by Daniel Sylvia – July 30, 2013

Wind energy is one of the most romanticized forms of existing renewable energy. After all, it is simply energy produced by the wind, which will keep blowing whether we stick turbines in front of it or not. Free energy, right? Well, nothing in life is truly free. Despite the glamorized notions of how great this “free” energy is, someone always has to pay for it somewhere down the line.

Continue Reading at: http://www.hardhatters.com/2013/07/eco-unfriendly-wind-energy/?fb_source=ticker&fb_action_ids=10200992510669794&fb_action_types=og.likes

April Jeff’s and the Niagara Region needs your help! On Thursday August 1st, 2013, the Niagara Region will be hosting a Council Meeting  where Mr. Rankin will address council regarding their status as a “Non Willing Host”.  April Jeff’s has gone out of her way to ensure the community is supported and we need your help!

If you are able to, please show up to ensure the Niagara Region doesn’t Rescind their “Non Willing Host” Designation! Bring your Signs and T-Shirts!!!

Thursday August 1st, 2013 at 2201 St. David’s Road, Thorold, Ontario – 6:30pm (Near Brock University)

See Agenda Below

Council Agenda August 1, 2013 (1)

Light winds have not silenced the residents of Carson Road, who have come to blows in the last year over several wind turbines.

via Turbine noise complaints could reach state AG’s Office – Columbia-Greene Media: News.

By David Judd
The fight against wind turbines proposed near Port Ryerse has become more public and more personal.
Forty protesters waved signs and handed out information sheets last Wednesday on normally quiet Gilbert Road.
The road dead ends at the home of Anne and Wally Faulkner, a short distance from Lake Erie, west of Port Dover.
The unlikely occasion for the protest was the summer picnic of the Port Dover and Woodhouse Horticultural Society.
Society president Anne Faulkner hosted the picnic in her gardens.
The protesters had no bone to pick with the horticultural society. In fact, one prominent sign thanked the society for beautifying Port Dover and Woodhouse.
But the protesters, mostly from the Port Ryerse area backed by contingents from Haldimand and West Lincoln, strongly objected to the Faulkners and their neighbours — the Smiths, the Steinhoffs and the Woolleys — leasing land for four industrial wind turbines planned for the Port Ryerse Wind Farm. Continue reading article at: http://www.portdovermapleleaf.com/opposed-health-and-property-are-at-high-risk/

Just like many of you wind warriors out there, my husband and I have written many letters to our Liberal MPP’s, Ministers, and their aids…we’ve even tried phoning their offices…being  “passed around” to the next and the next person with no avail. With the phone calls, it gets very frustrating because we literally are talking to people who have “NO CLUE” or background info on what we are talking about…and in my opinion, are mostly ignorant to the issues facing Rural Ontario.

Did you know that all Ministers including the Premier have 15 days to respond to our letters?

We have now resorted to consulting with Ontario’s Ombudsman. In my area alone (and I’m sure this is happening all over Ontario), we have recently submitted over 50 letters & counting, to the Ombudsman. Many letters are months old and have serious concerns from local residents. Responses have been requested in all emails or letters. It is very sad that now we must resort to begging for a response to the many questions/concerns we expect our government to answer.

I encourage you all to send the Ombudsman your emails/letters which have gone unanswered. Blanket, Propaganda responses do not count either….here is the contact info below:

 InfoMGS@mgs.gov.on.ca 

john.milloy@ontario.ca

peter.wallace@ontario.ca

Thanks goes out to “Bonnie” for coordinating this effort for us in the Haldimand, West Lincoln and Wainfleet areas!

I’m a farmer, township trustee and participating landowner in the Shady Oaks Wind Farm where I have four turbines on my land within a half mile of my home. When I signed up, corn was a third of today’s price, and there are other things I wish I would’ve known before signing.

First, the company’s business strategy is to name and sell the idea of a wind development to another company for construction once it’s approved. After securing acreage for Shady Oaks, they sold the project to a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer and partner of theirs. The original company disappeared after the project changed hands, and the number of turbines grew from 30 to 72.

Now nine months after construction, the township is still waiting for $800,000 to fix the roads. Second, they destroy crops and roads with no regard to landowners. They used nonparticipating farm fields as driveways, tile was crushed, and no one would listen to our complaints. There’s still damage to roads that trucks weren’t supposed to use but did anyway. Read the whole testimony at: http://fairwindenergy.org/testimony.html

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July 24, 2013 – Manitoulin Expositor

As evidenced by the large barge in the North Channel or numerous cement trucks headed to and from the Green Bush, construction is well underway on the McLean’s Mountain Wind Limited Partnership’s (a joint project between Mnidoo Mnising Power General Patership Inc. and Northland Power Inc.) wind farm. Continue reading at: http://www.manitoulin.ca/2013/07/24/wind-farm-moves-ahead-on-land-and-under-water/