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MAWT Inc., confirms they are appealing the NRWC project approval.
Green light for west Niagara wind turbine project
The company planning to build one of Canada’s largest industrial wind turbine farms in Niagara has been given the approval to move forward.
Niagara Region Wind Corp. said Wednesday it is on track to build its 77-turbine wind farm in Niagara region and Haldimand county, after the Ministry of the Environment issued its Renewable Energy Approval last week.
The turbines being installed — the majority to be located in West Lincoln — are some of the largest available at three megawatts each. The total development has a capacity of 230 MW, enough to power 70,000 homes and make it the fifth-largest wind farm in North America.
“The is confirmation of all the work we’ve done over the past seven and a half years,” said Merv Croghan, CEO of NRWC.
But while the REA is one big hurdle, the private company is still a number of steps away from being able to start construction.
“We’re moving forward with our very detailed construction design plans,” Croghan said. “We’re getting into the real micro detailing of the project.”
NRWC is now in a 15-day holding period during which the public can submit objections on the REA approval. A panel would then decide if the approval should be heard before an environmental review tribunal, similar to an appeals court, to which the company would have to argue its case to move forward with the project.
At least one group, Mothers Against Wind Turbines (Inc.), confirmed Wednesday it plans to appeal.
“The reason for the appeal is to protect children and families in our communities against the wind turbine emissions,” said Linda Rogers, who sits on the Mothers Against Wind Turbines board.
In an NRWC news release, Croghan said the project would create more than 700 jobs during construction and that more than $130 million would be spent locally.
After the company issued its release Wednesday morning, Niagara West–Glanbrook MPP Tim Hudak, who has publicly opposed the project, said he would continue to fight against the Green Energy Act and the turbine developments it allows.
“I’m going to keep fighting this project,” he said in an e-mail to The Tribune. “It is not in the interest of local residents to have among the tallest wind farms forced into their backyards with no local say, nor does it help seniors, families and businesses who are now paying among the most expensive hydro bills in North America.”
Hudak said he has proposed a moratorium on the development of “any more heavily-subsidized wind energy projects” as part of a bigger affordable energy plan.
West Lincoln Mayor Doug Joyner was also disappointed to hear the project got its REA.
“Regardless of what position you have on wind farms, many West Lincoln residents, and many Ontario residents, still believe that the action of the provincial government to take away the rights of municipalities through the Green Energy Act is very disappointing and fundamentally wrong,” he said, adding that West Lincoln has declared itself an “unwilling host” to industrial wind farms.
“Council and many residents truly believe that (wind) farms should be directed to willing host communities,” he said.
Joyner called the combination of the REA approval and last week’s Health Canada study effectively backing the argument of the wind turbine developers a “double whammy.”
But Croghan said he sees the Health Canada report as confirmation of its own studies.
“It should be more confirmation for the public that a third party did studies. They should feel comfortable knowing that what we’ve said in our REA and what the MOE has approved, is factual,” he said.
Rogers, however, said that study doesn’t tell the whole story.
“The study is not complete. What has been issues are preliminary statements. There is a lot of criticism about those statements,” she said. “The (NRWC) project as currently approved will cause harm. The main mechanism will be noise. These are some of the largest wind turbines that have been sited in Ontario. The government knows there’s a problem. A big problem.”
Poll Do you agree with the development of industrial wind turbines in Niagara?
Dan Dakin, Welland Tribune Wednesday, November 12,
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Please donate to the Legal Fund so that MAWT Inc. can continue to fight the NRWC project…it’s not over till we send them packing.
1000 families – $100….will you be one of the 1000?
send cheque to:
- Mothers Against Wind Turbines
- Box 132
- Wellandport, ON
- L0R 2J0
Charter Challenge Appeal Starts Monday, November 17
Please come out and show your support for the Divisional Court Charter Challenge Appeal of the Ontario government’s wind power approval process. This appeal will be heard at the Courthouse, 80 Dundas Street, London (parking and entrance off Queens Ave.) on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 17, 18 and 19. Start time on Monday morning is 10:00 a.m. The court room number has not yet been determined but the location will be posted in the courthouse by Monday morning. Your attendance is vital. This is a test case and, if successful, has the potential to help all communities struggling with the industrial wind turbine issue. Come early (about an hour beforehand) and bring your signs for a peaceful protest outside the courthouse.
