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Bird Deaths by Wind Turbines….NOT Sustainable!

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Red kite with broken wing awaiting slow death under wind turbine – courtesy of GURELUR
Red kite with broken wing, waiting for a slow death under a wind turbine – courtesy of GURELUR*.


HOW MUCH WILDLIFE CAN USA AFFORD TO KILL?
APRIL 2014



America’s wind farms are actually slaughtering millions of birds and bats annually


By Mark Duchamp


Originally published by The ECO Report


The Obama administration is issuing 30-year permits for “taking” (killing) bald and golden eagles. The great birds will be legally slaughtered “unintentionally” by lethal wind turbines installed in their breeding territories, and in “dispersion areas” where their young congregate (e.g. Altamont Pass).


By chance (if you believe in coincidences), a timely government study claims wind farms will kill “only” 1.4 million birds yearly by 2030 (1). This new report is just one of many, financed with taxpayers’ money, aimed at convincing the public that additional mortality caused by wind plants is sustainable. – It is not.


Dr. Shawn Smallwood’s 2004 study, spanning four years, estimated that California’s Altamont Pass wind “farm” killed an average of 116 Golden Eagles annually (2). This adds up to 2,900 dead “goldies” since it was built 25 years ago. Altamont is the biggest sinkhole for the species, but not the only one, and industry-financed research claiming that California’s GE population is stable is but a white-wash.

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Golden eagle remains, Altamont Pass windfarm, California – courtesy of Darryl Mueller



Eagles are not the only victims. Smallwood also estimated that Altamont killed an average of 300 red-tailed hawks, 333 American kestrels and 380 burrowing owls annually – plus even more non-raptors, including 2,526 rock doves and 2,557 western meadowlarks.


In 2012, breaking the European omerta on wind farm mortality, the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO/Birdlife) reviewed actual carcass counts from 136 monitoring studies. They concluded that Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines are killing 6-18 million birds and bats yearly (3).


Extrapolating that and similar (little publicized) German and Swedish studies, 39,000 U.S. wind turbines would not be killing “only” 440,000 birds (USFWS, 2009) or “just” 573,000 birds and 888,000 bats (Smallwood, 2013) (4), but 13-39 million birds and bats every year!


However, this carnage is being covered up by self-serving and/or politically motivated government agencies, wind industry lobbyists, environmental groups and ornithologists, under a pile of misleading studies paid for with more taxpayer money.


Wildlife expert Jim Wiegand has documented how areas searched under wind turbines are still confined to 200-foot radiuses, even though modern monster turbines catapult 90% of bird and bat carcasses much further. Windfarm owners, operating under voluntary(!) USFWS guidelines, commission studies that search much-too-small areas, look only once every 30-90 days, ensuring that scavengers remove most carcasses, and ignore wounded birds that happen to be found within search perimeters (5).


These research protocols are designed to guarantee extremely low mortality statistics, hiding the true death tolls – and the USFWS seems inclined to let the deception continue. In addition, bird mortality data are now considered to be the property of windfarm owners, which means the public no longer has a right to know.


Nevertheless, news has leaked that eagles are being hacked to death all across America. This is hardly surprising, as raptors are attracted to wind turbines. They perch on them to rest or scan for prey. They come because turbines are often built in habitats that have abundant food (live or carrion) and good winds for gliding (6).


Save the Eagles International (STEI) has posted photographs of raptors perched on nacelles or nonmoving blades, and ospreys building a nest on a decommissioned turbine. Moving blades don’t deter them either: videos show a turkey vulture perched on the hub of a spinning turbine, and a griffon vulture being struck (6). Birds perceive areas traveled by spinning blades as open space, unaware that blade tips are moving at up to 180 mph. Many are focused on prey. These factors make wind turbines “ecological death traps,” wherever they are located.

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Courtesy of Jefferson’s Leaning Left blog



By 2030, the United States plans to produce 20% of its electricity from wind. That’s nearly six times as much as today, from three or four times as many turbines, striking more flying creatures due to their bigger size (even the mendacious study predicting 1.4 million bird kills recognizes this). Using the higher but still underestimated level of mortality published by Smallwood in 2013, by 2030 our wind turbines would be killing over 3 million birds and 5 million bats annually.


