Dear Concerned Citizens,

The Environmental Registry for Ontario (ERB) has posted the following proposal for public comments until Oct. 5, 2013. According to the  ERB Registry # 011-9860 this proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval (Air and Noise) for a wind turbine rotor blades facility located in Welland, Ontario.

The facility will have eighteen (18) exhaust fans and two (2) dust extraction systems serving the processing area, as well heating and stand-by power systems. Emissions to the atmosphere will include ammonia, petroleum distillates, ethylbenzene and suspended particulate matter.

Powerblades Industries Inc is applying to have a release of  toxins allowed in the approval so there will be no legal way to shut them down for this unless it can be proven that they are over the limit stated in the approval and they are unsuccessful at mitigating this over the limit amount within about 2 years.

Comments can be made on line at

http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTIwMzYy&statusId=MTgwMTQz&language=en

For those of you that would like additional information the following fact sheets have been made available:

Ethylbenzene MSDS      http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9923958

Ammonia Solution  http://wwwsci.seastarchemicals.com/safety/07AmmoniaMSDSRev201109.pdf

Petroleum Distillates  http://www.online.petro-canada.ca/datasheets/en_CA/w276.pdf

Carbon Nanotubes and ASBESTOS – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706793

My particular concern is what is in the Suspended Particulate Matter?  Since the blades are made from a carbon fibre – a non-recyclable material – is one of the particulate fibres Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)‏?

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), are valuable industrial products with multiple applications in the field of nanotechnologies. Yet legitimate concerns about their potential adverse effects on human health need to be addressed because theypresent similarities to asbestos fibres in terms of their shape and size. It is legitimate to raise the question of their safety for human health. CNTs are elongated and ultrafine, and the fact is that human beings may be exposed to CNTs through inhalation. While not yet definitive, data are now available providing information on the pulmonary and cellular effects of CNTs, which may be compared to those of asbestos fibres.

We do not need another asbestos like fiasco because we jumped into something without due diligence. Ignorance will not protect anyone. Plausible deniability as in “I didn’t know” will not protect us from the scientific effects of ammonia, petroleum distillates, ethylbenzene, and suspended particulate matter.

A Senior Official with the MOE has confirmed that as of Dec 2012 there were no medical experts on their staff. Dr. Arlene King, the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario, does not want any involvement with the effects of IWT’s on human health. According to the MOE health complaints are to be given to the local Medical Officer of Health. The local Medical Officer of Health for the Niagara Region is Dr. Valerie Jaeger.

Please send letters of concern to the EBR using the internet or post to

Application Assessment Officer
Ministry of the Environment
Operations Division
Environmental Approvals Access and Service Integration Branch
Application Verification Unit
2 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 12A
Toronto Ontario
M4V 1L5
Phone: (416) 314-8001
Fax: (416) 314-8452
Toll Free Phone: (800) 461-6290,

Letters should also be sent to Welland Mayor and council members and the Regional Medical Officer of Health – Dr. Valerie Jaeger.

Email addresses of Welland Mayor and council members and Regional Medical Officer  Dr Valerie Jaeger:

mayor@welland.ca, mark.carl@welland.ca, maryann.grimaldi@welland.ca,frank.campion@welland.ca, david.mcleod@welland.ca, michael.belcastro@welland.ca, 2,pat.chiocchio@welland.ca, tony.dimarco@welland.ca, rocky.letourneau@welland.ca,michael.petrachenko@welland.ca, jim.larouche@welland.ca, bob.wright@welland.ca, Dr. Valerie Jaeger valerie.jaeger@niagararegion.ca

Government ministers, ministries, agencies and municipalities have an ethical duty and legal obligation to protect the health, safety, quality of life and well being of citizens and their properties. Please just do your job so I can get back to enjoying mine.

Transparency is the death of the wind industry….

Miranda Devine •The Daily Telegraph •September 25, 2013 12:00AM

And here I thought Australia loved David Suzuki.

A piece of footage doing the rounds of social media this week shows a young Suzuki in 1972 describing humans as “maggots” that “defecate all over the environment”.

What about reckless endangerment of the economy with fairy stories. Is that a crime?

AAAWwwwwww. Maybe its just a bad week for saint Suzuki. For more on this love fest read here:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/david-suzuki-drives-me-crazy/story-fni0cwl5-1226726460558

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in Ontario when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. 
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?”  

Bud  looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?” 

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his macBook Air computer, connects it to his iphone, and surfs to a NASApage on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in iPhoto and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .

Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhone that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response. 

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized Canon LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”         

 “That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud. 

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”        

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?” 

“You’re a Member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament “, says Bud. 

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?” 

 “No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter.  This is a herd of sheep. … 
Now give me back my dog.