Goderich Signal Star, 2011-12-21, Page 18mpson says she's not giving up on
;al Municipal Democracy Act
Duron -Bruce MPP
ays the bill could be
eintroduced in
February
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private member's bill called
Municip.al Democracy Act
tied last Thursday, Huron-
�P Lisa Thompson says she
to give. up.
going back to the drawing
ere going to keep working
we hope to reintroduce it,
last week during a phone
rate member's bill proposed
ick some control over the.
f industrial wind turbines to
nunicipalities involved.
all Conservative M P Ps
upported the bill, which
amend the Green Energy
e planning control back to
ticipalities over industrial
is, it was defeated by a vote
very disappointed that the
nd NDP don't think enough
scat municipalities to give
e back to them. The NDP
whipped on the vote and
e folks absent for the vote,"
ripson the day after the bill
ted.
5on spoke to the provincial
e about an industrial wind
pproved before the Green
t was passed, that is going
Elgin less than 150 metres
homes and the protest in
riunity against the project.
spoke about the village kit'
hich she said will be land-
r two proposed industrial
cts In the area:
'couldn't a municipality be.
rain the authority they had
✓ Green Energy Act?" she
ing that she and her coi-
led to explain how impor-
planning authority isfor
ities.
re emails daily from citizens
riding of Huron -Bruce -
em are here today - who are
that the McGuinty Liberals
preen Energy Act have left
out a voice, she said in the
e during the debate on Dec.
;oing to try and increase the
of the severity of the issue,
"And, we want to find out
at being supported by the
other parties. There's some middle
ground here and we can develop
some common parameters."
Thompson said she hoped to
reintroduce the bill, which "may not
be exactly the same bill" sometime in
February.
Ai
We're going to try and
increase the awareness
of the severity of the
issue," she said. "And, we
want to find out why it's
not being supported by
the other parties. There's
some middle ground here
and we can develop some
common parameters:'
— Huron -Bruce MPP
Lisa Thompson
In the meantime, she, last Friday,
tabled a motion in the House asking
for a moratorium on all further indus-
trial wind development until a third -
party health and environmental study
has been completed.
"The health and well-being of the
people of Ontario should be first pri-
ority when developing renewable
energy projects," said Thompson in a
press release. "The McGuinty Liberals
have failed to listen to rural Ontario,
and have forged ahead placing indus-
trial wind turbines in communities
that are not willing hosts; without
knowing the health and environmen-
tal implications
Thompson said there is inconsist-
ency in the Liberal government's will-
ingness to discontinue a plan to erect
hundreds of offshore wind turbines
across Ontario, citing health and envi-
ronmental concerns but fail to extend
the same moratorium to wind turbine
projects built on land.
"The suggestion that offshore tur-
bines are a problem, and that turbines
on land are not, is a slap in the face to
rural Ontario," said Thompson in the
press release. 'lithe McGuinty Liber-
als truly believed there were health
and environmental concerns with
industrial wind turbines, they should
extend the moratorium to on land
wind projects'until a proper health
and environmental study can be
completed."
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