But this is shy of reality by a factor of ten, because 90% of casualties land outside the search perimeter and are not counted. We are thus really talking about an unsustainable death toll of 30 million birds and 50 million bats a year – and more still if we factor in other hide-the-mortality tricks documented by STEI.


This carnage includes protected species that cars and cats rarely kill: eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, condors, whooping cranes, geese, bats and many others. The raptor slaughter will cause rodent populations to soar. Butchery of bats (7), already being decimated by White Nose Syndrome (8), will hammer agriculture.

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Griffon vultures killed by wind turbine, Spain – courtesy of GURELUR*



The U.S. Geological Survey says the value of pest-control services to US agriculture provided by bats ranges from $3.7 billion to as much as $53 billion yearly (9). These chiropters alsocontrol forest pests and serve as pollinators. Swedish studies have documented theirattraction from nine miles away to insects that swarm around wind turbines (10). Hence the slaughter.


Wind lobbyists claim they need “regulatory certainty.” However, eagle “take” permits will also ensure extinction certainty – and ecological, agricultural, economic and social disasters that America cannot afford.




* GURELUR is an association of ecologists based in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.


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Mark Duchamp is President of Save the Eagles International, and Chairman of the World Council for Nature

Industrial Wind Turbines are NOT Cost-Effective!

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Liberals are idiots on green energy

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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 06:09 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014  Antonella Artuso/Toronto Sun Files

Liberal MPP and former energy minister Brad Duguid says Tory Leader Tim Hudak is “completely irresponsible and out of his mind” for trying to extricate taxpayers and hydro consumers from the Liberals’ green energy disaster.

In fact, the only people who were completely out of their minds on the green energy file were Dalton McGuinty, Kathleen Wynne, Duguid and the entire Liberal cabinet and caucus.

First, their criticism of Hudak is a straw man.

They charge Hudak would be irresponsible to tear up absurdly generous, 20-year contracts the Liberals signed with wind and solar power developers for expensive and unreliable electricity.

Except Hudak didn’t say that. He said he won’t cancel approved projects that are already supplying power to the electricity grid because it would cost even more to walk away from them.

He did say he won’t approve new contracts and will review on a case by case basis contracts awaiting final approval from the energy minister.

Both of these measures are common sense, aimed at minimizing the enormous economic damage the Liberals have already inflicted on taxpayers, hydro consumers and manufacturers through their irresponsible green energy boondoggle.

Indeed, the only people who tore up signed energy deals in Ontario were the Liberals, who cancelled the Oakville and Mississauga gas-fired electricity plants at a public cost of up to $1.1 billion, to save five Liberal seats in the 2011 election.

The $1.1 billion figure comes from the non-partisan Auditor General of Ontario, who also concluded the premier’s office and energy ministry knee-capped provincial negotiators trying to reach a deal with the private developer building the plant, when they insisted all of its costs should be compensated before the negotiations had even started.

The auditor general further noted the Liberals ignored the advice of their own energy experts when they blundered into green energy without a business plan, thus adding billions of dollars in costs to taxpayers and hydro ratepayers for generations to come.

Finally, the Liberals didn’t need wind or solar power to eliminate coal-fired electricity, which they actually did by using nuclear power and natural gas.

In other words, only an idiot would have done exactly what the Liberals did on the green energy file.

 

Kathleen Wynne Tries to Woo Rural Ontarians….Too Little, Too Late!

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KATHLEEN WYNNE HOPES HER “FARMS FOREVER”

MESSAGE WILL BRIDGE RURAL/URBAN DIVIDE *GAG*

Richard J. Brennan — Toronto Star — May 19, 2014

BRANTFORD, ONT.—Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne is hoping that red rubber boots, a few kind words and lots of money will bridge the gap between urban and rural Ontario.
Wynne, who is agriculture minister as well as premier, visited a cattle ‎farm just outside of Brantford Tuesday where she recommitted the $400 million over 10 years contained in the budget to help farmer and the agri-food industry.
Wooing Tory blue areas outside theGTA is a major focus for the mostly urban supported Liberals‎.

“I am here because it is so critical that we understand the importance of the agri-food industry in Ontario,” she told reporters, who had successfully dodged cow patties.
“This is a $34 billion industry. There are thousands of farmers in Ontario . . . every one of them is important to the economy of the province,” she said.
Farmers have been suspicious of Wynne, a Toronto MPP‎, taking on the role of agriculture minister.
Wynne said she has heard time and again in her travels that farmers are concerned “about farmland staying farmland.”
“So another part of our plan is a farms forever plan that would facilitate agriculture easements so farmland can stay as farmland.”  Continue reading and LEAVE A COMMENT here….
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Wind Turbine Victims, Tell Their Stories!

