Posted By JENNIFER PRITCHETT WHIG-STANDARD STAFF WRITER

The Calgary-based company building a $410-million wind plant on Wolfe Island has issued a cease-and-desist letter to a citizen it claims is spreading "false and defamatory statements."

Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. sent the letter in connection with a statement made by Wolfe Island resident Chris Brown, an outspoken

critic of some aspects of the project.

Brown, a local musician, is one of a handful of citizens who sit on a community liaison committee Canadian Hydro set up last year to answer local concerns about the project.

Brown regards the letter as an attempt to gag critics of the project.

"It's an intimidation tactic," he said.

Brown said he isn't against wind power or the Canadian Hydro project on Wolfe Island. He does want to see the 86 turbines that are being erected there placed in areas where they won't impact wildlife or people.

The cease-and-desist letter goes back to an e-mail Brown sent to former St. Lawrence College president Volker Thomsen and others, following an international wind energy conference at the college in June.

Brown said he hoped "the examples brought to light by the conference can prevent Wolfe Island from becoming an autopsy of grid monopoly and community exclusion."

Canadian Hydro took exception to his comments, saying they suggest the firm "has no respect for the environmental and regulatory process and fails to consult with the community.

"Canadian Hydro has conducted itself in a responsible manner throughout the approval process," stated the cease-and-desist letter.

The letter, written by Canadian Hydro's Toronto-based lawyer Paul B. Schabas, warns Brown of the possibility of future legal action.

"Should you persist in this course of conduct, please be advised that our client will proceed against you and pursue all legal and equitable remedies available to it without further notice being provided to you. Kindly govern yourself accordingly," Schabas wrote.

When theWhig-Standardrequested an interview with Canadian Hydro about the letter, the firm issued a short statement from Geoff Carnegie, its development manager for the Wolfe Island project.

In it, Carnegie wrote that Brown's "claim of community exclusion overlooks three and a half years of community consultation by Canadian Hydro, as documented in the Environmental Review Report.

"The purpose of our letter to Mr. Brown was to insist that he act responsibly and utilize the relevant facts in his arguments." Brown said he refuses to be quieted. "I will continue to exercise my right

to free speech and advocate for a full and transparent public review of this project, just as I will continue to participate in the community liaison group to ensure proper communication between proponent and citizenry," he wrote in a response to Canadian Hydro.

The Kingston Wig Standard

"You left the gate open 4 times in the last 11 days" , the Parking Nazi informed me.

Such was my parking violation bi-monthly update.   He had counted my infractions, and reported them back to me.

You see, I used to live in a Gated Community.   Years ago, outside of Kingston, Ontario, I rented a small house on the waterfront.  But my Parking-Nazi landlord also happened to be my neighbor.   In order to get access to my property, I had to drive through his lane-way, which he kept off-limits to the public with his gate.

But what a Magical, Special Gate it was!    A homemade hodgepodge of angle iron and PVC pipe, attached to an electric motor from a garage door opener.   You had to press the remote control that he gave you, in order to get this God-awful monstrosity to precariously swing open on its wobbly axis.

For added effect, he had added a string of Christmas lights that lit up every time the gate was activated.  But over the years, most of the bulbs had burnt out and were never replaced.   So by now, only a few remaining lights would pathetically announce my arrival and departure.

And he had a RULE.   You had to close the gate after you, every time you came or left.  Furthermore, NOBODY was allowed to park next to your house, in your driveway, except you.   Visitors were welcome, but they had to park on the street, a 500 foot walk down the road

The logic of this escaped me.  I had a perfectly good driveway next to the house with ample parking.   I was a responsible 37 year old adult.  Whey couldn't I have visitors?

But no.  Those were the Parking Nazi's RULES.   And they were not to be violated.

When I had first seen the place, my friend was with me and she was not terribly impressed. (If you know my friend, she's very sweet and never has anything bad to say about anyone.)

So imagine my surprise when she later referred to him as an "Ee-Jit".

I'd never heard her say this before, about anyone.  Ever.

