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Beggar Thy Neighbour

If wind turbines don’t affect property values……why would you have to disclose them when selling your property????? They are obviously lying!

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Gerald-OHara

“Scarlett my Dear, the land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”.

Unless of course your neighbour whacks up a bunch of giant fans – then you’re left fighting and dying for something that’s worth a whole lot less.

Here’s the Fin Review on what happens to Tara, when the fans go up next door.

Wind farms win few fans
The Australian Financial Review
Matthew Cranston
14 October 2013

Rural landholders across Australia may face a disappearing pool of buyers and plummeting values of up to 60 per cent because of neighbouring wind farms, a new, independent report has established.

Most reports so far, including valuation firm Preston Rowe Paterson’s on behalf of the NSW Valuer General, have not produced evidence that rural land holdings have been impaired by wind turbine development.

However, registered…

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Peter Foster: Not smart!

“The smart city may be a cover for the moralistic city, and moralism is often a cover for power-seeking.” This sentence is what disturbs me in particular. Smart, green or sustainable is just a warm, fuzzy blanket that hides something very dangerous. A controlling state.

Study Evaluates the True Cost of Windpower

Institute for Energy Research October 15, 2013

“Despite being propped up by government mandates and billion dollar subsidies for decades, wind power continues to be an expensive and boutique energy source that the American people cannot rely on for power when they need it. Although lobbyists for the wind industry prefer to downplay the real costs of wind power, Dr. Giberson has produced a fact-based study that demonstrates just how expensive it really is.”  http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2013/10/15/study-evaluates-the-true-costs-of-wind-power-2/

The study by Dr. Gibberson:   Assessing Wind Power Costs Estimates  can be read here:  http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/Giberson-studyFinal.pdf                                                                                                                                                                            The summary concludes that:  “The federal government devotes substantially more financial resources to subsidize the production of wind power than it does to study wind power.”  I imagine if the province of Ontario would have done due diligence , we wouldn’t be in the mess that we are in now.  Better late than never I suppose.

 

Here is AWEA’ s quick and blustery response to this study.  I find fact 4 particularly angering  Looking at the rising cost on our power bills shows how easily and boldly they can lie.  CANWEA, here in Ontario, has a similar propensity for storytelling.  Also known as fabricating facts.

4. All data indicate that wind energy is keeping electric bills low for

consumers. Adding wind energy to the grid displaces the most expensive

 power plants first, so even modest additions of wind energy cause

significant reductions in the electricity prices paid by homeowners and

businesses.

http://aweablog.org/blog/post/fact-check-fossilfunded-think-tank-strikes-out-on-cost-of-

wind

 

 

Admission of Fault Won’t Happen. Here’s Why:

Letter from Eric Jelinski

We often uncover examples of mismanagement (an understatement in regard to recent examples), and then members claim to have no knowledge.   This is a due diligence e-mail for the Wynne/Horvath government.   There are several key issues and one is  the issue of the hearings of the Environmental Review Tribunals in regard to wind turbines.  There have been many such hearings where experts on the impacts of wind turbines have expressed concerns and pointed to peer reviewed papers written about such impacts; eg. health, noise, flickering lights, too close to airports, property values, stray voltage, and the issues list is indeed long,  http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/health/

Regardless of what concerned citizens have said, the liberal steam roller continues out of control approving wind turbine development after development in spite of having recently announced that the province has enough electricity!  Why?

It must be very boring for the lawyers for Samsung, WPD, developers, and the MOE and MNR to sit through lengthy hearings from concerned citizens, just to have to rule against the citizens’ concerns.  Such rulings I have noted previously effectively means the government is calling these citizens liars.  A probable ethical dilemma.  I often wondered why…but the answer is here in the salacious relationships between proponents of wind developers, the proponents who want to shut down nuclear, and employees of the government,

http://freewco.blogspot.ca/2013/10/environmental-review-tribunal-paul.html  

It takes more than a few moments to absorb this this conspiracy theory, but the writing is on the wall in terms of all the e-mails and RSS feeds issued by ‘environmentalists’. Please read on.

