Having visited farms and spoken with affected residents where the water is bad, I have seen the effects first hand. A jar of well water sits on my desk at Queen’s Park right now. A thick layer of black particles is clearly visible.
The grassroots group is pushing for concrete median barriers between Tilbury and London along with MPPs Rick Nicholls and Jeff Yurek.
Storey said proposed cable barriers aren’t strong enough to stop tractor-trailers from crossing over.
Nicholls told The Chatham Daily News he will table a bill at Queen’s Park to prohibit non-disclosure clauses as part of leases signed with landowners to have industrial wind turbines erected on their properties.
Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls was there to cut the ribbon, along with a beaming John Paterson, the mayor of Leamington. He said the finished project is a dream come true for the municipality.
“I don’t have words as to how excited I am,” said Paterson. “This has been a long-time dream of mine, and a lot of my friends who play music as well, we’ve been dreaming about this forever and a day.”
Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls recently issued a media release that stated, in part: “No family in Canada should be fearful of not having clean, safe water come out of their taps. More communities across Ontario will face these same threats due to this government’s complete disrespect for rural Ontario.”
He added the MOECC and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are not listening and refuse to have a health hazard investigation done regarding the impact of this wind farm.
“Governments must be held accountable when water quality is in jeopardy,” Nicholls said. “ We can’t afford to make any mistakes with drinking water. We can’t put people at risk just because a premier says the jar contents are safe to drink but has never had the jar contents analyzed. Analyze the sediment and do a health hazard investigation.”
The incident prompted renewed calls by two area Progressive Conservative MPPs – Rick Nicholls and Monte McNaughton – for the Ontario government to impose a moratorium on further construction of other wind turbine projects in the region.
Chatham-Kent MPP Rick Nicholls teamed up with Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott to host the event. Scott spent two years researching and putting together a private member’s bill to bring awareness to the issue of human sex trafficking and resources to the victims.
Vulnerable girls are being lured, coerced, intimidated and forced into being sex slaves for traffickers, and speakers at a public forum hosted by MPP Rick Nicholls Thursday night brought that fact home to more than 115 people in attendance.
