The number of wind farms in the region is raising concerns from the head of the Bruce County Federation of Agriculture.
President Lorne Underwood spoke at the Bruce County Agriculture, Tourism, and Planning Committee meeting in Walkerton yesterday.
Underwood says there is a two kilometre stretch located Southeast of Ripley that is not completely buried.
He says he spoke with a few residents who are not living in their own homes because of the health problems cause by the nearby wind turbines.
Underwood says women are experiencing more of the symptoms — like headaches and nausea — than men because they are inside these homes more often.
He says men are often working outside doing chores but do develop the same problems.
He says if a dog or a cat had been experiencing these problems the S-P-C-A would have taken these animals away from their owners.
Underwood says he went inside one particular home for 30 minutes and can understand the problems the residents are facing in that environment.
Underwood says the County as well as the McGuinty government should put in measures to ensure the turbines are safe for the public.
He says the developer puts in the lines and the turbines only to sell it to another company in another country.
He says these companies wont spend the money to bury the line because that is their profit margin.
He says companies cant simply be passing the buck and need to be responsible for the turbines.
Underwood says unless property owners stand up nothing is going to get done..
In response, Huron-Kinloss Mayor Mitch Twolan and Kincardine Mayor Larry Kraemer both say that they made sure recourse clauses were put into leasing agreements before a wind turbine was put up.
Enbridge has 115 turbines in the former Bruce Township while Suncor has 37 outside of Ripley.