Airport chair stands by comments on wind turbines - Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin - Ontario, CA:
"Your letter of the day in the Tuesday edition of The Enterprise Bulletin certainly caught my eye. It began with a headline:Read the full letter completely, to the blunt conclusion, at The Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin Site
"WHAT'S WITH THE AIRPORT AND TURBINES?"
Robert Knox correctly identifies me as Chair of the Airport Services Board, but chose not to disclose that he is a prominent disciple in the pro-wind farm sector. As a professional engineer I certainly understand the virtues of wind turbines, in the appropriate applications and settings.
It is thus rather offensive to me at least, when Mr. Knox attempts to soothe your readers with such advice that, "Neither Mr. Tatham, the Airport Board, the developer, nor the Province of Ontario decides where a turbine or any other structure goes in relation to an airport. Transport Canada sets the rules for the safety and security for airports like Collingwood."
Hopefully remarks like this arise from Mr. Knox's ignorance of the protocols and regulations, and not from an intention to mislead your readers."
Now that is a Letter!
ReplyDeleteMy hat goes off to:
C.C. TATHAM, P. ENG.
Chair, Collingwood Airport Services Board
A person that tells it like it is without the BS that we are frequently required to put in to dress up our language to make it neutral.
Running into a IWT mast with a light aircraft is not a political event or a neutral event. It smarts!
Thank you sir!
Mr Tatham
ReplyDeleteThank you for your letter and your honesty.
I received my private pilots license in 1972. My training was at Wingham, Goderich, Port Elgin & Kincardine. My solo flight was to Wiarton and Collingwood. It was such beautiful countryside and all the small airports were such a pleasure to fly into. Most of those airports only had one runway so we all became very adept at cross wind takeoffs & landings. Although I live in southern Ontario now I follow with great interest the proliferation of turbines in close proximity to all these small airfields and it sickens me to see lengths these corporate giants will go to in destroying the health, welfare and safety of all the rural Ontario residents.
And don't forget the red lights go out when there is a power failure.
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