Groups from all over Ontario will target visitors of major tourist areas in a province-wide information picket. Where do the urbanites flock to in your area on the long weekend? Please join other groups in this effort. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Rondeau – Shelburne – Grand Bend – Port Elgin and wherever else we show up!
Greet heavy traffic with signs and information on May 21st, Monday of the first long weekend! Some areas will be a few people with signs and some areas will be hundreds of people with signs and all are ready to wake this province up!
Rondeau Park (Chatham/Kent/Essex)
Come on out to help educate the visitors to Rondeau about our concerns with industrial wind turbines. Meet just outside the park gates (between Rondeau Joe’s restaurant and the gates) on Monday (the 21st) at 1 PM. Bring signs if you have them (some extras will be available), decorated t-shirts or whatever you like. Bring some friends out to enjoy the great weather that is predicted while providing an important public service!
Shelburne (Dufferin/Grey)
We will be setting up in the middle of the turbine mess north of Shelburne where 7+ families have been bought out by the wind company, where many others sit and suffer because no one wants to buy a turbine/substation toxic home and where the For Sale signs and the vacated properties are at an all time high.
At 1:00pm on Hwy. 10, north of Shelburne, between County Road 17 and County Road 21, we will park next to a hydro pole on the EAST side of the Hwy. (Drive to the center area between these two roads and take the next available hydro pole on either side of protesters already there.) Pull over as far as you can. Plan to decorate your stationary vehicle with signs, etc. The space between where you are parked and the next person is parked at the next hydro pole is your area to picket with your mobile signs: homemade, premade, banners, balloons; anything goes!
Be sure to stay OFF of the highway itself at all times for your own safety and for the safety of drivers passing by.
Grand Bend (Huron-Lambton-Middlesex)
Information protest during the May 24 long-weekend (Monday, May 21st at 11:00am-4:00pm) at the Grand Bend main intersection. Pass out pamphlets at the intersection of Highways #21 and #81 and hopefully hundreds of us will show up carrying signs displaying our anti-turbine sentiments. Bring your signs, whistles, costumes etc. and email anyone you know who is willing to participate.
Port Elgin
Under the direction of S.T.O.P., Port Elgin will have two Information Kiosks located on Port Elgin’s Main Beach and Gobles Grove Beach. These information centres will be open on SATURDAY MAY 19 from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. You are invited to gather information concerning IWTs.
S.T.O.P. is looking for extra volunteers to help make this event a success. Contact Wayne Mc Grath (832-2725)
Would this be to set up at roadways and ( community entrances) distribute info, collect donations? Would this be a set up at strategic businesses collecting and distributing info, or both? Would the funds go to the respective community, a general provincial fund or a shared system? Great idea….lots of work though….I will help out here ( Arran…Port….South).
How each group wants to run it in their specific area is up to them.
In the meantime — leave a comment here…
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1158851–wind-turbines-don-t-affect-property-assessment-ontario-review-board-rules?bn=1
Let Star readers know what you think of Turbines.
This is also a recruiting drive. Let peole know they are welcome to join in. Campers and day visitors do care about rural areas and would be concerned about losing their favourite places to camp and visit. The birders will be out along the migratory bird resting areas.
Provincial parks?
Besides Provincial Parks and lakeside holiday towns like Pt Dover, Port Elgin, all the communities along the Bluewater highway and the shores of Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, are there any GATED HOLIDAY HIDEAWAYS where the IWT carpetbaggers cavort with their abetters on our tax payer subsidies?
For those of us who don’t have a group, where can we help to get the biggest bang for your $
Muskoka.
Right on Greg!
They have been protected for too long,and hell, they could get a whack of them if this madness carries on.
Harrison Lake to start with!
Breed the fear and the fear breeds!
So, which Wind Warriors may I join in their Victoria Day, Province Wide Information Picketting of Harrison Lake in Muskoka?
Are there any projects planned for Musoka? Lots of money there – unlike the poor depressed farming communities (that “need that turbine lease money to survive”) along the great lakes.
No, there are no projects planned for the playground of the Toronto rich.
According to the government’s Ontario wind atlas, the District of Muskoka and the Muskoka Lakes proper do not have enough reliable wind to sustain IWTs. The one exception to this would be the eastern coast of Georgian Bay… but any planned IWT development there would face the wrath of the 30,000 Islands cottagers and the whims of the First Nations living in the area.
