We Dare You to Ask Why Turbines are STUPID!!

Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. had a good first day at Canal Days in Port Colburne.  

Many People took us up on our dare to stop and chat, they left with new found knowledge about “stupid” turbines.  We were even visited by a Pirate! 

MAWT Inc. will be at Canal Days all Weekend.

Don’t forget to stop by. We Dare You!!

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If you’re heading out to Port Colborne this weekend for Canal Days don’t forget to drop by and visit the Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. booth.  

We’ll be there educating, handing out brochures, and selling raffle tickets.

See you there!!

follow link  find out what’s going on for Canal Days 2014 Canal+Days+2014+WEB-LOW

Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman is calling on the minister of energy to make wind farm proposal processes more transparent to the public and specifically provide information requested about the local Gunn’s Hill wind farm proposal.

“Firstly, I would like to reiterate my position that it is unacceptable that approvals such as this one do not require municipal approval and public consent. In addition, applications can be changed without public involvement, as has happened with the Prowind application,” Hardeman wrote in the letter addressed to Bob Chiarelli, minister of energy.

“East Oxford Community Alliance, a community group opposing the Gunn’s Hill development, has found 26 pages of discrepancies, incomplete documents and inaccuracies yet the ministry has deemed the application complete.”

Hardeman also requested the minister explain why his office has not provided information on the grid connection change proposal, and provided concerns that his constituents are now engaged in costly and lengthy Freedom of Information requests.

read more: By Tara Bowie, Woodstock Sentinel-Review Wednesday, July 30, 2014

How to Explain What Wind Farms Are to Children

Kids are curious about many things, which is great unless you are at a loss about how to explain a concept. In order to be a successful teacher, you have to explain things in simple and easily understandable terms. You also have to make it interesting in order to capture a child’s interest and keep him or her from being bored. If you have a child interested in wind farms, follow some easy steps to explain what they are and how they are used in the world.

Instructions

1. Ask the children to tell you everything that they know about wind power and wind farms so that you have an idea of their knowledge base
2. Explain about how wind is energy and that it can be harnessed to provide energy to electrical things that need energy to work.
3. Tell the children that wind is a renewable resource, which means that it does not run out. The wind will continue to blow no matter what happens with resources such as oil and gas that will eventually be used up.
4. Explain that a wind farm is a group of windmills placed throughout a geographic area. Instead of growing something, such as corn, a wind farm harnesses and produces electricity. A wind farm is also known as a wind power plant. Wind farms consist of anywhere from two to hundreds of windmills.
5. Show the children a picture of a windmill and explain that the wind pushes the blades, which in turn spins a shaft that is connected to a generator which produces electricity. The generator connects to power lines where the electricity is sent to homes and businesses.

By Jennifer Leigh, eHow Contributor

 

 

follow this link and feel free to do some teaching of your own in the comments section. http://www.ehow.com/how_8434069_explain-wind-farms-children.html

 

Hi everyone,

I hope that you are all having a nice summer. The mothers against wind turbines are holding a garage sale this coming Saturday. This is a fund raising event to raise money for legal costs in our continued opposition to the three wind turbine projects in the area. While many people may have given up hope in light of the recent provincial election results, we are still continuing to work on fighting these projects. There are just too many errors, omissions, inadequate reporting in the Renewable Energy reports that were submitted for these projects.

As you know from the media coverage, 4 of 5 turbines in the Caistor project were erected too close to the defined set back distances to neighbouring properties. The Ministry of Environment re-issued the approval, and we have another opportunity for appeal.

For the Niagara project, there are inaccuracies in the noise level predictions, inaccuracies in buildings deemed vacant (some of these are occupied!) and many instances where natural features (ie. bat maternity colonies) were not studied prior to the submission of the application. We don’t know what water testing has been done in our area nor where engineered reports have been completed for existing gas wells in the vicinity of these large industrial turbines. Needless to say, there is too much at stake to quit our fight.

If anyone has any quality items that they are willing to donate to our sale, it would be greatly appreciated. The attached flyer provides for drop off locations, or you could drop off items on my front porch prior to Friday morning. We could use household items, gently used sports equipment, books, games, crafts, and electronic devices. If you would like to visit us on Saturday, the second flyer provides the particulars regarding the event in Grassie.

Any help that you could provide is greatly appreciated.

Loretta

Only 6 more days till the Big Yard Sale!

 Donations  Being Accepted Until July 24 th.

PLEASE Share with Family and Friends!!

