http://www.zoomerradio.ca/category/shows/goldhawk-fights-back/
IF YOU STILL DON’T RECOGNIZE THE NAMES YOU WILL AFTER WATCHING THIS….
“Big Wind” explores the conflict over the controversial development of industrial wind turbines in Ontario. It is a divisive issue that at times pits neighbour against neighbour, residents against corporations, and the people against their government.
WHY DO A ‘CHARTER CHALLENGE’?
FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES, THIS IS WHAT I WILL BE DISCUSSING WITH YOU.
THERE IS A SAYING – “IF YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, YOU DON’T HAVE ANY!”
THE VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONS OF CANADA HAVE BEEN BUILT UPON EACH OTHER.
THE LATEST IS OUR CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, WHICH AMENDED THE CONSTITUTION ACT IN 1982. CLAUSE 1 SETS OUT WHAT IT DOES:
“THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS GUARANTEES THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS SET OUT IN ITSUBJECT ONLY TO SUCH REASONABLE LIMITS PRESCRIBED BY LAW AS CAN BE DEMONSTRABLY JUSTIFIED IN A FREE AND DEMOCARTIC SOCIETY.”
OUR LEGAL RIGHTS ARE SET OUT IN CLAUSES 7 – 15; OF THESE, OUR GREATEST PROTECTION IS IN CLAUSE 7: “EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF THE PERSON AND THE RIGHT NOT TO BE DEPRIVED THEREOF EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE.”
EVERY WIND ACTION GROUP THAT HAS GONE FORWARD TO APPEAL A RENWABLE ENERGY AGREEMENT (REA) TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW TRIBUNAL (ERT) HEARING HAS INCLUDED A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION IN ITS APPEAL — THIS INCLUDES WLGWAG Inc. (twice) AND MAWT Inc.
BOTH HAVE CITED CLAUSE 7 AS HAVE ALL OTHERS.
ENFORCEMENT OF OUR GUARANTEED RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IS FOUND IN CLAUSE 24 (1): Continue reading THE COMMUNITY THAT WORKS TOGETHER,
Dear Premier,
Re: Changes to Wind Development Planning and Regulation I refer you to previous correspondence
1 in which the Waubra Foundation ensured you and fellow relevant Ministers were legally on notice about the serious adverse health effects from wind turbine noise pollution, which is directly causing noise nuisance to Victorian rural families, driving them out of their homes.
I note again that you were made personally aware of the noise nuisance occurring at the Waubra Wind Development from affidavits from a number of Waubra residents, in mid 2010, before I joined the Waubra Foundation. These legal statements were given to you by former Waubra farmer and resident, Mr Noel Dean, at a Community Cabinet Meeting in Bendigo, when you were the former Health Minister.
The Waubra Foundation has copies of internal documents from 2009 obtained under FOI from the Victorian Health Department, which indicate health department staff were aware of reports of adverse health effects in wind turbine neighbours, and of course there are also the letters which Dr David Iser sent to the former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, and then Ministers Brumby, Delahunty, and Thwaites, reporting his concerns about the adverse health effects he had seen in his patients, and identified in his world first population survey, in May, 2004.3 There are also the admissions made by Medical Practitioners Dr Simon Slota Kan and Dr Stephanie Williams, employed by the Victorian Department of Health in April and October 2011, (with plenty of witnesses) that they accepted the problems the residents were reporting were real.
follow to read the letter in full. final_open_letter_to_premier_andrews_march_2015
The National Health and Medical Research Council has today opened a Targeted Call for Research (TCR) into Wind Farms and Human Health.
The TCR will support research that addresses one or both of the following issues:
The call for research follows the recent release of the NHMRC Statement: Evidence on Wind Farms and Human Health and accompanying Information Paper, which were based on the findings of an independent review of over 4000 papers.
