“The smart city may be a cover for the moralistic city, and moralism is often a cover for power-seeking.” This sentence is what disturbs me in particular. Smart, green or sustainable is just a warm, fuzzy blanket that hides something very dangerous. A controlling state.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Study Evaluates the True Cost of Windpower
Institute for Energy Research October 15, 2013
“Despite being propped up by government mandates and billion dollar subsidies for decades, wind power continues to be an expensive and boutique energy source that the American people cannot rely on for power when they need it. Although lobbyists for the wind industry prefer to downplay the real costs of wind power, Dr. Giberson has produced a fact-based study that demonstrates just how expensive it really is.” http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2013/10/15/study-evaluates-the-true-costs-of-wind-power-2/
The study by Dr. Gibberson: Assessing Wind Power Costs Estimates can be read here: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/Giberson-studyFinal.pdf The summary concludes that: “The federal government devotes substantially more financial resources to subsidize the production of wind power than it does to study wind power.” I imagine if the province of Ontario would have done due diligence , we wouldn’t be in the mess that we are in now. Better late than never I suppose.
Here is AWEA’ s quick and blustery response to this study. I find fact 4 particularly angering Looking at the rising cost on our power bills shows how easily and boldly they can lie. CANWEA, here in Ontario, has a similar propensity for storytelling. Also known as fabricating facts.
4. All data indicate that wind energy is keeping electric bills low for
consumers. Adding wind energy to the grid displaces the most expensive
power plants first, so even modest additions of wind energy cause
significant reductions in the electricity prices paid by homeowners and
businesses.
http://aweablog.org/blog/post/fact-check-fossilfunded-think-tank-strikes-out-on-cost-of-
Admission of Fault Won’t Happen. Here’s Why:
Letter from Eric Jelinski
We often uncover examples of mismanagement (an understatement in regard to recent examples), and then members claim to have no knowledge. This is a due diligence e-mail for the Wynne/Horvath government. There are several key issues and one is the issue of the hearings of the Environmental Review Tribunals in regard to wind turbines. There have been many such hearings where experts on the impacts of wind turbines have expressed concerns and pointed to peer reviewed papers written about such impacts; eg. health, noise, flickering lights, too close to airports, property values, stray voltage, and the issues list is indeed long, http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/health/
Regardless of what concerned citizens have said, the liberal steam roller continues out of control approving wind turbine development after development in spite of having recently announced that the province has enough electricity! Why?
It must be very boring for the lawyers for Samsung, WPD, developers, and the MOE and MNR to sit through lengthy hearings from concerned citizens, just to have to rule against the citizens’ concerns. Such rulings I have noted previously effectively means the government is calling these citizens liars. A probable ethical dilemma. I often wondered why…but the answer is here in the salacious relationships between proponents of wind developers, the proponents who want to shut down nuclear, and employees of the government,
http://freewco.blogspot.ca/2013/10/environmental-review-tribunal-paul.html
It takes more than a few moments to absorb this this conspiracy theory, but the writing is on the wall in terms of all the e-mails and RSS feeds issued by ‘environmentalists’. Please read on.
Enter a new idea by the lawyers, by limiting the number of citizens and arbitrarily downgrading the credentials of those who speak.
After 5 years of the GEA and all of the world wide experience with wind turbines, is it possible that the Medical Officer of Health was wrong with her decree about the 550 metre setback. Of course it is “possible’ . That is why there is always room for a second opinion. Except that the government is acting along-side the proponent in squashing the second opinion coming from knowledgeable people like other doctors and those who are affected by the wind turbines. The decisions of the ERT are by now so entrenched in saying that there are no adverse effects, even one admission that prevents one approval of one wind turbine is an admission that there is substance to what concerned citizens have been saying. Folks, we have just found the invisible wall created by the government and the wind developers beyond which we are not allowed to tread!
Will the issues go away? Not, never, ever in a blue moon. A website has now been set up as part of the federal health study concerning radiation emitted from wind turbines,
Many papers and even books have been written about the adverse effects of wind turbine noise on health.
