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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Orono Weekly Times - 13 The dogs at the lake have been best buddies all their lives, and are getting older, 12 and 13 years of age. Pictured from left to right: Douglas Cronk with Sidney, Peter Harley with Charlie Harley, Wendy Westwood with Tanner and Dr. Rod McArthur with Passage. Dual projects menace residents Port Granby area residents feel that a radioactive waste site is no place for industrial wind turbines. "It is like putting a fan beside an ashtray," Gerry Mahoney, President of the South East Clarington Ratepayers Association, told councillors at Monday's General Purpose and Administration Committee meeting. "Everybody in the world knows what the result of industrial wind turbines beside a radioactive waste facility will be," Mahoney stated, and called the application for four industrial wind turbines in the area, "Absolutely crazy." Mahoney along with Port Granby community member Kulpreet Khurana and Heather Rutherford, Chair of Clarington Wind Concerns, each asked council for their support in halting the windmill project proposed by Leader Energy at Port Granby until the long term low level radioactive waste storage facility is completed. The federal government project to move approximately 500,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste from the north shore of Lake Ontario to a new permanent site just north of Lakeshore Road is expected to take eight years to complete. Preliminary work on the new site, the plan for which took 10 years to develop, began last month. None of the many studies considered by the federal government, prior to granting the license for the work to proceed, considered wind turbines on the neighbouring property. "We are now faced with two major construction projects," Mahoney told councillors. Nowhere else in the world are there industrial wind turbines overlooking a nuclear waste site. Leader Energy's proposal is to build four 2.5 megawatt turbines on properties in close proximity to the longterm waste site. Khurana brought a number of the Port Granby residents' concerns to councillors' attention regarding the compatibility of these two projects and the impact they could have on their community. "These are two major projects adjacent to one another and our community is really concerned," Khurana stated. "The big question is how compatible are these two projects?" Port Granby area residents want independent studies conducted on the impact of wind turbines on the Port Granby project's Dust Management Plan. They also want independent studies conducted on the noise, electromagnetic interference, and infrasound impact of the two projects proceeding simultaneously. In her presentation, Rutherford noted she found it troubling that Leader Energy failed to mention the Port Granby Project operating PORT GRANBY see page 14