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124 MORE TURBINES
DANES GETTING FED UP WITH TURBINES
Public anger is real enough, too. Until recently, there was relatively little opposition to the windmills. But now a threshold appears to have been crossed. Earlier this year, a new national anti-wind body, Neighbours of Large Wind Turbines, was created. More than 40 civic groups have become members.
"People are fed up with having their property devalued and sleep ruined by noise from large wind turbines," says the association's president, Boye Jensen Odsherred. "We receive constant calls from civic groups that want to join."
TAXPAYERS PAY WHEN TURBINES SHUT DOWN
THIS IS CRIMINAL
MCGUINTY’S LEGACY IS A GREEN NIGHTMARE
NO ROOM FOR EAGLES IN GREEN ENERGY ACT?
“Since receiving all required approvals for this project, Bald Eagles (listed as special concern in Ontario) have built a nest within the project location in a tree that was scheduled to be removed for the construction of a road, and within 20 metres of the blade sweep of a proposed turbine.
The nest was brought to the attention of MNR in summer 2012 and confirmed in the fall when leaves fell from the tree. Confirmation of an active nest was given by Bird Studies Canada..
Quebec’s anti-corruption police raided the Laval offices of Genivar Inc. and three smaller engineering firms Tuesday morning as allegations of political kickbacks continue to rock the province.
The $2.5 million South Kent Wind L.P. is offering the municipality for upgrades at the airport is a "tremendous success for both Chatham-Kent and the airport.'' Says Genivar consultant
Lambton-Kent Middlesex MP Bev Shipley,Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton, and former Liberal MP Rex Crawford, of the Dover area, are calling for an immediate moratorium on industrial wind turbine construction in Ontario.
THE WOBBLES
With about 2,000 megawatts of wind and solar power now flowing onto Ontario’s electricity grid, the province sometimes has to dump surplus electricity at a loss.
With 10,700 megawatts of renewables scheduled to come into service by 2018, can Ontario’s system handle the strain?
SAMSUNG/PATTERN SOUTH KENT PROJECT
With plans for turbines from Ridgetown to Tilbury and everything south of the 401. Time is running out...
IMPORTANT ALERT: MITCHELLS BAY AREA
Turbine Construction and Well Water
Reports of significant changes to well water in the Mitchell's Bay area have reached the office of Chatham-Kent MPP Rick Nicholls. The changes in water quality have been noticed following the commencement of pile driving/foundation construction for industrial wind turbines in the area. The turbines being constructed are for the East Lake St. Clair wind project and the proponent is IPC/Suez.
Anyone experiencing gas detections and/or pollutants in their well water in the vicinity of industrial wind turbine construction is asked to contact MPP Rick Nicholls by phone at 519 351-0510 or by email at
MILLION DOLLAR BRIBE FOR CK
Major Upgrades Totalling $2.5 Million Could Be In Store For The Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport.
Funding will only be made available if the 124 turbine wind project receives the green light. “In the event the turbine has to be moved from its proposed existing location, the funding for the airport will be reduced by $1 million,'' John Norton
GOVERNMENT WILL UNDERWRITE A SCIENTIFIC STUDY INTO EFFECTS OF WIND POWER PROJECTS.
Will This Be Done By These Scientists? Ottawa Citizen
Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq indicated this week that Ottawa is now officially getting involved, announcing that the government will underwrite an in-depth scientific study into possible adverse effects of living near wind power projects. She said she was responding to public concern.
MONKS SELL RETREAT NEAR WINDFARM
Serious Side Effects Within Five Miles
Subjects also reported disturbing negative psychological reactions including confusion, loss of self-confidence, effects similar to depression, effects similar to mania, irritability and anger, heightened emotionality and crying.
BAD NEWS FOR BATS
An Increasing Number Of Bat Fatalities At Wind Turbines
Wind turbines may have large-scale negative effects on distant ecosystems. Results of research by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) demonstrate that bats killed at German wind turbines originate mostly from northeastern Europe.
FOUNDATION + 600 ASSOCIATIONS DEMAND A REALITY CHECK
Full Spectrum Sound Measurements Need To Be Made.”
On May 11th, 2012, Australia’s Waubra Foundation demanded (1) that governments worldwide conduct full-frequency-spectrum sound monitoring inside the homes of wind turbine neighbors suffering from Wind Turbine Syndrome. Today, the federations EPAW and NA-PAW, regrouping over 600 associations of wind industry victims from 28 countries, are hereby adding the voices of their members to support this demand, essential in their view for establishing the truth regarding the effects of wind farms on health.
INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES AND YOUR FAMILY HEALTH
Town Hall Meeting Thursday June 14, 7:30 to 9 PM
When: Thursday June 14, 7:30 to 9 PM
Where: Blenheim Community Golf Club (439 Chatham St. South, Blenheim)
Since 2008, Krogh has volunteered her time to research and report her concerns regarding risks of adverse health effects from industrial wind turbines on human health. Ms. Krogh was the first investigator in Canada to help carry out a self-reporting survey of people reporting adverse health impacts as a result of the construction and operation of industrial wind installations near their homes in Ontario. Krogh is a peer reviewed author of several articles on this topic including, Industrial Wind Turbine Development and Loss of Social Justice.
WE PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COMMUNITIES
We Are Just Ordinary People
Coverage of Toronto Protest. Make sure you watch Charles Adlers video.
ONTARIO LIBERALS WAR AGAINST AGAINST AFFORDABLE ENERGY
Gesner Wind Farm near Muirkirk in Chatham-Kent Ontario
On January 19, 2012, the Ontario Ministry of Environment issued a Renewable Energy Approval (REA) for the Gesner Wind Farm LP (Saturn Power Inc.). The Gesner Project consists of five 2 MW industrial wind turbine generators to be located near Muirkirk and Duart in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. In response, on February 6, 2012, Chatham-Kent Wind Action Inc. filed an appeal of the REA for the Gesner Wind Project with the Environmental Review Tribunal.
This appeal follows in the footsteps of similar appeals filed for every industrial wind project to receive approval under the Green Energy Act, namely, the Kent Breeze, Zephyr, and Mapleton (Conestogo) Wind projects.
The legal counsel for CKWAG Inc. is the Eric K. Gillespie Professional Corporation. Details of the Appeal will be released when available.
Monica Elmes, spokesperson for CKWAG Inc. says, “this appeal isn’t just about protecting innocent people’s health and the environment in the vicinity of the Gesner project – it is also about defending against an injustice forced upon rural Ontario, and a senseless waste of Ontario taxpayers’ money.”
ANOTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROVAL... ANOTHER APPEAL!
Gesner Wind Farm near Muirkirk in Chatham-Kent Ontario
On January 19, 2012, the Ontario Ministry of Environment issued a Renewable Energy Approval (REA) for the Gesner Wind Farm LP (Saturn Power Inc.). The Gesner Project consists of five 2 MW industrial wind turbine generators to be located near Muirkirk and Duart in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. In response, on February 6, 2012, Chatham-Kent Wind Action Inc. filed an appeal of the REA for the Gesner Wind Project with the Environmental Review Tribunal.
This appeal follows in the footsteps of similar appeals filed for every industrial wind project to receive approval under the Green Energy Act, namely, the Kent Breeze, Zephyr, and Mapleton (Conestogo) Wind projects.
The legal counsel for CKWAG Inc. is the Eric K. Gillespie Professional Corporation. Details of the Appeal will be released when available.
Monica Elmes, spokesperson for CKWAG Inc. says, “this appeal isn’t just about protecting innocent people’s health and the environment in the vicinity of the Gesner project – it is also about defending against an injustice forced upon rural Ontario, and a senseless waste of Ontario taxpayers’ money.”
HUGE SOUTH KENT PROJECT 270 MEGAWATTS
Last Chance to Comment
Samsung/Pattern plans for turbines from Ridgetown to Tilbury and everything south of the 401. Please make your concerns known on the Environmental Registry. After this 30 day comment period it will just be awaiting final approval and connectivity tests. Time is running out. ACT NOW!!!!
Province should conduct a comprehensive analysis on setbacks
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) issued a new position statement Friday calling for a pause to resolve questions about wind energy.
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
The industry is a destroyer of wealth and negative to the economy
Dr. Patrick Moore told more than 1,000 area farmers the industry destroys more jobs than it creates, and causes energy prices to climb for all users.
WHAT THE ANIMALS KNEW THAT HUMANS DIDN'T.
Surviving the Tsunami
Humans feel infrasound. But we don't necessarily know that that's what we're feeling. Some people experience sensations of being spooked or even feeling religious in the presence of infrasound. We also experience Rayleigh waves via special sensors in our joints (called pacinian corpuscles), which exist just for that purpose.
Slate
DUTCH FALL OUT OF LOVE WITH WINDMILLS
People don't want Big Wind Turbines in their Backyards
Towering over the waves of the North Sea like an army of giants, blades whipping through the wind, the turbines were the country's best hope to curb carbon emissions and meet growing demand for electricity.
Reuters
MCGUINTY’S GREEN-ENERGY POLICIES COST LIBERALS SEATS IN RURAL ONTARIO
A clear rejection of the Green Energy Act by rural Ontario
Ms. Van Bommel lost on Thursday evening, one of seven Liberal incumbents who went down to defeat in rural ridings where green energy and wind turbines were major issues. And they were not all backbenchers. Among the casualties was the agriculture minister (Carol Mitchell), the education minister (Leona Dombrowsky) and, most symbolically, the environment minister (John Wilkinson). The Progressive Conservatives won all seven of those seats.
