Wind turbine impact on children questioned | Peterborough Examiner

Mothers Against Wind Turbines are at it again!! Way to go Ladies:) 

Please go to the website and click on the poll!!!

Galen Eagle – Peterborough Examiner – October 16, 2013

The MothersShellie Correia, left, and her 12-year-old son Joey stand beside Linda Rogers and her nine-year-old son William before Tuesday night’s town hall meeting on wind turbines at the Cavan Monaghan Township office. The two women have formed a group called Mothers Against Wind Turbines and shared their experiences in fighting wind farms in their southern Ontario communities. GALEN EAGLE/Peterborough Examiner/QMI Agency

MILLBROOK – Mothers Against Wind Turbines added their voice to the opposition against a proposed wind farm in the Bethany-Cavan area.

The group, formed by two mothers who have been waging fights against wind farm proposals in their own communities, spoke to a group of 25 people at the Cavan Monaghan Township municipal office Tuesday night.

Focused on the impact of wind turbines on children, the talk was part of a series of recent town hall meetings hosted by Deputy Mayor Scott McFadden and Coun. Tim Belch.

Shellie Correia, who lives in the town of Wellandport in Niagara Region, has been fighting the construction of a mega wind turbine project in her backyard.

Despite an opposition campaign that included meetings with the leaders of all three provincial political parties, Correia is faced with the real possibility that a 600-foot turbine will be built 550 metres from her home, where she lives with her 12-year-old son Joey, a boy with sensory processing issues.

Joey’s condition means he is sensitive to certain sounds that wouldn’t negatively affect other people. For example, Joey is extremely irritated by the sound of ripping Velcro.

The proposed wind farm that would feature more than 77 massive turbines near Correia’s home is in the final stages of Ministry of the Environment approval, she said.

She still has avenues for appeal, but she fears if the project gets a final go ahead, she’ll be forced out of her home.

“I think it’s going to be devastating, that’s why I’m fighting so hard,” she said. “If my son is suffering … there is no way I could stay there and force him to endure that.”

Linda Rogers, the other half of Mothers Against Wind Turbines, is facing the imminent enclosure of her home and farm by wind development in Haldimand County on Lake Eerie.

She says her nine-year-old son William is especially vulnerable to wind turbine disruptions due to his congenital and medical conditions.

“Noise intrusion will definitely impact on his ability to function,” she said.

Rogers, a nurse practitioner, has been fighting proposed wind farms in her area for years. Despite her protests, a farm with 16 wind turbines two kilometres away from her home was recently green-lighted.

She joined Correia Tuesday as they discussed their experiences.

McFadden said he will continue to host the town hall meetings on the dangers of wind turbines to keep the issue in the spotlight.

“A lot of new faces are coming out and word is spreading. It’s keeping it in the forefront,” he said.

M.K. Ince and Associates Ltd. proposes to build five large wind turbines on the west side of Cavan Monaghan Township, north of Bethany near Devil’s Elbow Ski Area.

The company is hosting a public meeting about the project Nov. 5, running from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Rolling Hills Public School west of Bethany in Manvers.

 

ERT: This isn’t a hearing – By Esther Wrightman

Shout outs to Esther, an amazing mother who is standing up for Ontarians, Democracy and Justice for ALL!

This was originally posted on OWR.

Wind turbine protest to block major Ontario highway

Looking forward to a good day on Saturday. We need everybody out there….sending a message to the Libs….LOUD AND CLEAR!!!

Donna Quixote's avatarQuixotes Last Stand

OPP warns tickets are possible if protest is deemed a safety risk on Highway 402

CBC News — October 17, 2013

Opponents of rural wind farms in Ontario plan to block traffic on major provincial highway Saturday.

Organizers are urging protesters to slow traffic to a crawl on Highway 402, east of Sarnia.

They want to get the attention of Premier Kathleen Wynne. They claim she is ignoring health and property value concerns allegedly caused by wind turbines.

Organizer Muriel Allingham hopes to see hundreds turn out for the procession of tractors and farm machinery.

The website for Ontario Wind Resistance is promoting the rally, called Ontario is Not a Willing Host Rally.

“Ensure that your vehicle is capable of travelling at 20 km/hr,” the site reads.

Allingham said police are cooperating.

“We have been working with the OPP liaison team to make sure this is a safe and enjoyable…

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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

Health Canada – Report Pending Effects or Existing Effects on EMF Monitoring Site

If you are currently affected or are facing a pending project see information below.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
HEALTH CANADA WIND TURBINE AND TRANSFORMER STATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC
FREQUENCY (EMF) MONITORIING SITE IS AVAILABLE
Health Canada has a monitoring system for Radiation Emitting Devices which among other
things includes IWTs and transformer stations (EMF). This federal monitoring system
informs Health Canada about the health issues occurring with wind energy technology.
You can report to Health Canada, how operating and pending wind energy projects are
affecting you.

This also fits with an international project coordinated by the World Health Organization to monitor the electrical and magnetic fields from various sources, including power transmission lines and by extension, wind power projects.

The Government of Canada, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada support
the definition of health established by the World Health Constitution of 1948 which states:
health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.”
If you want to make a report about any physical, mental or effect on social well-being
associated with operating or pending wind energy projects, go to the Health Canada
Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring site:
Or you can email your report to ccrpb-pcrpcc@hc-sc.gc.ca or fax it to 613-941-5366
If you wish to call, the toll free line is 1-866-225-0709.
WHO CAN FILE?
Operating sites: Individuals and communities currently experiencing health effects from
operating facilities can report to the Health Canada Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring
site. If you wish, you can forward past reports to this site.
Pending sites not yet operating: Individuals and communities with pending projects can
report to the Health Canada Radiation Emitting Devices monitoring site about the effect a
pending project is having on your health and social well-being.
It is important that Health Canada is informed of past and current adverse health reports
filed with provincial governments and developers. You can forward these reports to the
monitoring site.
ASK FOR A RECEIPT OF YOUR EMAIL!
For the record, keep track of what you send and keep the response you receive.

Protecting our children from Industrial Wind Power Emissions is our first priority!