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“Vertigo so bad, I couldn’t drive or walk through

my house, without holding onto walls” (Falmouth, MA)

May 19, 2014

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— Sharon in Falmouth, Mass. (5/18/14)

I have just gone through three weeks of vertigo that was so bad, I could not drive, walk through my house without holding onto walls, and dizziness even lying down. Another portion of my life, gone. I just turned 61 and never had a diagnosis of vertigo until the Falmouth wind turbines went up 3 to 4 years ago. The first time lasted 1.5 years.

My mother of 83 said they should build them next to the politicians who were all for them in the first place. God, I love my mom. Such practicial wisdom and common sense — something missing in our government as well as in most people I read about these days.

I believe one day, scientists and doctors will come together to study the impact of sound, its various levels, duration and distance, etc., on humans and wildlife. We already are aware of sleep deprivation and its negative impact on the human body and mind.

Unfortunately, the ignorance of these fields takes so long, they leave a wake of misery and death in their wake. I speak of events like multiple sclerosis, Lyme Disease, PTSD, and the list goes on.

Nevertheless, I believe in the old adage, “the squeaky wheel gets oiled.” I will not be silenced and will continue to write and vote against these wind turbines being located too near us.

 

Community Members Prepare to Defend Themselves Against Industrial Wind Turbines!

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These wind turbines are threatening watersheds & economy

Published Date Monday, 19 May 2014 08:24
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To The Daily Sun,

It’s unusual that a $500 million investment in the Newfound Lake community is being greeted with such community concern. After all, when was the last time anyone invested that much money here?

Make no mistake about it, Newfound Lake is under attack, and it’s coming in the form of 500-foot industrial wind turbines on our ridge lines with all electricity being routed to southern states.

Newfound Lake and Cardigan residents are overwhelmingly united in their opposition to newly proposed industrial wind plants. And Concord is very well aware of our community stance against additional wind development through our direct testimonies and detailed objections. Residents have officially voted twice against additional development and have also voted-in a new “Rights Based Ordinances” laws. And yes, for much of this past winter our voices have been raised and our tempers have flared at these town hall meetings.

Remember there is no shortage of electricity in N.H. N.H. has been exporting excess electricity to southern states for decades. It’s a very successful model — and many residents are questioning why we would consider hurting that model. But the million dollar question that remains is: “Why are we paying for any of this?”

Our story is very different. These turbines are threatening our watersheds, threatening our tourism, threatening our local economy and is threatening our “Natural Rights” and our “Quality of Place”.

We are not going down without a fight and we want your support. Summer residents and visitors alike should voice their concerns. Educate yourself this Sunday, May 25th at The Inn on Newfound Lake from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. It’s a critical information update meeting. Everyone is welcome. There is no charge to attend this event.

I hope to see you all there! Bring a friend…

Ray Cunningham
Bridgewater

People in Maine Catching On to the Futility of Wind Turbines!

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Maine poll exposes softness in wind energy support

Credit:  Wind Poll Results: Learn More, Like Less | Friends of Maine’s Mountains | May 20, 2014 | www.friendsofmainesmountains.org ~~

(Portland, Maine) Answers to questions asked recently by an independent, nonpartisan polling firm indicate that support for building industrial wind turbines in Maine is not as strong as wind power cheerleaders have led policy makers and the public to believe.

Friends of Maine’s Mountains (FMM), a group that opposes industrial wind turbine projects, commissioned Critical Insights of Portland, Maine to ask three questions about wind energy in its semi-annual Tracking Poll. The company completed 601 telephone interviews (including cell phones) with randomly selected voters across the state between April 16th and April 24th, 2014. CLICK HERE for a PDF of the results, which indicate that support for building industrial wind turbines declines appreciably when respondents learn that:

  • Building industrial wind turbines does not significantly reduce Maine’s reliance on nuclear energy, coal or oil;
  • Building industrial wind turbines in Maine yields only a negligible reduction in carbon dioxide emissions;
  • Maine may not experience positive benefits from the proliferation of industrial wind turbines on the state’s mountains.

