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Ireland’s Wind Energy Policy brings out 2000 protesters!

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Thousands protest over wind and energy policy

Tuesday 15 April 2014 23.03

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The march ended outside Leinster House
The march ended outside Leinster House
The march ended outside Leinster House

Thousands have protested in Dublin city centre against the Government’s wind energy and pylons policy.

Organisers claim up to 4,000 people attended the march, which began at the Garden of Remembrance and ended outside Leinster House.

The protest was organised by Wind Aware Ireland, a new group combined of organisations against pylons and overhead power cables and those opposed to wind farms.

With increasing alarm over climate change in recent weeks, Ireland’s energy policy is under scrutiny like never before.

The matter is of acute political significance in many parts of the country as the Local Elections approach.

News that a wind energy export deal with Britain was off the table has done little to reduce concerns.

Environmental campaigners are calling for the Government to encourage communities to take ownership of future wind energy plans.

Meanwhile, the Government has set a tentative date of later this year for publishing its Climate Bill.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin earlier said that Ireland faces particular challenges with regard to reducing its carbon footprint.

But, he said, Ireland needs a robust response to the issue of climate change.

Mr Howlin said Ireland’s agriculture sector would pose a challenge as it was not as intensive as others.

He said he believed that Ireland would hit its target of 40% renewable energy by 2020.

While there might be resistance in some sectors to this, he said, if people looked at the recent reports on climate change they would reflect that we need to do things differently.

The minister said that the Government is obliged to submit budget costings to the EU in April, but this was predicated on last year’s projections.

He said there were recent signs of new economic activity in the first quarter with more jobs, but the Government was currently working on last year’s projection of 2% growth.

He said there might be more growth than expected but the Government needed to be prudent.

Keywords: wind protest, energy policy

Rural Ontario tirelessly fighting the Wind Fiasco!

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East Oxford group files FOI for wind farm details

Posted on 04/15/2014by 

Joan KeithBy Jennifer Vandermeer, Norwich Gazette/IngersollTimes
NORWICH TOWNSHIP – The East Oxford Community Alliance wants to know how the Ministry of the Environment has been handling the Prowind Gunn’s Hill Wind Farm file. The alliance (EOCA) has filed Freedom of Information requests and asked the Ontario Ombudsman to look into it because of the number of changes that have been made to the project without due process for the public to participate.

Joan Morris, spokesperson for EOCA, said one issue is the “substantive changes” to the project since it was first filed with the MOE and considered complete and accurate. “A change to the project area was announced to the public only four days before the application was deemed complete by the Ministry on February 7, 2014,” Morris also said in a press release. “Apart from a cover page from the Ministry of Environment, none of the documents for public review and comment were modified to account for the changes.”Read article

A Thank You letter, from a strong, courageous Aussie, fighting for justice!

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Melissa Ware: a heartfelt “thank you” to Chris Back, Alan Jones & Graham Richardson

April 15, 2014 by  1 Comment
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Senator Chris Back – gets a note of thanks for standing up.

A few posts back we covered the fantastic Chris Back interview on Sky News with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson – where the Senator from Western Australia gave the wind industry and it’s parasites a terrific serve (see our post here).

One of Pac Hydro’s long-suffering neighbours at Cape Bridgewater – Melissa Ware – has written this heartfelt letter – setting out her appreciation of the work being done by Chris Back and Alan Jones to help bring an end to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time – as well as the entirely unnecessary harm caused to decent, hard-working rural people.

To Senator Back and Messrs Jones and Richardson,

Thank you Senator Back, Mr Alan Jones and Mr Richardson on Skynews for this interview informing people about the uselessness of wind facilities. You managed to convey a wide range of issues all Australians face living with wind farms and RET’s, Renewable Energy Targets.

The health effects on neighbours, including hosts, the higher electricity bills we’re all paying, the enormous subsidies paid annually by taxpayers for each turbine; and the fact that turbines are an inefficient and expensive source of power because wind is a limited and unreliable resource that doesn’t always blow. Simply put, when turbines and renewables don’t generate enough electricity to meet needs and demand, prices for energy soar that none of us can afford.

