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Dunlop to present solar farm petition at QP

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Oct 30th, 2010
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Simcoe Solar Farm Awareness Project formed
Letter to aware.simcoe@gmail.ca October 30 2010
This email is regarding the 10 proposed solar panel large scale projects in Simcoe County on agricultural land. Many of you have attended information meetings hosted by Recurrent Energy (the proponent), others came to the Solar Farm Awareness Project meeting in Jarratt hosted by Bernard Pope and myself (Nancy Robinson). At the meeting in Jarratt, we formed a committee with representatives from all four townships (Oro-Medonte, Severn, Springwater and Tay).

We also raised money for the group’s expenses (rentals, registered letters, photocopies, etc.). The committee had its first meeting on October 26 (Next meeting Monday November 8). We now have an official name for our group, Simcoe Solar Farm Awareness Project, our mission statement is ‘To preserve and protect Simcoe County Farm Land from large scale solar projects for present and future generations’. We also discussed a petition and we are very pleased to have Garfield Dunlop’s support by taking it to Queen’s Park to introduce in the Ontario Legislature. The petition’s purpose is to restore the local municipalities’ decision making for renewable energy projects.
Please photocopy the petition and get as many signatures as you can (we may not alter the petition). The signatures may be from those who are not of age of majority. As you fill the sheets, take them to Garfield’s constituency offices (addresses are on the bottom of the sheets) or contact someone in your area to help you return the signed petitions. It is a continuous process, so do not stop getting signatures, however, sooner is better than later obviously.
We have also been advised to mass email Mr.McGuinty (Premier) and Mr. Andersen (Ontario Power Authority). Our committee is working on examples of letter writing and addresses.
Nancy Robinson
Simcoe Solar Farm Awareness Project
Chair
705-686-7743

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