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gvvnmhhljk mknkll bmoujhbjEditor: The quote below is from 2006 yet we move forward with the scam that has become our electrical system. No one in their right mind would waste money on this system. Yet nearing the end of 2009 the govt. continues to waste tax dollars on a system the Premier says is expensive and unreliable.
Note: Both the Conservatives and the NDP planned the same system. Cooked up by Maurice Strong/Al Gore/UN and the World Bank – a continuation of the Enron Scam
According to our Premier, Dalton McGuinty
Ontario Hansard - 19-April2006
“I think the member opposite knows that when it comes to natural gas, prices there tend to be volatile, and it remains a significant contributor to global warming. Wind turbines: We are investing heavily in those, but again, those are an expensive form of electricity and they’re not reliable, because sometimes obviously the wind does not blow. When it comes to solar, those tend to be expensive as well.”
And from the Kingston Health Officer
Wind farm raises health concerns; No long-term effect, says Kingston doctor
Posted By Jennifer Pritchett
Dr. Ian Gemmill, Kingston’s medical officer of health, says there hasn’t been enough monitoring done to determine whether they’re harmful.
Gemmill said, there is nothing to indicate that wind turbines have any long-term effect on people’s health.
“We haven’t got a lot of evidence to go on right now,” said Gemmill. Gemmill said that though there are concerns about low-level noise, appearance and stress caused by the turbines, research has suggested that those effects don’t cause long-term health impacts after people are no longer living near wind farms.
“Our conclusion is that while there may be some short-term concerns, this will not have a long-term health effect,” said Gemmill.
Board member Vicki Schmolka told the board that she wasn’t sure that she agreed with Gemmill’s conclusion. She indicated that she felt there are health concerns associated with the turbines that the board should investigate further.
“Seems to me what we’re really saying is that this person needs to move away and they’ll be OK,” she said.
Schmolka, who is also a city councillor, asked Gemmill if he was comfortable saying that there were definitively no long-term health effects from wind turbines.
“I’m saying it’s reversible,” he responded. “I know that people are bothered by this, but the question here is when do we become involved.”
thewhigJennifer Pritchett
I wish to thank Sherona and her crew for making the trip from Toronto, also Fairchild Television for the original production.
Editor:
I shot this video On Sept. 11 2009 for Doug Schapira of the Owen Sound Free Press as he took his concerns about the H1N1 Flu virus and vaccine to the doors of the Public Health office in Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound.
To date the Director, Dr. Hazel Lynn, refuses to answer questions raised by the public.
This is the same Health Office that refused to send someone to document health problems reported by people living near wind turbines.
It appears our health officials are more interested in appeasing industry than looking out for the health of citizens.
Hard questions need to be asked of our health officials and we must demand answers to those questions.
Editor: Read this post and then please leave a comment explaining it’s importance and the ramifications for Canada
Canada dead last on climate change
We can no longer use the U.S. as an excuse for inaction
By GERALD BUTTS, FreelanceJuly 8, 2009
Here is a sobering thought to consider as Canada prepares to assume the presidency of the G8 following this week’s meeting in Italy: Canada has for the first time replaced the United States as the worst performer on tackling climate change among G8 nations. This was revealed in the recent G8 Climate Scorecard, released jointly by WWF, the global conservation organization, and the global insurance company Allianz.
The report confirms recent events in North America: There is a new worldview in the U.S. as it rejoins the global community, while Canada continues with the “No, we can’t” approach adopted by successive Canadian governments.
The fact that the U.S. is rapidly leaving Canada in its wake on climate change is particularly important, as Canada’s political leaders have repeatedly claimed that Canada couldn’t afford to move faster or further than our major trading partner.
If that argument ever had merit, it certainly doesn’t now as we see the difference that political leadership can make.
More has been done in the U.S. in the last six months than in the last 30 years. We have seen tough new standards for greenhouse-gas emissions from cars introduced by the Obama administration. There have been massive investments in energy efficiency, green power and public transit. A renewed respect for science, backed by new funding. Climate legislation that would cap emissions from large industrial polluters has been passed by the House of Representatives, and could become law before the international negotiations over a new global deal on climate action in Copenhagen later this year.
