Lack of information annoying

Posted on 05/02/2012 by

By Don Crosby, Owen Sound Sun Times
Some Grey Highlands councillors and residents were disappointed at how unprepared representatives of a wind energy development project were when they appeared before council earlier this week. Representatives of Natenco — a wind energy consultant firm and the shareholders of Flesherton Wind Energy (Silver Springs) refused to disclose the identity of the owners of the project during a special council meeting held on Monday. “There is no relevance to who the owners are. It’s not relevant,” said Ken Zuckerman, a spokesman for the owners in answer to a question by Coun. Lynn Silverton. That answer brought a gasp from three dozen people who packed the council chamber. “I don’t know why they had a problem with telling me who the owner of the project is. That very statement at the beginning made me very wary of everything else they said,” said Silverton later during an interview. Grey Highlands resident Donna Close was incensed at the refusal of the owners of the project to attend the meeting at the request of the council and then have their representatives refuse to cooperate. “It’s incredibly insulting. Of course it’s relevant. Who is going to be financially responsible for this project? Ownership is relevant. . . the proponents were supposed to come to this meeting. We’ve got people who showed up that don’t know the answers. Why once more do we have the hired guns. They are the consultants. Why aren’t the owners here? They are the ones I want to see face to face,” said Close, whose property is called a receptor which reflects its near proximity to a turbine.  Read article

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14 Responses to Lack of information annoying

  1. thebiggreenlie says:
    05/02/2012 at 20:10

    These Wind Lizards could have talked “baby talk” and made no sense whatsoever and they would STILL have met McGuinty’s criteria that they had a successful “public consultation”!
    Theatre of the absurd!

  2. jack says:
    05/02/2012 at 21:39

    Why hide the facts about this project? What is the motive? Why is the owner’s name not relevant? Sounds like some kind of delay tactic. If I was in that community I get everyone together and then bombard that wind energy consulting firm with written questions. They’ve had their chance to be forthright, now’s the time to push back hard. Maybe that what they’re afraid of since many people in these communities are pushing back and are being very difficult for wind company lackeys to deal with. I’d say…Go get’em and hang’em high!

    • madasabat says:
      05/03/2012 at 08:55

      Cavalier attitude of wind rep’s demonstrate that
      even they look at the whole ‘public consultation’
      process as being a sham.

  3. barbara says:
    05/03/2012 at 00:48

    Natenco LLC subsidiary of Windreich AG
    http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?privcapId=52055993
    Hans-Jorg Bullinger, Board of Windreich > Klaus Muller Gebel, Commerzbank AG > Martin Rohr,former director Aecon Group Inc,Toronto
    —————————————————————————————————————————
    Aecon Group Inc,Toronto
    http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/relationship.asp?personId=8368004
    Martin Rohr > Klaus Muller Gebel > Hans-Jorg Bullinger
    Could be very relevant to this wind project.

  4. Free Thinker says:
    05/03/2012 at 10:10

    Confused? or pushing the projects along?…….re: Public Information Centre
    Hey Mr. CAO – are you dumber than soap?

    ‘]excerpt] Chief administrative officer Dan Best suggested that residents send in their questions to Natenco ahead of time so that company representatives could come to the meetings prepared.

    No date was set for the meetings expected to take place sometime next month.

    The company is also managing the development of a second project —Grey Highlands Clean Energy — which is to be located along Grey Road 4 west of Singhampton.

    It received approval under the province’s Feed-In Tariff agreement in April 2010. Plans are to build 10 turbines on eight properties.

    Kausel said the owners of this project will abide by all of the regulations for this project that are required under the Green Energy Act.

    Council had invited Grey Highlands Zero Emission People — another wind energy developer with plans for a project south of Grey County Road 4 in the Maxwell area as well as a solar energy developer SkyPower Limited which has plans to develop a 10 MW solar energy project in Grey Highlands. Neither of them showed up to Monday’s special meeting which was called to hear from renewable energy developers in the municipality.’

    Golden Goose!
    http://www.windworkspower.com/presentations/Investor_Presentation_Q1_2012.pdf

    Wake up! We’re being robbed.

    • Free Thinker says:
      05/03/2012 at 10:46

      Hey Mr. CAO – we don’t want to know – what you don’t know
      we want to know – what you know!!!!!

      Turn the music up!

  5. Lorrie says:
    05/03/2012 at 11:54

    Annoying? Annoying does not describe this meeting anymore than it describes the suffering people in turbine toxic homes are living with.
    It was infuriating to watch arrogance sitting next to stupidity sitting next to more stupidity. It was obvious they were not even close to being prepared for this meeting. They had no presentation ready. Information was either inaccurate or unknown. That they have to stand in front of the public and answer questions they will absolutely be unable to answer will be sweet to attend. I have no intentions of making it an easy meeting for any of them.

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