You may wish to let your views be known to your political representatives.
City Councillor, Scott Moffatt
MPP, Lisa MacLeod
MP Pierre Poilievre
http://www.resultsforyou.ca/contact/
Letters to the Editor:
Blogs/websites:
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com
http://canweablog.wordpress.com
http://northgowerwindturbines.wordpress.com (for opinions and comments of local interest)
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You can get additional information from a study at this link.
http://hro001.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/the-answer-hes-shown-is-not-blowin-in-the-wind/
hope it helps.
Folks,
I attended your excellent evening session last night and came away terribly impressed with your solid, rational arguments against further wind turbine installations. I’m a candidate for Mayor of Ottawa and I’ll be doing whatever I can to support your efforts.
Regards,
Mike
Thank you Mike (belatedly). The politics of wind power are incredible and most people have fallen for this, hook, line and sinker. There are excellent links to articles and opinions at http://www.windaction.org, http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com and http://www.windvigilance.com
Wind farm siting and permitting officials and communities can lower the negative visual impact of wind farms by recommending the deployment of new AVWS technologies on wind turbines.
While large wind farms generate clean energy, their constantly flashing red strobe lights cause great public annoyance and is usually not noticed until after the wind farm is sited and constructed. The wind farm’s legacy can include this “light pollution” and have a tremendous negative impact on the community. For example, a 100-turbine wind farm can have approximately 30-50 turbines with two high-intensity flashing lights on at all times of the night. The effects of these flashing lights on the nearby community should be considered during the wind farm permitting and development process.
Recently approved by Transport Canada and the FAA, the new generation of “on-demand” lighting systems solves this problem by keeping all wind turbine obstruction lights OFF at all times – unless an aircraft is detected flying on an unsafe heading towards the wind farm. Only then does the turbine-based radar system turn the lights on for aircraft safety, and turn the lights off when the aircraft exits the airspace. An Audio Visual Warning System (AVWS) is an on-demand lighting solution. Wind siting and permitting officials can request wind power developers to implement an AVWS into their wind farms to reduce these adverse visual impacts in your communities.
An AVWS will benefit your community by:
• Lowering the overall visual impact of wind farms by reducing “light pollution” (constantly flashing red FAA strobe lights) which cause great public annoyance in nearby communities.
• Increasing public acceptance in wind energy-producing communities.
• Fostering more responsible siting practices and therefore overall positive and growth in the wind industry.
Feel free to contact me if you would like further information. If you are interested in learning more about this new technology, please see: http://ocasinc.com/turbine-avoidance-solutions.cfm
The first OCAS Wind Farm is currently being deployed in a 99 MW wind farm in Talbot, Ontario.
The visual pollution of industrial wind turbines is but one factor in the lack of “acceptance”. The noise and vibration produced by these huge machines is another and it is that that is responsible for health effects due to sleep deprivation.
Thank you for this information, but the larger issue of siting to prevent health effects remains unresolved. It is not even being dealt with!
We ask, why is it that the problem of noise and vibration or infrasound due to traffic/highway noise and the resulting health effects due to sleep deprivation is studied and accepted, but when disturbing noise and vibration comes from industrial wind turbines, suddenly the problem doesn’t exist?
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/McGuinty+pricey+green+dreams/3875462/story.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/04/climate_experts_to_enviros_the_time_has_come_to_embrace_nuclear_power/
Hi – I hope someone can get back to me on this….I’m looking at buying a house on fourth line road and have been doing a lot of research on this. The one thing I can’t figure out is that there’s a map from Prowind that shows most of the turbines on the west side of North Gower but then the map that is on your website (with the lines showing the affected houses) shows them in a totally different area (more north and east)…..who made this map and where did you get these locations? I’d really love to find out more about this. Also any comments you have on whether this is actually going to happen or not would be much appreciated.
thanks!
We are obviously not going to give you any advice on the real estate market but can comment on the maps. Prowind’s map of their “study area” is the same as it has been for over 5 years and is probably not accurate. We have a copy of a map that was sent to us, with the company’s imprimateur on it, that shows the locations for the turbines as indicated on our map. All we have done since is to map out circles of influence or effects from the potential turbine locations.
As to whether it is “going to happen or not” this entire community has been waiting for five years for an answer to that question.At present, all applications for the government subsidy program for wind power are on “hold” pending the announcement of a new process, but Prowind told us a week ago that they intend to review the requirements and then make a decision; in August, they told the Ottawa Citizen they intend to re-apply.
All we can suggest at this point is that you go back to our news postings (the current site is ottawawindconcerns.com ) and read the ongoing reports for yourself.
Thank you for your interest, and we hope you join our wonderful community in North Gower!
My only feear is that as with Ottawa Amalgamization (forced/ aranged marriage), the politicians do ask kindly how the population feel, but then ram their pre-determined way forward regardless…!, so now legal beagles will hash it out for lotsa $$$ and years to come…I call it the “pussification” of the nation…!
Mike Maguire is the only solid, honest and “tells it like we all see it” person running for anything but the hills…!