Is the continuation of approving the construction of wind turbines a cover for the MOH? What was the exact study for the 550 metres? There is ample information to find her ruling on the 550 metres has its problems for some people being more sensitive than others, and given the amplitude modulation that may occur at high power in the still of the night. Please interview the affected people, and especially the people whose properties have been bought out by the wind turbine developers. A voluntary moratorium on wind turbines would be ceding defeat and accepting all of the claims. The cost of making those affected whole would be larger than the gas plant fiasco.
There is the other reason I alluded to earlier. Since the liberal clan screwed up royally on the gas plants, and they should be rightfully booted out by Horvath. Why isn’t Horvath giving them the boot? The liberals don’t yet realize they are being held to ransom Horvath is saying, “ gi’me what I want or I’ll dump you. You know the rest, the killer always shoots the victim anyway. What Horvath wants is wind turbines to shut down nuclear just like in Germany. Damned the high cost of electricity, damned the jobs the NDP don’t care about jobs, real jobs. See the Toronto Star report on interns working for free, http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/22/training_or_work_unpaid_interns_want_companies_to_pay_up.html
How many people in Ontario do we have doing slave labour thank you to the liberals and ndp? The only issue the ndp are concerned about is to copy Germany into Ontario, high electricity costs will spur conservation they say, but in Germany high prices has lowered the standard of living and energy poverty. It’s coming to Ontario. The government has stacked the ERT process to achieve the goal of its lobbyists who will cash in on the FIT rates and screw anybody who gets in the way!
In the above, I suggested the issue may not go away. I suspect that the only ending is the end of this government, either the liberals wake up and pull the plug asap, or unless Horvath manages to drag out her blackmail of this government until the four years is up…mark my words.
Today the Environmental Review Tribunal selects who may speak at their hearings, tomorrow we may find those who are allowed to vote have been preselected by the same government. We are on a slippery slope. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Science and rational reason went by the wayside the moment the GEA was created.
I think we have figured out what this liberal caucus is doing by a combination of commission as well as omission. Most of the pieces fit the puzzle. Now it is just a matter of spreading the word about the eventual picture.
Have a nice day, Eric
Eric Jelinski 11450 Simcoe County Road 10 RR1 Stayner Ontario L0M1S0 416-697-9965 cell 705-428-0659 eric_jelinski@sympatico.ca
Health Canada – Report Pending Effects or Existing Effects on EMF Monitoring Site
If you are currently affected or are facing a pending project see information below.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
HEALTH CANADA WIND TURBINE AND TRANSFORMER STATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC
FREQUENCY (EMF) MONITORIING SITE IS AVAILABLE
Health Canada has a monitoring system for Radiation Emitting Devices which among other
things includes IWTs and transformer stations (EMF). This federal monitoring system
informs Health Canada about the health issues occurring with wind energy technology.
You can report to Health Canada, how operating and pending wind energy projects are
affecting you.
This also fits with an international project coordinated by the World Health Organization to monitor the electrical and magnetic fields from various sources, including power transmission lines and by extension, wind power projects.
The Government of Canada, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada support
the definition of health established by the World Health Constitution of 1948 which states:
health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.”
If you want to make a report about any physical, mental or effect on social well-being
associated with operating or pending wind energy projects, go to the Health Canada
Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring site:
Or you can email your report to ccrpb-pcrpcc@hc-sc.gc.ca or fax it to 613-941-5366
If you wish to call, the toll free line is 1-866-225-0709.
WHO CAN FILE?
Operating sites: Individuals and communities currently experiencing health effects from
operating facilities can report to the Health Canada Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring
site. If you wish, you can forward past reports to this site.
Pending sites not yet operating: Individuals and communities with pending projects can
report to the Health Canada Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring site about the effect a
pending project is having on your health and social well-being.
It is important that Health Canada is informed of past and current adverse health reports
filed with provincial governments and developers. You can forward these reports to the
monitoring site.
ASK FOR A RECEIPT OF YOUR EMAIL!
For the record, keep track of what you send and keep the response you receive.
Wrightman shuts down ERT hearing: London Ontario CTV clips
I see some Mothers in the protestor background! Esther’s battle is a battle for all Ontarians…it is a shame on Democracy when you are fighting your own government for a voice….
