All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Wind and solar – seemed like a good idea at the time
It is starting to happen. Governments around the world are cancelling wind and solar projects and drastically scaling back subsidies, including on existing contracts. The reason is very simple: they have realized that they cannot afford the huge subsidies that they earlier agreed to pay. In a December 3, 2010 opinion piece in the National […]
Symposium delivers facts on wind energy
The First International Symposium on the Global Wind Industry and Adverse Health Effects, held this past weekend in Picton, brought together American, British and Canadian acousticians, physicists, physicians, and medical researchers. The audience came from across Ontario and the United States and from as far as Australia. Our understanding of how wind turbines can affect […]
Misinformation regarding renewables
It has been disappointing, even frustrating at times to view the amount of misinformation and rhetoric produced by opponents of renewable energy. It is no wonder that readers, soon to be voters, can become confused. How to get to the essential facts, based on evidence, becomes the key question. Consider on one hand that the […]
Agree: MOH heads should roll
Recently in a letter to the media, I commented on my disdain for the McGuinty government in allowing hospitals and LHINS to hand out millions of dollars in sometimes untendered contracts to healthcare consultants (Auditor General Jim McMurter’s report Oct 20). Columnist Christina Blizzard reports in her Oct 23 column (reprinted in the County Weekly […]
Regent’s health depends on membership
This Saturday, November 6, members of the Regent Theatre Foundation will be voting to either support or denounce the Board of Directors and its decision to terminate the services of the theatre’s general manager, Sharon Jarvis. The members have been told to check the theatre website for information. On the website is an item warning […]
Thanks for supporting orphan children in Haiti
In this season of Thanksgiving, the authors of this letter want to express their heartfelt thanks to all the people who have reached out over the past year to help the children of La Judee Orphanage in Gonaives, Haiti. A particular thank you is extended to all those who participated the wonderful hymn sing evening […]
Ensure hospitals are transparent with consultant fees
On Oct 20 Auditor General Jim McMurter released a report that hospitals in Ontario used money that should have been spent on front line health care services and instead awarded lucrative contracts (sometimes untendered ) to consultants who spent freely on travel and entertainment. Of the 16 (out of 154) hospitals studied he found that […]
Wake up and educate yourself on wind turbines
I went on a trip recently to visit my best friend just south of Owen Sound. I hadn’t been there for about nine yrs. As I went through Shelburne on the way up, there was obviously no wind and nothing was turning. Nonetheless I was taken back and then some by the numbers of Industrial […]
Status of Ian Hanna wind energy legal case
November will be a busy month for County residents interested in wind energy development. On Nov. 17, Gilead Power will be hosting its last public meeting on the Ostrander Point project before seeking a Renewable Energy Approval from the Ontario Ministry of Environment. WPD Canada, which has optioned a vast amount of land in North […]
No tangible evidence of savings for Hospice in LHIN plan
Ms. Georgina Thompson Chair, South East LHIN 48 Dundas St. W. Unit 2 Belleville ON K8P 1Ag Dear Georgina: I am writing to you at the direction of the Board of Hospice Prince Edward in regard to the SELHIN current Back Office lntegration Project. To date, Hospice Prince Edward has participated actively in this initiative […]
