The second appeal of the South Kent Wind project began with a preliminary hearing in Blenheim yesterday (Sept 5). Robert Wright was the only tribunal judge presiding. Two lawyers (Bunting and Powell) were there to represent South Kent Wind, and at least 3 lawyers (Jacobs, Horner and ?) were there for the MOE as well as a representative or two for the minister of the Environment. The appellant, Platinum Produce, was represented by Graham Andrews (from the Gillespie firm).   No one requested any status to present material or raise issues at the hearing.

South Kent Wind began by seeking dismissal of the constitutional challenge raised by Platinum Produce as well as a complete dismissal of the hearing. This was echoed by the MOE who also said that the Tribunal was not the proper jurisdiction to raise constitutional issues.

Tell us something we don’t already know. The Climate Commission has got nothing whatsoever to do with impartial, free-thinking scientific enquiry. It’s sole purpose is to regurgitate government climate policy, couched in pseudo-science and alarmism.

Monday’s “Critical Decade” report, which claimed that there is a one-in-two chance that there will be no humans left on the planet by 2100, has been rightly exposed as extremist environmental propaganda:

Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Mitch Hooke said the report, which called for an end to most coal mining, crossed the line from scientific analysis into environmental campaigning.

The report warns that unchecked climate change would hit hard at Queensland’s biggest industries: mining, cattle and potentially tourism, through impacts on the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics.

Climate…

Good heavens.  Have you seen this?

Well, you knew it would come, didn’t you?  Climate alarmists are like carrions, they feed on human suffering and death. 

Their disgusting depravity in advantaging their advocacy on the climate issue is beyond what humanity should tolerate.  But, worse than that, they lie.  The link above is a post from Climate Denial Crock of the Week, crock indeed. 

The author Peter Sinclair, babbles on and on about natural events which have occurred since recorded history.  And, he tries to present them as unusual.  He frames these natural events as unusual and then tries to present them as evidence that these events are harming our food production around the world.  Then he turns to Syria …..

Which brings us to Syria.  On September 2, The Atlantic published portions of a memorandum by William Polk, a former State Department policy planner, on the situation in…

One of – if not – Australia’s leading, truly independent Acoustic Expert, Steve Cooper was interviewed by Alan Jones this morning.

Alan has a little radio show that more than just a few Australians tune into each morning. Syndicated through over 77 Stations and with close to 2 million listeners Countrywide – AJ as he’s known – is one of those people that leads the political charge on many issues that really affect ordinary Australians and which the rest of the press ignore.

For a truly brilliant interview click on the player below or watch the movie (non-flash devices).

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Ian “Enron” Macfarlane copped an almighty Alan Jones “shellacking” in that interview, but STT is willing to give the man a chance.

After all he made his solemn promise to a dying man – Alby Schultz – a solemn promise to implement the legislative amendments needed to get the…

[In addition to, or instead of, watching the video referenced below, you can read  a newspaper story on the victim’s statements at http://tinyurl.com/k9qkmcb .]

In March, 2013 the Canadian Auto Workers Union began operating a single wind turbine on its property at Port Elgin in the town of Saugeen Shores, ignoring the concerns of families living in homes nearby.

The CAW  wind turbine is much smaller than those installed elsewhere in Ontario (capacity of 500 KW vs 2 MW), but is not subject to a minimum setback distance due to its being operated at a noise level slightly below the threshhold specified by the GEA.  As a result, more than 100 homes are situated inside the normal 550 m minimum setback distance.

Five families living between 350 m and 2 km of the turbine made deputations to Saugeen Shores Council on August 26, 2013.  Their reports of medical symptoms and loss of enjoyment were so credible and compelling that Council voted to request that the CAW shut down the turbine.

Following is a video of the…

Environmentalists are Evil.

“As Paul Driessen, Mark Duchamp and others have concluded, based on careful bird and bat mortality studies in Spain and Germany, it is highly likely that the 40,000 US wind turbines are killing between 13 and 39 million birds and bats every year – including hundreds of bald and golden eagles, thousands of hawks, falcons, owls and other raptors, and dozens of extremely rare whooping cranes!”

See more at: http://www.masterresource.org/2013/09/hiding-avian-mortality-altamont-pass

And when some greenie says that cats kill more birds, ask them how many Raptors “Fluffy” manages to kill.

(h/t Tom Nelson)

The global adjustment — a fee added to the market price of electricity in Ontario — has reached a record high

Peterborough this Week
MILLBROOK — Met by an angry crowd and a team of disapproving Cavan Monaghan Township councillors, the developer of a proposed wind farm was sent a clear message on Tuesday (Sept. 3).

In town to make a delegation to the Township regarding a five-turbine wind farm that would overlook the Devil’s Elbow skill hill area and a new subdivision, developer Martin Ince needed a police escort to help him get past nearly 200 people blocking the doors to the building. Inside, councillors voted to set aside $500,000 from lottery reserves in case the Township ends up in court over the issue.

While the Township has identified itself as an unwilling host for a wind farm, the Feed in Tariff (FIT) agreement for the Stoneboat Community Wind Farm project doesn’t need municipal approval. Mr. Ince acquired the FIT contract from the group behind the Whispering Winds wind farm…