(Click HERE for PDF of supporting information, and click HERE for PDF of Maine generation sources.)

Chris O’Neil, spokesperson for Friends of Maine’s Mountains, said the results raise questions about the extremely positive approval numbers that wind developers routinely cite when they attempt to justify steep taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies.

“For years wind developers have peddled the general benefits of wind energy, and they have a lot of financial resources behind them that we’ll never match,” O’Neil said. “People certainly want to believe it’s all good. But impacts to Maine exceed the benefits, and these poll results point out weak support for industrial wind when that shortfall is understood. Mainers expect tangible benefits for the enormous investment the government is forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to make in wind energy.”

O’Neil noted that almost 80% of respondents reported that they’re less likely to support building industrial wind turbines “if the development will not positively impact Maine.”

O’Neil said skepticism about wind energy is increasing, and as a result Maine policy makers are starting to ask much tougher questions about the benefits of industrial wind turbines in sensitive mountain areas. He pointed to several anti-wind bills in the last Legislative session that fared well, including legislation that would have eliminated the state’s “megawatt goals” and replaced them with a policy objective of demonstrated and “tangible” benefits.

“Now that policy makers have driven a new car off the lot, they’re finally kicking the tires and looking underneath the hood. Expect to see much tougher scrutiny of proposed wind projects in the future,” O’Neil said.

For more information about Friends of Maine’s Mountains, visit www.FriendsOfMainesMountains.org. For more information about Critical Insights, visit www.CriticalInsights.com.

Trees are Much Better for the Environment, than Wind Turbines!

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RESEARCH BY CERN INDICATES TREES AND CO2 HELP KEEP THE EARTH IN BALANCE

Investigate Magazine — May 18, 2014

Research by CERN on how clouds form has found emissions by trees and galactic cosmic rays are two primary drivers of cloud formation, which in turn helps cool the planet by reflecting sunlight off the cloud layer.

Although not expressly stated so bluntly, the research suggests a CO2 cycle has kept earth in balance – the more CO2 in the atmosphere, the faster and bigger that plants grow, and the more that plants grow the more their emissions help form planet-cooling clouds.

The full press release from CERN follows:

Geneva 16 May 2014. In a paper published in the journal Science today, CERN’s* CLOUD** experiment has shown that biogenic vapours emitted by trees and oxidised in the atmosphere have a significant impact on the formation of clouds, thus helping to cool the planet. These biogenic aerosols are what give forests seen from afar their characteristic blue haze. The CLOUD study shows that the oxidised biogenic vapours bind with sulphuric acid to form embryonic particles which can then grow to become the seeds on which cloud droplets can form. This result follows previous measurements from CLOUD showing that sulphuric acid alone could not form new particles in the atmosphere as had been previously assumed.

“This is a very important result,” said CLOUD spokesperson Jasper Kirkby, “since it identifies a key ingredient responsible for formation of new aerosol particles over a large part of the atmosphere – and aerosols and their impact on clouds have been identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the largest source of uncertainty in current climate models.”

Cloud droplets form on aerosol particles that can either be directly emitted, such as evaporated sea spray, or else form through a process known as nucleation, in which trace atmospheric vapours cluster together to form new particles that may grow to become cloud seeds. Around half of all cloud seeds are thought to originate from nucleated particles, but the process of nucleation is poorly understood.

The CLOUD chamber has achieved much lower concentrations of contaminants than previous experiments, allowing nucleation to be measured in the laboratory under precisely controlled atmospheric conditions. The experiment has several unique aspects, including the ability to control the “cosmic ray” beam intensity from the CERN PS, the capability to suppress ions completely by means of a strong electric clearing-field, precise adjustment of “sunlight” from a UV fibre-optic system, and highly-stable operation at any temperature in the atmosphere.

Sulphuric acid is thought to play a key role, but previous CLOUD experiments have shown that, on its own, sulphuric acid has a much smaller effect than had been assumed. Sulphuric acid in the atmosphere originates from sulphur dioxide, for which fossil fuels are the predominant source. The new result shows that oxidised biogenic vapours derived from alpha-pinene emitted by trees rapidly form new particles with sulphuric acid. Ions produced in the atmosphere by galactic cosmic rays are found to enhance the formation rate of these particles significantly, but only when the concentrations of sulphuric acid and oxidised organic vapours are relatively low. The CLOUD paper includes global modelling studies which show how this new process can account for the observed seasonal variations in atmospheric aerosol particles, which result from higher global tree emissions in the northern hemisphere summer.

