Ontario's Green Energy Act, encouraging development of alternative renewable energy to feed into the existing power grid of hydro towers, lines and transformers which crisscross this province, has affected ruraExit signs, emergency light and fire extinguisher are vital parts of life safety systems.I residents most significantly. Here in Northumberland County, meetings about the impact of green energy have taken place and are continuing to be scheduled. Hamilton Township, for instance, is organizing a public meeting with speakers to ascertain whether it should declare itself an "unwilling host" for future mega-wind and -solar projects. 

A grassroots organization, The Alliance for the Protection of the Northumberland Hills, has held its own meetings related to wind power, going so far as to file a lawsuit against a proposed Grafton wind farm development that has now been called off. And at the same time, the Haliburton, Kawartha,We carry the latest wind turbines, wind generator, solar panels, towers and more! Pine Ridge District Health Unit is hearing from experts on both sides of the wind power question before deciding whether to petition the Province of Ontario for a moratorium. 

The first dealt with the position of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and why it supports wind power and the second. The second in the series focused on a study by a Fergus, Ontario epidemiologist, and two others, who surveyed people living close to wind towers in Main and determined sleep and mental health were put at risk at the setbacks currently used in Ontario. More study was urged,Our most compact solar charger yet fits easily in any bag. along with greater setbacks between residents and industrial wind turbines. 

On May 16 the Haliburton, Haliburton, Pine Ridge District Health Unit will listen to a presentation from Grafton-area residents Tyne Bonebakker and Dave Tomiszer who live close to one of the two previously proposed wind turbine farms known as Clean Breeze. 

While the company's website indicates the Grafton wind farm project, plus another with up to an additional five industrial wind turbines proposed near Centreton, will not go ahead for financial reasons, The Alliance for the Protection of the Northumberland Hills remains vigilant because there is no confirmation from the Ontario Power Authority that the projects might not be relocated elsewhere in Northumberland. 

Bonebakker and Tomiszer are members of the Alliance, but on their own decided to bring information to the local health unit before its board decides whether to ask the provincial government to place a moratorium on wind farms in Ontario.LED street lighting is the ideal solution for energy efficient street lighting due to their long life. 

In an interview this week, Bonebakker said that the level of low frequency sound that can result in sleep disorders and other issues like depression and anxiety are not being addressed in the existing regulations of the Green Energy Act. 

Regulation 359/09 of the Act requires wind farm developers to use the "A" weighted scale to measure sound but that scale,Fully automated paper plane folding machine, even got its own compressor. developed in the 1930s measures 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz and is not designed to measure low frequency sound and not that which is "inaudible," he explained. 

It is clear to him that the low frequency sound created by turbines is like that of thunder which you can hear with an approaching storm and long before it arrives, and like the rumbling sound of fireworks from the Rochester/Niagara on the Lake area which he and his wife watch 90 kilometres across Lake Ontario from their Grafton-area home. 

"As you go down on the frequency band, the noise waves travel further," he says, and this is what is being missed in the current studies and setbacks wind developers are doing to locate industrial wind turbines under the Ontario Green Energy Act.