It is plain and obvious that the government has no respect for the people that elect them. Very sadly we keep electing these people who care NOTHING for us.
These elected officials are real life monsters
– what else can you call someone so willfully blind?
– so willfully callous and morally corrupt?
Who are the people that elect these real life monsters?
Who are the people willing to be associated with these real life monsters?
Nothing can be proven until something happens to prove otherwise.
Ontario:
Health issues
In Tornado Alley
One of the lighting capitals of the world
IWT icing & ice throws
Weather radar interference
Seismic activity
Well water problems
Costs
And more
And residents concerns about IWTs have been ignored.
Ontario ” Spider Lightning”
Also known as “anvil crawlers”
Google has many Ontario photos of “spider lightning”
The bright spots in the photos are named the “spider body” and the branches are named the “legs”
More articles and images on the internet on this type of lightning.
Google Images
Ontario “Anvil Crawler” Lightning
Anvil Crawlers are horizontal, tree like, in-cloud lightning.
More on the internet on Anvil Crawlers.
NOAA, April 16, 2018
Click on: “GOES East captures spider lightning from space”
Shock indeed.
Some consolation is the ZERO PROJECTED seats
Years of Liberals have left a HUGE DEBT
If the NDP get in our kids will inherit more than just Windmills
Canada in International Law at 150 and Beyond | Paper No.21-April 2018
“The Evolution of Canada’s International and Domestic Climate Policy”, April, 2018, 24 pages.
NOTE: This website will be shutting down November 30, 2018.
Government of Canada, Modified: 2018-09-19
Related International Agreements
Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in the United States (U.S.) and Canada
Environment Canada Activities
“…and communicates with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the United States Flyway Council System.”
According to an article posted on the right sidebar today, a Calif. wind project has an underground cable problem that has knocked the project off line for the past two weeks.
“Ex-VW CEO Winterkorn Charged by U.S. in Diesel-Cheating Case”
Bloomberg | May 3, 2018 | Tom Schoenberg
With assistance from Ryan Beene and Christoph Rauwald
Volkswagen AG’s former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn was charged in a Michigan federal court with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to a probe into the German automaker’s efforts to cheat U.S. diesel emissions testing, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Winterkorn, who stepped down from his role as CEO days after the scandal was revealed, is accused of conspiring to defraud the U.S. and violate the Clean Air Act. The carmaker didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. He is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the matter.
VW admitted in September 2015 that it outfitted about 11 million diesel cars worldwide with a defeat device, embedded software that allowed the vehicles to recognize when they were being tested in laboratory conditions, and to reduce emissions to meet acceptable levels. According to the indictment, Winterkorn was briefed on both the emissions issue and how U.S. regulators were threatening to delay certifying 2016 cars for sale, at a July meeting in Wolfsburg, Germany, where the company is based.
The carmaker pleaded guilty in January 2017 to using false statements to import cars into the U.S. and to obstructing investigations, and paid $4.3 billion in penalties. Two other employees have pleaded guilty over their role in the affair, and five other executives have been indicted by the U.S. and remain in Germany, avoiding arrest. They include executives who led engine development as well as the failed efforts to design a diesel engine that would meet the tougher emissions standards the U.S. adopted for 2007, as well as another liaison to U.S. regulators.
Still interested in the half-billion dollar ($500,000,000.00) “Charge of Easement” that BNP Paribas took over in 2011 for the eighteen (18) 1.65-megawatt Vestas wind turbines developed/operated under three (3) 9.9-megawatt RESOP contracts from the Ontario Power Authority by Mike Crawley & company / AIM PowerGen / AIM SOP Phase I LP / International Power Canada / GDF Suez / Engie at Clear Creek, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
“BNP Paribas Agrees to Plead Guilty and to Pay $8.9 Billion for llegally Processing Financial Transactions for Countries Subject to U.S. Economic Sanctions”
United States Department of Justice | JUSTICE NEWS | June 30, 2014 – http://www.justice.gov/opa […]
‘[excerpt] The United States Department of Justice announced on June 30 2014 that BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP), a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, was pleading guilty to knowingly and willfully conspiring to commit violations of the International Economic Powers Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act.
Between 2004 and 2012, BNPP illegally processed billions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions. BNPP also pled guilty in the New York State Supreme Court to falsifying business records and conspiring to falsify business records.
BNPP agreed to pay $8.9 billion (USD), the largest penalty ever obtained by the Department of Justice in a criminal economic sanctions case, and the largest penalty in any criminal case involving a bank.
“Working with financial institutions based in these countries and others, between 2004 and 2012, BNP engaged in a complex and pervasive scheme to illegally move billions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned entities,” Attorney General Holder said. “BNPP structured transactions in needlessly complicated ways — using sophisticated techniques that served no legitimate business purpose, but that allowed them to obscure the truth: that these transactions violated the law and should not have been occurring in the first place.”
BNPP’s conduct was sophisticated, involving the manipulation of documents, records and transactions, and the use of other “satellite” banks as “fronts” to evade detection.
“BNPP deliberately disregarded U.S. law of which it was well aware, and placed its financial network at the services of rogue nations, all to improve its bottom line.”
“Remarkably, BNPP continued to engage in this criminal conduct even after being told by its own lawyers that what it was doing was illegal.” And when contacted by law enforcement BNPP chose not to fully cooperate.
“This failure to cooperate had a real effect — it significantly impacted the government’s ability to bring charges against responsible individuals, sanctioned entities and satellite banks.” said Deputy Attorney General Cole.’
David Robert Peterson P.C., Q.C., O.Ont., C.St.J., L.d’H
‘[excerpt] Hon. David Robert Peterson […] became the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1982. Hon. Peterson served as Premier of Ontario from 1985 to 1990 […] He serves as Chairman of the Board of Transmission Developers Inc. […] Riverbank Power Corporation […] He serves as a Director of Ventus Energy Inc. and Direct Energy Marketing […] BNP Paribas (Canada) […]’
Deb Matthews
born November 2, 1953
Wikipedia
‘[excerpt] Deborah Drake Matthews is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the riding of London North Centre. Matthews served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. […] She is the third of nine children born to Donald Jeune Matthews, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Her mother is Joyce Eleanor Matthews, and her sister is Shelley Peterson, the wife of former Ontario Premier David Peterson. […] Matthews was elected as President of the Ontario Liberal Party in 2003 and held the post until resigning in late 2006. […] On October 7, 2009, Matthews was named Minister of Health and Long-Term Care […] She was reappointed as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care on October 20, 2011. […] Following her reelection in 2014, Matthews was shuffled from Health to a revamped role as President of the Treasury Board. On June 13, 2016, she retained her position as Deputy Premier and was also appointed as Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development. She was additionally responsible for Digital Government. Matthews was shuffled out of Cabinet on January 17, 2018, having declining re-election in the 2018 election.’
UPDATE: Private Prosecution of Ontario Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Judge allows Crown another 60 days to review evidence of the last decade……
Do you know what 60 days of sleep deprivation will do to “the average person” including children?
This is a stalling tactic used to get the government through to the election without having this story hit the headlines…so obvious how these stalling tactics are being used.
This government does not care if people are harmed for another 60 days. There’s plenty more than loss of sleep.
People need to go to the Waubra Foundation website to get the full list of symptoms.
The “Investigation” is mandated by the law, the Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act (“HPPA”), Section 11:
“Where a complaint is made to a board of health or a medical officer of health that a health hazard related to occupational or environmental health exists in the health unit served by the board of health or the medical officer of health, the medical officer of health shall notify the ministry of the Government of Ontario that has primary responsibility in the matter and, in consultation with the ministry, the medical officer of health shall investigate the complaint to determine whether the health hazard exists or does not exist. ”
The HPPA also states at Section 61 that the local Board of Health “shall superintend and ensure the carrying out” of the Investigation part of the Act.
