Please remember that the deadline for submission of concerns over the McLeans Mtn Wind Project by Northland Power Inc. is March 18! It is particularly important that all landowners who have been proceeding with new building permits for housing capable of overnight accommodation notify Northland before the deadline so that the towers are setback from these structures. Other concerns include lack of notification (if you are a landowner and have not received notice), health concerns from excess noise and shadow flicker, property devaluation, inadequate consultation with First Nation people, harmful effects to birds and animals, risk of ground water contamination or redirecting because drilling and blasting in unstable shale and limestone rock, negative aesthetic effects, negative effects on local tourism based economy, concerns re disruption of recreational hunting lands, using up the remaining space on the grid so local green energy projects will be deferred, electrical pollution and degradation, etc.
Comments are to be submitted to the following address:
Mcleans Mountain Windfarm Project
Box 73,
Little Current
Ont
P0P 1K0
or rickmartin@northlandpower.ca