SOLOMON UADIALE (1) , ÉVI URBÁN (1) RICKY CARVEL(1) DAVID LANGE (2), and GUILLERMO REIN (3)

• (1 )School of Engineering University of Edinburgh, UK
• (2) SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden
• (3) Department of Mechanical Engineering Imperial College London, UK

ABSTRACT

The wind energy industry is one of today’s leading industries in the renewable energy sector, providing an affordable and sustainable energy solution. However, the wind industry faces a number of challenges, one of which is fire and that can cast a shadow on its green credentials. The three elements of the fire triangle, fuel (oil and polymers), oxygen (wind) and ignition (electric, mechanical and lighting) are represent and  confined to the small and closed compartment of the turbine nacelle. Moreover, once ignition occurs in a turbine, the chances of externally fighting the fire are very slim due to the height of the nacelle and the often remote location of the wind farm.  Instances of reports about fires in wind farms are increasing, yet the true extent of the impact of fires on the energy industry on a global scale is impossible to assess. Sources of
information are incomplete, biased, or contain non-publically available data. The poor statistical records of wind turbine fires are a main cause of concern and hinder any research effort in this field. This paper aims to summarise the current state of knowledge in this area by presenting a review of the few sources which are available, in order to quantify and understand the fire problem in wind energy. We have found that fire is the second leading cause of catastrophic accidents in wind turbines (after blade failure) and accounts for 10 to 30% of the reported turbine accidents of any year since 1980’s. In 90% of the cases, the fire leads to a total loss of the wind turbine, or at least a downtime that results in the accumulation of economic losses.

The main causes of fire ignition in wind turbines are  (in decreasing order of importance)  lighting strike, electrical malfunction, mechanical malfunction  and maintenance.  Due to the many flammable materials used in a wind turbine  ( eg. fiberglass reinforced polymers, foam insulation, cables )  and the large oil storage used for lubrication of mechanical components, the fuel load in a turbine nacelle is commonly very large. The paper finishes with an overview of the passive and active protection options and the economics (costs, revenue and insurance) of wind turbines to put in context the value of a loss turbine compared to the cost and options of fire protection. We hope that this paper will encourage the scientific community to pursue a proper understanding of the problem and its scale, allowing the development of the most appropriate fire protection engineering solutions.

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It’s hard to tell the Good Guys From the Bad Guys These Days.

Greenpeace Spends Thousands on Lego Kits to Make This Video and then Pours Oil Over it to make a statement?  Did they then clean the Lego’s off and give the sets to kids,  hopefully, some who can’t afford them, or did they….add them to the landfill?

One wonders  if they were also aware that Lego has Spent over 500 Million on “Renewable Wind Power“.  While learning that  does not truly impress those of us fighting Wind, one would think Greenpeace would of approved. Yet not one “Industrial Wind Turbine” Lego kit was used in the making of this video….hmmm?

I do not like green blades with spans
I do not like them, mad I am

I do not like them on the roads
I do not like them in the rows

I do not like them standing tall
I do not like them, not at all

I do not like them killing birds
I do not like them killing bats

I do not like them causing harm
I do not like them on a farm

I do not like them — Do No Harm
I do not like them false green farms

I do not like the spinning blades, noise, flicker, insane rage
I do not like them on this page

I do not like these giant fans 
I do not like them on the lands

I do not like those men in ties
I do not like those telling lies

I do not like them on the ground 
I do not like them dead birds found

I do not like those concrete holes
Where toxic water then must flow

I do not like them in the sun
I do not like them in the rain

I do not like them in the snow
I do not like them, they must go!

I do not like them any day 
They harm us all in every way

I do not like them in the north
I do not like them in the south

I do not like them east or west
I do not like them, Can you guess?

I do not like green blades with spans
with giant sweeps upon our lands

In Germany Australia Netherlands Canada USA or UK
Take your fans and blow away!

I do not like green blades with spans
I do not like them, Mad I Am

Wind Turbine Syndrome, July 14 2014

“I’m still not sure how Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne won a majority (Interview, July 7), but now we are subjected to four more years of monumental mismanagement.  Urban voters opted to “forget” about the costly scandals and investigations in our bankrupt, have- not  province and ask for more, especially when the most costly and deceitful scandal still flourishes: the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, dominated by the wind-turbine debacle, which has hog-tied rural municipalities and residents alike.  Wynne speaks about her progressive vision for Ontario, but those living outside her golden zone know it doesn’t include them as fundamental health and environmental protections and precautions have vaporized.

 Barbara Ashbee, Mulmur, Ont.”

 Published under Letters section page 6 Macleans July 7 2014