This writer is not aware of anything in the Green Energy and Green Economy Act nor any other legislation in Canada that exempts these fiduciaries from their Investigation responsibilities defined in the HPPA.
Over the course of the last decade, citizens in Huron County, Ontario and elsewhere have insisted on the carrying out of the HPPA Duty to Investigate their Complaints about harm caused by newly-developed industrial wind turbine projects.
In Huron County, Ontario, Dr. Erica Clark (Ph.D.) conspired with the local Medical Officer of Health, the local Health Unit and the local Board of Health, to design a process purporting to be a HPPA “Investigation”.
They consumed local Health Unit resources intending to study Complainants who reported being harmed. The process was designed to take many months, stretching into years, even though it is known that the effects of exposure to these industrial emissions are cumulative; that is, the longer they go on, the worse it becomes.
If any IWTs have to be shut down, money will be lost?
In the meantime, we watch the “march” of the IWTs across North America.
If IWTs have to be shut down because it’s acknowledged they’re harming people including children, maybe it’s better to think of any revenues not realized as “money they had no right to earn”?
However, if restitution must be paid to victims because profit-seeking, industrial operations caused unmitigated damage, this could be regarded as “money lost”?
A multi-billion-dollar, international tragedy propagated because a local health unit failed to properly investigate?
There won’t be any real IWT heath studies done anywhere as long as the IWT food-chain has a hand in this?
Real IWT health studies have been done but too often the results are covered up and misrepresented.
For example, notice the mangling of Health Canada’s “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study” in this “news” article:
“Interim report expected for Huron wind turbine study”
By Fadi Didi | Bayshore Broadcasting | June 15, 2018 | www .bayshorebroadcasting.ca
“About a hundred people have, so far, taken part in an ongoing study about the health effects of wind turbines in Huron County.
The study will examine reported negative health effects associated with turbines, including noise, vibration and light.
Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Clark says anyone living in Huron County within 10 kilometres of a wind turbine is eligible for the study.
Clark says an interim report is in the works, detailing some of the results gathered at this juncture in the study.
Those include the process for recruitment, how many people are taking part, and preliminary results from the registration survey.
Clark is encouraging those with summer homes near wind turbine sites to take part in the ongoing study.
In late 2014, Health Canada released the results of a study, which found no link between wind turbines and adverse health in those living nearby.
The study did, however, link turbine noise with increased levels of annoyance of nearby residents.”
The Ontario Public Health Standards define legal responsibilities of the local health units. For example, here an excerpt from the OPHS:
“Health Promotion and Policy Development
Requirements:
3. The board of health shall increases awareness of health risk factors associated with the following health hazards: indoor air quality; outdoor air quality; extreme weather; climate change; exposure to radiation; and other measures, as emerging health issues arise.
These efforts shall include:
a. Adapting and/or supplementing national and provincial health communications strategies; and/or
b. Developing and implementing regional/local communications strategies. […]
“Health” is “the complete state of physical, mental and social well-being …” so a reasonable person would wonder what those people think “annoyance” means …
The Health Protection and Promotion Act defines HEALTH HAZARD:
“(a) a condition of a premises,
(b) a substance, thing, plant or animal other than man, or
(c) a solid, liquid, gas or combination of any of them,
that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of any person.”
Being located within the impact zone of radiation-emitting industrial wind turbines may be a condition of a premises.
The Ontario Public Health Standards can be used to evaluate whether or not local health units and boards of health have fulfilled their legal responsibilities.
You be the judge…
In the “Health Hazard Prevention and Management” section of the OPHS, the stated Goal is:
“To prevent or reduce the burden of illness from health hazards in the physical environment.”
“Societal Outcomes” to be achieved are listed: ” – There is a reduced incidence of adverse health outcomes from exposure to chemical, radiological, biological, and other physical factors in the environment
– There is reduced public exposure to health hazards.
– There is increased capacity on the part of the public and community partners to address the risk factors that reduce health hazard exposure and diseases. ”
“Board of Health Outcomes” are identified:
” – The board of health achieves timely and effective detection and identification of exposures of human health concern and associated public health risks, trends and illnesses.
– The public and community partners are aware of health hazard incidents and risks in a timely manner.”
If studies such as Dr. Richard is proposing are done, then the IWT saga/era will likely be over. Not only here but in other places as well.
Dr. Richard Mann at the University of Waterloo has been diligently examining industrial wind turbine sound emissions and the related human health impacts. For many years it has been known that certain types of infrasound are very disturbing to human beings. Dr. Mann has documented the evolution of his wind turbine research on his website http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr
Here is one excerpt describing Dr. Mann’s recent research:
‘[excerpt] CS Tech Report. CS-2018-01 (PDF).
Title. Research Report on Infra Sound.
Author. Richard Mann.
Date. February 25, 2018; public release: March 2, 2018.
Abstract. We have successfully produced infrasound, as a mirror of that produced by Industrial Wind Turbines, in a chamber capable of accommodating a human test subject. This will permit others, with appropriate medical training and ethical oversight, to research the effects of infrasound on humans.’
Residents in Ontario & globally have likened the experience of living within an industrial wind turbine electricity generation zone as “Torture.” The regulators and the industry deny this fact urgently needs to be reconciled to prevent the harm and liabilities from proliferating.
Dr. Mann is contributing to a possible resolution of this regrettable situation. Some observe that he has, in effect, created what some would say is a “torture chamber”. Ethics reviewers are now in the position of needing to determine whether it is ethical to study humans in a laboratory environment that replicates the real-world situation our governments say is legal, ethical & fair-game, or not.
The problem is so pervasive; the following article was published approximately the same time as the comment above.
“Tortured by the turbines”
Credit: By Emma Cowing and Campbell Thomas | Scottish Daily Mail | Saturday, August 25, 2018 (truncated for length) https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/08/26/tortured-by-the-turbines/
‘[excerpt] The first time it happened, Pat Spence thought she was having a heart attack.
‘I woke up in the middle of the night in a panic with my heart hammering and thought, “Oh my God, this is it.” I was terrified.’
Alone in her remote farmhouse in a secluded part of Ayrshire, Pat lay back in bed and breathed deeply as her heartbeat started to slow. A musician, she was accustomed to tuning in to the sounds around her.
‘That’s when I became aware of a steady “thump, thump, woof, woof” sound,’ she says. ‘Eventually it dawned on me: the only thing around here big enough to make a sound like that is a wind turbine.’
Over the past ten years Pat, 75, has watched helpless as her rural idyll has been turned into a nightmare.
Where she once gazed out on peaceful woodland, fields and moors she is now surrounded by a whopping 184 wind turbines. She says the sound and vibrations of the turbines have made her ill, causing serious pains in her ears, high blood pressure and terrible headaches.
‘My life is an absolute hell because of this and I’ve just had enough,’ she says.
‘I just can’t live with it any more.’ […]
‘Sometimes the clash of them wakes me up in the night. It’s almost as if they get into sync with each other. Every now and again there’s a crash and the house shakes.
‘It hurts my ears, they become very painful, and when it’s really bad it’s as though someone’s banging a hammer on the back of my head.
‘When it gets that bad I just grab the car keys, get in the car and go. I’ve slept in my car dozens of times over the past few years.
‘I try to drive somewhere out of the way to find somewhere to sleep. Some days I just don’t get any sleep at all. Whenever there’s a windy day my heart just sinks.’
Sitting at her kitchen table on a blustery August day, I can see what she means. Listen carefully and there is a very low hum, a deep sound right at the edge of my hearing.
And something else, deeper still, a unpleasant vibration that I can feel at my temples. Within just 30 minutes of being in Pat’s house, I have developed a headache.
Pat has started taking medication for high blood pressure, which she believes has been caused by the wind turbines, and says she finds it hard to get anything done in the house now, as she simply doesn’t want to be there.
A once well-tended cottage garden and veg patch have grown out of control as she can’t face being outside, and she says that in the past few years the house has developed cracks in the wall, despite never having experienced structural issues in the past, and damp that she cannot find the source of. […]
The whole situation has made her miserable.
