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March Against Wind Turbines At Queens Park
Haldimand Wind Project Complaint Information Sheet
Do No Harm & Do Unto Others; The Modern Twist of Man, Nature and Wind Turbines.
Haldimand County, Ontario
February 2013 saw the first of the Industrial Wind Turbines erected for the Summerhaven Project by NextEra in Haldimand County. Port Dover & Nanticoke Wind project was also concurrently being rammed onto the fabric of the rural landscape. The massive turbines joining the increasingly crowded Haldimand horizons creating a gauntlet of wind turbines placed in essential global migratory flyways along the shores of Lake Erie in southern Ontario.
The onslaught of wind turbine installations and operations has continued to be unrelenting even to this day. Heavy machinery, an endless parade of gravel trucks, 230KV transmission lines to be erected on the very edges of front lawns in the Municipal right of ways, continues with the Grand Renewable Wind and Solar project (Samsung & Pattern Energy). They are now in the race to meet deadlines for their in Commercial Operation Date set by the secretive contracts signed with the Province.
Well over 200 giant turbines and counting; each project seeing taller and larger machines and with no changes to the regulated setbacks to people’s homes. Every week that passes sees even more approvals for Wind Power projects being signed off by the Ministry of the Environment. Government at all levels remain deaf to the cries for help and objections from the unwilling host communities. The political dance of denial and sleight of hand is dizzying with the speed of changes in position and deflection of issues, as the balance of power shifts and turns as a elections looms for 2014. People who are forced to live without a voice in land- use decisions are a valuable resource for base votes for politicians that must court the scattered minority in small communities to sway the government balances of power.
The construction chaos may have eased in parts of the county but it is now replaced by a growing chorus of complaints emerging about the turbine operations. Complaints ranging from nuisance, operational safety concerns, and to the more serious impacts of reported adverse health effects. This is compounded by the harsh climb in escalating electricity rates for all of Ontario as the price to be paid as the renewable energy projects power along unimpeded. Like a train without any brakes heading for an impending predictable and sickening crash. Precaution and prevention forgotten and perverted principles in the rush to continue the dying song for support of the Green Energy Act of Ontario.
The reality for the individuals and families affected is worse than any anticipation and hits those hard who had never given the wind projects a second thought. Community discord easier to not acknowledge for those living out of sight of the massive machines in the adjacent towns. Sacrificing others who now live under the shadow flicker to the false crucifixes to all that ails the world. Night descends and the sky is alight with frantic blinking red lights from the turbines. A red light district spreading viral like across the land. Man has sinned and an atonement is made. Do no harm and do unto others has a new modern twist in the story of man and nature, in the sprawling footprint of the wind power plants.
Linda J Rogers
Unwilling host & a non-participating receptor in the Wind Ghettos
Jarvis Ontario
Press release from Toby Barrett
For Immediate Release
February 20, 2014
Time for an immediate moratorium
on wind turbines
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett and his Opposition colleagues are once again urging the Wynne government to stop the onslaught of industrial wind turbines and the damage they are doing, by implementing an immediate moratorium.
“Requiring companies to comply with the rules of your Green Energy Act is quite simply your ministry’s job,” Hudak wrote in a letter to Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Energy. “But what our communities and economy really need is a completely different approach. It is time to admit that your expensive energy experiment is a failure and is tearing apart communities.”
Just a few hours later, the Ontario PC caucus issued a statement reaffirming its plan to scrap the Green Energy Act.
“Taxpayers across Ontario are just getting some of their larger electricity bills in the mail now,” MPP Barrett said. “And it’s quite apparent as they open these bills that the Green Energy Act is a disaster.”
Barrett went on to summarize his opposition to industrial wind turbines.
“Ontario needs to get back on track and we could make great gains by scrapping the Green Energy Act and implementing an immediate moratorium on wind turbines,” he said. “We stand by our commitment to end the expensive feed-in tariff program.”
The Myth of “Settled” Science
By Charles Krauthammer National Post February 21, 2014
Computer models of climate change have been dead wrong, yet alarmists aim to quell debate.
I repeat: I’m not a global-warming believer. I’m not a global-warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I also believe that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30, or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.
“The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist-in-chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. “Climate change is a fact.” Really? There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge. Take a non-climate example. It was long assumed that mammograms help reduce breast cancer deaths. This fact was so settled that Obamacare requires every insurance plan to offer mammograms (for free, no less).
