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After a report detailing an all-hazard investigation into well water was released earlier this year, one of the geologists who took part in the study is urging…
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Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 • January 22, 2021 • 4 minute read • Jessica Brooks, the spokesperson for Water Wells First, is shown in December 2018. She s still using this bypass tank to supply fresh water to her home, since her water well remains clogged from sediment. Ellwood Shreve/Postmedia Network Photo by Ellwood Shreve /Ellwood Shreve/The Daily News
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A promise made on the campaign trail by Doug Ford in May 2018 to conduct a health hazard investigation on the possible contamination of private water wells in the North Kent Wind farm area is about to be met.
“I’m proud to say that testing is going to begin within the next number of days,” Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton said Jan. 21 in announcing the government has established a panel of five experts appointed by the health minister.
January 22, 2021
Samples of contaminated well water from homes in North Kent.
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP and provincial cabinet minister Monte McNaughton has announced his party is keeping its election promise to look into contaminated water wells in Chatham-Kent.
The issue dates back to wind projects in 2011 and 2012, and has dragged on far too long.
“We appointed, back in 2019, a five-person independent expert panel of scientists and geologists,” McNaughton says. “They’re going to undertake this study of nearly 200 water wells in Chatham-Kent and even some in Lambton County as well.”
The Panel consists of two toxicologists, an environmentalist health scientist, an epidemiologist who specializes in exposure measurement, and local geologist Dr. Keith Benn.