All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Ocean ecosystems threatened by Industrial Wind Turbine technology
It isn’t enough that mining companies are currently planning the destruction of thousands of hectors of sensitive tundra and boreal forest ecosystems here in Canada in pursuit of “rare earth metals”, particularly dysprosium and neodymium, for the construction of the permanent magnets necessary to the engineering of the now omnipresent 2 to 5 MGW Industrial […]
McMurtry joins call for wind turbine moratorium
Dr. Bob McMurtry, a prominent member of the Canadian health establishment, joins the victims of industrial wind turbines (IWT’s) in their call for Health Canada to turn over their future wind turbine noise study to Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). While the study is being conducted, they demand an immediate moratorium on all pending […]
Democracy disconnected in rural Ontario
In Rural Ontario we have already lost democracy. On Saturday July 14th the Toronto Star featured Rick Salutin on Democracy, the first of a six-part series. That same Saturday the South Marysburgh Mirror sponsored a secret ballot in which 90.2% of 542 registered voters opposed Industrial Wind Turbines for our Prince Edward County ward. (www.southmarysburghmirror.com.) […]
Expropriation without compensation
Expropriation is common practice when government locates power plants on private property. Landowners are compensated for their property’s fair market value plus relocation expenses. Fair deal? Not so when it is a nearby wind energy factory! Under its Feed-In Tariff program, the Ontario Government contracts with developers to locate electricity-generating wind factories too close to […]
The ugly side of wind power
The following by Prince Edward County resident Garth Manning, a member of the CCSAGE Steering Committee, was first published in the National Post on Friday, July 6, 2012. Imagine 38 industrial wind turbines being erected in Toronto’s High Park, each taller than Ottawa’s Peace Tower or the Royal York Hotel, and sitting atop massive […]
Upset about weekly fire bug in Benson Park
This photo I took this morning. Unfortunately I have not taken pictures of the fires that are set every weekend in Benson Park. There is someone in our beautiful town that needs to be caught before something very serious happens. We are in for a hot dry summer by predictions and Benson Park is a […]
Lawn signs stolen from private property
On Wednesday, an early morning walk and subsequent follow up revealed that up to 20 signs had been stolen from private property. The stolen signs were those stating “Naturally Green – Turbine free”. Communication with and from the municipality made it clear that none of their staff were involved nor were the signs in violation […]
Hat’s off to man carrying Harper sign.
There is a gentleman walking Picton Main Street showing the courage of his convictions to carry a sign…”HARPER IS RUINING CANADA”. To him I take my hat off. It’s only a ripple. But next maybe a wave, then maybe a tsunami. Canadians as a whole are a docile bunch, but, I think finally we have […]
Bisphenol A and the environmentally destructive nature of industrial wind turbines
I’m always amazed at how Industrial Wind Turbine (IWT) proponents avoid discussion and accountability in regards to the inconvenient un-green polluting and environmentally destructive nature of this technology. I’ve previously written about the enormous environmental costs of the mining and production of the rare earths, neodymium and dysprosium, for the permanent magnets in the IWT […]
Is Bill 55 holding back Gilead project announcement?
There are only a few days left until the May 31st deadline by which the Ontario Government could announce a decision to reject Gilead Corporation’s bid to construct a 9-turbine wind energy factory on Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County. This Crown land, managed by Ministry of Natural Resources, is in a Globally Significant Important […]
