One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario just days after taking office on June 29, 2018, was cancelling 759 renewable energy projects including the half-finished White Pines Wind Project in Milford, Ontario – a multimillion dollar private business investment that had been under development since 2007 and could have produced 52 million kilowatts an hour of clean energy annually – enough electricity to power just over 3,000 homes.
The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County anti-wind farm advocacy group had been opposing the project since 2008 and had raised $1.5M for legal funds.
The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County believes that any installation of industrial-scale wind-turbine complexes in Prince Edward County will be detrimental to its unique historical, agricultural, cultural and rural character. There are no locations within the County or in the near shore waters, where a wind turbine complex would not severely impact the health, environment, creative and rural economies and quality of life of its citizens.
Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County
County notables voice their opposition to the placement of industrial wind turbines along the South Shore of Prince Edward County. Concerns arise over risk to human health, biodiversity – wildlife and natural habitat, property values, natural and built heritage, and Prince Edward County’s wine and tourism based economy. Our Provincial government’s undemocratic heavy handedness by choosing big industry over the people as main stakeholder to adopt necessary green energy policies is a central issue.
- Gord Gibbins
- Myrna Wood
- Garth Manning
- Dr. Bob McMurtry medical doctor and orthopedic surgeon
- Terry Sprague
- Sherry Karlo owner of Karlo Estates Winery
- Liz Driver
- Steve Ferguson, Councillor of Prince Edward County
- Carlyn Moulton who owns an art gallery near Bloomfield
- Todd Smith MPP for Prince Edward Hastings
- John Hirsch
- Norman Hardie owner of Norman Hardie Winery
- Cheryl Anderson
- Bernie Finkelstein
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