the neighbourhood, they claim, and the condo tower would be the tallest building in Ottawa.

Not if the wind power project goes ahead.

The wind turbines specified by Prowind Canada (a subsidiary of Germany-based Prowind GmBH) are 190 meters or 626 feet tall. As power generating machines, they do make noise and produce vibration (infrasound), and they will be lit at night by aviation safety lights.

By comparison, the tallest building in Ottawa-Gatineau is Les Terrasses de la Chaudieres, but the second tallest, and tallest on the Ottawa side of the river is the Place de Ville Tower II at 367 feet or 112 meters. Prominent in the western portion of the city is Minto’s Metropole which towers the neighbourhood at 109 meters or 354 feet. The list of buildings is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Ottawa%E2%80%93Gatineau

In other words, those tall buildings are but little specimens when compared to the industrial-scale wind turbines. Now, imagine too that those turbines will be placed next to a village of single family homes and farms—far too close for such huge structures, and far too close for the environmental noise and infrasound they will produce. (Prowind just announced that the capacity of turbines at its Gunn’s Hill project near Woodstock will be 2.89 megawatts.)

The photos on Prowind’s website depicting the impact of the turbines on the North Gower-Richmond area are misleading and duplicitous. As we have said before, the real view of the turbines from Malakoff Road would not be of some misty distant towers—you would not even be able to SEE the nacelle from that view.

We offer this information at the risk of having the wind power developer claim our objections are based on a dislike for the “look of them” and in the hope that by noting the true size of these machines, people–especially our city-dwelling friends and fellow citizens–will come to understand what is really happening when a wind power project is proposed: it is the invasion of a quiet community by a huge industrial project.

Email us at ottawawindconcerns@gmail.com

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