Amused and disappointed by Echo

Editor:

I was amused by one story and disappointed by another in your Nov. 13 edition.

Amused by the letter from Dick Byford that began, “I was stunned to hear that Kellie Leitch is considered by many Conservatives to be a leadership candidate.”

I found your headline “Stunned Leitch is considering leadership” a real chuckle.

Although I am not a Conservative I would not have called her “stunned”, perhaps misguided!

The other subject that I felt needed addressing was your story on Clearview’s decision to seek party status for a judicial review commenced by wpd, the proponents of the wind turbine project just north of Creemore.

If the wpd project goes ahead, erecting eight 50-storey high wind turbines in our neighborhood, hundreds of your readers will be directly impacted and thousands of Creemore area residents will be indirectly impacted.

The Echo relegated the story to a few words on the last page of the paper while the other local papers wrote extensively about the lawsuit and the township’s role in wanting to have their voice heard.

As important as your headline story was on reducing the number of Clearview directors on the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, the lawsuit involving the erection of giant turbines ruining farmlands, lowering land values and chasing residents and visitors away, is in my opinion, front page material.

Jeff Shearer,

Nottawa.