Sheridan Daly, a Grade 5 student from Queen Victoria Elementary Public School, looked into the issue of wind turbines for her social studies class. Here's her unedited letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne about her findings.

Dear Ms. Kathleen Wynne,

Hello, I'm Sheridan, I go to Queen Victoria and I’m in grade 5. Today I'm going to be talking about an issue on the Canadian side of Lake Erie, wind turbines.

Now I've been researching for a while and I've found out some pretty bad stuff! Did you know on the Canadian side of Lake Erie there is 200 wind turbines alone that's pretty rubbish. Now, I agree wind turbines give energy but 200 why not just put 2? 2 gives 500 watts to 14 MW (1 wind turbine = 250 watts, 7MW) that seems to be more than enough in my opinion.

I mean come on how many letters have you gotten from the citizens of Lake Erie talking about how they need more energy?

Now, remember I'm only doing the Canadian side for now but before I get into that did you know that they got 4,500 signatures from the citizens from Ohio, to put the turbines on the Canadian side. Yes, Ohio has wind turbines but they have 58 less (142) than the Canadian side, Ohio could use way more than us! They have more attractions than like amusement parks, shows that use a lot of electricity, plus they have loads of big cities (Cleveland, some of Buffalo and Detroit) while us we have small cities that don’t have massive attractions. The only thing Lake Erie has is the lake for fishing, tubing and other water based stuff that doesn't impact the environment.

Samsung (the company in charge of this construction) has said that the Ontario government (not necessarily you in specific) and themselves have gotten together and decided whether or not this should happen and that is it, nobody was included but the two. This may be a lie but this is what I’ve read about. I'm going to say one thing TAKE THEM DOWN!

Now, I’m not saying take them down then we are done, no. I’m saying put them everywhere in Ontario, Ohio and the states not just Lake Erie that’s unfair to Lake Erie citizens.

The citizens and I both agree that wind turbines are not the only solution to replacing fossil fuels and they have tried to stop it but nobody will listen. It's really unfair and I think I'm one of the first people to take this much work into this the Canadian side is being treated in a special way, an un special way!

Now, another energy you can use to replace fossil fuels other than 200 wind turbines is any renewable energy (heat, sunlight, geothermal heat) Now, just one more thing before I go, just remember you run the province you have the power to stop it!

As my final closing I will show you a picture courtesy from ckwag.org and in this picture 1 red mark = to 1 wind turbine just note that this is only what fit on the screen.

That is only one little part of Lake Erie. There is way more! Thanks for reading :) Have a good day.

Sincerely,

Sheridan!

P.S. There was supposed to be an image up there where it says "1 red mark" but it did not show anyways thank you :), peace