To the Editor;
I was just going through the Feb. 15 issue of the Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Weekly News when I saw the picture of the moose with the windmill in the background on page 6.
While it is a fact that this is one of the area's few wind turbines and that they may be popping up throughout HRM, as a resident that lives near this wind generator, I would invite you to come and stay at my place for an evening when the wind is blowing and you can hear for yourself the noise that this ill-placed, and poorly designed wind generator makes.
I suspect you would not want one anywhere near your place after that experience.
The picture, which appears to have been taken on a nice calm day, alludes to a clean form of power generation, but no one seems to take into account noise pollution.
The house that is attached to this noise generator has never been lived in by the builder, and most likely won't be. Who would want to live next to this kind of racket?
Although I agree wind power may be a good alternative to burning fossil fuels, these generators need to be properly regulated when installed in populated areas.
It would truly be sad if your readers see that photo and decide to just install a wind generator regardless of the negative impact on the neighbours, as has been done here.
The other sad fact is that HRM requires a permit to erect one of these units, but when there are problems with the installation, as is the case here, HRM says they have no control as there are no regulations in place to follow.
In conclusion, I would sure like to see the editor do a follow up to this photo and publish an article explaining some of the pitfalls that the local residences, and the Cow Bay Moose have observed from his prime vantage point.
Wind power is a good thing, provided it is done properly and with due consideration given to the residents. This generator could be coming to a site near you and you will not be impressed, I assure you.
Bill Falconer
Cow Bay Road
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As a come from away, I had no idea that the Cow Bay Moose is concrete.
Good one: this letter should have been written April 1.
John McManus
Given the size of this machine that is being commented on I am greatly surpised to see these complaints. Have you actually ever been out to the moose Lisa and if so, have you been there on a windy day perhaps when there are dozens of cars pulling in and out of the parking lot rigth next to this machine that is so loud? If you think the noise from this device warrants discussion and that now these small 10Kw machines are in question than you are either on drugs or completely lost!
I have a property in Cow Bay about 2 km from the Silver Sands moose and the wind turbine. I can say that the neighbours are upset, and numerous complaints have been made to the HRM. My house is fine, but if you stand in the parking lot on a windy day, the "greenwash" from this small turbine sounds like a large helocopter taking off.
The HRM is sympathetic, but with no wind turbine bylaws, they cannot act.
There is talk of zoning nearby Osborne Head and Hartlin's Point as potential large turbine sites, so I may have large turbines at Cow Bay and Pugwash.
Silver Sands beach in Cow Bay used to be one of the nicest in NS, until a developer removed the sand one winter to make concrete for Shearwater's runways. The sand never regenerated, the beach was lost, and NS had to create legislation to protect it's beaches.
Here we go again.
Paul Downing
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