By Miranda Chant, Blackburn News (Audio)

An environmentalist is rallying others in her community in the battle against controversial wind turbines. A preliminary hearing to appeal the decision to allow NextEra Energy Canada to install 38 turbines in the Kerwood-area goes before the Environmental Review Tribunal Monday.

Esther Wrightman with the Middlesex Lambton Wind Action Group says for those in her community, it is personal. Residents are concerned the turbines come with serious risk to health, safety and wildlife.

The Adelaide-Metcalfe council will also be discussing the issue of wind turbines at its meeting Monday night.

Remember country primary school Christmas concerts when you were 5?

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Performer anxiety as you stood up to recite Banjo Paterson’s the Man from Snowy River, off the cuff, to the whole town.  A strangely familiar Father Christmas doling out presents to all the kids in the school.  Gorging on gallons of raspberry cordial, gutsing down lamingtons, fairy cakes and chocolate crackles after the show, as if there was no tomorrow.  Then, suitably refreshed with an almighty sugar hit, running around the Soldiers Memorial Hall like mad things in the dark.  Screaming and yelling like banshees in the night.  Oh what fun!

Remember your first Bachelor and Spinsters Ball?

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Buffed up in Uncle Ted’s dinner suit – the one that never really fitted; or in some taffeta nightmare that Mum knocked up from material you always suspected was from an old curtain.  Off you went for a night of…

Kathleen Wynne’s green energy policies are setting the stage for a ‘massacre’ of our economy

Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun
If you want to see the future of the Ontario economy under Premier Kathleen Wynne’s green energy plan, you don’t have to look far.

Look at Europe, because we’re starting to experience what’s happening there, as rising electricity prices driven by the high cost of renewable energy gut its manufacturing sector.

“We face a systemic industrial massacre,” Antonio Tajani, European Commissioner for Industry, recently told the Daily Telegraph, “I am in favour of a green agenda, but we can’t be religious about this. We need a new energy policy. We have to stop pretending, because we can’t sacrifice Europe’s industry for climate goals that are not realistic and are not being enforced worldwide.” Read article

(From EPAW)

With great anxiety many citizens in our country are observing the progressive destruction of the countryside and the cultural-historically grown phenotype in the environs of towns and villages through the constantly increasing number of wind turbines. In addition, there are unacceptable worries for human-beings as well as a heavy depreciation of immovables and a danger to the animal world.

With the exploitation of the wind energy a technology is being promoted which is completely insignificant for the power supply, the preservation of natural resources, and the protection of the climate. The public promotion funds could be far better spent on the increase in efficiency of the power stations, on the economical consumption of power, and on the scientific basic research in the field of energy.

We demand that all direct and indirect subsidies should be withdrawn from the wind energy technology. As we may not any longer pass…

German Media Now Sharply Attacking Once Beloved Green Energy Feed-In Act…”Completely Out Of Control”

P Gosselin — No Tricks Zone — September 15,  2013

Hansard Snippets referencing Mike Crawley and the advance of Industrial Wind Turbines Into Ontario

Here are a few excerpts regarding Mr. Crawley from the Ontario Legislature:

Mr. Runciman: Once again the Premier clearly avoided the questions dealing with adherence to bid requirements. We’re talking about a contract that provided a company headed by a prominent Liberal with a guaranteed 20-year, $66,000-a-day contract. This is a very lucrative deal, and the hard-working taxpayers of Ontario have a right to know if this contract was awarded appropriately.

Today I received information indicating that Mr. Mike Crawley, the president of AIM PowerGen, sent an e-mail in the midst of the bid process to various parties encouraging their attendance at the energy minister’s fundraiser at $5,000 a pop. Premier, I’m sending copies of this material over to you and asking that you have an independent third party review the contract award process to ensure…

In our last post we covered the brilliant community survey carried out at Macarthur by STT Champion, Anne Schafer.

Wind weasels and their parasites are running as much interference as their delusional little imaginations can muster about just what Anne’s survey reveals.

The eco-fascist is – apparently – only content to “act on facts” when the facts in issue suit their own perverse brand of ideology.

The minute real people start talking about the nightmare of living next to giant fans – these boys close ranks and set out to dismiss, discount, diminish, undermine, challenge, limit, qualify, explain, excuse or otherwise spin away the heart wrenching stories laid out by their victims.

It takes a certain kind of individual to not only IGNORE the suffering of others but to ATTACK them because of it. STT is happy to describe these people as a special kind of Monster.