Creating an Australia which is no longer one of the cheapest energy countries, forcing manufacturers and businesses to close due to roll on carbon costs. Every day Australians are impacted yet we haven’t reversed carbon emissions and still rely on back-up coal to meet energy need.

Wind farm noise experienced here at Cape Bridgewater is covered up and Pacific Hydro present as having no idea what we residents are truly suffering from exposure to the many different wind farm sound emissions, the heard noises and unheard infrasound. Community Consultations held with Futureye for residents of Cape Bridgewater, by Pacific Hydro staff, is an attempt by this company to garner trust and be seen to be accountable following its apology to Cape Bridgewater residents in August 2013. An apology for screeching noises Pacific Hydro claimed to have fixed and are still occurring.

Pacific Hydro and the Glenelg Shire Council openly supports the VicWind Alliance, favouring wind energy, also claiming that despite complaints of health impacts near wind turbines, “there is no scientific evidence to show a connection”. See Portland Observer 4.April.2104, p5 ‘Wind Energy Petition launched at Cape Nelson’. There are more than 80 Professionals, such as Professor Salt, whom disagree with that statement. Many are requesting the AMA to apologise and retract their recent position statement claiming a similar view.

I am grateful to Senator Back for doing his research, for standing up to inform the facts, to declare he has been to a wind farm and actually heard them and that when the blades pass the towers there’s a peak noise (amplitude modulation) that wind farms cover up. I blinked away furious tears at the continual injustice we neighbours of wind farms endure from such continued omissions of fact.

Those condoning our suffering ‘wind turbine syndrome’ and wind energy nuisances can’t ignore an Australian Senator. They can’t say it’s in his head, can’t accuse him of ‘nocebo effect’ and can no longer dishonestly claim “turbines are no louder than the fridge”. With this Government committed to independent noise and health studies it’s time to stop fudging the data and making baseless statements when it’s not proven there are no health impacts and it is proven there is nuisance noise in our homes.

Mr. Jones is equally appalled that AGL interfered in health management two years ago, by sending a letter to 12 clinics in the Western District, including 2 in Portland referring wind farm effected patients back to AGL where they are insultingly informed there are no health impacts. It’s an outrage recently revealed in Parliament by Senator Madigan.

My main concern is for residents and workers in homes, aged care, kindergartens and schools in South Portland. Particularly for the students and staff at the Portland Bay Specialist School, about to be impacted by Stage 4 of the Portland Wind Energy Project, which will have bigger towers and turbines than already inflicted on Cape Bridgewater and Cape Nelson.

How is Pacific Hydro going to prevent harm to children with special needs known to be noise sensitive and overstimulated by noise?

William C. Mulvaney, Superintendent of Armstrong Schools in Illinois, has reported wind farm health issues, seehttp://www.windaction.org/posts/38759-illinois-school-superintendent-letter-turbine-noise-creating-health-problems-for-students#.U0To4o1–M8

Dr. Chrystella Calvert a Paediatrician in Canada has reported concerns about wind turbines and impacts on his patient Joey, whom has complex developmental issues. See http://waubrafoundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Calvert-Dr-Chrystella.-Joey-Correia-and-Exposure-to-Wind-Turbines.pdf

Like so many mothers wanting to protect their children, Joeys mother Shellie Correia has to fight the Government on his behalf see;http://waubrafoundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Correia-Shellie.-Real-People-are-Suffering.pdf

How can Staff and parents protect children in their care when Pacific Hydro allows suffering at Cape Bridgewater to continue for nearly six years without fixing low frequency noise, infrasound and vibration etc. problems which we Cape Bridgewater residents have been reporting since the wind farm started operating.

None of the Capes residents can continue to live and function in our homes as we did prior to the wind development. All effected families have either left semi-permanently or seek regular respite because of wind farm emissions. GP’s and Specialists have advised me to leave my home on the Cape due to impacts on my health. The banks valuer unofficially told me our house and land is unsellable due to the wind farms proximity. How many more people will continue to be ignored or told to move away or take a sleeping tablet? These issues may not be ignored without consequence.

