Condensed from Mike Barnard’s report: Interestingly, Canada is by far the most litigious, and Ontario had almost 30% of the cases by itself. Belief in health impacts varies substantially by geography; where anti-wind groups are strongly pushing the idea, people get afraid and try to prevent wind farms based on
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: MPAC Turbines And Property Values Study Update
I almost wasn’t going to write about Wind Concerns Ontario’s “refutation” of MPAC’s study re the effects of wind turbines on property values. However, the most interesting bit of it got rehashed in John Speer’s story on the study this morning: [Jane Wilson, of Wind Concerns Ontario]… pointed to an appendix
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: MPAC Report: Wind Turbines Have NO Negative Effect On Home Values
MPAC is the Municpal Property Assessment Corporation. They determine what each piece of property in Ontario is worth so that the various local governments can hit you up for taxes. Several years ago they were asked to do a study to determine what if any effect the placement of wind
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Why Ontario Anti-Wind Forces Keep Losing Their ERT (Environmental Review Tribunal) Appeals
They want the Tribunal to take their word at face value: “There is no reliable evidence to demonstrate that the project will cause serious physical or any other serious harm,” [the tribunal] ruled.A number of witnesses who live close to existing wind farms testified that the turbines had damaged their
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: They Are Appalled
A kind of follow-up to this post. Anti-wind activists out in Adelaide have been asked by the provincial MOE (Ministry of the Environment) to, if they are testifying re the allegedly deleterious health effects of wind-turbines, turn over ten years worth of health records, and to, if they are testifying re
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Farm Opponents Out Six Figures
A group of landowners who unsuccessfully sued a wind power developer and the farm corporation that leased it land have been ordered to pay legal costs of $107,370.78. The 21 landowners near Collingwood sued wpd Canada Corp. and Beattie Brothers Farms for more than $17 million over the plans to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Property Assessments On Wind Turbines To Rise
Reading between the lines, its been clear that the various players in the green energy energy business haven’t been too happy with the Wynne government’s wind-down of the feed-in tariff (FIT) for large-scale projects. This article makes their discomfort a little more obvious. One bit from it mentions something I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Energy And Property Values In Ontario, Part Whatever…
An interesting decision came down this week re wind energy and property values in Ontario. Before getting to the actual contents of it, though, lets see how the thing is being spun. This piece from Farms.com is fairly typical: An Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that landowners living
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Do Wind Turbines Effect Property Values?
I recently found the decision of the Ontario Assessment Review Board related to this story. From the story:Ed and Gail Kenney are calling it a setback, not a defeat.The Wolfe Island couple learned this week that the potentially precedent-setting challenge to their home property assessment – based on the proximity of
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