“The reason why it has taken so long to understand the vapours responsible for new particle formation in the atmosphere is that they are present in minute amounts near one molecule per trillion air molecules”, explains Jasper Kirkby. “Reaching this level of cleanliness and control in a laboratory experiment is at the limit of current technology, and CERN know-how has been crucial for CLOUD being the first experiment to achieve this performance.”

Biogenic vapours join another class of trace vapours, known as amines, that have previously been shown by CLOUD to cluster with sulphuric acid to produce new aerosol particles in the atmosphere. Amines, however, are only found close to their primary sources such as animal husbandry, whereas alpha-pinene is ubiquitous over landmasses. This latest result from CLOUD could therefore explain a large fraction of the birth of cloud seeds in the lower atmosphere around the world. It shows that sulphuric acid aerosols do indeed have a significant influence on the formation of clouds, but they need the help of trees.

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The Liberals Belong in Prison, Not Queen’s Park! Check this out!!

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Monday, May 19, 2014

A Voice of Reason, from a CAW member (retired)

Why Would Any Ontario Voter Want Even One More Minute Of This?



Let alone 4 more years:

The Liberal record:
1. “We will hold the line on taxes”
— McGuinty’s signature promise in the 2003 election campaign,
which he shredded with a $2.6 billion tax grab, the largest in Ontario history.
The HST, which massively extended the reach of the province’s 8% sales tax
to such necessities as gasoline, electricity and home heating fuels, soon followed.
2. “We will not raise the debt”
— The Liberals have doubled Ontario’s debt to $281 billion since taking office.
Paying interest on debt, at $10.6 billion annually, is now our third-largest expenditure,
after health and education.
3. “We will make sure the debt goes in only one direction, down” — See above.
4. “We will stop the waste of taxpayers’ dollars”
— The Ornge, eHealth and gas plant scandals alone,
in which billions of tax dollars were wasted, put the lie to this Liberal promise.
5. “We will respect your hard-earned tax dollars” — See above.
6. “We will balance the budget” — See above.
7. “We will live by the balanced budget law”
— In 2003, McGuinty pledged, in writing:
“I … promise if my party is elected as the next government, that I will:
Not raise taxes or implement any new taxes without the explicit consent of Ontario voters.
And not run deficits.” After the election, he broke all three promises.
8. “We will measure every investment against results.” If the Liberals had kept this promise,
the eHealth, Ornge and gas plant scandals would never have happened.
9. “We will make sure your health care dollars are invested wisely” — See Ornge and eHealth, above.
10. “We will bring peace and stability to our schools”
— Ontario students have just lived through a year of teacher unrest,
including the shutdown of extra-curricular activities, over the Liberals’ belated
attempt to rein in teacher salaries and benefits, after nine years
of throwing our money at them.
11. “We will ensure there is transparency in public education”
— Instead, the Liberals unleashed a controversial sex education curriculum
with no warning to ordinary parents. Now we’ve learned
Education Minister Liz Sandals doesn’t even read the curriculum documents she signs.
12. “We will ease gridlock with a seamless transportation network across the Greater Toronto Area”
— After 10 years in power, gridlock across the GTA is worse than ever and
the Liberals are making exactly the same broken promise again.
13. “We will shut down Ontario’s coal-burning plants by 2007”
— The Liberals still haven’t closed them, now promising to do so in 2014.
14. “We will bring clean, renewable energy to Ontario”
— Under the Liberals, wind and solar power are producing minuscule amounts of
unneeded, unreliable, inefficient and expensive electricity,
which has to be backed up by fossil fuels. This will, according to the Auditor General,
cost Ontarians billions of dollars extra on their hydro bills, for decades to come.
15. “We will bring stability to Ontario’s electricity market” — See above.
16. “We will respect the views of rural constituents by giving their MPPs free votes”
— If that was true, Liberal MPPs wouldn’t be responding to furious complaints
from their constituents about having industrial wind turbines rammed down their throats
with form letters.
17. “We will ensure that all developers play by the rules”
— Unless they’re wind developers, where the Liberals took away the rights of local citizens
to oppose wind projects.
18. “We will give real legal rights to victims of crime”
— In 2007, Ombudsman Andre Marin described Ontario’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
as “unreasonable, oppressive, unjust (and) wrong,” stooping so low as to
humiliate a grieving father when he asked for funds to help bury his five-year-old daughter,
who had been raped and murdered.
19. “We will lift the veil of secrecy on government agencies and appointments”
— In fact, the Liberals routinely resort to obfuscation, stonewalling, misdirection and
deceit when answering even basic questions about who does what in their government.
Think of their farrago of lies in the gas plants scandal.
20. “We will help create jobs and spur economic growth”
