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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2010-07-29, Page 7THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010. PAGE 7.Members of Huron East AgainstTurbines (HEAT) expressed theirdispleasure with the pace at whichHuron East Council was dealing with the issue of wind turbines in the municipality at the July 20 meeting of council. HEAT leader Gerry Ryan said he was under the impression that potential bylaws regarding wind turbines would be considered at the meeting and said he was disappointed when he was told that they wouldn’t be. After a special meeting of council on July 13, where council received a presentation from HEAT lawyer Kristi Ross via conference call, Ryan said he was told that bylaws would be considered at the July 20 meeting. Clerk-Administrator Jack McLachlan, however, said thatbecause of pending legal advicefrom the municipality’s lawyer, nodecision could be made at the time.Ryan called this “unacceptable”and said that waiting until the nextmeeting of council, originally scheduled for August 3, would drag the process on even longer than it already had been. Ryan said that e-mail correspondence had been going back and forth between McLachlan and Ross since the beginning of May. He said the wait in dealing with the situation was not acceptable to the members of the group. Ryan said that the time to act was now, between the province’s Green Energy Act and new contracts being drawn up in the fall, that council needed to move quickly on the bylaws. “If you don’t act now, you’ll lose every bit of control you might havein regards to the industrialization ofHuron East with wind turbines,”Ryan said.One of council’s main concernswas what the Green Energy Actwould mean to the rules put in place by lower tier municipalities. Ryan, however, said that he was told very specifically that the new act would not override the Municipal Act. “There will be no conflict with provincial legislation,” Ryan said. Ryan said that as of right now, there are between 350 and 400 industrial-sized wind turbines listed for development throughout Huron County and that Huron East Council, as well as Huron County Council will have to begin the process soon, because once the ball is rolling, it will be difficult to stop, Ryan said. “We did our best to present the information to you,” Ryan said. “There are ways of putting thesebylaws together that won’t costcouncil a nickel, but once this starts,it’s over. And it’s starting.”Ryan said that his group alongwith an another protest group fromCentral Huron, Central Huron Against Turbines (CHAT), will be presenting their case to Huron County Council at its August 4 meeting. Between the two groups they have 20 minutes of presentation time and Ryan said he is unsure if they will be asking for action from council after those presentations or not. Ryan said that he hoped these bylaws would have been voted on and been put into place by the time the groups presented in Goderich, but he said that very little had been done by Huron East staff since the July 13 meeting. “There’s nothing happening and this is not acceptable,” Ryan said.“You didn’t get elected to donothing.”There were concerns aboutrushing the bylaws if the proper legalconsultation hadn’t been conducted.Mayor Joe Seili was concerned for all of Huron East’s ratepayers, saying that they could all be dragged into an issue that concerns one ward if council didn’t do its homework on the issue. “If we don’t do our bylaws right, we could be challenged and then all ratepayers are on the hook,” Seili said. Councillor Andy Flowers said that the way he understood it wasn’t that the municipality may be challenged after enacting these bylaws, but that it would be charged. 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