| MACLEOD SEEKS MORATORIUM ON WIND FARMS |
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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO Monday 26 October 2009 Lundi 26 octobre 2009 WIND FARMS Ms. Lisa MacLeod: Thank you Mr. Speaker, I stand before this Chamber today to support the private members resolution of my Progressive Conservative colleague, Bill Murdoch, the MPP for Bruce Grey Owen Sound.
Mr. Murdoch is calling for a moratorium to be placed on wind farms throughout Ontario until more studies have been completed on the health affects wind turbines may cause.
The residents in the Village of North Gower have contacted me regarding their concerns about a wind farm in our own community.
Perhaps the biggest failure in the Green Energy Act, and there are many, is that local planning is taken away from local communities in favour of a made in Toronto plan by the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure.
For the residents in my Nepean-Carleton riding, the only option left for them to have any public input on the wind farm this Liberal government wants to impose on them is Mr. Murdoch’s resolution for a moratorium.
Nepean-Carleton is battling two battles right now, the wind farm in North Gower and also the doubling of the village in Manotick, all because provincial bureaucrats not local politicians are dictating our future.
I’ve said in this chamber once before and I will say it again, we cannot take local planning decisions away from our rural communities. Enough is enough.
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