But given the great waterfront location, we both agreed his little stupid rules were a small price to pay for being able to live here.

Weeks later, on moving day, my brother and his wife came by to help me unpack.   I allowed them to park on my driveway.   Surely, I thought, the Parking Nazi would understand.  Surely, Jacques, he'd make an exception for moving day.

No such luck.  Within 2 minutes, he showed up at my front door, red-raced, and said "I thought I told you no visitors".

I explained this was my brother and sister-in-law.   This is family.   And they were helping me move.

He held his ground and stood there stubbornly, bewildered and angry, until we agreed to drop what we were doing and moved the offending vehicle down the road.

Next week, my folks came by with their van loaded with some of my furniture.   This time I came prepared, and asked the Nazi for special permission:

"Can my folks please park next to my house?" I asked.  "They need to park close because they have to unload my dresser and my desk".

"Well, okay", he reluctantly replied, "..but as soon as they unload the van, they have to move it right back to the visitor parking".

My Dad was just delighted to hear this. 

Jesus Christ, he muttered through gritted teeth, never in my whole life have I seen such stupidy.

He moved the van, but then realized he had forgotten his tool box.   So he had to walk all the way up the road to where he had parked.

Mom suggested we first ask permission to park close again.  Dad refused, furious that we were being treated this way.

"If I see that jerk, I refuse to even SPEAK to him...I'd rather walk, than to have anything to do with him again, ever, in my WHOLE LIFE!"

(There are many things my Dad claimed he would never do in his WHOLE LIFE, this recent one just added to the ever-growing list).   But I digress here...

Anyway, poor Dad started his long trek to get the screwdriver and wrench, with his systolic pressure hovering at 200.

Referring to the Parking Nazi, my Mom calmly observed  "The man is an Ee-jit".

This was the first time I'd heard Mom use the word "Ee-jit", EVER.  Yet it was exactly what my friend had said earlier.

Both women had reached the same conclusion, independently, without ever having consulted each other.

Remarkable, when you think about it.

But the Parking Nazi still had another trick up his sleeve.

There was a fire hydrant in front of his house.  But it was an old hydrant, circa 1950's style.  It seemed out of place, especially since we lived out in the country, and there probably wasn't any municipal water.

One day, my buddies and I checked out the hydrant when he wasn't looking.    We were able to jiggle it back and forth by about a  foot.   It was loosely planted in the ground.   For Chrissakes, it wasn't even CONNECTED to any viable water supply.

Apparently the Parking Nazi had moved it there, in an attempt to discourage people from parking on the street in front of his house, either.   (I don't know where he had gotten the energy or strength to haul this 500 pound piece of scrap-metal in place, but it looked like it had been there for years.   Probably still is...).

What an EE-JIT.

Though you gotta admire his tenacity!

Months later, as I got to know the guy, I figured out the mystery of his parking obsession.  I asked what was the deal with the gate.

He told me:  "I didn't used to have one.   But everyone sees the river, and thinks it's public property, and people come into my back yard and park there.   I got fed up, so I put up the gate".

Then I enquired about a municipal sign on his driveway, with his last name on it.

"Oh, THAT...I used to work for the city.   They boys at work made up that street sign for me as a retirement gift".

So, let me get this straight:   You post what looks like a legitimate MUNICIPAL STREET SIGN on a lane-way, making it look like a public road.   And then you WONDER why people DRIVE UP TO YOUR PROPERTY?

Of course, you couldn't tell him this.

Nobody could.

(Sigh).

Well...no one said Ee-jits were supposed to be smart, did they?

Tomorrow I head to northeastern Ontario (in a small rental car).  This is where Temagami is, which is a small community and large lake I mention a few times in Walking with Wolf.  It is also the area where I lived from 1982 until I left my husband in 1990, on my way to Costa Rica and a changed life. Might I add that I lived without electricity or running water for seven years - kaching! in the carbon bank for me.