As for the tourist areas subject to IWT invasions … showing vacationers those maps full of pins denoting existing and proposed IWTs locations should get their attention.
However, the local Chambers of Commerce, who have generally, in the past at least, supported IWTs, may think that the travelling public should remain ignorant of the truth.
But still a very important area to get IWT information out in.Let these pople know that IWTs are not wanted in rural Ontario and why.
Austrailia- Windfarm debate flaring up as another major wind farm 41 more adding to 37 already installed – people in Clear Valley forced out of homes due to present noise levels.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/national/watch/28827203
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/national/watch/28827203
Wouldn’t just the 400 do?
Rural Ontario can hold both the carrot and the stick if they want to.
Ben……..if you can,shut it down.
If I was younger I’d hold a 2 day party on it…….campers the lot…you go ……..
Unfortunately, “protests” are a dime a dozen these days and the general public is growing
weary of all the “causes”, legitimate or otherwise. Besides, it’s difficult for respectful protesters like the anti-wind groups to compete with the numerous, loud and boisterous Montreal students and Toronto occupiers, who grab most of the press headlines. I don’t think urban cottagers will be impressed by or sympathetic to the IWT cause by being held hostage on Hwy 400 on their first trip to the lake.
The fantastic billboards seen on this website will get the message out without annoying people.
Also, setting up some informal “education” kiosks at stategic locations in tourist areas would likely be helpful. Just showing vacationers those maps depicting the future location of all those proposed IWTs in their favourite playgrounds should snap them to attention.
All this, of course, IMHO.
I agree SG,
Be nice if Sun Media could finace a few around Toronto…tax deductable for them eh!
weather proof,tear proof, signs/banners/FLAGS/kite’s..lasts forever………..
can be painted/drawn/sprayed etc and wrapped around/attached to anything……….you get a lot of signage for your dollar.
House wrap in white (aka muskoca siding
Quite a few years ago when they first started putting up birdchoppers near Kincardine I was driving around. I saw a couple houses with little no wind turbine signs on the mailboxes. So I stopped in, because I figured the people just got to hate these things. Nobody was home. I went to the neighbors. They didn’t know much about what was going on. I searched the internet for a protest group. Couldn’t find anything.
Slowly, nothing has changed into thousands of people from all across Ont. (and all over the world). The numbers aren’t big enough yet. But close maybe. One more election and a few more people on side is all it will take. Maybe you don’t have to work as hard as hard as you have in the past but don’t give up. or maybe work harder?
There has been huge change over the years and it is getting bigger all of the time. My own mayor, Randy Hope – Chatham Kent – wind turbine poster boy has recently sent a letter to the provincial gov’t asking for a partial moratorium. Who would have thought that would have ever happen? The reasons may be suspect but it happened.
Hey David Libby,
Randy Hope – with a saint in his eye
…….it’s called positioning!
The deception never ends.
You have some great ideas but if anything like this is planned or will be planned keep the information off from the net. Surprise is much more effective.
This is untrue.
Hey Agnes,
Don’t leave us wondering!
I am an “urbanite”. I know about these issues well and care for them. I will help you tear down those turbines. But I bet anything that you will not help me to tear down the electromagnetic radiation contraptions, ultra and infrasonic frequency generating machines and other such things that sickens me constantly in this city and keep me escaping to the countryside and thus caring for what happens there. I have to live here, in this city, and I will help you fight. But I know that you will not help me.