‘I don’t have a life any more,’ she says. ‘I give the odd flute lesson but I can’t have pupils here because of the turbines, so I have to go to them. I play chamber music with friends and they have to host. It’s little things like that. I can’t even live properly in my own house.’
For its part, ScottishPower has installed noise and vibration recording equipment at her home to monitor the issue, but Pat is refusing to allow workers to remove it until she is given the data. She claims they are withholding the information because they fear an academic, Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira, who studies low frequency noise and infrasound and its effects on health and who Pat has commissioned to analyse the figures from her property, will skew the findings in her favour.
‘Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira is a reputable professor specialising in acoustics from wind turbines, with peer reviewed material that can be checked out,’ she says. […]
Meanwhile, her case has been taken up by the Independent Noise Working Group, which challenges claims made by the wind turbine industry, and Susan Crosthwaite, UK representative for the European Platform Against Windfarms and who lives near Pat.
Dr Crosthwaite cites the case of Kay Siddell and her husband John, who in 2014 abandoned their home in Old Dailly, 15 miles from Barrhill, after a 53-turbine wind farm was built near their home, which Siddell claimed caused similar symptoms to Pat’s.
‘Kay Siddell had sound measuring equipment but nothing was ever done about it. In the end she had to leave,’ says Dr Crosthwaite. ‘Pat has the right to live in a home where she feels safe and happy and where she can sleep, not this continuous noise pollution which is like a torture chamber to her.’ […]
Although Pat would like to take legal action, she cannot afford it.
Instead, her hope now is that ScottishPower might buy her out.
‘It’s the only thing that can happen. They’re not going to stop 184 turbines for a few people.’
She says she couldn’t imagine putting the house on the market, or that it would sell, surrounded as it is now by wind farms.
‘Could I persuade someone else to come and live in these conditions? Could I stand there and say “this is the ideal place”? I just don’t think I could do it. To have any chance of selling it I would have to tell lies and I don’t do that.’’
Sleep disturbance and sleep deprivation are dead easy to understand.
And Sommer is right: the harm caused by acute and chronic exposure to industrial wind turbine operations include many other very serious, debilitating health impacts.
For example, at Clear Creek in Norfolk County, Ontario, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Officer Tim Webb, Badge #125 was on-site at victims’ homes in 2010, responding to complaints of harm being caused by the recently-constructed wind turbines.
While in the wind turbine zone, Officer Webb had admitted to sensing some of the adverse effects. Following-up, the complainant asked Officer Webb to describe his experience.
Here is that series of correspondence dating back to October 2010. Readers are encouraged to consider that Officer Webb’s exposure was very brief, accumulating, maybe, to a few hours — he was not attempting to live [die] there as most victims were.
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 2:36pm
To: Webb, Tim (ENE); McConnochie, Martin (ENE)
Subject: Vibration
Hi Tim,
Could you please describe, in your words the vibrations that you sensed at our house last week at Clear Creek. I was trying to describe those vibrations to friends last weekend in my words. The noise/vibration were not present last weekend.
I would describe it as a sensation that was neither a discernable sound nor a detectable vibration, but somewhere between the two. Definitely more felt than heard. If I concentrated very hard, I could sense something below the hearing threshold, but above what can be felt as a vibration. I have to say, though, that it takes an unusual amount of concentration to even notice it.
Tim Webb
Provincial Officer #125
Hamilton District Office
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Tel: (905) 521-7727
Fax: (905) 521-7806
Spills/After-Hours: 1-800-268-6060
“Interim Report for Huron County Wind Turbine Study about Noise, Vibration and Light, July 2018” released today.
The “Interim Report” omits to mention the basis of this Huron County Health Unit allocation of resources is the Health Protection and Promotion Act Duty to Investigate.
The “Interim Report” erroneously states: “In Ontario, wind turbines must be at least 550 metres from a private dwelling.”
There are many documented examples of wind turbines that were constructed and are operating closer than 550 metres from the homes of non-consenting persons.
The “Interim Report” states: “Approximately 30,000 Huron County residents are eligible to participate in the study. […] To date, 105 eligible Huron County residents have signed consent forms to participate in the Huron County Wind Turbine Study about Noise, Vibration and Light. Of those, 40 have completed the Registration Survey and 35 have been providing information through the Observation Diary. Of the 40 people who have completed a Registration Survey so far, half are male and most are not leaseholders for a wind turbine company.”
Leaseholders are biased in that they may have contracted to limit their rights to complain, and may be liable for any damages that are caused from something that occurs on their property.
The “Interim Report” repeats the unproven, misleading and possibly negligent contention: “Further, the Medical Officer of Health does not have the authority to write an order under section 13 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act to curtail or shut down wind turbines.”
To make such an allegation may reveal the Investigators are biased in favour of allowing wind turbines to continue harming persons including children.
The “Interim Report” finds: “Approximately 60% of respondents reported they have been bothered, disturbed or annoyed by noise, vibration, light and/or sensations from the wind turbines. Noise was most commonly reported.”
This finding supports the conclusion of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s commissioned expert, licensed professional engineer, Mr. Brian Howe, HGC Engineering, who reported in 2010:
“The audible sound from wind turbines, at the levels experienced at typical receptor distances in Ontario, is nonetheless expected to result in a nontrivial percentage of persons being highly annoyed. As with sounds from many sources, research has shown that annoyance associated with sound from wind turbines can be expected to contribute to stress related health impacts in some persons.”
The Huron County Board of Health, taxpayers, persons affected by the IWTs and anyone concerned about justice in Canada should be demanding to know what is the purpose of this exercise designed and being carried out (at significant expense) by Erica Clark on behalf of the Health Unit?
The Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act which mandates the Investigation “to determine whether a health hazard exists or does not exist” defines “Health Hazard” to include a condition of a premises (ie – proximity to IWTs) “that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of any person.”
It is already understood that exposure to industrial wind turbines can have an adverse effect on the health of persons. The Interim Report acknowledges this.
Based on what is already known, the Health Unit should declare the IWTs are a “Health Hazard”.
They should be increasing awareness of health risk factors; adapting and supplementing national and provincial health communications strategies; and developing and implementing regional/local communications strategies, such that there is a reduced incidence of adverse health outcomes from exposure, there is reduced public exposure to the health hazards, there is increased capacity on the part of the public and community partners to address the risk factors that reduce health hazard exposure and diseases, and that the public and community partners are aware of health hazard incidents and risks in a timely manner.
But this Health Unit is not doing that. Instead they are perpetuating the misconception that “One of the contested issues regarding wind turbines is WHETHER they cause adverse effects on human health at the setback currently mandated by the Government of Ontario.” (page 3 of the Interim Report, emphasis added)
This misleading approach deprives affected people of vital information that they need to be able to protect themselves and their families and communities.
Going forward in this exercise, taking the position that we need to study these people so that we can better understand exactly how wind turbines negatively effect people, while omitting to state it has already been determined that wind turbines ARE a Health Hazard, can be interpreted as human experimentation on non-consenting persons.
It is an “Experiment”: [?]
– The Ontario and Canada governments contracted to install and operate devices that were known to cause health risks and harm to some people.
– The governments identified knowledge gaps and vulnerable populations.
– The governments committed to “monitoring” and “studying” the effects of the deployment of the technology, reserving the rights to adjust the schemes as evidence of the effects surfaced.
– The development scheme was designed such that the developers were NOT required to get the CONSENT of every person who would be exposed to the health risks of the development and operation of the devices.
“Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation”
Curt Devlin, Boston College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Devlin, C. (2017) Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation. Open Journal of Social Sciences , 5, 23-48. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2017.55003
‘[excerpt] Within the medical research community, many efforts have been made to refine the definition of human research. As noted earlier, however, these tend to focus their attention almost exclusively on medical and scientific research pro per se ; and tend to focus on formal investigation only. For example, the Research Ethics Committee (of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2009) [13] has published the following: Any social science, biomedical, behavioural or epidemiological activity that entails systematic collection or analysis of data with the intent to generate new knowledge; in which human beings: 1) are exposed to manipulation, intervention, observation or other interaction with investigators, either directly or through alteration of their environment; or 2) become individually identifiable through investigators’ collection, preparation or use of biological material or medical or other records. […]
One mitigation tactic used by the wind industry is especially telling for this discussion. Most industrial wind facilities systematically collect operational data about IWT performance and operating conditions, known as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). When complaints about adverse health effects mount, developers or public officials sometimes collect health information from complainants about the associated time, location, and environmental conditions. Ostensibly, these data are then correlated with the SCADA data and analyzed for patterns to guide mitigation tactics, such as depowering under those conditions. Typically, the analysis is done in complete absence of any training in public health or true clinical expertise, based on the patently absurd claim that exposing the SCADA data to such scrutiny would compromise trade secrets. Intentionally withholding or suppressing information about the causes of adverse health effects for this reason is flagrantly unethical and a manifest violation of informed consent.
Tracking complaints, compiling public health records, and recording SCADA data, all fall easily within the systematic data collection identified by the WHO Ethics Committee as a hallmark of human research in the definition cited […]’
The first principle of the Nuremberg Code is the voluntary consent of the human research subject.
Erica Clark, acting for the Huron County Health Unit has “engaged in the experiment” and so “the duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon” her and “may not be delegated to another with impunity.”
Excerpt rom the Nuremberg Code:
‘ 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.’
‘[excerpt] The response to the Huron County Health Unit study into possible health impacts of wind turbines has been surprisingly low at this point. Just over 100 people have registered to take part in the study.
Dr. Erica Clark says they want to hear from anyone who lives within 10 kilometres of a turbine, and they want to hear from people who believe the turbines have impacted their health as well as people who say they have not suffered any negative health impact.
The deadline for registering as a participant for the study is October 31.
Dr. Clark says copies for all of the materials for the study are on the Huron County Health Unit website by just clicking on the wind turbine button. You can also get a hard copy of the documentation at the Huron County Health Unit office or at any Huron County library branch.’
Possible reasons for “surprisingly low response” include:
– Persons who have died or are suffering from conditions known to be caused or aggravated by exposure to industrial wind turbine emissions (such as sleep deprivation, hospitalization, cancer & c.) may be unable to participate in Ms. Clarke’s survey.
– There may be lack of confidence or doubt about the scientific and or legal validity of this Huron County exercise.
– Leaseholders may be under contract prohibiting them from expressing about negative impacts of the industrial wind turbines.
– Similarly, some negatively effected persons may have been “bought out” and “gagged’ by non-disclosure agreements.
– Some persons who have been negatively effected by the indus trial wind turbines may have moved away and are now ineligible to participate in the survey.
Have there ever been any replies/communications to Ontario from the WHO regarding the Ontario IWT situation?
WCO Facebook.
Meeting this Monday, just announced.
Will this meeting be recorded? It does not appear open to the public.
Quote:”
Monday at Queen’s Park: The Standing Committee on Social Policy will meet to consider Bill 34, An Act to repeal the Green Energy Act, 2009 and to amend the Electricity Act, 1998, the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act and various other statutes. Among the presenters will be Tom Adams, energy consultant; Bruce Pardy, Queen’s University professor of law and Economics, and Warren Howard, vice-president, Wind Concerns Ontario”
It is plain and obvious that the government has no respect for the people that elect them. Very sadly we keep electing these people who care NOTHING for us.
These elected officials are real life monsters
– what else can you call someone so willfully blind?
– so willfully callous and morally corrupt?
Who are the people that elect these real life monsters?
Who are the people willing to be associated with these real life monsters?
Look at all of the IWT news items that are posted everyday on the right sidebar.
There are those who still think nothing bad will happen to them. Or think everything can be mitigated.
And yet we’re told that ‘political will’ is the only way out of this outrageous human rights violation.
Nothing can be proven until something happens to prove otherwise.
Ontario:
Health issues
In Tornado Alley
One of the lighting capitals of the world
IWT icing & ice throws
Weather radar interference
Seismic activity
Well water problems
Costs
And more
And residents concerns about IWTs have been ignored.
Ontario ” Spider Lightning”
Also known as “anvil crawlers”
Google has many Ontario photos of “spider lightning”
The bright spots in the photos are named the “spider body” and the branches are named the “legs”
More articles and images on the internet on this type of lightning.
Google Images
Ontario “Anvil Crawler” Lightning
Anvil Crawlers are horizontal, tree like, in-cloud lightning.
More on the internet on Anvil Crawlers.
NOAA, April 16, 2018
Click on: “GOES East captures spider lightning from space”
Includes photos.
http://www.noaa.gov/topic-tags/lightning
This whole situation has been an opportunity to observe the malfeasance of this government. What a shock it’s been!
Shock indeed.
Some consolation is the ZERO PROJECTED seats
Years of Liberals have left a HUGE DEBT
If the NDP get in our kids will inherit more than just Windmills
Watertown Daily Times, New York, April 14, 2018
News
Re: Radar issues.
‘Wind projects worry weather service official’
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/wind-projects-worry-weather-service-official–20180414
Watertown Daily Times, New York, March 18, 2017
‘Weather service concerned that wind farm could interfere with local forecasts’
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/weather-service-concerned-that-wind-farm-could-interfere-with-local-forecasts-20170318
Environment Canada admits it on their website.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weather-general-tools-resources/radar-overview/wind-turbine-interference.html
Residents of both countries need to know where severe weather is located and in which direction severe weather fronts are moving.
The Watertown Daily Times, New York made it possible to bring up the IWT weather/storm related issues in Ontario and the rest of Canada.
Thanks Watertown, N.Y. !
Government of Canada, 2017-07-27
‘Sky Watchers’ Guide: Chapter 3′
Scroll down to: “The Effect Of Latitude On The Suns’ Rays”
Re: How much of the suns’ energy an area receives and why.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/sky-watchers/publications/guide/chapter-3.html
Natural Resources Canada
Recent Earthquakes
Significant Earthquake Reports
Click on:
2018-04-19: M=4.1 – 6 km ENE of Amherstburg, ON – Felt
http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca//index-en.php
Has more information.
Opinion / Commentary Article
Insurance Business Canada magazine, 13 Oct 2016
“GCube Insurance takes control of the wind”
http://insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/breaking-news/gcube-insurance-takes-control-of-the-wind-44907.aspx
Opinion / Commentary
Canadian Underwriter, July 31, 2017
“Second Wind”
http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/features/second-wind
Opinion/Commentary article
WindPower Monthly, 23 May 2017
“Wind resource presents biggest risk to industry”
http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1434436/wind-resource-presents-biggest-risk-industry
Opinion/Commentary article
4 C offshore, 05, January 2017
“Submarine power cable losses totalling over EUR 350 million in claims”
http://www.4coffshore.com/windfarms/submarine-power-cable-losses-totalling-over-eur-350-million-in-claims-nid5127.html
NY Times, Oct.19, 2018
Opinion/Commentary article
“Something New May Be Rising Off California Coast: Wind Farms”
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/business/energy-environment/california-coast-wind-farms.html
Includes offshore IWT shallow waters installation issues and IWT deep waters issues.
Government of Canada
Natural Resources Canada
Renewables > Marine Energy
Use Search: Enter > offshore wind energy > 88 articles.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/renewable-electricity/7293
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: offshore wind energy, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=offshore%20wind%20energy%20Canada
UNFCCC search on this topic can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: hydropower resources, Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=hydropower%20resources%20Canada
UNFCCC search can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: wind power resources, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=wind%20power%20resources%20Canada.