I worked at Camps Wanapitei and Keewaydin through the 1990s, two canoe camps on beautiful Lake Temagami.  At Wanapitei, where I worked for six years,  I would stay at the camp the better part of four months of the year, two of those while camp was in session and two when there was only a handful of us enjoying our isolation in the bush at the northeast end of this huge body of water. I then worked at Keewaydin, an all boys camp at the time, for one summer at the end of my canoe camp career, cooking for a dining room full of grateful boys who would come to my window and sing for extra pieces of dessert - how cute was that.  Life at both of these camps allowed me to spend the summer in the north, on water, with groovy people.  It all involved a lot of work and chaos, but I loved it.

I am going to be an hour north of there in New Liskeard on Friday night, presenting Walking with Wolf at the Chat Noir Bookstore.  Because I lived in the area, I should know alot of people there - it is the third presentation (after Monteverde and Hamilton) where I feel I'm bringing the book home.  My friend Dave Patterson, of the Wabi Delta Band,  is playing a set before and after my little book talk.  It'll be great.

Then on Sunday, I go a bit south to Mattawa.  Friends own a colorful new cafe there and I'm presenting the book in the afternoon - at the Moon Cafe at 2 p.m. Once again, I know enough folk in the area so will be happy to see friendly faces.

On Tuesday September 16 in the evening, I do one more presentation at HIbou Boutique in North Bay.  I have never been there but friends tell me it is a good space and community with sound eco-practices so I look forward to that.

After the Pearl adventure, the rest gets easier, and really, that was an easy night.  Traveling and talking is what I do best.  I'm not shy and I'm proud of the book and privileged to tell Wolf and Monteverde's story, so this is fun for me.

I have October booked up but I'm running out of time and will write when I'm through this northern tour.  But coming up:  Barnesville, Ohio; London, England; Barcelona, Spain; Kingston and Guelph, Ontario. Did I say carbon footprint? - maybe a coalmine worth of bootprint is more like it.  Sorry about that.

My last views of Kingston from the Holiday Inn Hotel. New chapter opening soon!

Its time to leave Canada and head back to Europe and this little documented last minutes of my life in Kingston Ontario is important I think.

David catches up with another David, this time "David the 9th" the Regimental Mascot of the Fort Henry Guard.

The Beat Beethoven Run has been an exciting event for the Kingston community for the past fourteen years. Every year, community members participate in an 8km run or 4km walk from City Hall with the goal of returning before The Kingston Symphony has completed Beethoven’s 50-minute 3rd Symphony. The event is a fundraiser for the town’s wonderful symphony orchestra. I caught up with Glen Fast, the Musical Director and the Orchestra's conductor to find out more....

[audio http://media.libsyn.com/media/dfbmbe/kingstonsymphonybeatbeet.mp3]

DFBMBE's Images from the event can be viewed HERE

More coverage can be viewed at Kingstonist

The Ont. govt. is a regular visitor to this site and should have learned something by now. I've come to the conclusion they suffer from one of the following.

1) They can't comprehend what they read.

2) They are stupid and suffer from very low IQs.

3) They are evil traitors and are following the UN - New World Order Agenda.

Which one do you think it is?

With these fools at the helm, it is easy to understand why our Health Care, Education, Agriculture and Manufacturing sectors are in such disarray.

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”
- Maurice Strong, former Secretary General of UNEP

Read Agenda 21
Now!

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Wind power was useless in blackout

The British Wind Energy Association claims that there are more than 2,000 turbines in the UK with an installed capacity of 2,500 megawatts. Where was all this megawattage when it was needed on Tuesday, when 500,000 homes were blacked out as Sizewell B and eight other power stations shut down?

The answer is simple: the 2,000 turbines were impotent and would have made the situation worse had the grid operators tried to feed in their spurious outputs.

Coincidentally, Government figures describing the CO2 savings achieved in 2007 show no contribution from wind. The wind industry received nearly £320 million during 2007 in subsidies — from us, the consumers.

A letter by Bob Graham, Inchberry, Morayshire to the Telegraph

1 June 2008

I saw a light aircraft flying over Kingston today and thought "Wow! whats it like up there" I then remembered the film I took during a very autumnal day back in very late October 2005 high above Southern Ontario.

