Community members in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ont., have expressed various concerns about the upcoming Department of National Defence radar transmit site in the area, ranging from health concerns to light pollution and effects on property value.
The Department of National Defence (DND) held public engagement sessions on Sept. 9 in Coboconk, Ont., for its new Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar (A-OTHR) transmit site. The sessions featured a presentation about the project and a question and answer portion, which aimed to discuss the project and address the community’s concerns surrounding it.
“The idea here is to find a way to discuss and address your concerns as much as possible,” a DND representative said. “Now I can’t say that we’re going to address them all, but certainly we want to look into the matter and see what we can do.”…