UNFCCC topics search can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: deep decarbonization, Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=deep%20decarbonization%20Canada
UNFCCC topic search can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: demand-side electricity management (DSM), Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=demand-side%20electricity%20management%20Canada
Search can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: utility-scale wind turbine zoning requirements, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbine%20zoning%20requirements%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: marine electric cables.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=marine%20electric%20cables
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: utility-scale wind turbine zoning laws, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbine%20zoning%20laws%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: utility-scale wind turbines, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbines%20Canada
Can use: ?q=Energy%20Star%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: utility-scale wind turbine financing, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbine%20financing%20Canada
Search can also be done by Country.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Canadian Electricity Association.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Canadian%20Electricity%20Association
And: gcse?q=Canadian%20Hydropower%20Association
Canadian Electricity Association (CEA)
Opinion/Commentary article
“Advancing North American Partnerships”
http://www.electricity.ca/lead/partnering-better-future/advancing-north-american-partnerships
Opinion/Commentary article
“Commentary on the Environmental Review Tribunal in Ontario Canada”, May 18th, 2011, 9 pages.
Has many reference links and dates back (history) to Rio, 1992.
http://law.pace.edu/sites/default/files/IJIEA/Commentary-Environmental_Review_Tribunal_in_Ontario_Canada_May_18_2011.pdf
Opinion/Commentary article
“Giving Force to Environmental Laws: Court Innovations Around the World”, March 12, 2011, 23 pages.
More on history of Environmental Law/Laws + Agenda 21.
http://law.pace.edu/school-of-law/sites/pace.edu.school-of-law/files/IJIEA/IJIEABriefingPaper.pdf
Ontario Newsroom, July 29, 2005
Archived Release
Includes mention of Pace University Law Review.
https://news.ontario.ca/archive/en/2005/07/29/Ministry-of-the-Environment-announces-Environmental-Review-Tribunal-appointments.html
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Environmental Review Tribunals.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Environmental%20Review%20Tribunals
gcse?q=sub-national%20Environmental%20Review%20Tribunals
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Synthesis
“Review of implementation of Agenda 21 and the Rio Principles”, January 2012, ~ 40 pages
Re: Legal and other issues.
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_sd21st/21_pdf/SD21_Study1_Synthesis.pdf
World Commission on Environmental Law | IUCN
WCEL is one of the IUCN Commissions. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland
http://www.iucn.org/commissions/commission-environmental-law/about
ECOLEX
“The Gateway to Environmental Law”
Recently formed ECOLEX is a partnership of UN System, FAO and UNEP.
http://www.ecolex.org
UN Sustainable Development
ECOLEX information.
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=1512
UN Environment
“UNEP Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Laws”
At:
http://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/unep-guide-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy-laws
Geneve Internationale, Switzerland
Search results: IUCN information.
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/IUCN
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Energy laws & IUCN.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=energy%20laws%20IUCN
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: energy laws.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=energy%20laws
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: ECOLEX
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=ECOLEX
“Our Common Future”, c. March,1987, 300 pages
Chapter 12: Towards Common Action: Proposals for Institutional and Legal Change.
Chapter 12 is near the end of this document. Scroll down.
http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Our Common Future
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Our%20Common%20Future
CIGI, Ontario, Canada
Opinion/Commentary article
Canada in International Law at 150 and Beyond | Paper No.21-April 2018
“The Evolution of Canada’s International and Domestic Climate Policy”, April, 2018, 24 pages.
History from 1980s to 2018.
http://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/Reflections%20Series%20Paper%20no.21%20Maciunas.pdf
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) & Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Center%20for%20International%20Environmental%20Law%20Canada
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL),Switzerland.
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/CIEL
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: cap-and-trade, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=cap-and-trade%20Canada
Wikipedia
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal
Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_International_Sustainable_Development_Law
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Centre%20for%20International%20Sustainable%20Development%20Law
International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Rome, Itlay
Re: Sustainability.
http://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/sustainability
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: IDLO & CISDL.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=IDLO
United Nations ECOSOC
Includes, Sustainability.
https://un.org/ecosoc/en/home
Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI)
View: CLGI Partners.
http://www.climatelawgovernance.org
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Climate Law & Governance Initiative (CLGI)
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Climate%20Law%20and%20Governance%20Initiative
Try
UNEP Document Repository
“Environmental Courts & Tribunals: A Guide For Policy Makers”, 2016
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/10001
Also on the Internet by title.
UNEP Document Repository
Search enter: environmental courts tribunals
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
UNEP Document Repository
Articles: About 554 on environmental law.
Search enter: environmental law
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
UNEP Document Repository
Search results: about 195 articles on international environmental law.
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
Search enter: international environmental law
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: “carbon-leakage” issues, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=carbon%20leakage%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: carbon capture and storage, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=carbon%20capture%20and%20storage%20Canada
United Nations
“United Nations and the Role of Law”
Environmental Law: overview
http://www.un.org/roleoflaw/thematic-areas/land-property-environment/environmental-law
UN Environment
UN Environment divisions
Scroll down to: Law Division
Re: Purpose of the UN Law Division.
http://www.unenvironment.org/about-un-environment/why-does-un-environment-matter/un-environment-divisions
UN Office of Legal Affairs
Audiovisual Library of International Law
Historic Archives: Environmental Law
Select any item.
http://legal.un.org/avl/historicarchives.html
UNFCCC
Articles: about 2,480
Search results: UN Office of Legal Affairs.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=UN%20Office%20of%20Legal%20Affairs
Wikipedia: United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), New York City, USA.
Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: United Nations Economic and Social Council, (ECOSOC), Est. 2000.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=United%20Nations%20Economic%20and%20Social%20Council
UNEP Document Repository
Articles
Search results: United Nations Economic and Social Council
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
Search enter: United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Each topic in the UNEP Document Repository requires a separate search. Try different key words/phrases for searches.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: reducing meat consumption.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=meat%20consumption
UNEP Document Repository
Search results: meat consumption and meat consumption climate change. Requires two different search entries.
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
International Cooperation
Birds Know No Borders
“Birds have been estimated to consume 98 percent of certain insect pests, enhancing agriculture, and reducing the need for toxic pesticides.”
http://www.fws.gov/birds/about-us/international.php
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Updated August 22, 2018
Flyways North America
4 Flyways: Atlantic, Mississippi, Central and Pacific. Includes map.
4 Flyways include: U.S., Canada and Mexico.
4 Flyways Council members include members from Canada.
http://www.fws.gov/birds/management/flyways.php
Also check out the U.S. FWS Energy Development section for birds,wind and solar issues.
North American Flyways
‘Collaborative effort of waterfowl managers across the continent”
Ontario is in the Atlantic and Mississipi Flyways.
Use the Mississipi link to about section and use either Ontario or site-map section links.
Members include: The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.
http://www.flyways.us
NOTE: This website will be shutting down November 30, 2018.
Government of Canada, Modified: 2018-09-19
Related International Agreements
Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in the United States (U.S.) and Canada
Environment Canada Activities
“…and communicates with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the United States Flyway Council System.”
http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/document/default_e.cfm?ID=80
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Topic: Environment and Energy
Search enter : Mississippi Flyway, > 1 article.
http://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-natural-resources-and-forestry
UNEP Document Repository
Search enter: Flyways > 6 items
Search enter: Monarch Butterfly > 1 item
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
Requires two separate searches.
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Flyways
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Flyways
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Monarch Butterfly
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Monarch%20Butterfly
Wikipedia: Monarch butterfly migration
Overview:
Includes some history of the research that has been done on Monarch butterfly migration. Dates back to about 1937 in Ontario.
Includes diagrams of migration pathways and winter locations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Flyways management.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Flyways%20management
Opinion/Commentary article
Maritime Journal, 20 Nov 2015
“A Basic Guide To Wind Farm Insurance”
http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/insurance,-legal-and-finance/a-basic-guide-to-wind-farm-insurance
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: utility-scale wind turbine insurance costs.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbine%20insurance%20costs
gcse?q=utility-scale%20wind%20turbine%20insurance
According to an article posted on the right sidebar today, a Calif. wind project has an underground cable problem that has knocked the project off line for the past two weeks.
