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Before the Green Energy Act that’s when we noticed that it [the planned WPP] was really heating up in communities, splitting people against people because some people wanted it, some people didn’t want it. You became involved.

Once, we had a gentleman from [location] come and just talk. It was very early days. Pre-Green Energy Act. Nobody knew very much what was to be happening over the next while…Then you hear that the MOECC [Ministry of Environment and Climate Change] is not enforcing the noise regs [regulations] and we don’t have regs for infrasound. Isn’t that great? Unless the government changes everything it’s up in the air.

Then the Green Energy Act consultation came up [there were] different venues where you could go and talk about it…part of informing the government before the regulations even came into place for the Green Energy Act…I truly honestly thought that somebody from the ministry or some level of government would be on our door the next week saying, “Okay, what’s going on?” So that they could investigate…I was beginning to realize how bad it was.

…this Green Energy Act…our community is being destroyed or the traditions of it are being destroyed. And that is appalling to me…They claim to be transparent, they claim that they want to be good community neighbours and all that yet it’s so obvious that they’re not…We have lost friends, we have tried not to make this about the people who are getting turbines.

I felt as though the Green Energy Act…Our rights have been ripped from us. Wherein it’s an incredible piece of legislation, it really makes you a villain. It’s so clever how it blocks every avenue…

…the Green Energy Act…There’s been so much stuff that’s been printed about why we don’t need these turbines, why it’s a waste of money, how they’re not really green…our fight is with the government and with the wind companies that have put us in this situation.

Everyone thinks the Green Energy Act is what has allowed this proliferation, but it goes deeper than that. We sit out here, now, waiting for the next turbine proposal, gravel pit, quarry, water taking corporation or industrial farming outfit, to try to come in and take whatever they can to make a buck are all mandated to go ahead in the provincial planning policy…another group of turbines went up…I really thought we were far enough away and I did not see it coming…We used to feel safe here.

There were obviously a great number of highly talented public servants that wrote this thing [GEA] to block every possibility of controlling this by municipalities or townships or local people…until the Green Energy Act came along...It was done through their local township, their local government, their municipality…

In the very beginning it was aesthetics…But then, we realized that it was more than just the looks of it, it was what they were doing to the health of people, and we just knew that it was wrong…