Officials with the activist group Water Wells First are meeting today to discuss battle plans as the next phase of construction of the North Kent Wind 1 project is about to begin.
Spokesman Kevin Jakubec received a message from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change last Friday to say that Samsung and its partners have been given the go-ahead to use controversial piling operations to build the foundations of turbines for the North Kent Wind 1 project.
The plans call for as many as 36 turbines to be built between Chatham and Wallaceburg.
In a written statement to the CKXS Newsroom, Jakubec says the group’s members will be coming out to use non-violent civil disobedience to protest the unnecessary risk that pile driving poses to area water wells.
Water Wells First officials say they suspect there is some collusion going on between the wind industry and the Liberal government, although at this point they have no concrete proof.
Jakubec says he and other Water Wells officials are holding so-called “battle planning meetings” today to determine their next course of action.
At this point, messages to North Kent Wind have gone unanswered.