Amherst Island Graphic of Algonquin Proposal

AI on Google Earth - Amherst Island Wind Info:

With the publication of the draft plan, Algonquin/Stantec released the UTM’s – that’s the Universal Transverse Mecator grid system – that locates “exactly” where the turbines will be located and locates “exactly” where the receptors are located.  We may consider ourselves real human beings, but to the developer we’re merely “receptors”.  Nice, eh?  I’ll admit, the definition of receptor includes things besides homes and humans, namely vacant lots.

I’ve taken the UTM’s (roughly 700 of them on AI) and created a Google Earth map of the Island with all the turbines and receptors located per the draft plan.  The turbines are yellow, the existing homes are red, the vacant lots are green and those locations I haven’t sorted yet are gray...

 Please Read the full entry at the Amherst Island Wind Info site