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Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario’s rush to wind power
Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario’s rush to wind power is an anthology of articles by authors such as Margaret Wente, Tom Adams, Parker Gallant, Rick Conroy and Ross McKitrick who tell the tale of what is really going on in Ontario. With Ontario in debt more than $230 billion as of mid-2011, the provincial [...]
Tribunal focus on health effects continues
Discussions at the Environmental Review Tribunal Tuesday have postponed witness testimony to Thursday, May 9, starting at 9:30 a.m. There will not be a hearing Wednesday. The appeal to the Environmental Review Tribunal, filed by the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC), is on the basis of “serious harm to human health that will [...]
The number of wind turbines is limited in PEC
There have been several comments on-line and in the media predicting that the current Gilead and wpd projects are just the beginning for wind farms in PEC, but these comments are just part of the story. “Gilead’s is the first of what is approaching 100 turbines proposed for the County…”, Garth Manning, CCSAGE. “There are [...]
wpd transmission line planned for underground
At an open house Monday, wpd Canada shared a map and some information on a transmission line to carry electricity produced by turbines for the White Pines wind project. wpd told residents the plan is for the line to be buried underground – along the municipal right of way – except for two bridge crossings, [...]
This willing hostess should resign
By refusing to support Councillor Quaiff’s “Not a willing host” motion against industrial wind turbines for Prince Edward County, Councillor Barbara Proctor has lost both the confidence and the respect of her constituents. She should resign. Prior to her 2010 election to council, candidate Proctor indicated in a Wellington Times poll that instead of a [...]
Court says turbines reduce property values, but dismisses lawsuit against wpd
Eric Gillespie, lawyer for the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists and Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County, is encouraged by an Ontario court decision last week that “is a significant step forward” for clients in the County and across the province. Gillespie, speaking at a Wind Town Hall meeting in Picton on Thursday, said the [...]
Town Hall wind turbine meeting attendees encouraged
Two men received standing ovations from several hundred people attending a Town Hall meeting on the impact of wind turbines in the County, last week. The first was for County councillor Robert Quaiff, who last week sought support to declare the County is “Not a Willing Host’ for turbines. About 90 Ontario municipalities have passed [...]
Councillor seeks support to declare County is ‘Not a Willing Host’ for turbines
Councillor Robert Quaiff will seek support at tonight’s Prince Edward County council meeting to declare “that Prince Edward County is ‘Not a Willing Host’ for Wind Turbine Development.” About 90 municipalities across the province have passed, or are reviewing, such resolutions. The resolution states: WHEREAS the Premier of Ontario has recently conveyed the Government’s desire [...]
Bill to give municipalities voice in energy projects defeated in Legislature
The County’s North Marysburgh councillor Robert Quaiff spoke to media at Queen’s Park in Toronto Thursday in support of Bill 39, the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act – a measure that sought to limit provincial wind development, eliminate the feed-in tariff and give municipalities a greater voice in planning renewable energy projects. The Bill was defeated [...]
Democracy is gone with the wind
Ontario’s rural/urban divide about industrial wind turbines has not yet become Civil War, but “Gone with the Wind” comes to mind, as the wind-worshipping Ontario government continues to withhold democracy from a large segment of our population. Citizens on both sides of the escalating wind energy war passionately believe they are in the right. Recent [...]
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