One more thing, in case my comment is (or is not) accepted. Though I may be an ‘urbanite’ in Ontario, my mother’s family have been subsitance farmers for over 1,000 years in Poland. I am sensitive to this city, get the same symptoms as those who suffer due to the turbines, am extremely sensitive to the turbines when I am out in the countryside, and I have no escape for living outside of this horrible place called the urbanised zone. Please, when you educate and spread information, don’t just assume that people do not know about these issues, and please consider this: some of us, like me, do not watch TV, do not have cellular phones, do not tolerate computers well, and suffer horribly with no escape from the city, which may just be when you intend to conduct your campaign. I would love to tear down everything that makes me live a life of hell every single day, yet instead I join your campaign in educating others because there is no hope for mine at all. Know that some of us know well what this is about and will always care, but also understand this: many of us have absolutely no way out and no support for something that is much bigger than us. It is not only those in the countryside and smaller towns who may feel helpless about this problem. I am sick, literally, when I drive out of the city to escape what makes me sick in the city, due to the turbines, as I am very sensitive and suffer horribly. I care what happens to where you live, which is where I cannot live. Do you care about the plight of the ‘urbanites’ who are in this bind? Most of them are into their gadgets and other silly things, but do you have a cell phone? Do you watch TV? These things are the source of some of our suffering. When campaigning against turbines, please observe the larger picture. I have organised many campaigns in my time and know that it is crucial to understand all sides of the story, and to know where people originate before you assume they have no idea. Also, my father’s side of the family is military in history, also about 1,000 years. They too were tough, yet they too suffer here. When you do this, please target the lovers of gadgets and those who are just there to vacation because they have time off work, not those like me who seek solace in the countryside, which truly belongs to all humanity and to nature herself. I cannot afford to escape my hell for longer than a day at a time, and not due to time constraints. There is no land left to share, as it is almost all private property along the countryside! I will help you tear those nasty things apart, but will you stop using the radio towers outside of my window?
Agnes, we hear you and understand that many urban people are in the same boat you are in. It’s not the ordinary city people who are engaged in imposing IWTs on rural folks.
The Victoria Day weekend activites are not directed at urbanites but rather to inform them as to the situation and maybe some will be encouraged enough to join in against the deployment of IWTs in rural areas.
Rural people want visitors to safe and enjoy their weekend visits to the lakes and countryside.
Include some welcome visitors signs and maybe free ice tea or water. Avoid threatening signs or signs that might imply threats to visitors. Make them places to meet their country hosts.
We can hand out information documentation and organize peaceful protests until the cows come home…. nothing will change.
If we want to embarrass the Ontario government and bring attention to this issue nationally and internationally… we should be blocking 400 series traffic during the May long weekend.
The longer we wait to take our protests to the next level… the more turbines will go up.
This is not brain surgery.
Then start organizing if you feel this way is best but keep information off from the NET.
Why keep it off the Net? This is what social media is for. How do you think student protests in Quebec happen? By keeping it off the Net??
Covert events are best kept quiet or they won’t be covert for very long.
Information given out on the Net can attract a lot of trouble makers who come just to destroy property and don’t even care about what any particular protest is about.
Public posts regarding any action/event, allows the opposition to defeat us. Use the private website.
Best not to use any website.
There is a photo of an Ohio IWT that two blades shattered on under windy conditions throwing debris more than 1,000 feet. See article on right side bar on this webpage. Visitors should be made aware of IWT dangers. Children must be kept away from IWTs.
People understand photographic/visual information very quickly.
We Need to Jump On All Opportunities
Ontario Ready to Blow!
A teacher friend of mine told me that the process towards a strike has already begun. Yes, this once bought and paid for group of political mercenaries feel betrayed and are motivated to strike back at the man who used them, by buying their vote with our money! Since the Drummond Report and Moody’s, McGuinty’s fat wad of public money has been placed under house arrest. No longer can he buy votes or finance programs by increasing the Ontario debt and deficit. So rather than kill JK, he’s decided to manipulate the doctors and teachers into paying for his footnote in history-kill JK and you’ve really hurt his ego!
Doctors organizations are doing the unthinkable-chatting with labor leaders, such as Sid Ryan. And Ryan is doing the thinkable:preparing the ground work for an abundance of political activity.
Then there’s a large collection of students who feel betrayed. And the gathering storm in rural Ontario refuses to go quietly into the night. In fact. we’re just warming up.
As well as the above, are regular Ontarians who feel betrayed becase McGuinty fudged Ontario’s fiscal numberers and used this false currency to hoodwink the province into thinking that all was well and that our future was in good hands.
All of us, representing huge numbers of Ontarians from every walk of life, need to get organized and to converge in the KW area as soon as “numb nuts” sets the date for a by election. We need to plaster telephone polls with anti-McGuinty literature, contact radio stations, visit university coffee shops, place posters in shopping mauls, and exploit all other vehicles where our message can be heard.
