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Cornerview Farms, Feed In Tariff Ontario, FIT subsidy Ontario, Green Energy Act, Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, property value loss wind power, property value wind farms, wind farm North Gower, wind farm Richmond, wind mills Greece, wind mills in Europe
An Ottawa-area reader wrote to the Ottawa Citizen, in response to a totally city-centric column by writer Kelly Egan, in which the columnist said he likes the Feed In tariff program because he thinks it helps small, local energy initiatives. So, so wrong.
If only the FIT program had done that, there actually would be jobs, there actually would be energy savings…but that’s not what happened—the subsidy program was created for the giant corporate wind power industry. The rooftop solar panels Mr Egan so likes to see from his “bedroom window” in the city have almost nothing to do with it. On the other hand, the people of rural and small urban communities will have their lives changed for ever by the advent of huge wind power generation projects. Here is the letter. Note how the writer also describes what he has seen in his European travels—what Ontario is doing is not like anything elsewhere.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/close+residences/8297595/story.html
Too close to residences
Re: Tied to be FIT, like it or not, April 24.
Reading columnist Kelly Egan’s article on the touchy subject of wind turbines, I just felt sick to my stomach.
Having a residential property adjacent to a farm where an industrial wind turbine project is in the works makes me a stern opponent of this kind of project. It is costly, detrimental to health and a threat to the value of my property.
I invite Egan to switch places with me and watch his lifetime toils evaporate just for the sake of enriching powerful lobbies of already rich people.
It is a shame that our government insists on disturbing and ruining people’s lives by allowing such projects so close to residences. Our beautiful province is so vast and for sure this kind of project can be built in remote areas where people’s lives are not affected and the enrichment of the government’s friends can continue with us footing the bill.
I have visited many countries where wind turbine parks were nowhere close to any residences nor farms. Even in Greece where bribery can seemingly get you anything, such projects are built far away from inhabited areas.
I wonder what it took to convince our politicians that building them close to homes is good for everyone. I feel so powerless in a country like Canada where the person is valued – but it appears that our politicians do not adhere to this notion.
Savas Adamantidis, North Gower
Donations welcome to help us with legal fees and other expenses. PO Box 3 North Gower ON K0A 2T0
