The wind turbine controversey rages on.
Kincardine is going to dedicate a special council meeting just to talk about wind turbines.
Kincardine council chambers were packed with residents as Councillor Randy Roppel presented a draft bylaw for the town to consider and two residents made presentations against wind farms during the regular council meeting.
Roppel’s proposed bylaw deals with health provisions of residents when it comes to locating and building turbines.
He says he wants to make wind turbine companies aware that Kincardine will not back down and they expect them to follow the procedures set up by the municipality.
Meanwhile, resident Catherine Crawford told the story of ten families apparently affected by the Enbridge and Cruickshank wind farms totalling 115 turbines.
Crawford says there are many more people affected, living as far as 1.5 kilometers from a turbine but the unnamed families don’t want to come forward at this time.
She is hoping that Kincardine becomes a complaint-friendly community where sufferers will be invited to come forward and tell their story.
Rachel Thompson of the Kincardine area was looking ahead.
She wants to make sure that the municipality has an adequate de-commissioning plan in place so they don’t get left with a big debt down the road.
According to her research an 11-million-dollar debt could be facing the community if a protective bylaw on decommissioning is not put in place.
The discussion was bordering on information-overload and councillors decided a special council meeting dedicated to the turbine issue was needed, not only to hear from the public but allow time to get a second legal opinion of the Roppel proposed bylaw.
That meeting will be Tuesday, April 5th beginning at 4 PM.