Nowhere on the planet has industrial wind energy proved it's claims. Dalton McGuinty, our esteemed Premier, calls  wind energy  expensive and unreliable. What does that statement infer. To me it says, he is not in charge, but is in fact taking orders. A little research on your part will verify what I have said.

The wind industry is part of the E8 which is about the internationalization of energy. The wind farms are carbon credit creators. They have no other purpose.

I have worked with the people and councilors involved with the Kingsbridge l wind farm for over a year. Kingsbridge l one has been a source of noise, flicker and stray voltage problems since it began operation. One family that has just moved says they are now, after 2 years, finally enjoying a full nights sleep. The nearest turbine to their home was approx. 550 meters.

They have just passed Kingsbridge ll with a setback of 450 meters. Now, if your thinking, wait a minute, if people at 550 meters are having problems then why would they make a setback of only 450 meters.

According to a councilor, at the re-zoning meeting Apr.17th.,  they were told  by lawyers and govt. any setback over 450 meters would prompt an OMB hearing costing the township $100,000 and the township would lose.

Dwight Duncan is on record saying the govt. doesn't want to force anything on anyone. The truth is exactly the opposite.

The wind industry with the backing of the govt. is picking off small municipal councils one at at time with lies and threats. This should be of grave concern to all citizens in the province.

The old saying "United we stand divided we fall" needs to instituted by all councils in Ont. Until a coalition of councils is formed and it stands united the "wind scourge" will continue unabated.

You, as councilors, were elected to look out for the best interests of your constituents and the community. Too often I have heard to same lame excuses. (1- they will take us to an OMB hearing. (2- we don't have the resources to fight this.

If you are a councilor and you agree with the above statements, please resign immediately.  Otherwise, educate  your constituents about the fraud that is taking place. It is your duty. As long as you, the council, try and separate yourself from your constituents, the "wind scourge" will continue its unrelenting march across this Province, laying ruin upon the lives and property values of the very people you were elected to protect.  Embrace those who voted for you, tell them the truth.  Get the people on  side through truthful education.

I recently had a comment sent to this blog from a family living at the Ripley wind farm. They are saying that they and their neighbours are suffering from sleep disturbances caused by the noise emitted from the wind turbines and feel their health has deteriorated in the last five months since the arrival of the wind farm. The nearest turbine to their home is 808 meters. If these people are suffering at 808 meters, how can a setback of 450 meters be justified? It can't.

There is more than ample evidence that the turbines are being sited too close to homes.

The wind industry and the govt. continually saying there is no "ABSOLUTE" proof of these health issues should be a wake up call to everyone. Denial has always been one of the favorite tools of both govt. and big business.

The wind industry is a fraud and the govt. is complicit (choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others; having complicity.) The govt. knows that wind (1- does not have the ability to keep the lights on in Ont. (2- wind is not capable of substantially cutting C02 emissions. (3- wind cannot continually power anywhere near the number of homes the industry and govt. claim.

Yet, these are all things being promoted by both the wind industry and the govt.

I always invite the govt. to look at this blog to make sure it is accurate and to let me know if there is anything they think needs to be changed. Govt. agencies visit this blog quite often. So far there have been no requests for any changes.

We try very hard to be as accurate as possible.

Note: The number of visits from K12 schools colleges and universities is  growing daily. The idea that Global warming is a fraud is being accepted by more people everyday. People will find the truth, even when the media works to hide it. Once you wrap your mind around the global warming fraud, you can ask, why are we destroying rural Ont. with wind turbines. Why?

Do your own research

Disturbing wind brewing

An article written in response to articles published in The Chatham Daily News April 15, “Gengrowth wind turbines approved,” and April 17, “Open house held, another wind farm project proposed.”

Don Quixote, in Cervantes’ classic by the same name, gallantly road off on his faithful steed, to slay the haunting, implacable, and ever-present giant — the windmill. Poor Quixote didn’t have a chance.