These questions do not have to be answered as part of permit conditions but can Pacific Hydro guarantee no-one in Portland will be sleep deprived nor cause or exacerbate health conditions from their turbines? Have they actively warned people of heart health risks and possible impacts of the magnetic field on pacemakers near wind farms? Have they done proper noise studies pre-construction of Stage 4 where people live and work? Will they conduct proper noise studies showing the peaks and troughs of noise that people hear and the health impacting infrasound after commissioning? Have they already ‘gagged’ those living in close proximity to Stage 4?

Community funding, sustainability and promise of temporary work won’t address growing concerns about a wind industry that brutally divides and sickens previously strongly connected and quiet rural communities all around the world.

Melissa Ware
Cape Bridgewater
10.4.14

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There is a good reason why they don’t admit wind is useless! They are involved in it!

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WYNNE’S BROTHER-IN-LAW THE NEW CEO OF EHEALTH, BUT HE ALSO HAS DEEP TIES TO THE WIND INDUSTRY

How deep does the corruption of this Liberal government go?  How great is their arrogance for making sure that their family and buddies make a fortune off the backs of Ontario taxpayers?

Turns out, not only has Kathleen Wynne’s brother-in-law been appointed the new CEO of EHealth, but he’s also on the Board of Directors for two renewable energy companies.  The chutzpah and corruption of this gang of thieves just knows absolutely no bounds.   He’s also been a lawyer for the past 30+ years.

It’s no wonder the fight against wind turbines seems so useless when the decks are stacked so high against the rural victims of these useless monster machines.

A Google search of his name — F. David Rounthwaite — reveals that his is on the B. o. D. for the following companies.

Grid Essence Inc.

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Renewable Energy Developers.(Sprott Power Corp.)

From 1997 to 2010 he was a trustee of Northland Power Income Fund and was lead independent trustee in several transactions of that fund including its acquisition of Northland Power Inc. in 2009. Northland Power has several wind facilities in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.

The more layers you peel back on this disgusting obscenely corrupt government the more it reeks.  They need to be removed from office now.

Thanks to a fellow reader at the Toronto Sun for digging up this information.

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Another Family Forced to Give Up Their Home!

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Couple gets $1.3M in wind turbine settlement

By By Wilson Ring April 14, 2014

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont couple whose Northeast Kingdom farm became a focal point in the fight against construction of a 21-turbine industrial wind project on Lowell Mountain said Monday that they were selling their 540-acre farm to Green Mountain Power for $1.3 million.

In announcing they had agreed to settle a lawsuit over a boundary dispute filed against them by GMP, Don and Shirley Nelson said they felt they could have won in court, but it would not have led to the removal of the now-operating turbines.

Even if victorious in court, it’s doubtful they would have received more than the $1.3 million they will get for the sale of their property and the legal case could have lingered for years, the Nelsons said.

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“The Nelsons intend to move from their farm to a location well away from the turbines,” their statement said.

In a separate statement, GMP said the Nelsons will be able to remain in their home for up to two years and that they will retain 35 acres of land in Albany.

“The agreement meets the needs of the Nelsons as well as those of our customers,” GMP said. “Kingdom Community Wind is an important part of our growing investment in renewable energy in Vermont.”

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The construction and operation of what has become the Kingdom Community Wind project generated fierce opposition from a number of people who claimed the project marred the pristine ridgeline for no environmental benefit.

The Nelsons were longtime opponents of the project.

The 2011 lawsuit grew out of a series of protests along the contested property line between the Nelsons’ land and the then-under-construction turbine site controlled by GMP. A number of protesters set up camp on land they claimed was owned by the Nelsons, but within a safety zone during construction blasting operations. The presence of the protesters caused brief delays in construction.

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The Nelsons and GMP had disputed the property boundary of land GMP has under a long-term lease for the wind project. A trial had been tentatively scheduled for August.

In a separate statement, a group opposing the wind project called the Ridge Protectors said the Nelsons typify the Vermont dream of working hard, paying taxes and minding one’s own business.

“Now, we have to add, and be forced off your property by a foreign-owned corporation,” the organization said, referring to the fact that GMP’s corporate parent is Canadian. “Yes, they were paid for that property, but money runs a poor second to beauty, peace, quiet and a love for your land.”