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
The truth about the useless wind industry…
In our recent post Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent we predicted that Brits are ready for another Winter of Discontent as renewable driven power prices leave them freezing in the dark.
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Well, it seems we weren’t far off the mark.
Peaking power piranhas are piling in to the power market in order to cash in when the wind stops blowing and wind power output drops to a doughnut.
In Britain and Australia peaking power operators are using banks of diesel generators to keep the grid from collapsing when wind-watts go missing hundreds of times each year – see our post here.
In Britain the scam is propped up by ludicrously generous subsidies to peaking power operators to ensure that there is sufficient backup capacity to cover the unpredictable, but routine daily collapse in wind power output.
British power punters are rightly…
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Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Wind weasels know they are harming people….they just don’t care!!!
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Well, Almost Heaven – until the giant fans went up.
West Virginia woman sues wind farm over vibrations, noise
The Associated Press
2 October 2013
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – A West Virginia woman who says she’s suffered physically and mentally from turbine vibration at a wind farm near Keyser is suing to have the operations shut down.
Anna Bell Saville lives about 1 1/2 miles from the site and contends she’s lost the ability to enjoy her home and property. She sued Pinnacle Wind Farm LLC and its parent company, Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison Mission Group, in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg late Tuesday.
The 23 turbines on Green Mountain create low-frequency pulsation noise and vibration that is irritating, annoying and “at times, severely debilitating, causing core pulsations,” her complaint said.
The sound, vibrations and “light flicker” are so intense that they cause anxiety, tinnitus, and mental and emotional distress that…
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Getting energised about energy
We can’t depend on the government to look after us!
Barely a day goes by without the media (particularly the BBC with its desire to air Labour’s current favourite topics) focusing attention on something we are all very acutely aware of, namely energy prices.
In recent days we have had Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) lead off the regular cycle of price rise announcements with an 8.2% hike on gas and electricity bills. The political response was all too predictable. Labour – the party which, with Ed Miliband as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, wilfully took ‘green’ measures in the 2008 Climate Change Act it knew and admitted would drive prices upwards and increase the cost of living – described the rise as scandalous.
As an example of rank hypocrisy, this is head and shoulders beyond anything we’ve seen in a long time.
Meanwhile the Tories maintained their mind-numbingly stupid refrain that the energy sector needs more…
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Gone With the Wind
Wind turbines are a farce….
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Gone with the wind farm
Australian Financial Review
Paul Comrie-Thomson
4 October 2013
One thousand new wind turbines a week or 52,000 a year would be needed just to keep pace with India and China’s coal burn.
So, where to now in the climate debate?
Dieter Helm, CBE, is eminently qualified to write about climate policy but seriously challenges current climate thinking. Consider his background. A professor of energy policy, University of Oxford, and fellow in economics at New College, Oxford, he is also a member of the economic advisory committee to the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and chair of the natural capital committee.
Helm was also a special adviser to the European Energy Commissioner.
He is unequivocal that global warming is a serious problem. He advocates a carbon tax.
But in his 2012 publication The Carbon Crunch Helm details how the global chatter…
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Everyone – Esther Needs Us on Tuesday! The Liberal ERT’s are a FARCE!
Dear everyone,
I have spent months (since Aug 1) organizing the appeal of the Adelaide 38 turbine wind project to the Environmental Review Tribunal, that was approved in my township. Days on end (I had to quit working at the plant nursery), at the computer, the phone, from 6 in the morning til 10 at night. Appeals, witness statements, piles of disclosure, scheduling, motions upon motions….it just goes on and on. Incredibly intense. Like nothing I’ve ever done before. But I had a wonderful group of generous witnesses – brilliant, supportive people who put their ALL into this appeal. For this, I felt really humbled.
What happened was this: on a Thursday evening (Oct 10) a pile (foot high, I kid you not) of motions was dumped on me by NextEra and the Min of Environment – all aimed at eliminating almost every single witness I had carefully brought into the appeal. Amazingly, or maybe not, none of these motions overlapped with each other— NextEra chewed away at a specific list of witnesses, while the MOE ate up the rest. You’d think they would have some similar motions if they weren’t ‘working together.’ I was to respond by Tuesday (Oct 15) to this stack of papers. At the hearing I was able to get a whole whopping ONE day extension where I fought by teleconference for 3 of my witnesses. Two and a half hours on the phone; one hour of me speaking.
