In Mid-February Sierra Club Executive Director John Bennett questioned whether the backlash to industrial wind energy in Ontario was real. He demonstrated his ignorance on the file by suggesting opponents of industrial wind were Progressive Conservative party operatives, not regular folks. The Sierra Club called on its members to flood in the inboxes of Wainfleet Council where Wind Concerns Ontario had been working with local citizens for just over a month, in hopes of stopping yet another call from a rural community for a moratorium.