The Cedar Flats Wind Project puts Ontario’s farmland, wildlife, water, and rural communities at risk. Here’s what we stand to lose — and why we must act now.
Ontario’s Class 1 and Class 2 farmland is the best in Canada. The Cedar Flats Project will permanently destroy thousands of acres through foundations, trenching, and road-building.
Concrete turbine foundations
Construction of new access roads
Trenching for electrical cables
Drainage disruption
🚜 No energy project should come at the cost of local food security.
Protect Our Water
Our wells, aquifers, and watersheds are delicate systems.
Heavy construction for turbines risks contaminating groundwater, altering flows, and damaging rural water supplies — putting farms and families at risk.
The project site overlaps sensitive aquifer areas and private well zones.
Heavy construction and blasting for turbines can:
Alter natural groundwater flow
Increase sedimentation and runoff
Contaminate drinking water wells relied upon by families and farms
Our rural way of life — built around peace, open skies, and working the land — is under direct threat.
Industrial wind projects bring:
Shadow flicker disrupting homes, barns, and schools
Constant aviation warning lights altering natural nightscapes
Decreased property values for homes near turbines
Community division between those profiting and those suffering
These are real impacts experienced by real families across rural Ontario where similar projects have been forced upon communities.
South-West Oxford and Malahide lie directly in a major Eastern North American Migratory Flyway.
Turbines placed in this sensitive corridor will lead to:
Wind turbines cause barotrauma and collisions that kill hundreds of thousands of birds and bats each year.
This project risks devastating local ecosystems for decades to come.
Emerging research suggests that infrasound and vibration from turbines may affect farm animals, especially dairy cattle and horses. Stress, reduced production, and illness have been reported in farms near turbine sites.
Changes in milk production
Behavioral stress
Health disturbances tied to low-frequency exposure
Our local Amish and rural farming communities depend on healthy livestock.
No environmental review should ignore the risks to farm operations that support Ontario’s economy.
Our farmers deserve better.
🐴 Our animals deserve better.
Ontario deserves renewable energy that respects farmland, water, wildlife, and people.
Destroying ecosystems to save the environment is not progress. It’s a mistake.