— According to the Auditor General, Ontario is losing two to four jobs for every
“green” job the Liberals create, due to skyrocketing electricity costs.
– The EHealth scandal
– The slush fund scandal
– The lottery corp scandals
– The CancerCare scandal
– The MPAC scandal
– The Children’s Aid scandal
– The hospital consultants scandal
– The Niagara Parks Commission scandal
– The tire tax
– The electronics tax
– The cheap beer surtax
– The hidden hydro tax
– The planned hidden gas tax
– The ‘smart meter’ tax
– The ‘Eco’ tax
– The auto pension bailouts
– The Nortel pension bailouts
– No reduction in HST despite $4.3 Billion from the feds
– The forcing of WSIB on all construction owners
– The staggering increase in the Sunshine List
– The failure at Caledonia
– Selling out to the teachers & civic unions
– The blatant Nanticoke lie
– The squandering of record revenues
– The nanny-state banning of nearly everything
– The public funding of sex-changes while de-listing eye exams phsyio & chiro  <<<======
– The billion-dollar-per-year burden of Family Day
– The billion-dollar flip-flop on The Oakville gas plant
– Saddling rate-payers with billions in subsidies to Samsung & Ikea
– The various Ombudsman/Auditor-General condemnations
– Turning Hydro into a luxury for the rich
– The by-election bribery’s
– The refusal to correct foreign ownership of our beer market
– The outrageous property assessments
– The stifling of private health services
– The illegal and unconstitutional secret G20 law
– The acceptance of garbage-striker extortion
– The harassing labour inspectors
– The idiotic preoccupation with homosexuality lessons for third-graders
– Dumping the blue box program onto small businesses
– Imposing blood alcohol rules that punish the innocent
– The $58 Million ‘severance’ to tax-collectors who didn’t miss a single day’s work
– Socialized daycare
– Canceling the ‘mandatory’ LHIN review & giving their CEO’s $15000 raises
– Sneaking tax-dollars into Liberals campaign team coffers
– Raising tuition & auto insurance to highest in Canada
– Sinking Ontario into Have-Not status.
-And just in time for the election: cleaner kickback scandals
-The Centre of Forensic Services cutbacks
-The Ontario Health Premium
-The Introduction of the Harmonized Sales Tax
-Wynne’s brother-in-law appointed as $210,000/year interim eHealth CEO
-The London CAS charged $1.4M for false accusation and deleting documents
-David Peterson, brother-in-law of Deb Matthews,
appointed Pan American Games organizing committee chair
-Health Minister Deb Matthews blames doctors for nursing homes drugging residents at an alarming rate
-The Ring of Fire fiasco
-The 500+ deaths in hospitals with c. difficile and then all reports on the quality of care
made subject to privacy legislation
-Wynne’s wife owns 50% of a consulting company that gets government business – including Ministry of Health
-The numerous CAS problems identified by Provincial Auditor General include luxury vehicles,
resort vacations, etc.
-The lack of oversight regarding how often babies die in unregulated child care
-The lack of enforcement of education law by the Ministry of Education
-The billions in subsidies to Samsung and Ikea
-The Northlands fiasco – more costly to shut down than to operate
-The huge severance packages and bonuses paid out by taxpayer dollars
-The creation of the Ontario College of Trades
-The Solid Gold scandal
-The AGCO decision disallows contract brewers like left field brewery at events that are
licensed with a Special Occasion Permit (SOP)
-The Full Day Early Learning – Kindergarten Program
-The Drive Clean Program changed to cost more
-The 21,000+ adults and children with developmental disabilities on wait lists
-The proposed hospital and winery grant to to win another by-election (fails)
-The minimum wage increase concerns
-The $1.4B Windsor Parkway’s serious safety flaws from substandard materials
-Mike Crawley awarded $456M wind contract while Liberal Party president
-The $2.5B lawsuit from cancellation of turbines of Scarborough shore which
saved 2 Liberal seats and led to WTO ruling
-The mishandling of the outlaw of pit bulls
-The $10 tax on tax increase on license plate stickers every year for the past 3 years
-The introduction of a “modest” 70% increase on the heavy truck licensing sticker fees.
-The lack of provincial action regarding the Law Society of Upper Canada that
does not protect the public from lawyers who steal from their clients.
-Millions spent to remove the “C” from OLGC – to redesign our Provincial logo
while at the same time telling us that $5 was more than enough to feed seniors
in a nursing home every day
– $4 billion dollars taken from the debt retirement charge fund, thereby adding 5 more years
to the payoff time
-The whole new division of civil servants when McGuinty hired people all over Ontario to plan
bus routes for school kids – before that it was done FREE by the school bus companies
and school management – a mess because McGuinty’s people sit in a room with a map and school
bus companies drive the route to make sure it’s safe for kids but McGuinty’s people don’t know
what side of the road the sidewalk is on – total chaos and we now pay more people for a terrible job.
-The Liberal’s clean air reports over the years. They change the data from year to year,
and explain that away as “updated information”. So for example, if you superimpose the
new data over the old, what they claim as a reduction in emissions, is actually stagnant
straight line. Nothing but a constant barrage of lies, lies and more lies.