Sean
This is a great post however you should put it on the under the story about McGuinty appointing Liz to the WSIB, it would probably get more attention. I think you can just copy and paste it there.
Wasn’t she absent for the March 8 vote?
WSIB appointment pays $188,000/yr x 5 yrs = $940,000 and maybe with some expenses added could mean ~ $1 million over the 5 years appointment. Pension increase also? So who will jump next?
I see your point but I also see some potential for disgruntled liberals who may have been hoping for such an appointment. Perhaps we need to send then a friendly e-mail asking them why they can’t cut the mustard? For example, Kathleen Wynne, Liz Sandals, or Jim Bradley might prove fertile. Rather than troll as McGuinty does, we need to plant seeds.
Agreed, but getting a majority government is the point of all of this. Only needs one more move.
Jim Bradley may have been present Aug.30, 2001 at the committee hearing on alternative energy so would have known that Suncor and Pembina were the driving forces behind renewable energy?
The increase in salary is ~ $70,000/yr or $350,000 for 5 years. As far as I know this is illegal at least on the federal level for an elected representative in the US to do this. Can get an appointment but there must be no increase in salary. Know this because H. Clinton got an exception to this law to move from the Senate to Secretary of State with more money in salary and widely discussed in the news at the time.So considered a payoff in the US. The price for getting her out of the 2008 election campaign.
Agnes. Tell all your friends to literally QUIT VOTING LIBERTALS. The best advice I could give. It is the Urbanites that could have made the difference on Oct 6. Its too late now. Stand in front of the CN tower with a protest sign if tou wish. We will join you. I’m sure you won’t read this due to your limited evolution to the electronic age. My regards and regrets
East of Toronto, 401 overpasses have become focus for people seeking to honor fallen soldiers. Also, for Mohawks who threatened to block the 401 on at least one long weekend, but relented. Instead they demonstrated on an overpass (“living billboards”?), motorists honking acknowledgement. Still, with both of these, I always worried that someone would be rear-ended by distracted drivers (especially in fast-moving, heavy traffic) and tried not to be diverted too much. VERY grateful, however, to Mohawks who did not, in the end, add two hours to an already long drive.
You could all come to Grand Bend on the long weekend. Monday at 1 at the corner of 21 and 81….we have some great flyers to hand out to people……
OWR – Is there any chance that a tab could be opened at the top with the purpose of sharing handouts? I have seen some good ones and have some we have made too that could be shared but it always seems we are all re-inventing the wheel when it comes to handouts.
Click on the “Toolbox” tab. Plenty of resources there.
Why are you waiting until Monday at 1 ? Trying to contact tourists on their way home?
Whatever is decided, and if possible, I think we should do what the group did in the UK. Saw this in WindFarm Wars: Blown Away – the group got a large balloon, although I think a bunch of smaller balloons tied together would work too, and tethered it to a string which was the same length as the height of a wind turbine. This was to show the municipal council how tall the turbines are going to be.
I think it would help demonstrate how tall they will be. How you will be a le to see them from a great distance. Just an idea. I know it will be extra work – although I would help out in my area.
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Note: Please stay off the streets!
Queens Park –
provides a ‘safe podium’ – for citiznes – to speak out
against a corrupt Liberal government
pass it on……..
Keeping an eye on the Ontario government
If the crooks and cronies are –
maybe citizens should – too
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_proceedings_home.do?locale=en
Bookmark – and refresh daily!
pass it on……..
What the heck is the CAW?
Is it a union – or a secret society?
As the threat of irreversible damage to Canada’s environment continues to loom large, a concerned group of major labour, environmental and social justice organizations, including the CAW, announced the launch of a newly formed Green Economy Network (GEN) on April 22. Read more: http://www.caw.ca/en/3531.htm
The CAW – more like a ‘workers of the world’ – ‘unite’ –
socialist group – Ugh!
http://www.caw.ca/en/3532.htm
So – if your head is spinning –
maybe members of the CAW – should be asking
relevant questions – you’d think!
Social Justice – is a communist term!
Not worth a bucket of warm spit!
I’m a Canadian!
I live in in free nation, and I’d like to keep that way
- ah huh – turn the music up!
pass it on…….
