I count at least two: KINGSTON – If Amherst Island residents opposed to a planned wind project resort to trying to slow down construction by obstruction, their provincial representative says he will be there to support them.“(Non-violent) civil disobedience is an acceptable means in the right situations,” said Randy Hillier,
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Will Anti-Wind Activists Reign Of Terror be Stopped?
Well, maybe not quite a reign, but Tory MPP Ernie Hardeman also got that letter threatening vandalism to harvesting equipment on any farm hosting wind turbines. From here. So far, none of the Anti-wind groups I know have condemned this action. I will email around later so see if I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More Threats From The Anti-Wind Camp
An anonymous letter sent to The London Free Press threatening every farmer who works on land with wind turbines is sparking alarm on both sides of the debate and prompted an OPP investigation. With the heading, “Notice to all Farmers and Custom Farming Operators,” the single-page letter reads: “Any field
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: OLP Candidates On Wind Tubines
Didn’t like this bit:Kathleen Wynne is uneasy about the quality of information fuelling the renewable energy debate. “Where is the evidence and science in making these decisions?” asks Wynne. “I’m not sure there are conclusive arguments on either side of these issues—whether it’s health issues or environmental issues. I want
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs That Tim Hudak Would Kill
Green Ones, too: Niagara Region Wind Corporation is on a recruitment drive as it gears up for one of the largest wind turbine projects in Canada. It estimates it and its suppliers will require about 770 workers until the construction phase is complete by 2014. After that, it’s expected to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More On Birds, Turtles, And Wind Farms
From Today’s London Free Press: As Conservative Senator Bob Runciman pointed out in a news release, that approval [for a complex at Ostrander Point], like so many others, was granted against local wishes. The project also “threatens migratory birds and bats and it makes no sense from an energy standpoint,”
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Full Nissenbaum
So the Nissenbaum , Aramini, and Hanning paper, that purported to show a connection between proximity to wind turbines and a decline in sleep quality, has been given a working working over by a number of experts in a short report commissioned by (…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Vet, A Radiologist, And An Anaesthetist Walk Into A Scientific Controversy…
A new “peer reviewed” paper, purporting to show that living in proximity to wind turbines has a negative effect on sleeping habits, has received some attention both locally and internationally. Its crap. An effective rebuttal has already appeared here. What follows will reference the piece from Quora heavily with a few of my
Continue readingImpolitical: Dear Health Canada – part II
From a long time friend of the blog who has written to Health Canada in the wake of news of their study on wind turbines, this letter below. He advises he has “absolutely no financial or corporate involvement in any wind project. My interest social, economic and environmental.” These are
Continue readingImpolitical: Dear Health Canada
News yesterday that Health Canada has decided to do some research: “Health Canada to probe possible health effects of wind turbines.” This study is going to be very carefully watched. Early indications from its rollout are not good on the impartiality front, what with Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre immediately using
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Windmills Do Not Cause Global Warming
Contrary to what you might have heard. Instead, this is what happens: …wind turbines mix up the cold and warm layers of air by dragging cold air from the ground up high into the air (where it’s normally warmer) and by dragging warm air from high up down to the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: When Green Energy Meets Endangered Species In Ontario
…you get something like this decision from the Environmental Registry, allowing Grand Valley Wind Farms Inc. to build nine wind turbines in the Township of East Luther Grand Valley on Bobolink habitat. The restrictions seem quite elaborate, and involve “more than mitigation measures or “replacing” what is lost”, for example providing
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