Locals Take Wind Industry to UN Over Destruction of Ontario’s Water Supply

The wind industry has all but destroyed water supplies in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Hammering hundreds of giant steel piles (the foundations for 300 tonne turbines) into the aquifer across the county has turned once potable water into a grimy, toxic sludge. Locals are, justifiably, incensed.

Losing their water supply would be bad enough, and being lied to by wind industry goons has its own special charm, of course. But it’s the malign acquiescence displayed by local and state authorities that has an entire rural community seething. A group of them have decided to take their complaint out of the Province and off to the United Nations.

UN Notified Of Dirty CK Well Water
Blackburn News, Paul Pedro
10 May 2018

A London-area geologist says she has reported the dirty water wells in Chatham-Kent to the United Nations. Heather Gingerich says local and provincial leaders are treasonous by allowing the wind turbine assault on local water. However, she says the likelihood the U.N. will do anything is small unless the community fully backs the move to stop pile driving wind towers into the […]

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Locals Take Wind Industry to UN Over Destruction of Ontario’s Water Supply
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Locals Take Wind Industry to UN Over Destruction of Ontario’s Water Supply
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"Losing their water supply would be bad enough, and being lied to by wind industry goons has its own special charm, of course. But it's the acquiescence displayed by local and state authorities that has a rural community seething. A group decided to take their complaint out of the Province and to the United Nations."
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