Nuclear Plants not going private!

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DR. OETKER PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN LONDON, ONTARIO

Credits: Mike Hensen/The London Free Press/QMI Agency

Ontario's economy holding back country, needs major reforms: Report

DR. OETKER PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN LONDON, ONTARIO

Credits: Mike Hensen/The London Free Press/QMI Agency

QMI AGENCY

 

Ontario needs industry reforms, better tax policies, and needs to make better use of its natural resources before it brings down Canada’s economy any further, according to a new Fraser Institute study.

“Because of Ontario’s immense size and population, and because the Canadian economy is highly integrated, what happens in Ontario significantly affects Canada’s national economy. An economically stronger Ontario means an economically stronger Canada,” study co-author Livio Di Matteo said in a release.

The study, Can Canada Prosper without a Prosperous Ontario?, says the province’s terrible record on GDP growth, employment and business investment “reflects a damaged provincial economy that’s dragging down the national economy,” Di Matteo said.

The province needs to improve tax and regulatory competitiveness, boost capital investment, reform energy and industry policies and make better use natural resources like mining and forestry, the study said.

“If Ontario adopts smarter policies focused on competitiveness and economic growth rather than interventionist government, it could unleash its private sector and improve Ontario’s economy for the benefit of taxpayers in Ontario and across Canada,” Di Matteo said.

Ontario needs industry reforms, better tax policies, and needs to make better use of its natural resources before it brings down Canada’s economy any further, according to a new Fraser Institute study.

“Because of Ontario’s immense size and population, and because the Canadian economy is highly integrated, what happens in Ontario significantly affects Canada’s national economy. An economically stronger Ontario means an economically stronger Canada,” study co-author Livio Di Matteo said in a release.

The study, Can Canada Prosper without a Prosperous Ontario?, says the province’s terrible record on GDP growth, employment and business investment “reflects a damaged provincial economy that’s dragging down the national economy,” Di Matteo said.

The province needs to improve tax and regulatory competitiveness, boost capital investment, reform energy and industry policies and make better use natural resources like mining and forestry, the study said.

“If Ontario adopts smarter policies focused on competitiveness and economic growth rather than interventionist government, it could unleash its private sector and improve Ontario’s economy for the benefit of taxpayers in Ontario and across Canada,” Di Matteo said.

Grey Highlands Council wants to freeze permits for wind turbines…

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Working Group wants wind developers to take into account wind concerns.

(Grey Highlands) – Grey Highlands Council will consider a bylaw on Monday to freeze any new permits for construction of industrial wind turbines in the municipality.

It is part of the regular council meeting which begins at 5 PM.

CAO Dan Best says called the “Grey Highlands Renewable Energy Working Group” wants any proposed projects to take into account the concerns of nearby residents about any impact on their health.

Medical Officer of Health Doctor Hazel Lynn presented a report just over a year ago, that looked at various studies around the world, on the health complaints from people living near Giant wind turbines.

Her conclusion was that these are not NIMBYs, these are people affected by these things.

Doctor Lynn also recommended Health Canada do more research on the association between wind turbine noise and human distress.

Best says the bylaw under consideration would have to be considered by any company proposing a wind farm in Grey Highlands.

However, the municipality has little say in those projects as provincial legislation would trump anything Grey Highlands does to stop new developments.

The municipality has declared itself an unwilling host for new wind farms.

By Kevin Bernard
Posted on Bayshore Broadcasting, Apr. 14, 2014

Not clean, green, or efficient. Just a waste of time and MONEY!!!

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WIND ENERGY — FREE AND CLEAN? ACTUAL WORLD DATA PROVES OTHERWISE

High numbers of wind turbines equals the highest electricity rates.

Tip of the hat to the Galileo Movement for this chart.

This chart uses data from 2011.  Ontario, which has seen several rate hikes since then is not on this chart, but is lumped in with the rest of Canada.  However, we  know that Ontario (the province with the most wind turbines in Canada) also has the highest rates, so if it were listed separately, it would be much higher up on the graph.

Notice also that California and Texas, 2 states that have heavily invested in wind turbines, are much higher on the list than states that haven’t.

