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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2009-08-12, Page 5Opinion The Huron Expositor • August 12, 2009 Page 5 41111111111111111111111111 Local community must choose wiselyand when land for wind turbines makingdecisions about offering I am a 58 -year resident of this - only upset for many and poten- . were no 500 -foot -high wind tur- community of Seaforth and Mitch- tial for corporate profits. Have they bines, so how could any long-term ell, I am id member of HEAT, Hu- been here in the past to support our studies be done? ro» East AU. ainst Turbines and I am community, experiencing the losses Keep in mind that the problems gravely concerned about the health and the victories? I doubt it. with 100 to 200 foot turbines are issues created.by wind turbines. Will they be here in the future to substantially less than the ones All my information about health sweep up the mess, if and when one coming here. concerns of wind" turbines I have occurs, or to share in the successes Dr. Christopher Hanning MD, found out in the last three months, of the community? I doubt it. a consultant in sleep disorders at for prior to that I had thought elec- So my caution to you remains that Leicester General Hospital UK, on tricity produced by wind was valu- we in this community, must choose June 14, 2009 published his long - able. carefully and wisely what direction term peer-reviewed study of the My opinion on its value has we want to move. Swinford Wind Turbine Project in changed substantially but my con- Two statements made by the RES the UK and its serious health is - cern for the health problems that representatives need careful atten- sues created by the turbines. wind turbines create is major. tion. The first of Chad Horton says He stated, "In my expert opinion As for my biases, a wind project that he encourages all land owners from my knowledge of sleep physi- is planned for my immediate com- to gather as much information as ology and review of the available munity with a turbine only 1.2 kms possible including health studies. research, Ihave no doubt that wind from my residence. Another of my Sound advice, may I suggest that turbine noise emissions cause sleep biases - I know that in a small ru- you follow it very closely. disturbances and ill health." ral community we are all closely at- The second statement of Nick " He recommends a setback dis- tached; when one person hurts, the Muszyanski states that major stud-. tance of 1.5 kms., the same distance whole community hurts. When one ies of long-term wind farms in the as recommended by the World person wins (and not at the expense UK have shown no indication of Health Organization. of another) we all win. So what hap- health impact. Well, Mr. Muszyan- In yet another incident reported pens here is very important. ski, what is your background knowl- in Dr. Hanning's study in Lincoln - What about the RES represen- dege on this one? shire UK, where two families with- tatives? I'm suspicious that their There are no long-term health in 900 metres of a wind turbine, background is corporatebased, studies done on this kind of wind had to leave their homes, Dr. Han - read making money. What have turbine that. is being proposed in they contributed to our community West Perth - 10 years ago there To the Editor, Your article of Wednesday, Aug. 5 reporting on the wind turbine meet- ing in Brodhagen on July 30 trig- gered some necessary comments. All too often rural people depend on information supplied by an ex- pert, someone who comes from out- side the community. All too often that information from that expert needs further analysis. The information supplied by the Renewable Energy Systems Ameri- cas (RES) is such information. I have found in life that one believes what one wants to believe, so I encourage you not to believe only what they say or only what I say. Please do your own research and formulate your own opinion. I have also found that when one presents information, ' the listener should be aware of the background of the informer and the biases that the person may present in his or her information. The two representatives of RES Mr. Chad Horton and Mr. Nick Muszynski professed to 1beexperts representing their company. I have serious concerns about some of their information. See CAUTION, Page 7 Fire caused by lightning destroys two large barns .during severe electrical storm of 1934 August 1, 1884 The residents of Cardno's block and the townspeople generally got pretty badly scared on Tuesday eve- ning ' last a little before 6:00. The fire alarm bell was run and imme- diately volumes of smoke were seen issuing from . the cellar of Messrs. Laidlaw and Farley's Central Gro- cery. The fire brigade were prompt- ly on hand. A lighted lamp had been left under a shelf containing butter paper dishes. These ignited, and the dense smoke which resulted as teacher for the next year at a sal- ary of $400. What might have been a more se- rious affair occurred on Monday of last week when a horse driven by Jacob Ellesley, of Benmiller, took fright at a gypsy tent up at Mug - fords corner on the way to Goderich. The horse wheeled around upset- ting the buggy and struck for home. The animal was caught before go- ing far. Mr. Ellesley was found to have two broken ribs. Hensall bowlers intend making a alerted those in the store and bye handsome green on the lot they re - prompt action the fire was speedily -cently purchased from G.C. Petty. Extinguished. August 3,1934 Mr. J.W. McLean, headmaster of Two large barns were completely the Dundas schools has resigned af- destroyed by fire during the severe ter 18 years' service and will short- electrical storm on Sunday evening. ly assume the management of the Fire caused by lightning completely Cornwall FreeHolder. This gentle- destroyed the fine bank barn on the man is a brother of our esteemed farm of John McDonald, half a mile friend M.Y. McLean of the Seaforth northeast of Walton. The barn on Expositor. the farm of James Hulley northeast August 6, 1909 of Winthrop was also .destroyed The trustees of No. 5 school Hui- with the contents. lett have engagcEwen After purchasing linoleum from a pedlar on Tuesday a resident of the north part of town found that she received only about half the li- noleum she paid for. When she dis- covered the fraud the man who had made the sale had disappeared. Police were notified and are inves- tigating. July 31, 1959 Fire shortly after 10:00 on . Wednesday completely gutted a two car garage and demolished a tractor on the farm of Lorne Carter, two miles west of town. The farm home 20 feet north of the shed was threatened throughout the life of the blaze,. but scorched paint and burned shingles on the south wall of theback section of the house was the only damaged s \ered. Keys to a 1959 mu oce car were handed to Raymond Murray, RR 5, Seaforth on Wednesday. Mr. Murray was the winner of a car in a raffle conducted by the Catholic Women's League, St. Columban. August 8, 1984 Some area motorists were cautious the last several weeks, walking or bicycling around town. Despite the caution, 27 vehicles were checked at the safety lanes in Seaforth last Thursday. Eight were found to be unsai 9. Seaforth police issued formal de- mand notices to motorists requiring them to take their vehicles through the inspection. Service in the community weekly newspaper industry extending over 50 years was recognized when the Canadian Community Newspaper Association presented Andrew Y. McLean of Seaforth with the asso- ciation's Gold Quill award. The pre- sentation was made at the annual CCNA convention held in Penticton, B.C. last week. Over 400 represen- tatives of community newspapers from across Canada attended. Mr. McLean was publisher of The Huron Expositor until the sale of the paper to Signal Star Publishing Ltd. of Goderich two years ago. He had been associated with the paper since finishing school in 1931.