For more information on this legal action go to www.falconers.ca.
If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation to the Charter Challenge, cheques can be made payable to “SWEAR” and sent to Dave Hemingway, R.R.#2, Bayfield, ON N0M 1G0. Donors can also go online to the SWEAR website at, www.swearontario.wix.com/swearontario, and hit the “DONATE” button.
Hope to see you there. Please feel free to forward this email along to your likeminded friends, neighbours and relatives.
Anita Frayne
On Behalf of SWEAR
For more information on this legal action go to www.falconers.ca.
If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation to the Charter Challenge, cheques can be made payable to “SWEAR” and sent to Dave Hemingway, R.R.#2, Bayfield, ON N0M 1G0. Donors can also go online to the SWEAR website at, www.swearontario.wix.com/swearontario, and hit the “DONATE” button.
Hope to see you there. Please feel free to forward this email along to your likeminded friends, neighbours and relatives.
Anita Frayne
On Behalf of SWEAR
Press Release: WAIT-PW Comments on Turbine Health Study
Press Release:
Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results 1
Summary Statements [1] regarding the above study were released this past week by Health Canada; however, the study itself was not released.
Health Canada’s summary report on wind turbine noise and health confusing
Media timing issues relating to summary report release and issues with CANWEA press release
Some summary statements indicate no association between wind turbine noise and health
Some summary statements appear to indicate an association between wind turbine noise and health
Reports immediately following Health Canada’s press advisory state no problems with wind turbines
No peer reviewed study results released – caution advised in interpretation of summary statements
Summary report statements appear “rushed” given no study or peer reviewed study available
Children, Noise, Annoyance, Respiratory Effects, World Health Organization
MAWT Inc. Supports Negative Critiques of the Health Canada Study.
MAWT Inc. would like to go on record and say that we have read and support the Denise Wolfe/Dr. McMurtry critiques of the Health Canada study as well as Carmen Krogh’s.
DENISE WOLFE’S SUMMARY ON HEALTH CANADA,
DR. ROBERT Y. MCMURTRY STATEMENT RELATED TO HEALTH CANADA STUDY AND DENISE WOLFE SYNOPSIS
Following Canada’s Wind Technology Roadmap and Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study Carmen Krogh,BScPharm Brett Horner, BA CMA
The Negative Health Impact of Noise from Industrial Wind Turbines: The Evidence
Today’s post, the second of three installments, reviews the major research findings linking low-frequency noise and infrasound from industrial wind turbines with effects on health and quality of life.[1]
By Jerry Punch, PhD, and Richard James, INCE, BME
Evidence that industrial wind turbines (IWTs) negatively impact human health is vast and growing. Although that evidence acknowledges that the exact exposures needed to impact health and the percentage of the affected population are still unknown, there is indisputable evidence that adverse health effects (AHEs) occur for a nontrivial percentage of exposed populations. Here, we give an overview of that evidence.[2]
Wind turbine noise is not known to cause hearing loss. Interestingly, though, individuals who have hearing disorders may be more susceptible than persons with normal hearing to AHEs from wind turbine noise, and people who are deaf can suffer the same ill effects as those who have normal hearing when exposed to wind turbine noise. The latter finding supports the view that infrasound, not just the audible whooshing, low-frequency noise emitted from wind turbines, is the cause of many of the health complaints.