Concerned residents of Chatham-Kent feel the same frustration as independent companies, such as Gengrowth, and now Calgary based BowArk Energy Ltd. and Windsor-based Wind Prospect Inc. are proposing to add another 50 turbines to the 20 already approved by the Council of Chatham-Kent. Montreal based Kruger Energy is putting up 44 turbines near Port Alma. The windy invasion has just begun.

Many other wind energy companies are lining up with the direction and view to make Chatham-Kent a grid of hulking windmill giants and an eco-industrial park. It is a fast blowing wind. Not only, wind farm projects, but also the token and obligatory information nights cropping up all over the municipality. Interestingly, the information nights follow in the wake of deals cut by turbine developers and individual landowners prior to consultation with the public and a seemingly complicit council. This council represents taxpayers, and has an elected responsibility to protect the municipality’s most important natural, cultural and economic assets. Agricultural land, hundreds of acres, will ultimately be taken out of production. We have a unique fragile ecosystem including Rondeau Provincial Park and conservancy lands. Lake Erie is one of our greatest natural assets, tourist/vacation attractions, and cultural gems. Then there are heritage properties including, the historic Talbot Trail. Community and cultural identity is based on its natural assets and historical roots.

Gengrowth wind turbines are to be situated in a great monotonous line along the historic Talbot Trail, through Palmyra, Morpeth, and stretching out along the shores of Lake Erie. It is hard to imagine that in 2008, precious land bordering beautiful natural beaches and cliffs of Lake Erie will be dotted with giant wind turbines sweeping the countryside.

This is only one of many lines and grids that will weave through, connect, and wind around heritage and cultural landmarks while fencing in small towns and fencing out the natural beauty of rural Chatham-Kent.

While looking up, through and around these hunkering giants, one has to wonder what benefits they bring to Chatham-Kent and surrounding communities. It is interesting to note that some communities, like Leamington, have succeeded in stopping the spread of this invasion. Obviously, with the exception of the landowners who have generously allowed acreage to be taken out of production, very little is said about the economic and employment benefits to the trusting, green-friendly citizens of Chatham-Kent. While the public is assured that “Turbines have a significantly smaller impact on birds and bats than the dangers posed by high-rise buildings, predators or climate change.” What, perhaps, is being ignored is that this area is unique and fragile because it attracts an abundance of unusual bird species, and as a result is considered a Mecca for bird watchers and campers. The impact of turbines and its effect on a distinct and fragile eco system have not been studied to the fullest extent due to the fact that an independent environmental study has not been undertaken or supported by municipal council. Nor has a consultation with the Heritage Committee been initiated by council prior to granting permission to Gengrowth.

Like Quixote, one cannot help but feel an unsettling and disturbing ill wind brewing. While some residents of this municipality embrace wind turbines as a welcome and renewable energy alternative, others find it more prudent to consider the cost and long-lasting effects. The “not in my backyard mentality” is, admittedly, too often a selfish and a shortsighted response. This backyard, however, is species rich, agriculturally fertile and it comes with an enviable historical and cultural legacy.

Hopefully, there are a few Don Quixotes left. It is important and necessary to fight against the smiling giants of profit and opportunity whose false promises of economic benefits are, in this opinion, full of hot air and come at a great expense. It is time to demand that both the provincial and municipal governments preserve the heritage, and unique cultural and natural assets of Chatham-Kent. It is time to “tilt at windmills.”

Patricia Pook

Ridgetown

The Chatham Daily News

8 May 2008

Source the Toronto Sun

Report: Noise from turbines meet guidelines

There's no scientific proof wind turbines make disturbing levels of noise and, although more study is needed, Ontario's guidelines are sound, a long-awaited consultant's report for the ministry of the environment says.

The report by Ryerson prof Dr. Ramani Ramakrishnan was finished in December 2007 but was only posted on the government's Environmental Registry website on Monday.

