A House committee Tuesday passed Senate Bill 808 by a vote of 12-8. The bill would stop wind turbines being within 1.5 nautical miles of an airport, public school or hospital and put additional financial reporting requirements on wind developers for decommissioning old wind farms.

BLACKSBURG, Va., March 24, 2015 – Many researchers are windy, but Jorge Arenas gets right to the point in this 90-second story on YouTube about why scientists must better understand the noise wind farms create.

Wind turbines are a great energy source, but some residents who live near wind farms complain of noise-related illnesses. A joint Virginia Tech-Chile research project documents both noise and health effects of turbines.

Arenas is a faculty member in the Universidad Austral de Chile’s College of Engineering Sciences and director of its Institute of Acoustics. He is collaborating with Virginia Tech’s Ricardo Burdisso, mechanical engineering professor in the College of Engineering, on a research project funded by the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science andOutreach and International Affairs.

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/03/032415-outreach-chilewindfarm.html

Shawn Drennan and Joan Morris explain why Canada must enforce the law already in place to protect us from wind turbine emissions!

BIG WIND showed the injustice, the pain and the anger.

Hear how rural Ontario will fight back using a federal law.

Monday, March 30

11:30am AM 740

call 1 866 740-4740

http://www.zoomerradio.ca/category/shows/goldhawk-fights-back/

IF YOU STILL DON’T RECOGNIZE THE NAMES YOU WILL AFTER WATCHING THIS….

Follow link to watch  BIG WIND

and when your done watching

Donate to help the Drennan’s Charter Case….Help Ontario!

“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.

Follow link to watch  BIG WIND

and when your done watching

Donate to help the Drennan’s Charter Case….Help Ontario!

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 relationship between wind farm noise and health effects.
• The broader social and environmental circumstances that influence annoyance, sleep disturbance, quality of life and health effects that are reported by residents living in proximity to wind farms.

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.

Read more here:

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.

http://ofa.on.ca/ogra-remarks

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.