Opponents of a proposed wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs huffed and puffed at city councillors yesterday but failed to get even a symbolic call for a halt to the politically-charged project.
The executive committee of council heard more than three hours of deputations, mostly from Guildwood residents vehemently opposed to a Toronto Hydro proposal to install about 60 turbines in an offshore ribbon from roughly the Leslie Street Spit east to Ajax.
One after another, they beseeched the 12-member committee to pass along to full council a motion by Scarborough Councillors Paul Ainslie and Brian Ashton to ask the Ontario government for a moratorium on wind-power development in Ontario.
Energy Minister Brad Duguid has said such a motion would have no impact on the province’s drive to boost green energy production.
But the wind farm opponents, thwarted so far at every turn, gave it everything they had.
John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario and a challenger in the city election for Ainslie’s council seat in Ward 43, Scarborough East, said that nowhere in the world are there so many turbines so close (two to three kilometres offshore) to a populated shoreline.
Nobody really knows the turbines’ effect on human health, on fish habitat or on shore erosion, he said.
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