All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Cottage “bees” must be able to live with the rest of the hive
Re: Toronto Star article featuring Sandbanks Summer Village As a property owner on East Lake, I have watched with interest the evolution of the Cottage Advisor development. I recently read the article featured in the New Homes section of the Toronto Star entitled “Cottaging with a twist”. I do understand that the Sandbanks Summer Village […]
Liberals entrench 1,800 renewable energy contracts
Ontario’s Liberal government has entrenched the legal rights of 1,800 proposed renewable energy contracts – making it impossible for a new government to cancel them. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1033581–ontario-liberals-entrench-1-800-renewable-power-projects?bn=1#.TjhNjNQKHf4.twitter This outrageous action signals that the McGuinty government anticipates being defeated in the upcoming election. They have decided to ensure that rural Ontario residents will be punished for planning […]
Is destruction worth it for turbines that could be built elsewhere?
Gilead Power Corporation is inviting PE County residents to send letters of support for their wind project at Ostrander Point to MPP Leona Dombrowsky. Their letter and “10 reasons to support the project” say that Ostrander Point is a favourable site for their development because it “is in a relatively isolated part” of the County. […]
Local construction in the dumpster
Rick Conroy published a good article in the July 20 edition of the Times on the decline of new home construction in the County. It’s real and it’s serious. Here is the disturbing trend in numbers of new permanent home building permits: . 2007 = 155 . 2008 = 133 (-14%) . 2009 = 103 […]
Leading scientific journal publishes special edition on wind turbines
The publication of these peer-reviewed articles (including one by Dr. Robert McMurtry) is the third stage of the evolution of the science on wind turbines and health, following the formation of the Society for Wind Vigilance and the organization of an international symposium last fall at the Waring House. http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/leading-scientific-peer-reviewed-journal-publishes-special-edition-on-windturbines/ Gary Mooney
Delaying new signs bad for Bloomfield
Dear Mr. Mertens, This is a photo of one of the new Bloomfield signs, designed by Alex Fida of Angeline’s and paid for by the generous donations of the members of Bloomfield and Area Business Association. What concerns me is that the County of Prince Edward was to put new posts in the existing sites […]
How wind works
Change is in the air. Wind power keeps improving in a big way. Advances in technology and soaring global energy costs are making wind power a clean and viable alternative for energy producers everywhere. There’s a growing interest in wind across Canada. From major power producers looking for cleaner ways to produce energy for the […]
Sustainability – the joke is on us
I usually don’t remember jokes; but I do remember a skit I heard half a century ago. An unflappable BBC radio announcer reads the news: “Whitehall announced today that the World will end at 12 midnight tonight Greenwich mean time. In other news, in cricket, Britain defeated India with a score of…” A report by […]
Good points on turbine noise and health issues
The following article from the Wind Concerns Ontario site makes a number of good points about expanding knowledge re: the noise / health issue and the implications of the Hanna legal challenge. Gary Mooney Knowledge Concerning Wind Turbines and Health Effects Continues to Increase Posted on 06/28/2011 As experts around the world continue to publish […]
Climate Change 101
There is virtual consensus among climate scientists that anthropogenic climate change—man made climate change —is real. There is also consensus that the present level of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is dangerous and the rise in emissions is rapidly accelerating to a potentially catastrophic level. How dangerous? Dan Miller, explains it this way in his […]