It reviews the work of a Dutch scientist, Dr. G.P. Van Den Berg, who found that 98-metre tall turbines at a German wind farm near the Dutch border made more -- and more annoying -- noise at night than expected. The report has been heralded by groups opposing wind farm projects near their homes.

"(Van Den Berg's) dissertation was to provide scientific evidence for increased annoyance from wind farms during evening and night time hours," Ramakrishnan wrote. "The review showed the above was not the case.

"One of the main criticisms of the doctoral dissertation of Van Den Berg is that the conjectures of his research have not been supported by solid scientific data."

The Dutch study should be used as a catalyst for further work, though, Ramakrishnan said.

Holland has accepted the findings of Dr. G.P. Van Den Berg.

Hiring someone to trash Dr. G.P. Van Den Berg to further the wind scourge, shows the lack of integrity of both the govt. and the wind industry.

I experienced the Dr. G.P. Van Den Berg theory personally at the Kingsbridge l wind farm. It was early Oct of last year. I returned to the home of Ernie Marshall, after attending an all candidates meeting, to pick up my car. Beautiful fall evening, no wind at ground level but the wind at hub height was still strong enough to turn the turbine blades. How loud was the noise? Throw a pair of work boots in the dryer and turn it on. Go get your pillow, curl up beside the dryer. Sleep well. That in essence is the findings of Dr. G.P. Van Den Berg. (added) RS

Mr. Marshall and his wife have since moved out of their home. Mr. Marshall says his health is getting better and he and his wife now enjoy uninterrupted sleep at night. (added) RS

His report also found Ontario's noise guidelines for wind turbines are reasonable and strike a balance "between noise impact and the need for wind farms, based on currently available scientific data."

What the hell does that statement mean. Noise impact! The wind industry is promoted as whisper quiet. The need for wind farms? What need? The only thing that wind farms can hope to offer the people of Ontario is an unstable, unnecessarily expensive electrical system. (added) RS

Kate Jordan, a spokesman for the ministry of environment, said the report, held back from December, was being posted on the Environmental Registry for 30 days to allow the public to comment on it. "We wanted to make sure it was the final report. We needed to know it was complete," Jordan said of the late release.

The report has found what the industry has believed for some time, Sean Whittaker, vice-president of policy for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said.

"The report does confirm that the findings of Van Den Berg are put into question," Whittaker said.

"CANWEA has been confident that the noise guidelines we have here in Ontario are very good."

Ontario has about 500 megawatts of Canada's 1,856 megawatts of wind power. CANWEA wind projects could rise to as much as 4,600 by 2020.

Ron Mattmer, who lives a kilometre from a proposed wind development in Kincardine, says he supports wind power but is opposed to locating them so close to homes.

He said the ministry is "in denial" about Van Den Berg's noise findings and have "jiggered" their own limits to ease development.

Source the Toronto Sun

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Comment By Ron Stephens

"CANWEA has been confident that the noise guidelines we have here in Ontario are very good."

They are confident because they were instrumental in the formation of those guidelines.

I remember Ford claiming the PINTO didn't blow up. Big Pharma is always getting the FDA to pass drugs that end up hurting or killing people.

Industry policing its self, with govt. pushing the bull down the taxpayers throat. Neo-Liberalism at it's worst. Never underestimate the power of denial, especially when govt. is on the side of industry.

Here is an email I just received the other day.

Maybe the wind industry or the govt. could comment .

I live 808m from a Enercon 82 wind turbine and within a km. of 11 other turbines at the Ripley Suncor/Acceon wind project. My health and the health of my neighbours has deteriorated over the past 5 months. We hear a constant roaring of jets 24/7 and at night when the house is quiet there is a CONSTANT HUMMING which going right through your head no matter what you try to do occurs. We have had many meetings but the humming still goes on and we are still waken 2-??? times/night. We do NOT get a deep sleep.

But of course this person must be complaining because 1- they like to complain 2- they didn't make any money on the deal 3- they must be crazy 4- they work for or are being paid by the fossil fuel industry 5- they hate Mother Earth.

This govt. and the wind industry are so full of crap it is ridiculous. This scam is no different than the door to door reno scams. Promise a lot and never let the truth get in the way.