Globe and Mail
WIND TURBINE DEBATE SPARKED IN ONTARIO ELECTION
Awfully expensive and causing damage to communities:Hudak Finally, politicians do arithmetic and find it doesn't add up.
CBC News
125 MORE TURBINES TILBURY TO RIDGETOWN
South Kent Wind Project meetings coming up
They are changing the rules and hoping no one will notice untill it is to late!
More Here
Ont. wind farm health risks downplayed: documents
Ministry of Environment forced to release documents that show their officials mislead the public about health complaints. Ontario's Freedom of Information Act liberates more than 1,000 pages of internal MOE correspondence detailing MOE that Ontario’s noise pollution models are filled with errors, that MOE lacked a proper methodology for monitoring (and thus enforcing) noise levels from turbines. MOE field officers and the acoustics specialists they hired repeatedly warned the province in 2009 and 2010 that there needed to be stricter noise pollution limits in rural areas
CBC
Wind Concerns Ontario
More and more turbines for Chatham Kent
Get ready for Phase III of Kruger, unless you start making your concerns known to this municipality and province (C-K is now one of the last --if not the only municipality whose local gov't continues to welcome industrial wind) Also Samsung/Pattern Energy are going ahead with their South Kent Wind Project (the big one stretching from Ridgetown to Tilbury and everything down to Lake Erie.They are advertising for an office manager and community outreach assistant to work out of Blenheim.
South Kent Wind Project:
125 more Turbines from Tilbury to Ridgetown
THE ASSUMPTION... IS NOT SUPPORTED BY OUR FIELD OBSERVATIONS
Government Memorandum on Wind Turbines obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
John Laforet, President of Wind Concerns Ontario states, "For almost four years residents in rural Ontario have played by the book. They have complained about the unbearable noise to the field officers in their region believing that the field officers would communicate the issues to the Minister and his advisers. If this is how the government process works, by burying evidence, then the system is either broken or corrupt." WCO
Read the comments section and see how well this is going over
Ontario’s wind power industry says the province needs to maintain support for the sector if it wants the significant job and investment gains it can generate.
Municipally owned company shells out 30 million
The municipal-owned utility's recently incorporated subsidiary, Chatham-Kent Transmission (CKT), received approval for an electrical transmission licence Tuesday by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB).
This might have something to do with it
Between now and 2020, however, more than 100 new power plants are slated to be built and thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines erected.
I thought you said there weren't any
Ontario regulations requiring a minimum setback of 550 metres for wind turbines from residences and a maximum night time noise level of 40 decibels "is reasonable and sufficient to protect against adverse health effects."
Says sound heard indoors should be taken seriously
Infrasound is sound below human audibility. Guess this is why an inquiry to get to the bottom of that all that noise you can't hear is called a hearing. It is known that things unseen can kill but the gov says that what is inaudible is harmless and doesn't cause heath problems so why worry?
All the judges did was decide "it was not up to them to determine the wisdom of (Energy Minister Brad Duguid) which is a far cry from determining the minister’s actions to be wise," John Laforet said.
No Turbines in the Lakes
Turns out that he entire green energy act was founded on political science, not actual science. Election course correction by McGuinty.
David and Goliath Legal Challenge
The Chatham-Kent Wind Action Group appeal begins Tuesday and Wednesday in Chatham, and will continue in Chatham and Toronto until March.
London Free Press
More Info Here
ONTARIO WIND ENERGY PLANS THREATENED
Could put the Brakes on Green Energy
Ian Hanna, a property owner from Prince Edward County, says the government wasn’t fully informed when it concluded industrial wind turbines could exist 550 meters away from the nearest home.
Spacing Must be Doubled
A top American fluid-dynamics boffin says that new, larger wind turbines now going into service are going to have to be placed much further apart - which will have serious implications for the amount of energy produced by wind farms of the future.
So We Give It Away
Surprise, surprise turns out wind power is variable, expensive, and less in demand than ever.
CHATHAM KENT WIND ACTION CHALLENGES MOE
Due to concerns over low-frequency noise, a legal challenge has been mounted against the recent approval of a wind farm near Thamesville.
"It's worth pointing out that it's an appeal of the MOE's decision to approve the project." Kyle Happy, Suncor Energy spokesman
Ontario's current inventory of 700 or so wind turbines will need to grow to at least 4,400 units.
Guess which side we see?
Two UWO academics are clashing over wind farms, each accusing the other's followers of demonizing their cause and bastardizing science.
Massive public subsidies of so-called green energy are falling into disrepute, as near-bankrupt governments in the wake of the global recession admit they can’t afford to subsidize unreliable power for the next 20 years, which is untenable without those subsidies.