Enter a new idea by the lawyers, by limiting the number of citizens and arbitrarily downgrading the credentials of those who speak.

After 5 years of the GEA and all of the world wide experience with wind turbines, is it possible that the Medical Officer of Health was wrong with  her decree about the 550 metre setback.  Of course it is “possible’ .  That is why there is always room for a second opinion.  Except that the government is acting along-side the proponent in squashing the second opinion coming from knowledgeable people like other doctors and those who are affected by the wind turbines.   The decisions of the ERT are by now so entrenched in saying that there are no adverse effects, even one admission that prevents one approval of one wind turbine is an admission that there is substance to what concerned citizens have been saying.  Folks, we have just found the invisible wall created by the government and the wind developers beyond which we are not allowed to tread!

Will the issues go away?  Not, never, ever in a blue moon.  A website has now been set up as part of the federal health study concerning radiation emitted from wind turbines,

http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2013/10/15/important-announcement-health-canada-monitoring-site-now-available/

 Many  papers and even books have been written about the adverse effects of wind turbine noise on health.  

Is the continuation of approving the construction of wind turbines a cover for the MOH?  What was the exact study for the 550 metres? There is ample information  to find her ruling on the 550 metres has its problems for some people being more sensitive than others, and given the amplitude modulation that may occur at high power in the still of the night.  Please interview the affected people, and especially the people whose properties have been bought out by the wind turbine developers. A voluntary moratorium on wind turbines would be ceding defeat and accepting all of the claims.  The cost of making those affected whole would be larger than the gas plant fiasco.

There is the other reason I alluded to earlier.  Since the liberal  clan screwed up royally on the gas plants, and they should be rightfully booted out by Horvath.   Why isn’t Horvath giving them the boot?   The liberals don’t yet realize they are being held to ransom  Horvath is saying, “ gi’me what I want or I’ll dump you.  You know the rest, the killer always shoots the victim anyway.   What Horvath wants is wind turbines to shut down nuclear just like in Germany. Damned the high cost of electricity, damned the jobs the NDP don’t care about jobs, real jobs.  See the Toronto Star report on interns working for free, http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/22/training_or_work_unpaid_interns_want_companies_to_pay_up.html

How many people in Ontario do we have doing slave labour thank you to the liberals and ndp?  The only issue the ndp are concerned about is to copy Germany into Ontario, high electricity costs will spur conservation they say, but in Germany high prices has lowered the standard of living and energy poverty.  It’s coming to Ontario.   The government has stacked the ERT process to achieve the goal of its lobbyists who will cash in on the FIT rates and screw anybody who gets in the way!

In the above, I suggested the issue may not go away.  I suspect that the only ending is the end of this government, either the liberals wake up and pull the plug asap, or unless Horvath manages to drag out her blackmail of this government until the four years is up…mark my words.

Today the Environmental Review Tribunal selects who may speak at their hearings, tomorrow we may find those who are allowed to vote have been preselected by the same government.  We are on a slippery slope.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Science and rational reason went by the wayside the moment the GEA was created.

I think we have figured out what this liberal  caucus is doing by a combination of commission as well as omission. Most of the pieces fit the puzzle.   Now it is just a matter of spreading the word about the eventual picture.

Have a nice day,  Eric

Eric Jelinski 11450 Simcoe County Road 10 RR1 Stayner Ontario L0M1S0 416-697-9965 cell 705-428-0659 eric_jelinski@sympatico.ca

Britain’s Winter of Discontent

The truth about the useless wind industry…

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In our recent post Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent we predicted that Brits are ready for another Winter of Discontent as renewable driven power prices leave them freezing in the dark.

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Well, it seems we weren’t far off the mark.