Opinion/Commentary article
World Economic Forum, 26 Apr 2018
“In case you missed it, renewable energy is the future”
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/head-of-un-environment-solheim-the-markets-have-moved-on-renewables-policy-makers-must-keep-up
Also online by title.
Opinion/Commentary article
UN Environment, 05 Apr 2018
Press release | Energy
“Banking on Sunshine: World Added Far More Solar Than Fossil Fuel Power Generating Capacity in 2017”
https://www.unevironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/banking-sunshine-world-added-far-more-solar-fossil-fuel-power
Try:
http://unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/banking-sunshine-world-added-far-more-solar-fossil-fuel-power
Also online.
“Ex-VW CEO Winterkorn Charged by U.S. in Diesel-Cheating Case”
Bloomberg | May 3, 2018 | Tom Schoenberg
With assistance from Ryan Beene and Christoph Rauwald
Volkswagen AG’s former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn was charged in a Michigan federal court with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to a probe into the German automaker’s efforts to cheat U.S. diesel emissions testing, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Winterkorn, who stepped down from his role as CEO days after the scandal was revealed, is accused of conspiring to defraud the U.S. and violate the Clean Air Act. The carmaker didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. He is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the matter.
VW admitted in September 2015 that it outfitted about 11 million diesel cars worldwide with a defeat device, embedded software that allowed the vehicles to recognize when they were being tested in laboratory conditions, and to reduce emissions to meet acceptable levels. According to the indictment, Winterkorn was briefed on both the emissions issue and how U.S. regulators were threatening to delay certifying 2016 cars for sale, at a July meeting in Wolfsburg, Germany, where the company is based.
The carmaker pleaded guilty in January 2017 to using false statements to import cars into the U.S. and to obstructing investigations, and paid $4.3 billion in penalties. Two other employees have pleaded guilty over their role in the affair, and five other executives have been indicted by the U.S. and remain in Germany, avoiding arrest. They include executives who led engine development as well as the failed efforts to design a diesel engine that would meet the tougher emissions standards the U.S. adopted for 2007, as well as another liaison to U.S. regulators.
Are vehicle makers being asked to do something that may not be possible to do?
Check out the Canadian vehicle emission standards/regulations compared to U.S. regulations for auto makers?
Government policies and regulations can affect individual companies as well as whole industrial sectors.
Opinion/Commentary article
RCI / Radio Canada International, April 3, 2018
“Rolling back vehicle emissions standards in U.S. will affect Canada”
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/04/03/cars-trucks-climate-change-emissions-canada
Opinion/Commentary article
New York City Council, April 25, 2018
“City Council Unanimously Passes Constantinides Legislation to Encourage Wind Energy Adoption”
Click on: Read More
https://council.nyc.gov/costa-constantinides/2018/04
Re: Government policies, sub-national level, urban areas.
Now possible to install wind turbines in the GTA?
Opinion/Commentary Article, 5/7/18
Re: NY energy.
http://www.wiseenergy.org/Energy/NYISO_Report.pdf
Try:
http://wiseenergy.org/Energy/NY/NYISO_Report.pdf
Opinion/Commentary article
NYISO
Press Release: May 3, 2018
NYISO 2018 Power Trends Report
https://home.nyiso.com/press/press-release-nyiso-2018-power-trends-report
NYISO
Media Archive
Select any year and any Press Release.
http://www.nyiso.com/public/media_room/press_releases/index.jsp
UN Environment
UNEP
Sustainable Buildings
UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (SBCI) launched 2006.
UNEP – SBCI
https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/resource-efficiency/what-we-do/cities/sustainable-buildings
UN Environment, 29 Sep 2017
‘How “net zero” buildings can help us tackle climate change’
Re: Using renewable energy sources.
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/how-net-zero-buildings-can-help-us-tackle-climate-change
UNEP FI
“Responsible Property Investment”
http://www.unepfi.org/investment/property
UN Environment Search:
UNEP – SBCI
Webpage includes 5 SBCI topics
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=UNEP+SBCI
UNEP FI
Search Results For: Canada
> Older Posts Pages also.
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=Canada
United Nations System
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
History & Organizations
https://www.unsceb.org/content/unep
The United Nations System
UN Principal Organs
Structural Chart 2017
http://www.un.org.en/aboutun/structure/pdfs/UN%20System%20Chart_ENG_FINAL_MARCH13_2017.pdf
Includes UNEP.
The United Nations System
UN Principal Organs
Structural Chart 2017
http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/structure/pdfs/UN%20System%20Chart_ENG_FINAL_MARCH13_2017.pdf
Includes UNEP.
business.un.org
Archived content
Partnership Story
‘UNEP-SBCI: Advancing Sustainability in the Building Sector’
https://business.un.org/en/documents/10372
business.un.org
UNEP-SBCI
‘Sustainable Buildings are the most effective solution to climate change’
Download pdf.
https://business.un.org/en/assets/9500be08-37e8-4367-842d-2801f01c6586.pdf
Also online by title.
Title correction:
‘Sustainable Buildings are the most cost effective solution to climate change’
UNEP FI North American Task Force Meeting Toronto, Canada
Presentation: March 4, 2010
‘Financing Green Buildings in North America’
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/events/2010/toronto/McIntire.pdf
Also online as: ‘The Arrival of the Green Building-UNEP FI’
UNEP
Report:
‘Green Building and the Finance Sector, February, 2010
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/greenbuildings.pdf
UNEP FI
Report: 67 pages.
‘Carbon Asset Risk Discussion Framework’
WRI and UNEP-FI Portfolio Carbon Initiative
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/carbon_asset_risk.pdf
UNEP FI
About:
Portfolio Carbon Initiative
http://www.unepfi.org/climate-change/portfolio-carbon-initiative
UN PRI / Principles for Responsible Investment
‘Sustainable Financial System, Principles, Impact’ Supplementary Report, June 2016, 38 pages
Has links to other Reports on this topic.
https://www.unpri.org/Uploads/d/s/x/PRI-Consultation_Sustainable-Financial-System_Principles_Impact_2016_Supplementary-Report.pdf
UN PRI
“Who has signed the Principles?”
http://www.unpri.org/signatories/who-has-signed-the-principles
Wikipedia
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_for_Responsible_ Investment
Includes short history.
UN PRI
Governance
https://www.unpri.org/pri-governance/board-members/392.article
GOV. UK
Companieshouse
PRI Association, London, UK
Section: Filing History > Reports
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07207947
UN PRI
“Celebrating 10 Years of Showcasing Leadership in Responsible Investment”
Includes: 2004-2016.
https://10.unpri.org/the-journey-so-far
Click on any item.
Caisse
New Release
Press Release, 8 Avril 2011
“The Caisse introduces updated Policy on Responsible Investment”
https://cdpq.com/fr/node/965
UNEP FI
e-bulletin, May-June 2006
“Highlight”
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/publications/ebulletin/unepfi_ebulletin_200605.pdf
UN / United Nations
Press Release: sg/2111-ECO/106
27 April 2006
“Secretary-General Launches ‘Principles For Responsible Investment’ Backed By World’s Largest Investors”
https://www.un.org/press/en/2006/sg2111.doc.htm
Gov. UK
Charity Register
“CDP Worldwide”, London, U.K.
https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information
UNEP FI
“Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure”, October 2006, 8 pages
Section: “Development of the Framework”
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/global_framework.pdf
Wikipedia
Ceres (organization), Boston, Founded 1989
Re:
GRI
INCR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(organization)
See above UNEP FI October 2006 Report.
