By Paul Morden, The Observer
A group has applied for zoning approval to build a five-turbine wind farm near Forest.
The 10-megawatt Eirin Wind Farm would be owned by several landowners in the area.
A 60-metre meteorological tower was erected in 2006 to collect wind data for the project.
“They’re at the stage now where they need to get zoning amendments,” said Adam Wills, planning co-ordinator for Plympton-Wyoming.
Town council has forwarded the re-zoning application to Lambton County’s planning department.
It’s expected a public meeting into the re-zoning applications will be scheduled in the near future, Wills said.
The site for the proposed wind farm is southwest of Forest in the area of Douglas Line and Uttoxeter Road.
Engineering and environmental consulting for the proposal is being handled by Dundas, Ont.- based M. K. Ince and Associates Ltd.
According to the firm’s website the Eirin Wind Farm is scheduled to be commissioned in late 2010.
The five two-megawatt turbines would be 98 metres high and have blades that are 41 metres long.
Forest is also the sight of a proposed five-turbine project being spearheaded by Forest Wind Power Inc.
That 10-megawatt project is proposed for land between Cedar Point Line and Hickory Creek Line in Lambton Shores.
Lambton Shores is home to Lambton County’s only operating wind farm — six turbines built last year near Kettle Point.
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