Time for the Chief Medical Officer of Health to step up

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

Wind Concerns Ontario announced today that it has formally requested the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr Arlene King, to follow up on the numerous complaints of excessive noise and ill health, coming from people who are living near or among large-scale wind turbines in Ontario.

Dr King produced a report, which was a simple literature review, in 2010 which found no "direct" link between turbine noise and health problems.

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Toronto Star's Walkom: matters just keep getting worse

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

In yesterday's Toronto Star, veteran commentator Thomas Walkom passed judgment on the Wynne government's recent fixes to the Green Energy and Green Economy Act: "Its efforts may be too little. They are definitely late."

Walkom noted that distasteful projects get the heave-ho in Toronto, but the huge wind power projects are located in rural Ontario and the government has been "unbending" and refused to "accept persistent claims from local residents that wind farms put their health at risk....in virtually all cases, the Liberals sided with the big, private generating companies seeking to establish these profitable wind farms."

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The Chiarelli-Wynne non-announcement for Ontario municipalities: nothing has changed

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

Last week, Energy Minister and former Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli announced that Ontario would in future increase "local control" in renewable energy development. This was in reaction to the fact that in recent weeks, almost 40 municipalities took the step of formally passing a resolution to say they are NOT a "willing host" to wind power projects, picking up on remarks made months earlier by Premier Kathleen Wynne.

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The Wiggins decision: what it means for leaseholders (You're about to get sued)

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

Last year, a group of property owners in the Collingwood area, decided to sue both the wind power developer (wpd, from Germany) and the landowners who, together, had put forward a proposal for a wind power generation project.

The landowners, led by a Mr and Mrs Wiggins, maintained that they had already suffered property value loss and that if the project was approved, those losses would continue and escalate.

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Secret deals, no public process: wind power in Ontario

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

Here from the Spring edition of the beautiful Watershed magazine is a summary of how wind power development has been rolled out in Ontario under the McGuinty government and the Green Energy and Green Economy Act.

Outrageous loss of rights and freedoms.

Read the article here:

http://watershedmagazine.com/?p=2258

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Terence Corcoran: Millions of taxpayer dollars vapourized

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

With just 20 minutes to go until the Kathleen Wynne government presents its budget, we thought it was good timing to post this opinion from Financial Post editor Terence Corcoran this morning, on the Liberal government's electricity policy--particularly its Green Energy program--and what the (disastrous) result has been for Ontario.

If you like this, be sure to read related pieces by Parker Gallant and Ross McKitrick.

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The Ostrander Point power project appeal: winnable!

Reblogged from OttawaWindConcerns:

As you know, two community groups have appeal the Ministry of the Environment's approval of a wind power project on the South Shore of Prince Edward County at Ostrander Point. The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists (PECFN) and the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC) have both filed appeals, PECFN's on the basis that the project will cause serious and irreversible harm to the natural environment, and APPEC on the basis of harm to human health.

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