The Journal Pioneer
Editor,
I attended the recent monthly meeting of the Summerside City Council to support the opposition to the site selection of the proposed wind farm development in St. Eleanor’s.
I would like to inform those who live in these neighbourhoods you are going to be directly effected by this development.
Residents of North Drive and Decker Road will have 400-plus ft. wind turbine in their back yard. Residents of Gavin Estates may not yet have a turbine in our backyard, but we will hear and see the flicker from two of the four that are proposed – it will be louder than the noise from the highway.
Residents of this neighbourhood seem to be unaware of the health risks and negative economic impacts this development could have on people. If you don’t believe the many studies completed on these effects in several European countries, who have been in the business of wind farming for many years, talk to your friends and family who live near the wind farms in Western and Eastern P.E.I.
Our health and quality of life will decrease. Our property values will decrease and we will see no economic benefit from the energy produced.
Also, I think it can be assumed that we, as taxpayers, will fund this project whether it be city or provincial dollars. Plus, if the amendments to the zoning bylaws of this property pass, the city will be allowed to erect turbines on many institutional properties – perhaps properties like those surrounding Greenfield elementary, the French school and the hospital.
It is time to be proactive to this, rather than reactive. I feel very comfortable in saying no one in the group of concerned citizens who attended this meeting opposes green energy and its development – safe, responsible, well planned development would be welcomed.
Please call your city councillor and Mayor Stewart and ask questions about this development and how it will affect you.
Pam Montgomery,
Summerside
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