By Doug Draper
It wasn’t a good night for residents opposing plans to erect giant wind turbines in their rural Niagara communities.
More than 70 rural residents from the West Lincoln, Wainfleet and surrounding areas packed the gallery in the Niagara regional council chambers this past June 14, hoping the council would support a motion that would call to Ontario’s provincial government to, among other things, agree to a moratorium on approving any more wind farms until independent studies are completed on health and other impacts they may be having on people and their properties.
“The council also heard from wind farm proponents like Tom Rankin, an engineer and president of St. Catharines, Ontario based Rankin Construction which has built wind farms and now has a partnership with Niagara’s regional government to possibly build and operate about four or five of the towering turbines near the shores of Lake Erie in Wainfleet.”
“Now has a partnership with Niagara’s regional government”? Conflict of interest of the regional council or am I missing the obvious, help me out here. Is this a different governing body than the Niagara regional council who voted on the moratorium?
Where is the money going to come from to finance this project? Are the international capitlal markets going to be the source of the financing? These companies involved in this project don’t appear to have the financial resources to build this project by themselves.
bullet news Niagara, Sept.30,2011
“Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce announces first board of directors”
http://www.bulletnewsniagara.ca/2011/09/30/greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce-announced-first-board-of-directors
Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce Board includes:
Dave DiFelice,Associate VP, Canadian Tire Financial Services which is a subsidiary of Canadian Tire Corp.
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Canadian Tire Financial Services Corp.
Mary LouiseTurner, COO > Paul Guy Desmarias, Power Corporation of Canada
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Correction: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?privcapId=1023145
Another bunch of councilors that didn’t learn anything in school.. Pretty much brain dead , I’d say…
Ontario – the world watches – in amazement
http://www.niagararegion.ca/
A protected activity!
Sustainable Development – Agenda 21
Suzuki’s dream coming true – one community @ a time.
I’m curious – such a shuffle of CAO’s in Ontario?
It’s a very high paying job – $150,000 to $180,000 dollars per year
- yet CAO’s are:
quitting and walking away.
and, others are replacing them.
Very odd – or, maybe not!
File under – protected activity
‘[excerpt The council also heard from wind farm proponents like Tom Rankin, an engineer and president of St. Catharines, Ontario based Rankin Construction which has built wind farms and now has a partnership with Niagara’s regional government to possibly build and operate about four or five of the towering turbines near the shores of Lake Erie in Wainfleet.’
so – Rankin Construction – is our partner.
But – maybe, citizens don’t want this partnership.
Why ram it down our throats?
Isn’t the project Rankin is in a seperate project? So where is the money coming from to finance this project?
Notice now that the name wind farms has been changed to wind energy centres.