The Information Paper concluded that the body of direct evidence was small and of poor quality: “Internationally, there is little research evidence regarding the health effects of wind farms. Over 4000 papers were identified in the reviews and, of these papers, only 13 studies were found that considered possible relationships between wind farm emissions and health outcomes. Only one of these studies was conducted in Australia.”
The expert group which oversaw this work, the Wind Farms and Human Health Reference Group, identified areas for further research based on evidence gaps identified in the review.
Ted Cowan, Senior Researcher at the Ontario Federation of Agriculture made a presentation at the recent conference of Ontario Good Roads Association/Rural Ontario Municipal Association (OGRA/ROMA). His remarks included some harsh messages on economic considerations which are likely the basis of political decision making. These discussions are often uncomfortable but definitely need to take place.
Regrettably, Mr. Cowan also made a flippant remark regarding the health concerns of rural Ontarians living near wind turbines. The comment relating the decreasing frequency of asthma to wind turbine health concerns was insensitive to the problems faced by many rural Ontarians affected by the proximity of wind turbines.
The comments do not reflect the views of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture which sincerely regrets any offense caused to those affected.
Coming soon! New documentary film Big Wind, to be aired Wednesday March 25 on TVOntario at 9 PM. (Repeats at midnight) TVO to air special edition of The Agenda on the film, next week.
On Monday, March 23, members of MAWT Inc and West Lincoln Glanbrook Wind Action Group Inc will appear before the West Lincoln Council to renew requests for financial support. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. and will be held at the Township Offices, 318 Canborough Rd in Smithville. The agenda is attached.
Dear Counsel, Parties and Participant
On January 23, 2015 the Tribunal issued the following order following the preliminary hearing:
(o) If the Tribunal decides that oral closing submissions are necessary, they will be heard on March 25, 2015 at a time and location to be fixed by the Tribunal.
The hearing panel has decided, after reviewing the parties’ written submissions, that it will not require oral submissions onMarch 25, 2015. The hearing date scheduled is now cancelled. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Eva Pietrzyk
Case Coordinator | Planner
Environment and Land Tribunals Ontario
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From Windaction.org:
The following letter was written by Jane Harper, Tipton County Indiana Commissioner from 2009-2012. In addition to dedicating part of her life to public service, Jane is also a farmer. She originally wrote this letter to warn the Howard County Indiana officials about the many pitfalls of wind energy development, but it’s message is equally applicable to Huntington County as well. This letter was also read directly to the members of the Huntington County Plan Commission on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, by HCCC Attorney Steven Snyder. Huntington County Commissioners Larry Buzzard and Rob Miller were also in attendance, and heard this letter read into the official record.
Dear Howard County Commissioners and Council Members;
I am writing to you all as a former commissioner colleague who aided in the negotiations and agreements with E.ON Climate Renewables with Tipton County in 2011. From the onset, I was open to windfarm development in a small section of Tipton County because the commissioners had received no opposition and I felt that the landowners wanted it. My own family was offered an opportunity to lease land to E.ON and we declined because my husband did not care to farm around the towers, and I just didn’t want to look at them. I set my own personal views aside and made decisions based on what I felt the majority of the public wanted. I was outspoken enough, however, to say that I would never support a plan to cover a large portion of the county with wind turbines. As it turned out, the problem was that when the decisions were being made to build “Wildcat I”, the commissioners were not hearing from the “majority”. People really did not know this was happening, or if they did, they did not perceive it to be as “invasive” as it was. As you know, public notices are small and often overlooked in the newspaper, so not much resistance was present……………until the towers went up, and people saw how enormous and intrusive they were. The red blinking lights even disturb my own summer evenings and my home is 6 miles from the closest tower….. !!!! You don’t have the time to read what all I could tell you, so in a nutshell I just want to say that I wish I had the knowledge then that I have now. However, what I can do, is to try to pass some of what I know onto the elected officials in the neighboring county so that perhaps you can gain some wisdom from what I learned in the school of hard knocks. Continue reading Meet Jane Harper – Board member who regrets voting pro-wind
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 