Water Wells First is keeping up the pressure on local government.
The mayor and other municipal officials are meeting with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change today asking for a halt to any further wind turbine construction in Chatham-Kent until answers can be found on why local wells are going bad near turbine construction sites.
However, WWF spokesman Kevin Jakubec says words aren’t enough.
“We’ve seen this before with motions at council, that promises are made, motions are made, they don’t amount to a hill of beans,” Jakubec says. “Almost a year ago in 2016 when Councillor Wesley made a motion tasking Chief Legal Council john Norton to take all steps necessary to preserve and protect water wells in Chatham-Kent, and where are we now? What’s come of that?”
Meantime, the activist group ramping up its civil disobedience tactics, setting up a tent city for protesters.
“We’re going to have people coming in to join us for protests and demonstrations, people that are going to come in from outside of Chatham-Kent,” Jakubec says. “A number of Water Wells First members are also opening their homes for protesters to come and stay here and join the fight.
Jakubec says the group won’t be satisfied until turbine construction has stopped, and Mayor Randy Hope and John Norton resign.