Peaking power piranhas are piling in to the power market in order to cash in when the wind stops blowing and wind power output drops to a doughnut.

In Britain and Australia peaking power operators are using banks of diesel generators to keep the grid from collapsing when wind-watts go missing hundreds of times each year – see our post here.

In Britain the scam is propped up by ludicrously generous subsidies to peaking power operators to ensure that there is sufficient backup capacity to cover the unpredictable, but routine daily collapse in wind power output.

British power punters are rightly…

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Almost Heaven, West Virginia

Wind weasels know they are harming people….they just don’t care!!!

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Well, Almost Heaven – until the giant fans went up.

West Virginia woman sues wind farm over vibrations, noise
The Associated Press
2 October 2013

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – A West Virginia woman who says she’s suffered physically and mentally from turbine vibration at a wind farm near Keyser is suing to have the operations shut down.

Anna Bell Saville lives about 1 1/2 miles from the site and contends she’s lost the ability to enjoy her home and property. She sued Pinnacle Wind Farm LLC and its parent company, Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison Mission Group, in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg late Tuesday.

The 23 turbines on Green Mountain create low-frequency pulsation noise and vibration that is irritating, annoying and “at times, severely debilitating, causing core pulsations,” her complaint said.

The sound, vibrations and “light flicker” are so intense that they cause anxiety, tinnitus, and mental and emotional distress that…

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Getting energised about energy

We can’t depend on the government to look after us!

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Barely a day goes by without the media (particularly the BBC with its desire to air Labour’s current favourite topics) focusing attention on something we are all very acutely aware of, namely energy prices.

In recent days we have had Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) lead off the regular cycle of price rise announcements with an 8.2% hike on gas and electricity bills.  The political response was all too predictable.  Labour – the party which, with Ed Miliband as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, wilfully took ‘green’ measures in the 2008 Climate Change Act it knew and admitted would drive prices upwards and increase the cost of living – described the rise as scandalous.

As an example of rank hypocrisy, this is head and shoulders beyond anything we’ve seen in a long time.

Meanwhile the Tories maintained their mind-numbingly stupid refrain that the energy sector needs more…

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Gone With the Wind

Wind turbines are a farce….

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Gone with the wind farm
Australian Financial Review
Paul Comrie-Thomson
4 October 2013

One thousand new wind turbines a week or 52,000 a year would be needed just to keep pace with India and China’s coal burn.

So, where to now in the climate debate?

Dieter Helm, CBE, is eminently qualified to write about climate policy but seriously challenges current climate thinking.  Consider his background.  A professor of energy policy, University of Oxford, and fellow in economics at New College, Oxford, he is also a member of the economic advisory committee to the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and chair of the natural capital committee.

Helm was also a special adviser to the European Energy Commissioner.

He is unequivocal that global warming is a serious problem.  He advocates a carbon tax.

But in his 2012 publication The Carbon Crunch Helm details how the global chatter…

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Turbine noise creating health problems for students

Illinois School Superintendent Letter:

This letter was submitted to the Vermilion Illinois County Board Chairman Gary Weinard by William C. Mulvaney, the Superintendent of Schools for Armstrong Township High School and Armstrong-Ellis CUD #61 in Illinois. Mr. Mulvaney also served on a wind ordinance panel. His message about students and families suffering the impacts of turbine noise and flicker is important….

I have noticed that we have some children in our district that appear to be having some medical issues related to the wind turbines. Headaches, lack of sleep and jaw issues seem to be the most common. The students also complain about not being able to sleep or not getting a full night’s sleep due to sound issues.

We have also been advised that we will be losing a couple of families because the wind turbines were placed close to homes and the families can no longer handle the flicker and noise issues.

Rest of letter read here:  http://www.windaction.org/posts/38759-illinois-school-superintendent-letter-turbine-noise-creating-health-problems-for-students#.UlgLHStza70

Read this story first at Quixote’s Last Stand