I always knew that the beast Doug Ford was going to be a destructive force, and sure enough he has been.He has bulldozed decency, teachers and children, and will no doubt soon start demolishing medicare.But this is beyond belief.Read more »
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Insane War on Wind Turbines
Of all the horrible things Donald Trump is threatening to do, and there are so many, his promise to end the war against climate change is the worst.For there is no greater threat to the future of humanity, and his claim that climate change is a hoax is not just wrong, it's
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: From The Farmers Forum Survey: Wind Farms On Wolfe Island
I don’t think the survey is on-line yet–at least I couldn’t find it here–but WCO hasposted some of the highlights: Farmers Forum surveyed a big chunk of Wolfe Island residents and found that 75 per cent approve of or are indifferent toward the 86 wind turbines they’ve been living with
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: PCPO Candidate For Simcoe-Grey Is Ready To Break Contracts
“We’ll do whatever it takes to stop WPD Canada from putting the wind turbines in this vicinity,” said [said PCPO candidate Jim] Wilson. “It is in process, and it may end up in a lawsuit, but we just can’t allow it.” It seems to me that you can’t effectively argue
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gas Plants Redux…But With Torys And Wind Farms
From PCPO MPP Todd Smith: Prince Edward County, ON — Responding to a request for clarification by CCSAGE Naturally Green regarding the PC Party’s position on wind projects currently “in the pipeline”, local MPP Todd Smith has confirmed by letter that, under a PC government, such projects will not be
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario Court backs Gilead Power at Ostrander Point
South Shore of Ostrander Point (Image from CountyLive.com) Seven months after learning a contentious wind project at Ostrander Point had been halted by the Environmental Review Tribunal, an Ontario divisional court overturned that decision Thursday, paving the way for development to begin later this year. In July 2013, the Tribunal
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ostrander Point ERT Decision Overturned!
Ontario’s Superior Court court has overturned the provincial Environmental Review Tribunal’s decision to kill a proposed wind-farm at Ostrander Point. The court doc can be found here. I’ve written about that earlier decision in a number of places, primarily here. Below is a quick summary of the superior court’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How Many Anti-Wind Activists In Ontario?
They can usually bring numbers in the low hundreds to their big protests, but the hard core appears to be much smaller. From a recent Environmental Review Tribunal hearing: When asked, Palmer said he was a party to the appeal against the Enbridge Wind development in Kincardine in 2007.“I was an
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ostrander Point Update
Gilead Power Corporation’s Ostrander Point Wind Project was the first one to be rejected on appeal by the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT). This was not due to human health issues, or worries about the effects of nine proposed turbines on migratory birds, though the project is located near an
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tom Adams In Sun: Mostly Sane
There are bits of it I don’t agree with. For instance, any fair reading of Ontario history would show that the province’s dalliance with gas power predates the Green Energy Act, and wasn’t a conspiracy to cover-up (or “backstop”) the poor performance of its wind farms. But most of it
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Anti-Wind Protest Attracts 300 People
That is all (in more ways than one. Bah hah!)
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Blast From The Past? Ontario Wind Resistance Moves Content To Icelandic Servers
…for free speech reasons. Essentially they’re worried that wind companies like Nextera might sue them for defamation/trade-mark infringement, and think that having their content out of country will somehow prevent this from happening. If the move sounds familiar, that’s because it is:Conn Esq Web Design was originally intended to be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Anti-Wind Activists Talk About When They’re Alone
From the comments at Ontario Wind Resistance: I remember reading of the complainant who claimed they could only sleep when the turbines were off — but could not get the days correct when the turbines operated — nobody checked — and the information is available — free — on IESO.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Appeals Of The Ostrander Point Windfarm Decision
There are three of them, which you can read about through the link. The one that most concerns me is: The appeal by MOE could not likely have occurred without approval from the Ontario government of which it is a part, specifically of the Cabinet which includes the Premier. It
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Company Behind Leslie Spit Turbine Project Pretty Low Profile
Of the company behind this, The Star writes: A little-known renewable energy company claims to be working on a wind project at the base of the spit. […] Sunwincor has little public profile. Its website lists Jafray Hinsen as the only contact. Hinsen has an email address, but the firm
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Turbines For T.O.
Sunwincor International and our partners are actively engaged in planning and developing an exciting and ecologically balanced wind farm. The Leslie Wind Farm will be located on the Outer Harbour East Headland at the base of Leslie Street adjacent to Toronto, Ontario With the help of the government of Ontario
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Saved By The Shell! Ostrander Point Wind Project Cancelled Due To Presence Of Endangered Turtle!!!!
The Ostander Point Wind Project has been revoked because: … the roads systems and construction [necessary for the project] would cause serious and irreversible harm to the Blanding’s Turtle and that the proposed mitigation plans were insufficient to protect the endangered species. The full ruling is below. Its worth a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Farms And Waterfowl…Not Much Effect
Ducks don’t particularly like nesting around them: One nesting site had a 56-percent lower breeding pair density than a similar site with no wind turbines. Overall, the number of breeding ducks using wetlands near the wind farms was 20 percent lower than in wetlands with no wind development nearby. But
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak Tories In Wind Waffle
Lisa Thompson, Tory MPP for Huron-Bruce, introduced the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. Its a private member’s bill, but everything Thompson has said about it, for example her comments here, suggest that it is now the PCPO’s de facto position on the matter. From the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: CAW Owned and Operated Wind Turbine Begins Operation in Port Elgin, ON
By: Canadian Auto Workers Union | Press Release PORT ELGIN, ON – A CAW owned and operated wind turbine started operating today generating clean wind energy to the electrical grid in Port Elgin, Ontario. “This is an important day as the start-up of this wind turbine marks an environmental milestone for our union
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