Interesting to note that the countries with the most wind turbines also have the highest electricity prices. Among the top 10 countries with the highest rates are Denmark, Germany, Australia and Norway, all of which are world leaders in wind turbines blanketing their lands.

As noted a couple of weeks ago, those same places have seen a dramatic rise in their CO2 emissions.  Thus proving that 2 of the main reasons for switching to wind, according to the wind energy associations around the world — CHEAP or FREE energy that also helps to reduce CO2 emissions — are complete lies.

When is this corrupt industry going to be exposed for the liars and con artists that they are?  But more importantly, why are our politicians and governments going along with this corruption? Money?  Political influence?  Eco lobbyists?

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Wind Turbines being placed in important birding areas. Green energy? At what cost?

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Voices from the Thedford Bog: Wind turbines are “a social experiment, a mess, a failure”

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Protesters joined the remaining migrating tundra swans at the Thedford Bog near Grand Bend, Lake Huron, on Sunday, April 6, 2014, to condemn plans to build a bristling barrier of industrial wind turbines in what is a designated Important Bird Area. Every March some 10-15,000 tundra swans stop at the Thedford Bog and environs to rest and feed before continuing on their migration to the western Arctic.

Waterfowl scientist Dr. Scott Petrie told CBC News in 2012:

By putting the turbines in inappropriate places, it actually is tantamount to habitat loss. You wouldn’t put an office tower next to a coastal wetland, why would you put a wind turbine there?

Monte McNaughton, Progressive Conservative Member of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario (MPP) for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, reminded the protesters that his party’s leader, Tim Hudak, has promised, if elected, to repeal the Green Energy Act, the draconian legislation that has given unprecedented rights to industrial wind turbines over people, communities and wildlife. The Green Energy Act was enacted in 2009 in part as a response to the fake planetary emergency of man-made global warming/climate change.

“Worst economic policy ever”

“Worst economic policy ever”

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The Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne Liberal governments have allowed the Ontario landscape to be despoiled and blighted by thousands of useless industrial wind turbines. The machines, towering as high as 50-storey buildings, built on a foundation that requires 800 tons of concrete each that will remain in the ground of prime farmland forever, have been erected in the absence of any cost-benefit analysis or human health studies, and accorded special rights by the Liberal government with its elimination of environmental restrictions inconvenient to wind companies.

Premier Kathleen Wynne has promised to build thousands more of the extortionate-to-taxpayers, destructive, un-green industrial monstrosities.

Not all Physicians are afraid to tell the truth!

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BRITISH MEDICAL PRACTITIONER IN THE ENERGY FIELD FOR OVER 32 YEARS SAYS TURBINES DO AFFECT HEALTH

Letter to the Editor – Blackmore Vale Magazine — April 6, 2014

I strongly contest Dr Erik Blakeley‘s comments in your recent article calling wind turbine noise as a placebo effect. As a medical practitioner in the energy field of over 32 years I disagree.

I have amassed over the last few years negative health evidence from across the globe wherever wind turbines are erected, many locals even supported their erection initially only to find their health began to deteriorate afterwards.

Apart from Canadian, American, Danish and Australian information I have articles from specialists in “sleep disorder“ from the BMJ (British Medical Association) referring to ‘wind turbine syndrome‘ . It is the ULF (Ultra Low Frequency)or ELF vibrations that cause the most harm and cannot be heard. Can Dr Blakeley deny the MoD developed and used these frequencies for “acoustic warfare“ and in Russia ULF was developed by Vladimir–Gavreau for use in the Cold War of the 1950s onward only to be banned because it was so devastating on the human organism!

We must remember each person is an individual, some more sensitive than others and this has to be respected. The global evidence that amasses are that the main symptoms are insomnia, elevated blood pressure, depression, irritability and even suicide, never mind the effects on epileptics and hyperactive children. As our whole world is comprised of energy, we live in a time of Einstein and Quantam Physics not Newton, so as to accuse locals as “fools to their symptoms“ is not only utterly insulting to their intelligence but also ignores their individual health susceptibility.

Mrs S.Gonzalez BA.,MCH.,R.S.Hom,Milborne St Andrew