Now we learn from a massive randomized study — 90,000 women followed for 25 years — that mammograms may have no effect on breast-cancer deaths. Indeed, one out of five of of those diagnosed by mammogram receives unnecessary radiation, chemo, or surgery.
So much for settledness. And climate is less well understood than breast cancer. If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing? And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today’s climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken? Read rest of article here.
Sad news Ostrander Point ERT Appeal Decision revoked by divisional court
Court favours wind turbines over Blanding’s turtle
An Ontario court has ruled that an environmental tribunal erred when it rejected a proposed wind farm that threatens the habitat of Blanding’s turtles.
By John Spears Toronto Star
Blanding’s turtle is in trouble again: An Ontario court has cleared the way for a wind farm that an environmental tribunal says will threaten the turtle’s habitat.
The modest reptile had stood in the way of a wind farm at Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County.
But a divisional court panel ruled Thursday that the environmental tribunal made six errors of law in reaching its conclusion that the wind farm would cause “serious and irreversible harm” to the turtle.
The court restored the decision by provincial officials, allowing Gilead Power to proceed with the project, which would erect nine big wind turbines on the site.
It was a bitter blow to local nature and conservation groups. They had argued the wind farm – and the increased traffic associated with it – would harm not just the turtles, but also birds, bats and the rare “alvar” ecosystem at Ostrander Point.
The court sided with Gilead. Read rest of article.
Tim Hudak Letter to Bob Chiarelli
MOE still ignoring red flag for setback distances?
Letter Response to Lois Johnson From MOE Febuary 12,2014
Lois replies back.
Ms. Garcia-Wright:
Re: reply of February 12, 2014 (reply is attached)
Once again, you have managed to avoid my question. I am not concerned about the proponent using the Noise Guidelines for Wind Farms. I understand that NRWC is following the regulations by doing so.
My concern lies with NRWC saying they are noise compliant at distances less than 600 m while the Environmental Protection Act states that turbines with a sound power level of 106 and 107 dBA must be at least 950 m from a non-participating receptor. In fact when there are more than 5 turbines clustered less than 3 km, the distance must be increased to 1200 m.
The EPA was written by the ministry. I have to assume that it was written by staff with technical expertise. How can the EPA be so different from the noise assessment that NRWC submitted? This is my question.
This huge discrepancy in setback distances should raise a red flag for the MOE. The difference is not just a matter of a few metres, it is several hundred metres.
Please reply to my concern.
Yours truly,
Lois Johnson
CALLING ALL WIND WARRIORS
PROTEST AT QUEENS PARK IN TORONTO 11AM, FEBRUARY 24TH 2014
On FEB 24 we will let ALL politicians at Queens Park know that WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY and that existing and proposed industrial wind turbines have to be dealt with and will AGAIN be a major election issue.
Mothers Against Turbines is putting the challenge out there to show MPPs and Toronto that the years of abuse of provincial power has to stop!
Let’s rise to the occasion and send a very clear message to MPPs that industrial wind turbines cannot continue to desecrate our health, homes and communities.
Bring your signs! Bring your noisemakers! Bring your megaphones!
Plans are for a few speakers and a march to the Royal York/Fairmount Hotel to OGRA – Ontario Good Roads Association – handing out information along our way. March will be 30-40 minutes in length. Municipal and provincial elected reps will be at OGRA to see that this issue is not going away simply because the current govt. chooses to ignore it!
For that day, I am arranging for a coach bus to leave Chatsworth at approx. 8:00am with stops in Markdale, Flesherton, Dundalk, Shelburne and Orangeville. We will leave Toronto at 3:00pm. Cost of $35.00 per person covers bus and simple lunch, lunch to be supplied for the ride home.
Smithville Mall: 9:00
Fortinos Parking lot at Hwy 20 and Hwy 53: 9:15
Pick up: Chatsworth Arena: 8:00
Markdale, across from Foodland: 8:25
Flesherton, across from Munshaw’s: 8:35
Dundalk, Esso Station: 8:50
Shelburne, No Frills Parking Lot: 9:10
Orangeville, in FRONT of Walmart: 9:40
Let’s fill this and any other bus anyone takes the care and time to arrange to help you get to this event!
All actions count and the timing for this one will get a message to all running in the upcoming election. Let’s wake ’em up on Feb. 24th!
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 