Soon after WW 2 or maybe a little before that time Walter Reuther had to throw the communists out of the Ford local or Ford was shutting down as old Henry Ford was fed up with this local. So nothing new about radicals getting into unions only this time it’s the eco-nuts. Our unions can be ruined, jobs lost and economy hurt.
GEN includes: Environmental Defence, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Pembina Institute, and World Wildlife Fund.
CNW, Sept.21,2011
“Unions and environment groups join ranks to challenge Hudak’s atack on Ontario energy legislation”
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/844684/unions-and-environment-groups-join-ranks-to-challenge-hudak-s-attack-on-ontario-energy-legislation
Same “stage play” and same actors/casts for this drama.
Could be that rural Ontarians were just handed the big economic stick they need in the IWT fight. Now known for sure that the CAW is in with the ENGOs. So it’s up to rural Ontarians what they want to do with this big stick.
On the topic of:
‘Racketeering’ – pay to play
- if you take the money – then turn a blind eye
for example:
Haldimand’s ‘Vibrancy Fund’ –
some others, call it a – ‘Community Sustainability Fund’ etc….
Question:
Did Ontario Liberals ‘mandate’ – ‘racketeering’ –
pay to play – a racketeers’ code’
- or, can a municipality refuse to take the money?
The topic came up!
SO FAR, I see TWO actual places to go and join in to protest and educate on May 21st. Instead of endless debate, just put a time and place together and get out there! Put it on the net so people KNOW how to help. Protests out here in ruralland are NOT a dime a dozen and will be noticed by countless numbers driving by. We have no intention of stopping any traffic but we DO know that just down the road is a stop light where we can distribute fliers to educate hundreds more people.
You don’t have to be a large group. Even 6 of you at an intersection will throw the issue out there again. Like the old commercial for Nike or something or other says, JUST DO IT!
So far i see TWO events organized for May 21st. Protests in ruralland are NOT a dime a dozen. Pick a place and a time and put it out there so people know where to go to help put the issue out there! AGAIN! Instead of endless debate on what everyone else should do, take the lead from the old Nike commercial (or whatever it was) and JUST DO IT!
It doesn’t matter if you are a group of 6; put the issue out there again! Step Up! Speak Out!
Ps, we will not be blocking traffic in Shelburne. We want to educate hundreds more people, not piss them off so they ignore us some more.
jUST TWO events organized for May 21st. Protests in ruralland are NOT a dime a dozen. Pick a place and a time and put it out there so people know where to go to help put the issue out there! AGAIN! Instead of endless debate on what everyone else should do, take the lead from the old Nike commercial (or whatever it was) and JUST DO IT!
It doesn’t matter if you are a group of 6; put the issue out there again! Step Up! Speak Out!
Ps, we will not be blocking traffic in Shelburne. We want to educate hundreds more people, not piss them off so they ignore us some more.
WHAT OTHER events ARE organized for May 21st? Protests in ruralland are NOT a dime a dozen. PICK A PLACE AND A TIME AND POST IT WITH ESTHER estherw@gto.net
so people know where to go to help put the issue out there! AGAIN, Instead of endless debate on what everyone else should do, take the lead from the old Nike commercial (or whatever it was) and JUST DO IT!
It doesn’t matter if you are a group of 6; put the issue out there again! Educate, educate, educate.
Right on David Libby. More and more and more people are getting it. We keep that number growing and it’s making a difference.
OK, Last attempt to point people to Crezon Sign Board. Google it since it rejects my links:
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Is this the stuff?
http://www.greatnorthernlumber.com/crezon.htm
That is the stuff!. Another tool to use in The Great Campaign!
My thought is that we should be there with handouts including Maps on the Friday as they are starting the long weekend, maybe give them a little reading material for the downtime over the weekend. Most small towns that city folks have to pass through on their way to the cottage have a main stop light that we could be at with signs and flyers. Some places like Port Dover even have a bridge that goes up and stops traffic while the boats pass through. I would like to hand out the flyers Industrial Wind Turbines are Soon Coming to your area (from the Melancthon/Shelburne area listing the spills lines etc. and how to document everything)
can someone please resend that flyer.
Thanks
The WindConcernsOntario website has a handy printable info sheet for this.
I’ll be at Tourist information booth at Cayuga-front of liquor store today-if any one would like to join me -have brochures etc!!
Starting at 11:00 am