Huron-Kinloss Council

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Huron-Kinloss council will not be installing solar panels on the roof of the Ripley Arena.

At the council meeting last night (March 21), the township was told that a recent site visit by a Solar Logics evaluator determined that the arena roof is not an option for solar panels.

Meanwhile, David Colling of Ripley, an expert in electrical pollution, sent an E-mail to council, noting the negative side of installing these panels.

He has tested four different panels that use four different inverters and all the panels had power quality issues, creating dirty electricity similar to the problem seem with the wind turbines.

"This can cause problems with health, especially for electrically-hypersensitive individuals who enter the facility where these solar panels are installed," he said.

Colling noted that the solar contracts are supposedly for 20 years, but if there is a change in provincial government, there is no guarantee these contracts and their price will be sustained.

"I also have a moral issue with the price that is paid for this power," he said. "Anyone knows that we cannot afford to pay 10-plus-times the going rate for electricity. The taxpayer or the consumer has to pay. The same type of people who promoted the wind turbines are now promoting solar, and I have said from the beginning that solar is comparable to the Pigeon King (a pigeon-breeding scam)."

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Monday, March 21, 2011