one that unchecked could easily force people who have bonafide concerns and are living with adverse effects, to simply shut up because of the peer pressure of what could be your very next door neighbour…You knew people in their right minds would never make something like this up to put themselves potentially in a position to be the only person on the block, for lack of better words, and face scrutiny.

I’ve told everyone... I send in my complaint, I mean everyone, it goes to anyone and everyone I can think of that would be responsible, or could be held accountable, or who could maybe change the situation…between the health unit and, the Prime Minster, and the Premier and the MOECC [Ministry of Environment and Climate Change], and the energy person, and the councillors. Its a pretty extensive list of people. Nothing has changed.

I phoned the police and filed a noise complaint. The police responded, agreed it was noisy. Contacted the operator who came down to the house and agreed it was noisy and said they would do something about it…the situation continued over time and the police made it clear they’re not empowered to deal with this subject.

[Ontario’s former Premier] said there had only been a handful of complaints from people about turbines, and then we read that so many thousands of our reports had just been dismissed. The facts are there, and somebody decides that those facts are no longer to be published or followed up on.

We have chronic conditions that have been known to be some of the main complaints, pretty much all of them…That’s the last that can be heard and then the information is buried…Then we can actually have the Premier saying, “I’ve been advised by my advisers that there is no issue.”

Who do I complain to? if I feel this is making me not feel well, I’m going to let my health officials know this has happened…Our town council was virtually copied on all complaints…Our [organized group] rolled their copying of their complaints…to include all those levels of government…the Premier…Prime Minister…Minister of the Environment…I received an auto response by email.

[By date] there are probably [over 50] complaints…if you averaged that out over a year, that’s one complaint a week... My MPP [Member of Provincial Parliament] has never returned a phone call, has never returned an email…After I got a letter from the Ministry of the Environment saying that if I had any health concerns, I had to report them to the public health unit and/or my doctor, I sent that to [Medical Officer of Health]. Now, every time I send one in, he acknowledges it and says it’s been logged or documented. I forget his wording, but he always acknowledges. Beyond acknowledgment, has there hasn’t been anything. Never.

What we see in our community complaint response analysis is what residents are deeming to be adversely affecting their peaceful enjoyment of their property... Those are the peaks of noise that get averaged out…Not only did the [WPP] operator refuse to share the complaint file…We were told if we wanted to receive that information we would have to file a Freedom of Information request which we subsequently did. The package was over [number of pages] which was any and all information including complaints relating to communication between the operator and the government…a lot of the health-related complaints fell into pre-determined slots-nausea, headache, vertigo, tinnitus.