UNEP FI
“UNEP FI And PRI”
2005 “Freshfields Report”
http://www.unepfi.org/investment/pri
UN Environment
13 Oct 2015 | Press Release
“Major Banks Launch ‘Positive Impact Manifesto’ for Transition to Inclusive Green Economy”
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/major-banks-launch-positive-impact-manifesto-transition-inclusive
UNEP FI
Energy Efficiency
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Finance, Investments
http://www.unepfi.org/climate-change/energy-efficiency
UNEP FI
“Over 100 Financial Institutions Mobilized to Increase Global Investment in Energy Efficiency”, 2015, 4 pages
“Endorsed by over 115 banks and financial institutions from more than 40 countries.”
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/EnergyEfficiencyFinanceStatement.pdf
UNEP FI
“Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition”
“Mobilizing financial markets to drive economic decarbonization.”
http://www.unepfi.org/pdc/members
UNEP FI
“Portfolio Carbon Initiative” (PCI)
Governance: PCI a joint initiative of 3 organizations.
http://www.unepfi.org/climate-change/portfolio-carbon-initiative
UNEP FI
Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition
“Smart Carbon Pricing Policies Can Drive Investment in a Cleaner Future”
http://www.unepfi.org/pdc/smart-carbon-pricing-policies-can-drive-investment-in-a-cleaner-future
UNEP FI
“Carbon Asset Risk Framework”, Published: July 2015
UNEPFI / WRI report.
http://www.unepfi.org/publications/climate-change-publications/portfolio-carbon-initiative-publications/carbon-asset-risk-framework
UNEP FI, 12 December 2017
“UNEP FI, UN Global Compact and PRI Form UN Alliance For SDG Finance”
http://unepfi.org/news/themes/positive-impact/unep-fi-un-global-compact-and-pri-form-un-alliance-for-sdg-finance
UNEP FI, June 2014
Re: IPCC
http://unepfi.org/publications/climate-change-publications/guidance-for-financial-institutions-publications/climate-change-implications-for-investors-and-financial-institutions
UNEP FI
Re: IPCC
“2009 Investor Statement on the Urgent Need for a Global Agreement on Climate Change”, 12 pages
Includes signers.
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/need_agreement.pdf
UNEP FI
Search Results For: roadmaps
24 October 2016
Roadmaps include Australia, Canada, UK and US.
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=roadmaps
UNEP FI
Search Results For: Toby Heaps
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=Toby+Heaps
UNEP FI
Search Results For: Corporate Knights
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=Corporate+Knights
UNEP FI
Search Results For: Toronto
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=Toronto
UNEP FI
Search Results For: Ontario
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=Ontario
UNEP FI
Search Results For: North America
Also > Older Posts Pages
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=North+America
UNEP FI
Search Results For: PRI Montreal Pledge
http://www.unepfi.org/?s=PRI+Montreal+Pledge
PRI|MontrealPledge
http://www.montrealpledge.org/signatories
UNEP FI
Regions: North America
General information.
http://www.unepfi.org/regions/north-america
UNEP FI
e-bulletin, Issue 72, June 2009
Topics include:
June Thoughts
bid to green the internet with “.eco”
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/publications/ebulletin/unepfi_ebulletin_200906a.html
UNCTAD
‘The Road to Rio + 20’, Published Nov., 2011, ~ 108 pages
“For a development-led green economy”
Part 1, “Government, the green enabler”
P. 28/29, Canada section begins.
http://unctad.org/en/Docs/ditcted2011d6_en.pdf
UNPRI
Search results: Corporate Knights
http://www.unpri.org/searchresults?qkeyword=Corporate+Knights
Global Compact Canada
Re: 17 SDGs
http://www.globalcompact.ca
UN Global Compact
Regions: North America
Local Networks
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/engage-locally/north-america
UN Environment
UNEP Inquiry
General information.
Crawler webpage bottom: Click on the dot/dots for more information.
http://www.unepinquiry.org
GOV.Ca, Published: Dec.01, 2015, California
COP21, Paris 2015
Scroll through COP21 Events Paris 2015.
Webpage includes links and Events leading up to COP21.
http://www.gov.ca.gov/2015/12/01/news19224
Wiley Online Library
Opinion/Commentary article.
“Strategic philanthropy in the post Cap-and-Trade years: Reviewing U.S. climate and energy foundation funding”, May 22, 2018.
Abstract and article.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.524
Wikipedia
NREL, Golden, Colorado
National Wind Technology Center
According to this article, NREL funding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Laboratory
UNEP
Press Release
UNEP/121
26 September 2002
“UNEP, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory Join Forces To Deliver Pollution-Free Electricity To Developing Countries”
https://www.un.org/press/en/2002/UNEP121.doc.htm
Also online by title.
UN Environment
UNEP
Search Results: National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=National+Renewable+Energy+Laboratory
UN
UN Partnerships For The SDGs
Partners include: U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=1038
UN Environment, 20 Sep 2017
UNEP
“Fit for Change!”
Feed-in Tariff scheme
UNEP FIT project
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/fit-change
UN Environment
UNEP
Search Results: FIT / Feed-in Tariff
Articles:
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=Feed-in+Tariff
UN Environment
UNEP
Search Results: Production Tax Credit
Articles
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=production+tax+credit
Western Wire, June 7, 2018
Opinion/Commentary article
http://www.westernwire.net/massive-climate-funding-by-wealthy-foundations-failed-to-sway-public-opinion
UN Environment
UNEP
“Explore UN Environment Topics”
Select any topic.
https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics
UN Environment
UNEP
Search Results: IPCC, indicates ~ 77 items.
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=IPCC
Geneva Environment Network, Switzerland
Partnerships4planet > Earthjustice organization, U.S.
Earthjustice organization, U.S., has a Canadian connection.
https://genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/?q=en/partnerships4planet/human-rights-and-environment
UN Environment
UNEP
Major Groups and Stakeholders
Partner Logo: IISD | Reporting Services
http://web.unep.org/about/majorgroups/content/international-institute-sustainable-development-iisd
IISD
IISD & UNEP
http://iisd.org/media/winnipeg-based-international-institute-sustainable-development-named-collaborative-centre
IISD
Search Enter: Press Releases 1996
Named UNEP Collaborating Centre, June 20, 1996.
http://www.iisd.org/search/?qv=press+releases+1996
UN Environment
UNEP
Search Results: CIGI, Waterloo
https://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=CIGI
World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
Select any item / items on the menu.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html
WMO
Countries map and countries database.
Click on the map for country information.
http://www.wmo.int/cpdb
IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland
30th Anniversary and other information.
http://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm
UNFCCC Submission
Inter American Clean Energy Institute, August 1, 2016
“Non-Party Submission Of Views On Road Map For Global Climate Action”, 15 pages
And scroll down to signers.
https://unfccc.int/files/parties_observers/submissions_from_observers/application/pdf/633.pdf
UNFCCC
United Nations Climate Change
“Roadmap for Global Climate Action”
2016 Submissions list.
https://unfccc.int/process/parties-non-party-stakeholders/non-party-stakeholders/submissions-from-non-party-stakeholders/roadmap-for-global-climate-action
UNFCCC
“Global Climate Action”
NAZCA: Tracking Climate Action
NAZCA / Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action
Information & Organizations
http://climateaction.unfccc.int
United Nations System
United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC)
HQ, Bonn. Est. 1994
History & Purpose.
http://www.unsceb.org/content/united-nations-framework-convention-climate-change
United Nations System
WMO: HQ, Geneva
History: Est. 1950
Information
https://unsceb.org/content/wmo
United Nations System
Search results: IISD
https://unsceb.org/search/node/IISD
Wikipedia
Climate Action Network-International (CAN)
Re: UNFCCC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Action_Network
CAN-International
“Eco Newsletters” Pub. since 1972 Stockholm Conference.
http://www.climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters.
See above Wikipedia CAN-International article includes Eco Newsletters.