People of Port Elgin Discuss Wind Turbines, and the Troubles they Cause!

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The Unifor (former CAW) wind turbine in Port Elgin

The Unifor (former CAW) wind turbine in Port Elgi

A town hall style meeting was held at Maple Hall in Port Elgin Thursday night on the subject of wind turbines.

The meeting falls shortly after the one year anniversary the Unifor turbine blades started spinning it was fourth in a series of open meetings for continued education. The turbine meeting, which was hosted by Saugeen Shores Turbine Operation Policy (S.T.O.P) brought in two speakers with new theories and histories in the fight against wind power.

Organizer Greg Schmaltz quipped “people are probably tired of hearing from him,” so he brought in some featured speakers from Toronto.

First to speak was Sherri Lange, the co-founder of Toronto Wind Action “whose claim to fame is that they beat the turbines on the Scarborough Bluffs down in Toronto,” said Schmalz.

Lange is also CEO of NAPAW (North American Platform Against Wind).

The second speaker Thursday evening was Kevin Dooley “who likes to be called an inventor and he truly is, with over one hundred US patents’ to his name,” Schamlz added. “He is a retired jet engine turbine specialist; his life’s mission is all about vibration which of course noise is a vibration.”

The S.T.O.P spokesperson said Dooley has interesting theories about how people suffering adverse effects from industrial turbines are in fact identical to motion sickness that you would experience on a boat caused by atmospheric pressure changes “which is a pretty cutting edge scientific data.”

Dooley’s presentation showcased The McMauley Hypothsis about infrasound and how it causes tempera illness. He displayed acoustic data captured from Port Elgin homes showing the rate of the blade passing the tower in a pulse spectra analysis.

“These frequencies of thumping are specific to each wind turbine”, said Dooley.

Following his presentation the room was open to public questioning and Dooley was happy to simplify the statistics that he presented in his presentation which followed Lange’s.

“This is a worldwide movement with cases and court proceedings stretching out as far as Germany,” said Schmalz. “The movement on a worldwide basis needs to be based on scientific fact. You have to really prove without a shadow of a doubt you can show how and why people are being made sick through low frequency noise and that’s [Dooley’s] mission.

“The struggle will continue until you can get to court and prove that they should not be operation,” he said.

A key point that the S.T.O.P wants to make clear is its fight has nothing to do with the people that work for Unifor. That [members] believe it truly is a policy that the directors have taken and they propose a meeting with representatives from Port Elgin.

“We just want a knowledgeable civil discussion on how to mitigate the harm that their machine is doing to the neighbor’s that surround their facility,” added Schmalz. “There is no questions the harm was not there before that change was made–by putting that one machine in the neighborhood.”

S.T.O.P would appreciate the opportunity to sit down and share all the measurement data collected which indicates the high levels of low frequency noise in the victim’s homes.

“There’s a huge amount of information about what extended exposure to low frequency noise does to the human body and it’s identical to what the people of Saugeen Shores are experiencing,” concluded Schmalz.