The wind industry and the govt., here in Ontario, claimed they could greatly reduce emissions. Lets see the peer reviewed results. Why aren't the papers full of the results the wind industry claims? They don't exist, not through my research. If they do, lets see them.

Bird and Bat kills too small to worry about. Then why the deal to hide the results from the public.

Noise - the turbines are whisper quiet, about as much noise as your fridge they said. Then why are people being forced from their homes.

A doctor from Kingston stated that the health problems created by wind turbines are only temporary and a persons health will return once they no longer live near the turbines. If that doesn't sound the alarm bells what will?

This is a CRIME against the citizens of the Province of Ontario.

Explain this CanWEA and the McGuinty govt. of Shame

Reaction to the Scottish Government’s refusal to construct one of Europe’s largest onshore wind farms, 181 turbines on Lewis in the Western Isles , has exposed the myth of wind power.

In response to Scottish industry’s concerns that its lights may go out, Britain’s power industry had to admit it would not make one iota of difference as wind power is too unstable to be included in any calculations of how much power is needed to satisfy the country’s needs – whether or not the wind is blowing our power stations will still burn the same amount of fossil fuel.

A spinning turbine’s only value, for the environmentalists, is as an icon of their power over the vulnerable and as an “at least we are doing something” comfort blanket for gullible politicians, plus, of course, an exponential currency generator for the wind industry. full article here

Never forget - Enron started the wind scam. Enron is gone but the scam lives on. Google Enron, Maurice Strong and Al Gore. Maybe that will open your eyes.

The govt. should have put the scrubbers on the coal plants and built a new nuke. Cost approx. 10 billion. Cost for wind, solar, gas plants, new transmission lines and a new nuke, 60-70 billion. Think what that extra money could have done for Health Care, Education and our Farmers

Read Agenda 21. It's about a lot more than just the wind industry.

Note: I, unlike Mr. Mattmer, do not support wind power as presented.

"Ron Mattmer, who lives a kilometer from a proposed wind development in Kincardine, says he supports wind power but is opposed to locating them so close to homes." (found in Toronto Sun article above)

I do however, support Mr. Mattmer, and all the other people in Ontario who have worked so tirelessly to expose the truth. Please join us in the fight for truth and Democracy.

If the govt. is serious about the environment they would be putting the money into grants to retrofit homes and encourage home solar and wind. This would reduce the need for new generation and save money in the process. After all, it's your tax dollars subsidizing the wind industry of which the only "benefit " to you will be higher electrical costs.
The wind industry on the other hand will make a fortune.

I think it is time for an open televised debate - maybe on TVO. I, and many others, including engineers, are available, and look forward to such a debate. The govt. and the wind industry debating with citizens of Ontario. Sounds like democracy to me.

What is going on now is about as anti-democratic as it gets.

Councils are told to pass the wind farms or they will be taken to an OMB hearing at a cost of approx. $100,000. and they are told they will lose, and God forbid-they will look anti-green. Did I mention the "GREENS" are pagan based and anti-Christian. Ever wonder why Mr. McGuitny wants to remove the Lords prayer from the Legislature?

Kingsbridge l has been a source of noise, flicker and stray voltage complaints for the two years it has been operating. People and animals suffer up to a kilometer away, yet no health study. The setback for Kingsbridge ll 450 meters.

Criminal

Turn off the TV, put down the newspapers and do your own research. Get the family involved. Think often and think critically.

Democracy is not a right. When a democracy is not guarded, protected and demanded by its citizens it will be lost. That day is getting very close.

RS

Ron Stephens ran as an Independent candidate for Huron-Bruce in support of those suffering from wind turbine nuisance and he continues to fight for their rights.

Editor:
Once again, I ask both the govt. and the wind industry to look over this blog and if you find something you can prove is not correct let me know and the appropriate corrections will be made.

Update- Fri. May 1st - 9:30 am
Someone from the govt. of Ont. and Suncor have read this post. Site Tracker stats