CTV News
Residents in the community of Belwood near Elora, are protesting a planned wind turbine project. Construction of four turbines near Bellwood will begin next year. Residents are afraid another 30 will follow. Janet Vallery and her neighbours believe the turbines will reduce the value of their property by half. “We’re battling all over rural Ontario supporting each other against the industrialization of rural Ontario.” Officials with Centre Wellington told the province it won’t willingly accept any more turbines. Read article

With the wind industry in its death throes the only thing left is the small matter of compensating victims for all the physical and mental harm caused by its giant fans. Think of it as “the last round-up”.

The obvious cause of action – where noise from a neighbouring property causes sleep disturbance – is common law nuisance.  One man from Oregon in the US has just started proceedings citing nuisance and trespass. The tort of nuisance is alive and well in Australia – it’s what gets late-night music venues in cities and suburbs shut down all the time.

But STT’s pretty sure that the tort of “trespass” is not open to plaintiffs suing wind developers or turbine hosts in Australia: here – “trespass” requires the interference with property to be physical and direct.

Here’s The Oregonian’s take on the case.

Eastern Oregon resident sues over Willow Creek wind project…

For wind weasels nothing is sacred.  Not content with stealing from power punters – these boys will stab their best mates in the back and bonk whoever they need to – just to get at the fat pile of taxpayers’ cash on offer.  Here’s a Texan take on the tale.

Whistle-blower recounts red flags in Jonestown wind energy project
Austin American-Statesman
Ricardo Gandara
9 August 2013

Toby Miller had $14,000 and a close friendship at stake in the plan to bring wind energy to Jonestown.  But he couldn’t escape the conclusion that the man behind the plan, his friend and former fellow law enforcement officer Charles Malouff, was altering records to make the project fly.

Miller raised his concerns in August 2010, and was promptly fired from Malouff’s CM Alternative Energies, where he served as general operations manager.  He dashed off an email that was read aloud Thursday in Travis…

Grimsby Lincoln News
At the Aug. 1 regional council meeting I attended Mr. Tom Rankin was heard in a loud angry voice giving the entire council gallery the label of NIMBYs. Of course he did not include himself even though they are not being built in his backyard. Rankin continued spewing out his displeasure that council had the audacity to vote in favour of Wainfleet and West Lincoln declaring themselves unwilling hosts to wind turbines in their municipalities. A grateful thank you goes to those councillors who had that courage to recognize that Canada is a democracy.

There has been a back and forth argument whether wind turbines do cause serious health issues. But, on the other hand, gravely speaking why would people be leaving their beloved homes that they worked a lifetime for? Leaving their highest investment of their lifetime? The documented cases were not happy planned moves; on…

Well – knock us down with a feather – if things didn’t just get a whole lot worse for wind weasels and their highly-paid apologists.

A few posts back you’ll remember the wind weasels’ pinup boy, Russell “Rusty” Marsh tossing up a whale of a tale.

When faced with research done over 30 years ago – which unequivocally linked low frequency turbine noise to health impacts suffered by nearby residents – Rusty spun into action and spruiked that – comparing modern turbines with turbines from the 80s is like comparing “iPads” with “Ataris”.

It’s what STT now calls the “Atari defence”.  Thanks Rusty.

Following on from that story – Graham Lloyd from The Australian rounded up Neil Kelley, the author of the 1987 study in which he and his team of bright boys and girls from leading American academic institutions proved the link between low frequency noise and the health…