Sacrificing an Idyll for an Ideal

The German Energiwiende or Energy Transformation is one huge human and environmental disaster.  One more victim to add to its growing pile and violations on areas of quiet and serene landscapes. For complete story read here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bavarian-village-protests-renewable-power-plant-project-a-925556.html

Local Residents Pay High Price The highest price, though, may be paid by local residents. The construction time required for the project is estimated to be five years, a time during which an endless stream of noisy trucks will make their way up and down the mountain, day and night. Wide roads will have to be built through the forest up to Jochberg Mountain, and it’s possible that a concrete factory will have to be built on site to support the project. Rock and boulders from the tunnel will be dumped to create a wall around the reservoir. Throughout the building process, the village will be noisy, dusty and smelly. But the situation could be even worse for the Jocheralm, which is considered one of the most beautiful alpine meadows in Germany. On sunny summer days, as many as 500 hikers can be found on the trails here. If Energieallianz moves forward with its plans, it would all be submerged under water. Huts located in the meadows would have to be moved and those sitting outside on the banks would no longer get to enjoy vistas of content cows and lush meadows. Instead they’d be confronted with a metal fence in front of an asphalt reservoir.

We here in Ontario are not exempt from stupid.  No surprise there.

http://thebiggreenlie.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/marmora-pumped-storage-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

http://www.intelligencer.ca/2013/08/15/more-digging-before-mining-for-megawatts

http://www.marmoraandlake.ca/2013/08/22/ontarios-ministers-of-energy-and-rural-affairs-visit-marmora-pumped-storage-hydro-site/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/in-eastern-ontario-a-battery-five-times-the-size-of-niagara-falls/article8820070/

MPP says Ontario knew about health effects of wind turbines since 2009

As far as I’m concerned….they should all be charged with criminal negligence! Our health and well-being is not for sale…

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Aussie warmist to new PM: Carbon tax abolition won’t make climate change go away — Neither will a tax or subsidies or socialism

What will make the alarmists go away? I mean, other than giving them all of our money!

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Union president Andrew Dettmer writes in the Guardian:

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We all have less than 17 years to live, children are told

Stop trying to brainwash our kids, with fear!

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Someone thought it was a good idea to bring in Sir Geldof to speak to young people on climate change.

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Ontario School system advocates “racing to the bottom” as their mantra for 2030!!!

We are going to have to make sure our kids learn all they need to know. The school will not be doing it.

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If you have a child born this year here is the vision of the future for your newborn when they graduate or “leave” High School in 2030.

These “brilliant (NOT)” ideas are being brought to you by a so-called “think tank of scholars and education experts” this week in Waterloo and is being supported with YOUR tax dollars, so of course it must be true!

Here’s the vision……………..don’t separate students into “grades” or even force them to be “examined” throughout their “higher education” years so they don’t feel pressured with REAL LIFE trials and tribulations.

After all, with all the tech gadgets and computers able to do the work of critical thinking today, why burden young minds with mundane trivialities like adding, subtracting and spelling?

The future it seems will allow these unfettered graduates to build homes, repair vehicles, order materials, count money, or any other real life task without…

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The IPCC is not as scary as it once was…..we all heard about the boy who cried wolf.

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Cathy Young writes in the Sunday Dispatch:

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Free ride for solar freeloaders about to end in U.S. — Non-solar ratepayers subsidize freeloaders up to $254 million and rising

Eventually the hosts will get screwed too….

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The Dallas Morning News reports:

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