They already have been attending most meetings but now they claim they need to call our homes and visit our homes to “quell any possible violence”.
"Our society has been turned upside down, when those who wish to stand up for what is right and truthful become the target of persecution and scrutiny "
Consumers will struggle when they see an increase in their hydro bills in Ontario, say critics, after the Liberals revealed Saturday that a new levy will help cover $53 million of the government's conservation and green energy program. "We can't run the province on windmills" CTV News
Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act. Energy Probe
Residents will get a chance to learn more about SouthPoint Wind's proposal to build 715 wind turbines in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair at March 27 meetings.The Windsor Star
The McGuinty government is spending Ontario's electricity revenue to encourage investments in wind and solar green power generation – with no benefit to the system or to the customer. The Toronto Star
The deal had a familiar shape. One partner was a successful international consortium with deep pockets and manufacturing expertise, the other a backward jurisdiction so hungry for jobs that it had to pay the big company what amounts to a bribe to do the deal. The Ottawa Citizen
Report critical of wind farms
Windfarms can cause significant health problems for nearby residents, a draft report by specialist consultants says.The leaked report, once completed, could potentially open the door to litigation by affected residents. Weekly Times
All about government handouts to big industry
Anytime a government rams through legislation containing sweeping new rules governing large industrial projects and limits debate on the matter and ignores legitimate concerns from the public - our democracy is threatened.Meaford Express
This is the real political scandal in Ontario
When the full costs of this misadventure are revealed — billions of dollars over the next 20years — the province’s recent financial scandals at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission and eHealth will seem trivial in comparison.Financial Post
It's not an Endless Pit...
Government support needed for just a few years until sector can stand on its own feet, executives say. Globe and Mail
Inexcusable Disregard for Public Health
An Arran-Elderslie councillor wants his council to enforce its rights under the Ontario Municipal Act and impose a moratorium on wind energy projects. Sun Times
Howcum Pigeon Bay is Special?
Pat Hoy says there are noise/health issues associated with turbines... But only for some rich people living near Pigeon Bay with Liberal ties other rural residents will just have to get used to it Toronto Star
IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?
Chatham-Kent’s acting medical officer of health gets roastedColette McLean gives Dr Colby both barrels in Chatham This Week
Protesters from across the province crashed the opening of the Enbridge wind farm this afternoon. video
Noble Environmental Power company spokeswoman Maggy Wisniewski confirmed one turbine had collapsed and that a small fire resulted, but she refused to speak on the record.more
The McGuinty government has, through the Green Energy Act, followed through on its promise “to strip municipalities of their rights to control the land use planning issues around renewable energy projects and the promise to strip citizens’ democratic rights of dissent.” Chatham This Week
ONTARIO'S GREEN ENERGY PLAN
This will destroy the foundations of effective public utility regulation
The new legislation allows extensive political interference in utility regulation and requires the regulator to approve excessive rates for consumers if the underlying costs are associated with politically preferred projects. Financial Post
PROVINCE TO FAST TRACK WIND TURBINE PROJECTS
McGuinty's upcoming legislation
Premier Dalton McGuinty's plan to streamline approvals
for renewable projects. Municipalities to lose zoning power
WIND CONCERNS ONTARIO MEETS WITH MINISTER OF ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Wind Concerns Ontario managed a meeting with Smitherman on the weekend and has this press release
THREE PROJECTS GIVEN THE GO AHEAD IN CK
162 More Turbines
Kruger Energy Chatham Wind Project 101.2 MW
Talbot Windfarm 99 MW
Raleigh Wind Energy Centre 78 MW more
Caution to the Wind CTV News
52 TURBINE PROJECT FOR BLENHEIM
Councilor Anne Gilbert called the project unfortunate for South Kent."This is the most culturally sensitive vista in all of Chatham- Kent,"she said. "I can't support this one. It isn't good planning." The rest of Council voted in favor of rezoning.
TURNING UP THE HEAT
Wind farm opponents turn up heat.Twenty-two wind action groups representing thousands of concerned Ontario citizens have joined forces to create Wind Concerns Ontario to promote awareness of the true impacts of industrial wind power facilities on our health, environment, economy and quality of life. full article Wind Concerns Ontario press release
Wind power benefits full of hot air: Wind Concerns in Lambton
CBC drops the ball on windpower and Wayne calls them on it
Tell It Like It Is
CFCO Radio
Dr. Nina Pierport on Wind Turbine Syndrome Download mp3
CTV News:
Turbines and Health Problems
A video of the proposed Erieau-Blenheim wind project site.
Article from The National Post
July 30, 2007
Wind power ardour cools by Dakshana Bascaramurty
Village for Sale
Villagers all decide to sell houses when a windfarm project was announced near their homes. International protests grow. more
