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The Huron Expositor • September 2, 2009 Poge 7
HFA receiving local support for health study into wind turbines
Ftert1onhearIng:from5farmers about lease agreements for wind turbines on their land
Dan Schwab
Huron County Federation of Agri-
culture president Wayne Black says
he's received many phone calls and
comments in person from landown-
ers who've been approached to sign
lease agreements to put wind tur-
bines on their farms and have re-
fused.
Black also says he's heard from
farmers who are considering get-
ting out of their existing lease agree-
ment.
"As for farmers signing lease
agreements, not one has contacted
me stating that they want a wind
turbine on their farm," he says.
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The HCFA has made a submission
to the Ministry of Environment re-
garding the proposed regulation to
implement the Green Energy Act.
In the submission, the HCFA asked
for a full, independent, science -base
epidemiological health study into the
adverse health effects linked to com-
mercial wind energy projects. The
HCFA received support for the study
from the municipalities of Huron
East, Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh,
Bluewater, Central Huron, Goderich
and Morris-Turnberry.
Black says the HCFA has also
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asked for a delay in further wind tur-
bine project approvals until a health
study into the "adverse health effects
linked to commercial wind energy
projects is completed."
"I am hoping the epidemiological
study will take place sooner than
later," Black says. "If the study is
thorough enough, we should learn
what an appropriate setback should
be and what requirements should
be in place for the construction of
the infrastructure for the wind tur-
bine projects. We may also learn
what should take place for solar, bio-
mass and even general transmission
lines."
Black says he believes that up to
this point, the setbacks have not
been based on scientific analysis but
merely on a "gut feeling."
Black is also concerned about solar
panel initiatives pertaining to the
Green Energy Act.
He says the HCFA has been active
in stating that the group is opposed
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to having prime agricultural land re-
placed with solar panels.
"The crops we grow are active so-
lar panels that absorb the sunlight
to produce food," he says. "Once we
start replacing cropland with solar
panels, it is restarting the food ver-
sus energy debate."
Black says one potentially viable
proposal was to allow the solar pan-
els to be placed on the rooftops of
buildings on farms.
"So the solar panels would still be
allowed on farms, just in a different
location," he says. "The bottom line
is, the Green Energy Act had better
provide green benefits without tak-
ing away human health and safety
and with a bit of common sense."
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