As we prepare to participate in the Copenhagen climate summit in December and to play host to next year’s G8 meeting in Huntsville, Ont., we should be taking the longer view and building a legacy of a green economy that will make Canadians proud. The good news is that progress in the U.S. shows how much can change, and how quickly, with a simple change in mindset, from “No we can’t” to “Yes we can.”
Full Story at the Gazette
A powerful wake up call from Tom Adams concerning the Green Energy Act in Ontario.
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Editor:
Carol Mitchell, through her office staff, was invited to attend the taping of a television program at the Ripley wind farm. She never showed up. Granted the invite was on short notice but there was concern for her when she failed to show.
On the evening of June 22, it was understood she was scheduled to attend a Wind Turbine regulations public meeting in Port Elgin where approximately 180 citizens anticipated her arrival . She did not show up.
I don’t wish to alarm anyone by calling the police at this time. If you know of her whereabouts please ask her to contact me.
Carol Mitchell may or may not be sporting a small green tattoo.
Your attention in this matter is appreciated!
The above artricle is satire !
Dalton McGuinty and George Smitherman need to come clean with Ontario.
How is it that most people now know that global warming is a scam, yet those in the highest office of the Province of Ontario still don’t get it.
Are our elected officials stupid, incompetent, or are they willing participants in the Global Warming/Climate Change Scam?
We know where David Suzuki and Al Gore stand – What about you Dalton and George? Are willing to go down with the ship taking the Province of Ontario with you?
The Scam is coming apart at the seams. Bail out while you can.
Watch the Video!
No Compromise on Health News release
Toronto, April 27, 2009 -Wind Concerns Ontario is encouraged that the Premier of Ontario has committed to an examination of the health issues involved with industrial wind turbines.
“We’ll take advantage of the very best information that’s out there to make sure that we’re doing something that’s intelligent.”
~Premier Dalton McGuinty The Canadian Press April 24, 2009
The Premier will need to go well beyond speaking only to the manufacturers of these turbines and the Canadian Wind Energy Association lobby in order to rely on the “best information” available. There are and have been better sources of information for several years. Other jurisdictions with far greater experience have implemented stronger regulations that Ontario has so far chosen to ignore. To date the “best” Ontario Health Effects information is the Wind Concerns Ontario survey presented by Dr. Robert McMurtry to the Standing Committee on the Green Energy Act on April 22.
Wind Concerns Ontario repeats its demand that Premier McGuinty apply the precautionary principle and conduct a full epidemiological study into health effects of wind turbines before any more industrial wind projects are installed in Ontario closer than 2km to any residence. This is the only way to avoid causing serious harm to those who live beside industrial wind turbines. Medical authorities elsewhere have already recommended precautionary setbacks.
The Government of Ontario must consider these various national standards:
- Scotland requires setbacks of at least 2 km from cities, towns and villages.
- The United Kingdom’s Noise Association recommends a one-mile (1.6 km) setback.
- France will soon add the International Standards Organization’s absolute level of 25 dBA, as measured inside homes in response to the National Academy of Medicine’s earlier recommendation of 1.5 km. setbacks,
- Germany specifies maximum noise levels for three different environments or “regions”:
- quiet 35dBA (Setbacks in quiet or country locations are typically 1000-1500 meters)
- middle, 40 dBA
- standard, 45 dBA
- Denmark, Holland, and Sweden have a maximum noise level of 40 dBA.
- South Australia’s standard is 35dBA or background +5dB
- New Zealand is now reviewing its secondary noise limit of 35dBA for evening and nighttime in low background
The Canadian Wind Energy Association recommends noise levels of 40-53 dBA. They state that setbacks are normally 300-600 meters but in some cases “separation distances of less than 250 meters may achieve acceptable sound levels” (CanWea paper, “Addressing Concerns with Sound from Wind Turbines,” January 2009).
Ontario’s Ministry of Environment presently does not specify setback distances. It has established only ‘regulatory guidelines’ that allow wind turbines, depending on the wind speed, to produce from 40 to as high as 51 dBA of noise, measured not at property lines but outside homes.
The present standards for Ontario are not nearly the best but rather nearly the worst.
