Our Concerns

Are you concerned about the effects of wind farms on the Toronto water front? Below are some of the possible effects.

A wind turbine project makes NO economic sense: it spends an enormous amount of tax-payer money on a project that would provide very little electricity that we would then have to pay very high rates for.
A wind turbine project has the potential to damage the environment: to the lake bed; to the water which we drink; to the migrations of birds, bats and the threatened Monarch butterflies; to the resident populations of birds and wild animals that inhabit the shores along Lake Ontario.
A wind turbine project would threaten the very fragile, unique Bluffs.
A wind turbine project would industrialize a beautiful recreational area where people currently walk, jog, kayak, sail and spend time enjoying the natural surroundings.
A giant turbine project would negatively affect the daily lives of thousands of Toronto citizens with massive construction effects, ongoing noise, uninterrupted flashing lights and potential health hazards.

What do you know about bats and turbines?

Did you know that bats are 25% of all mammals on earth?
Did you know that each bat consumes over 600 insects per hour? Imagine West Nile and crop control without these magical creatures!
Did you know that the small amount of remaining rainforest (7%) globally is 95% seeded by bats? This is a huge ecologically important animal that is already in dramatic and precarious decline globally. We daren't add to their decline more shoreline loss of habitat, where there are caves and shelters for migrating and nesting bats.
Bats are enormously sensitive and curious animals. They seek out the tips of the turbines (which often are moving at more than 150mph), and their paper-thin lungs explode.
It is impossible to get accurate bird and bat mortality rates at turbine sites because the counting is human led, sporadic, and most animals are retrieved by other scavengers.
Turbine operators KNOW that bat populations are in decline and the attraction bats have to turbines is a HUGE problem.
These animals are so sensitive that even if you wake one or two that are huddled together in a cave in the winter, the entire colony could be at risk from the temperature change.

Have the bats off the Bluffs been studied for a lengthy period of time to establish turbine "rules"? Of course not. Dr. Brock Fenton, Canada's "batman," deems it is the full responsibility of the turbine developers to assume these studies first.