Friends of Tres-Saint Sacrement

Developers are looking for opportunities in the Chateauguay Valley

They propose to develop wind farms amongst the farming community. The scale of the projects is staggering.

The wind turbines are not the farm windmills of yesteryear. These giants are industrial scale equaling 450 feet high; three-quarters of the height of Place Ville Marie. And it's not just one. In the St-Isidore area they are proposing 44 installations some of which are now being built along highway 207.

Here, in Tres-St-Sacrement, a proposal for a Parc Aeoliene has been submitted to the municipal council which involves 16 wind turbines. Already the project is causing a division in the community. Some are in favour, and many against.

Some landowners are signing 20 year contracts. They will be paid handsomely. However, the wind turbines exert an influence on the neighbour's rights. You cannot build any new structure that is for human use within 750 metres of the tower. That includes sugar shanties. Nor can the turbine be built within 750 metres of an existing structure that humans use.

Because they make a loud noise they must be kept away from households and other farm buildings by at least 750 metres. Even on an average day, the ambient sound is 40 decibels, the equivalent to a loud refrigerator just outside your door 750 m. from the turbine.. Infra sound (sound below the threshold of human hearing) may effect us all including animals. Infra sound travels long distances. Some scientists recommend that turbines be 2 Km distance from humans.

The residents of St-Chrysostome voted against wind farms in their parish. But if there is a wind farm on their boundary with Tres-st-Sacrement their efforts will have been negated.

What is it worth to us to lose our silence, our health, our rural views, our ecology, our property values, our land rights,...... and with the night sky dotted with dozens of blinking red lights............?

I thought this was Green Zone for Agriculture.

This industry should be located away from human habitation.

We have plenty of land for that in Quebec.

Loss of value for your home and property...>>