I'll start by saying, community opposition is actually a characteristic of virtually any development these days. It's not a wind-specific issue. Nonetheless, it's certainly true that there has been community opposition to wind energy development. Some of the issues that have come forward about which I would argue people have been misinformed are issues related to health and property values, where we think we stand behind very good science on that regard to demonstrate that wind energy is not having the impacts that are being talked about.
On the economic side, we see wind energy has become the scapegoat for rising electricity rates in Ontario. There are certainly a number of factors that have contributed to increased electricity rates, including new investment in infrastructure and new investment in all sorts of generation, including natural gas, which is significantly growing in Ontario going forward. Has wind contributed? Yes. Has wind been the major factor? No.
Wind is actually bringing significant economic development into communities going forward. It's not just through the investment that's coming in, but through job creation in the shorter term around construction and the longer term around operations, in terms of land lease payments for landowners, in terms of property taxes as a new property tax base for municipalities going forward. We've actually seen wind energy in many communities, not all, as being strongly supported. You have communities that are actually trying to secure new wind energy projects going forward.