The Amherst Island Public School is a small but vital part of the community, providing a fine elementary education for out children. Unfortunately Algonquin, the project developer on the Island, seems to not share the same interest in their education as the people who live there. Their plans call for placing a wind turbine 563 [...]
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Several months ago APAI had their lawyer, Eric Gillespie, send a letter to Algonquin concerning Algonquin’s misrepresentation of the health risks implicit with the Amherst Island project. More recently APAI sent a letter that mentioned work by John Harrison that had previously been sent to Algonquin that laid out the reasons why the noise from [...]
John Harrison has been studying the propagation of noise over water for some time. The recent push to get the moratorium lifted and use the project as a “test bed” is a cynical attempt to get this project in, and once it’s in the developers are betting (probably correctly) that no matter how destructive its [...]
John has written a letter to Algonquin and Stantec informing them of the very real possibility that their turbines will be out of compliance with Ontario’s noise limits and thus will have to shut down. As always, it is well-written and as far as I can tell is absolutely accurate. What he has left out [...]
