Getting tough on turbines: Plymton-Wyoming Requires $200K deposit

 Plymton-Wyoming take steps to collect a deposit for each turbine, to ensure proper disposition occurs

 

Getting tough on turbines - Sarnia This Week - Ontario, CA:

PLYMPTON-WYOMING - Plympton-Wyoming says industrial wind turbine operators will have to put down a $200,000 deposit for each of the massive energy makers before any soil is turned.
It’s one of two new standards the township council passed recently in an effort to “protect our people,” according to Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper.
After the province passed the Green Energy Act, municipalities had very little say in where or how many industrial wind turbines would be erected in the territory. Suncor currently plans a 29 turbine project in Plympton-Wyoming, a move Napper is worried about.
In January, council passed the bylaw calling for the $200,000 deposit reasoning there had to be money available so the turbines could be dismantled if, in 20 years, the original owners abandon the machinery.

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