Yesterday evening, a day after the motions were heard, an order was issued that said I lost every motion. This really shouldn’t be a surprise to me or anyone (even the lawyers say we can’t win with the ERT anymore), but the reality of the ‘appeal process’ is pretty damn clear now. Something is rotting, and we are being told to eat it.
If you saw your witnesses be struck off like this, what would you do?
Dr. Sarah Laurie (Australia)– they have removed the “Dr.” from her name, even though she has a medical degree, and practiced as a doctor, but doesn’t now due to family illness – how does this make Ontarians feel that we have done this to Sarah?? Shouldn’t we be up in arms over this alone? No reasons have been given from the ERT for not qualifying her as a doctor, they just made the decision. She sits with her testimony, from other recent ERTs, in purgatory.
Mike McCann (Chicago real estate appraiser) – Struck off from being able to speak to the numbers that he sees showing human habitat destruction where wind turbines are installed. All because Nexterror argues humans aren’t animals…if we were turtles we would get a voice. I’m not exaggerating – this was the argument made, and amazingly won.
Ben Lansink (London real estate appraiser) – Struck for the same reasons as Mike.
Larry Swart – (resident affected by turbines) – Struck as a witness because he wouldn’t give the lawyers ALL of his medical records, prescriptions, doctor notes etc.
William Palmer –Professional Engineer Testimony limited. Not allowed to speak to health and safety concerns, even though as a professional engineer, he MUST alert officials if he sees a situation where harm is happening or will happen.
Rick James – (Michigan acoustician) – Testimony limited. Not allowed to speak to health impacts from noise, even though THAT is what acousticians do – calculate the noise that affects people!
Still on the chopping block and not decided yet:
Dr. Nina Pierpont (New York) – she WROTE the book Wind Turbine Syndrome – and yet, that doesn’t seem to be good enough for the other side. They want her testimony struck because she didn’t write out her testimony word for word, which isn’t required or necessary. Even so, I have no faith that the ERT will let her speak.
Harvey Wrightman, Larry Cook – to speak to wind leases – the stress caused by the wind developers on landowners, the unethical leases that bind people into contracts signing their health and their family’s health away. These will be struck too, on Tuesday, if I stick around.
Kathryn Minten (Organic Dairy farmer) had asked to have Party Status with 5 witnesses lined up. She was to speak to stray voltage. The ERT downgraded her to just a presenter – no witnesses allowed. This was only decided a few days ago — no explanation as to why.
That leaves us with 2 witnesses: me, and Muriel. No kidding. Do you believe this? Do. And I hope you are as spitting mad as me.
So do I slog through their system, just to say I did it, or do we throw it back in their face and call them out for the corrupt system they are? Remember — MONTHS of work was put into this appeal, doing it all ‘correctly’, with a budget of zero dollars and a lot of well written pro-bono work from these witnesses, and the ERT had the ability to throw out the vast majority of my testimony the day before the hearing starts, without any reasons noted.
We must protest. Don’t worry about me losing this appeal — they’ve killed it already.
I need your help on very short notice:
The first day of the hearing is to consist of Opening Statements, and more motion madness against our side.
Date: Tuesday October 15th
Time: 10:00am
Place: Middlesex County Office, 399 Ridout Street North, London MAP
Can you please come – bring signs, bring voices, bring cameras, video cameras – and let’s protest the ERT once and for all. No more worrying about offending the ERT, they’ve basically made their decision already. Unlike judges, they always get to make their decisions without facing the people, safely tucked away in Toronto — and save for Ostrander’s turtle, it has never been in favour of the people.
Many of you have been through unfair ERTs (I’ve been to many, and an appellant at several now.) Many are currently faced with them with all the new approvals in the last few months, or in the near future. How can we continue to have any faith in this brutal system? How can we continue to let this happen? When you are told, “You have an opportunity to appeal the Ministry’s decision,” is this what we call an “opportunity”?
Please help spread the word. We have nothing to lose anymore, and we need your faces there!!
Many thanks!
Esther
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 