Land and Sea on CBC TV

Here is a link to CBC TV's "Land and Sea" web site. This link may not work for people outside of Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/landandsea/

The half hour episode shown yesterday (Feb 14, 2010) featured wind energy projects in Nova Scotia and primarily discussed siting issues.

It starts: Power from the wind is a good thing....right? It's clean and it's green. And Nova Scotia has some of the best wind resources on the planet.

While the government is pushing wind power, not everyone is in favour of it. There's concern about the whirring of the turbines. In some parts of the province people are pushing back, and in other parts, people are applauding.

The show includes:

• Yves Gagnon of Université de Moncton, recently involved in the drafting of recommendations to the NS government in the Wheeler Report with Dalhousie University. The report suggests how to best achieve greenhouse gas reduction in NS over the next several years.
  
• The d'Entremont family of Pubnico who abandoned their home due to adverse health effects afflicting the family since 17 turbines started turning in 2006. The nearest turbine is about 330m from their beautiful home.
• Judith and Nora Peach of Gulliver's Cove, Digby County who, with others oppose a project planned for their neighbourhood, again with some turbines sited too close to homes and property lines.
• Ruben Burge of RMS Energy. Of the six wind energy projects accepted by Nova Scotia Power Inc two years ago, this is the only one that has gone ahead (it is all but complete barring final testing). The developer is shown as someone who has done their best to site turbines responsibly, consulting heavily with local property owners near his site on Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou County.
• Warden Aldric d'Entremont of the Minicipality of Argyle who, although is very happy with the income from the Pubnico wind energy plant admits, given what they know now, that if he had it all to do again he "would have more separation distance between the wind farm and the homes".