By Tori Stafford/The Whig-Standard
A dull buzz filled the small gymnasium of Amherst Island Public School on Sunday afternoon as more than 50 people gathered there to hear Carmen Krogh discuss the negative health impacts of wind turbines. Krogh, a retired pharmacist who has held senior positions at a major teaching hospital and Health Canada, has spent much of the past three years volunteering her services to researching the health effects of living near industrial wind turbines. She is currently conducting Wind Vigilance for Ontario Communities, a self-reporting health survey, and she has formed the support network VOW, which stands for Victims of Wind. Read article
Ontario Wind Resistance
I see a few misprints but the mother who stood up and spoke to her fear of being surrounded by turbines has good cause to be concerned.
People report sleep disturbance to the point of becoming unable to function well from lack of restorative sleep, waking up with a start while their hearts are rapidly beating, headaches that meds don’t touch, dizziness, nausea among other symptoms; all symptoms that go away after the person leaves the area that’s become toxic after turbines become operational.
People don’t walk away from homes they’ve lived in for decades and love because they are ‘annoyed’ as the word ‘annoyed’ is understood by most.
I’m sure Ms. Krogh did not mean to take sole credit for both WindVOiCe, Wind Vigilance for Ontario Communities and VOW, Victims of Wind, since both are very much a collaborative effort by volunteers who have put many hours into both.
Wolfe Island won’t be prime real estate very much longer!
The expression annoyed to death has real meaning!
Who did the environmental assessments for the Wolfe Island project?
Algonquin Power & Utilites Corp.,Wind Electric is a subsidiary of Algonguin
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=AQN:CN
Stock trades US under AQUNF:US
Environmental Law and Litigation, Nov.24,2009
Re: Gaia Power Inc. the original Amherst Island developer.
“Another wind energy lawsuit”
http://envirolaw.com/wind-energy-lawsuit/
Businessweek, May 2,2011
“Northeast wind power developer forms partnership”
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MVEI980.htm
Involves Algonquin Power.
Gaia Power Inc., Nov.21,2005, http://www.gaiapower.com
“Joint Bid for Wolfe Island Wind Project Successful”
Gaia Power + partners + Canadain Hydro Developers involved in the IWT project.
Windelectric retained Stantec Consulting Ltd for Amherst Island project.
Send the wind turbines to Afghanistan…
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/09/electricity-key-to-rebuilding-afghanistans-war-torn-economy-ceo/
Only one in three Afghans has access to electricity despite years of spending to improve supply, and the country is still far too dependent on imported power, the head of the country’s state owned power utility told Reuters.
If they are that good — they will thank us… otherwise…
Cheaper to send McGuinty and his cronies to Afghanistan! In the hull of a cargo ship sounds about right.
The Whig reported 50 persons attended. Several islanders who were there estimated the attendance was between 100 and 150 people. Not bad for a winter population of about 400.
Kingston tv has a fair clip. McGuinty keeps stubbornly spouting windie bs
http://www.ckwstv.com/index.cfm?page=news&id=6286
The UK cops are learning from Ontario…
See the article on Bishop Hill!
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/10/government-surveillance-of-windfarm-protestor.html
Sorry about screwing up the previous links.
Oh Yeah! At the meeting — Tell them you work for Mike Crawley!
Considering his take from tax dollars — maybe we all do…
It looks like Japan finally woke up and took a long hard look at green energy:
“Japan’s wind power installations for the year ending in March will decline 68 percent after the government halted a program that provided subsidies for clean energy projects, an industry association said.”
http://www.thegwpf.org/international-news/4735-japans-wind-power-installations-to-drop-68-as-subsidies-are-halted.html