In a small town your business is truly everyone’s business. What was to have been a dinner to build community ended up being nothing of the sort.
On August 16th 2012, at the local community centre in Fisherville neighbours at different ends of the wind debate met. Baseball and soccer games were in play on the fields outside and the parking lot full as people gathered to enjoy a typical summer evening in small town Canada. A social hub used by many. Dinner protested peacefully by over 50 people who greeted the invited guests of Samsung and its partners. Neighbours protesting against provincial government ignorance and self-serving agendas, industrial giants and those neighbours who bought into the “Green Energy” fairy tale, (or who just don’t care) and took the money.
Inside a local cater was preparing dinner sponsored by Samsung Renewable Energy project for the local land owners involved in the Wind and Solar projects proposed for the Haldimand and Norfolk region. Officially called- the Grand Renewable Energy Solar and Wind Projects. Details of these massive projects are available on the web at http://www.samsungrenewableenergy.ca/haldimand
What these documents do not show or discuss is the very real hurt, or the harm that is caused by this type of industrial installations. People are suffering without relief or respite. Asked those who have abandoned their homes due to Industrial wind projects, or talk to those who haven’t been able to leave. This is the real community impact for rural Ontario.
Approvals are currently under appeal at the Environmental Review Tribunal with the initial hearing date set for September 10th 2012, in Cayuga. Hear first-hand the “evidence”.
The split is real. The community divide has occurred. The harm is and has happened. Tears are genuine. People are the evidence listen to their testimonies. This is not good for anyone’s community.
Linda J Rogers
Are they entertaining everyone on our dollar? Sweet
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The toll it takes on us all. I’m exhausted from the protest last night. So very sad. One of the land owners spoke to me and told me they no longer cared if the turbines went in or not. She said that they can’t sell their farm because of the turbines. I looked into her eyes and realized she had been duped along with us all. She said they had been pressured. Brokenhearted. I know the meaning.
Pressured? Pressured?
Sorry – this is not realistic!
This type of thinking – has no credibility!
A great deal of pressure including bullying could have been used to get the contracts signed. At least the landowner was brave enough to tell someone what her situation is now.
The people who get the landowners to sign contracts are sales people who maybe work on commission? If so, this is enough of an incentive to use high pressure sales tactics on people.
p,
Has the lady made any attempt to get out of the contract?
When I hear stories such as her’s I am very sceptical.
I told her she needs to talk to a lawyer. I think by that time she was pretty overwhelmed and glazed over. Her husband had actually walked into the building without her. I took that time to introduce her to Stephana. It blew me away when she told Stephana that she realized that some people get sick from turbines. I think my comment to her was “then how can you do this?” I also invited her to have tea but I know she will never show up.
Oh yea, one of her comments was, “We (the farmers) should have stuck together. I was at this point still quite angry and repied. Not everyone went along, I told her that many people had said no.
Thank you, p.
It appears that my scepticism is well founded.
On the one hand the lady acknowledges that some people get sick, and in the next breath she said that the farmers should have stuck together. Is this what they call speaking out of both sides of one’s mouth?
I know of at least 5 farmers who said no to wind turbines; and that is just in my immediate area.
I find it nauseating that about 60 land owners who have signed up with Nextera, Samsung and Capitol will forever change the lives of thousands of people who live south of highway 3. Where is the justice in that?
To stop this none sense donate $$$$ to Haldimand Wind Concerns!