All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Cut the real waste in Ontario’s electricity system- nuclear power
Mr. Hudak- Please End Your Nuclear Fantasy and Stop Blaming Renewable Energy and the GEEA As Ontario Opposition Leader, you recently released your strategy to lower electricity rates, namely, cancelling the Green Energy Act’s feed-in-tariff for renewable energy and embarking on a major nuclear spending program to ensure that nuclear power will meet “half of […]
Industrial wind turbines on MNR land?
The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) administers our Provincial Parks. Why does MNR allow Gilead Power Corporation to construct giant Industrial Wind Turbines (IWTs) on its crown land at Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County, when it does not allow IWTs in Ontario’s Provincial Parks? Shouldn’t the same regulations that keep IWTs out of our […]
Tom Harpur offers mixed bag
My few personal conversations with Tom Harpur were all over 30 years ago, as one Anglican priest to another, but since then his columns and critics have kept me aware of changes in his thinking; so, I was among those who went to hear him at the Regent Theatre. I heard: a sense of awe […]
Biodiversity, motherhood and Industrial Wind Turbines: the Transformers
When my son was five years old he developed a passion for “Transformers” toys… those little mechanical looking gizmos that could be manipulated by moving and reconfiguring various parts to look like animals, monster robots, and futuristic vehicles and machines etc.. They seemed to inspire a great deal of imaginative, creative play. It occurred to […]
Telephone scammers call you by name
I received a call last night asking for me by name. The person on the phone claimed to be from Microsoft and advised me that there were viruses on my computer that they could help me remove. I was aware of this scam and hung up. If you get a call like this – hang […]
Coming soon: Massacre of The Great Blue Herons of the County
Have you ever wondered where that majestic Great Blue Heron is going, when you see it flying off in the same direction every evening from its daytime fishing spot at a pond near you? In South Marysburgh, it is flying home for the night, to its rookery between Royal Road and Lake Ontario. However, to […]
Misery in South Marysburgh and Athol c. 2014
Here are excerpts from 22 testimonies from Ontario residents about the adverse effects of wind turbines, most from southwestern Ontario but one (the first) from Wolfe Island. These could be testimonies from South Marysburgh and eastern Athol residents starting in 2014. BUT, we don’t have to let this happen. http://wp.me/p1M8CZ-gJ Gary Mooney CCSAGE
Economic office plans align with Transition PEC vision
Transition PEC members met with Deb Williams, of the PEC economic development office, for 1.5 hrs yesterday with their ideas on PEC’s future in the postcarbon era. They were all on the same page. Deb was hired in a temporary position as Economic Development Coordinator to assist Merlin Dewing and Diana Cooper in developing a […]
Bill 55 amendments to Schedule 19 a license to kill
The following schedule (19) being introduced by the Ontario Liberal Party as Bill 55: Strong Action for Ontario Act (Budget Measures), removes any legal impediments and prohibitions that Industrial Wind Turbine developers would have encountered (and should have in cases like Wolfe Island) to destroy the habitat of and, harass and kill, species considered at […]
Doxsee Road is not a designated garbage dump
This is a finger wag to the individual or individuals who use the county back roads as a garbage dump. Doxsee Road is a minor back road near my property that I use often coming back from Picton. I’ve seen garbage bags, tires, VCRs, assorted pipes, you name it, chances are you’ll find it thrown […]
