Dear Editor:

Why is it that our government “can’t seem to see the forest for the trees”?
The rural people of Ontario have been asking for a moratorium on wind turbines — citing concerns such as: health issues, increased setback placements, land devaluation, etc. — since even before the Green Energy Act was established.
The ignorance of those who voted for it have caused genuine conflict right across our province! Is it because they haven’t got a minds of their own, or do they just follow their leader — “Do as I say, not as I do”?
Dalton McGuinty’s new bill of preventing bullying should include “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”. Does rural Ontario ring a bell with him? If you’re going to walk the walk, then you’d better talk the talk. Right, Dalton?
The wind turbine company in charge of the St. Columban project has changed its name — up to four times,  and it still hasn’t got an NTP (notice to proceed) contract. The company was first known as CASA, the Pristine Power, then Fort Chicago, and now by its present name: Veresen. There are also many more turbine companies across this province carrying on the same way.
There is an old saying: “A company is known by the people it keeps.” Maybe the name-changing is designed to leave a “teflon trail” or even a double cover for the fine print.
Twenty years from now, no doubt we will have new members on our municipal board and a new slate of MPP in our provincial government. And the question they will be asking is: “Who were the idiots that got us into all this mess?” The rusting, worn-out dinosaurs of turbines that cover our province, once known by the motto “Keep it Beautiful,” will now be known as the “Scrapyard of Junk”, anchored in the ground with dozens of loads of concrete.
The wind turbines which blanket rural Ontario are, and forever will be known as, a “curse” to those who have to live among them. And, to those who bear the responsibility, I say: “Only a fool would sign a go-ahead for a project of this magnitude of non-efficiency.
Remember: I didn’t say you were a fool. But, if you sign it, you will be remembered as just that.
Sincerely,

Jim Shea,
R.R. 1 Dublin