If the Government of Ontario aspires to be a world leader in wind energy, it should also lead the world in protecting its citizens from harmful side effects of this industry. In addition to setting world-class standards for low noise levels on the dBA scale, Ontario must determine appropriate levels on the dBC scale for low frequency sound, reported increasingly as a health concern.
Editor: Can it get any more ridiculous?
Ontario is hell bent to close our coal plants and replace them with intermittent wind farms and solar parks – backed up by expensive gas plants.
If you asked someone to design the worst electrical system they could, it would likely be the one described above. The very things you would want to avoid if possible. Expensive and unreliable.
How do you promote an expensive, unreliable electrical system?
Are you stupid? Own a business?
Ontario is the place for you!
Shouldn’t the growers be using renewables like wind and solar? Not if you want your tomatoes.(wind and solar create carbon credits. We need reliable cost effective energy)
Dump the green lobbyists today – Call in the engineers and lets get a system that is cost effective and reliable. I have said this too many times but I will say it once more.
I had a long talk with the senior policy adviser for the Ministry of Energy and he agreed that the best system for Ontario was to put the scrubbers on the coal plants and build a nuke. 10 billion. Cost effective and as clean as we will get.
The green lobbyists plan-60+ billion (that’s a lot of your taxes wasted) for a system that is more expensive, unreliable and in the end not likely any cleaner than the one the policy adviser would build.
“This is about politics” I was told by the adviser. Well folks – heat your home or greenhouse with politics.
Read the story and if you are not outraged by this govt. – you probably work for them or one of the lobbyists.
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More growers turn to coal
TORONTO STAR PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
Tyler Hamilton
Energy Reporter
“Coal is expanding in the province, despite a policy to phase out coal,” says Roger Samson, executive director of REAP-Canada, an independent group that encourages sustainable farming practices. “The Ontario government has no plan on how to mitigate this.”
How much coal, potentially, are we talking about? The energy demands of a typical greenhouse are enormous. Shalin Khosla, a greenhouse specialist with the agriculture ministry, says anywhere between 35 per cent to 50 per cent of the costs of operating a modern vegetable greenhouse goes toward energy consumption. The figure is closer to 20 per cent for flower growers.
It’s estimated that greenhouses in Ontario cover 2,823 acres, and that the average greenhouse requires 9,500 gigajoules of energy per acre every year. This works out to 26.8 million gigajoules annually.
Convert that energy into electricity potential and it works out to 7.44 terawatt-hours a year – more than three times the 2004 electricity output of the Lakeview coal-fired generating station in Mississauga (which has since been closed down and demolished).
That’s equivalent to more than one million tonnes of coal being burned annually.
It’s a mathematical exercise that raises a serious public policy question: What’s preventing the entire greenhouse industry from moving to coal, and in doing so, undermining the spirit of the McGuinty government’s coal phase-out strategy?
Not much, it appears. Unlike power plants and other major industrial facilities, greenhouses can burn whatever fuel they want without much scrutiny.
Keith Stewart, an energy expert with WWF-Canada and author of a book on Ontario’s electricity system, calls the situation “perverse” and a reflection of inconsistent government policy.
“Outdated energy policy is giving us coal-fired tomatoes,” he says.
full story at the Toronto Star
Tyler Hamilton can’t seem to write a story without including Keith Stewart in it. Tyler, go find some engineers. Stewart has a Phd in political science and environment. He is not a energy expert nor is the WWF.
I haven’t read his book but I have read enough “green” policy papers to pretty much know what it says. Green politics does not make an energy expert.
Stewart is a lobbyist for the green movement. Gerald Butts the ex-principal Secretary for McGuinty is now with the WWF. Robert Hornung of CanWEA and the Pembina Institute along with his friend David Suzuki are all involved in pressuring the govt. to adopt their policies and in the process are doing great harm to this Province and Canada.
None of these people are employed by the govt. nor are they elected and I don’t believe any of them are engineers.
They are promoters of a massive fraud that goes by the name of “Man Made Global Warming”.
So butt the fuck out of our electrical system.
If you don’t like Canada – go join your mentor Maurice Strong in China. They use lots of coal there. Go bother the Chinese
If any of you mentioned above would like to enter into an open debate, or have a comment-I’m available.
Germany Plans Boom in Coal-Fired Power Plants
Premier, Dalton McGuinty powers a press conference with wind energy