The anecdotal evidence, documented on internet blogs, innewspaper articles, in expert testimony in legal proceedings, and recently in the documentary movies Windfall and Wind Rush, is compelling and illustrative of the similarity in symptoms. These adverse symptoms appear when people are exposed to operating wind turbines, and disappear when the turbines stop operating. These observations resemble single-subject research experiments, in which individuals serve as their own controls while being subjected to alternating conditions or treatments. Dr. Carl Phillips, noted epidemiologist, describes the use of adverse event reporting as a first step in establishing the existence, prevalence, and spread of a variety of health conditions, as well as adverse reactions to such agents as medications and environmental pollutants.
Reports that many families abandon their homes after IWTs begin operation make the anecdotal evidence particularly compelling.
Studies conducted in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden, where residents have many decades of experience with IWTs, collectively indicate thatwind turbine noise differs from and is more annoying than other sources of noise, including community, transportation, and industrial sources.
Continue reading The Negative Health Impact of Noise from Industrial Wind Turbines: The Evidence
Jane Wilson talks with Goldhawk about Health Canada report on the health effects of wind turbines
Jane Wilson
Posted on November 10, 2014Jane Wilson, President of Wind Concerns Ontario, describes her disappointment with the Health Canada report on the health effects of wind turbines.
LISTEN TO POD CAST HERE
Industry Led – Government Supported
Following Canada’s Wind Technology Roadmap and Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study
Carmen Krogh, BScPharm
Brett Horner, BA CMA
November 10, 2014
On November 6 2014 Health Canada posted on their website “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results”.
We have been contacted by individuals from around the world who have expressed concern over content and the quality of this Health Canada web posting
“Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results” states:
“WTN annoyance was found to be statistically related to several self-reporting health effects including, but not limited to, blood pressure, migraines, tinnitus, dizziness, scores on the PSQI, and perceived stress” as well as related to “measured hair cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure.”
These findings are additional evidence which support the health effects “conclusively demonstrated from exposure to wind turbine noise” identified by Health Canada and disclosed by the Honourable Rona Ambrose in a June 30, 2009 letter.
In the upcoming weeks and months, it is our intention to release a series of commentaries and disclose information on the “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results” and the Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study.
In the meantime we have compiled the following relevant information to help inform those interested in Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study.
read further here: https://mothersagainstturbines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/industry-led-government-supported_november-10-2014_release-final-1.pdf
Denise Wolfe’s summary on Health canada
This is a DRAFT (and far from exhaustive) review of the information provided by Health Canada (HC) pertaining to the HC Wind Turbine Noise Study and is designed to serve as a starting point for further discussion.
A review of the information provided by Health Canada with regards to the preliminary
results published on the HC Wind Turbine Noise Study requires the consideration of a number of reports / articles / pamphlets. Specifically, the following found on the HC Wind Turbine Noise web-site:
- Summary of Results
- A Primer on Noise
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Results Pamphlet
- Additional Information
- Health Impacts and Exposure to Sound from Wind Turbines: Updated Research and Design and Sound Exposure Assessment
- Notice to Stakeholders – HC Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study
Click to access denise-wolfe-hc-iwt-noise-study-comments-v1-0.pdf
Dr. Robert Y. McMurtry Statement Related to Health Canada Study and Denise Wolfe Synopsis
Breaking News from the North American Platform Against Wind Power:
Statement related to Health Canada’s flawed wind turbine and health study summary, Dr. Robert Y. McMurtry
November 9, 2014
On the heels of a media release by the North American Platform Against Wind Power, and on receipt of a sound exploratory synopsis (Denise Wolfe) of gaps and errors in methodology and design in the study/summary of Wind Turbine Noise and Health provided by Health Canada, Dr. Robert
McMurtry offers the following statement:
“I have just had the opportunity to review the Denise Wolfe DOCUMENT, and appreciate its obvious quality, reinforced by knowing something of her background. The paper is a powerful statement that casts serious doubt on the recent Health Canada and CanWEA preliminary announcement, the background paper and related media statements. I am deeply saddened that the Ministry whom I was so proud to work for, appears to have fallen.”
“In addition, ongoing efforts will be made with our international network…
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Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 