Anti-wind group plans second rally

Preserve Clearview, the ratepayers’ group that has been actively plotting against wpd Canada’s plans to build an eight-turbine wind farm near the intersection of Fairgrounds Road and County Road 91, put out a call this week for another protest to coincide with wpd’s second public meeting, scheduled for Thursday, August 2 from 5:30 to 8 pm.

When wpd held its first public meeting in July, 2011, several hundred people paraded along Country Road 91 from Preserve Clearview member Kevin Elwood’s Clearview Nursery to the Stayner Community Centre, where the meeting was held. Once there, an impromptu rally in the parking lot effectively distracted from much that was going on inside.

The August 2 meeting is the last event that wpd is mandated to hold before a decision is made on the wind farm.

Preserve Clearview is requesting that protestors gather at Clearview Nursery at 3:30 pm, and that they bring their “tractors, trucks, posters, floats, family and friends.”