Geneva Environment Network, Switzerland
IISD
European office: Geneva
Description
http://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/?q=en/green_guide/international-institute-sustainable-development
Toronto Climate Action Network (TCAN)
Members Groups
http://www.tcan.ca/our-members-0
UNFCCC, COP 23
List of Participants and Organizations, 17 November 2017, 318 pages.
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/docs/2017/cop23/eng/inf04.pdf
Worldwide.
Parliament Of Canada
House of Commons
Standing Committee On Environment And Sustainable Development, April 14, 2016
Topic: Sustainable Development
Presentations
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/ENVI/meeting-10/evidence
Government Of Canada
“Achieving A Sustainable Future”
“A Federal Sustainable Development Strategy For Canada 2016-2019”, 88 pages.
Topics include: United Nations SDGs, Low-carbon Economy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, and other topics.
SDGs are Sustainable Development Goals.
http://www.fsds-sfdd.ca/downloads/3130%20-%20Federal%20Sustainable%20Development%20Strategy%202016-2019_.pdf
Also available online.
Open Parliament.CA, June 1, 2018
Bill C-57
Debate: On Federal Sustainable Development Act
Scroll down: Remarks by MPs
https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/1
House of Commons
Parliament Of Canada
LEGISinfo: Bill C-57
Status
December 3, 2015 – Present
“An Act to Amend the Federal Sustainable Development Act”
https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?billId=9057534&Language=E
Wikipedia: The Climate Registry, Est. 2007
“The Climate registry (TCR) is a non-profit organization governed by U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories.”
Began 2001 in California.
https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Registry
The above is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Registry
———————————————–
UNFCCC
Search results: The Climate Registry
~ 10 pages of items
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=The%20Climate%20Registry
UN
IPCC PowerPoint Presentation, 23 March 2017.
“Climate change and the sustainable development agenda”, 10 pages.
http://www.un.org/pga/71/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2017/02/IPCC-PowerPoint-presentation.pdf
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: IPCC
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/IPCC
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Rocky%20Mountain%20Institute%20Colorado
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Carbon War Room
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Carbon%20War%20Room
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Greenpeace Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Greenpeace%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Greenpeace International
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Greenpeace%20International
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Greenpeace USA
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Greenpeace%20USA
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: World Resources Institute (WRI)
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=World%20Resources%20Institute
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Climate Action Network (CAN) and Climate Action Network International (I-CAN)
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Climate%20Action%20Network
Refine search to: Climate Action Network International.
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Sierra Club Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Sierra%20Club%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Pembina Institute Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Pembina%20Institute%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search Results: Ecojustice Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Ecojustice%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: ICELI Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=ICELI%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: 350.org
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=350.org
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Equiterre Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Equiterre%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Ouranos, Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Ouranos%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, U.S.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Blue%20Green%20Alliance%20Foundation
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: C40, Canada.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=C40%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Oil Change International, USA
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Oil%20Change%20International
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Friends of The Earth, Canada
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Friends%20of%20the%20Earth%20Canada
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: OPower Energy Corporation, USA.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=OPower%20Energy%20Corporation
UNFCCC
“Documents of the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM)”
https://unfccc.int/cop4/resource/agbm95.html
UNFCCC
“Documents of the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM)”
https://unfccc.int/cop4/resource/agbm97.html
IPCC
“Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”
“1.3. How Has Society Responded? 1.3.1 International Responses”
Includes: Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM, 1995)
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=59
IPCC
“Presentations of Meetings of the UNFCCC (1995-1997)”
Includes: Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate.
http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/_bolin_memorial.htm
Information Unit for Conventions (IUC)
United Nations Environment Programme
Climate Change Information Sheet 17
“The international response to climate change: A history”
Scroll down to: Berlin 1995 and the “Berlin Mandate”.
https://unfccc.int/cop3/fccc/climate/fact17.htm
Geneva Environment Network, Switzerland
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Description
http://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/?q=en/green_guide/international-emissions-trading-association
IETA
Press Release, Toronto, June 15, 2018
“in response to Ontario’s announcement of WCI withdrawal”
http://www.ieta.org
IETA
“Ontario Cap-And-Trade Factsheet”, 11 May, 2018, 3 pages
Also: Additional Reading & Key Resources at the end of the IETA Factsheet.
http://www.ieta.org/resources/Canada/Ontario/IETA%20Ontario%20Factsheet-11May2018.pdf
IETA
“Our History”
Begins June, 1999
http://www.ieta.org/page-18201
CBC news, November 3, 2006
Opinion/Commentary article
In Depth
“Trading Carbon”
“Kyoto and Beyond”
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/kyoto/carbon-trading.html
Some history.
Senate of Canada
Bill C-288
Issue 18-Evidence, May 10, 2007
IETA presentation
Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
http://www.sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/committee/391/enrg/18evb-e
UNFCCC
Search results include IETA
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Andrei%20Marcu
Re: Also see above Senate of Canada presentation.
Parliament Of Canada
House of Commons
Standing Committee On Environment And Sustainable Development
ENVI Committee Meeting, November 23, 2006
IETA
Scroll down
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/39-1/ENVI/meeting-28/evidence
Parliament Of Canada
House of Commons
Bill-C-30
CC 30 Committee Meeting, Feb.6, 2007
Re: Emissions trading, carbon taxes, IPCC and other issues.
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/39-1/CC30/meeting-4/evidence
Corporations Canada
Federal Corporations Information
IETA Canada
Toronto, ON
Directors: 3
https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=4553292
World Bank Blogs
Re: IETA Canada Directors:
Dirk Forrister: President and CEO, IETA.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/dirk-forrister
UNFCCC
Re: IETA Canada Directors.
Short biography.
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/dirk_forrister.pdf
U.S. Gov. Printing Office
“International Deforestation And Climate Change”
Senate Hearing: s.Hrg.110-652
Transcript: April 22, 2008. ~ 62 pages.
Topics include, IETA, Chicago Climate Exchange, Kyoto, carbon markets, etc.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-110shrg45735/html/CHRG-110shrg45735.htm
To add some historical perspective.
United States Senate
Committee On Finance, April, 24, 2008
Full Committee Hearing
“The Aspects of a Cap-and-Trade System”
Includes IETA
Select any item including the full Committee transcript.
https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/tax-aspects-of-a-cap-and-trade-system
Some history.
UN Business
Archived Content: IETA
https://business.un.org/en/documents/486
c.2008 ?
UN Business
Archived Content: IETA
https://business.un.org/en/documents/1722
UNFCCC
Search results: IETA
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Henry%20Derwent
UNFCCC
Search results: IETA
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Dirk%20Forrister
European Parliament
Temporary Committee On Climate Change
“The Climate Protection Challenge Post-2012”, 25 pages.
No.12, p.23: IETA
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/200712/20071220ATT17131/20071220ATT17131EN.pdf
With mention of Toronto.
Parliament. UK
House of Commons, 17 February 2015
Energy and Climate Change Committee
“Linking emissions trading systems”
4 The EU Emissions Trading System
Nos., 23, 25, 26
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmenergy/739/73907.htm
Re: IETA
Parliament.UK
Energy and Climate Change Committee
“Linking emissions trading systems”
Witnesses: 14 October 2014 – 25 November 2014
Includes IETA
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmenergy/739/73913.htm
ETS Compliance Forum, 6 November 2014
Opinion/Commentary article
Re: International emissions trading.
“Prepared remarks for the ETS Compliance Forum”
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/docs/0100/keynote_address_en.pdf
European Commission
Climate Action
5th EU ETS Compliance Conference, 06/11/2014-07/11/2014
Program including Keynote.
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/events/articles/0100_en
European Parliament
“Proceedings of the Workshop on the ETS Market Stability Reserve”, Brussels, 05 November 2014, 51 pages.
Emissions trading.
P. 2, Contributing Experts
http://www.transition-europe.eu/sites/default/files/IPOL_STU%25282015%2529518778_EN.pdf
Also has commentary.
Opinion/Commentary article
The Economist, December 19, 2015
Letters to the editor.
Included cap-and-trade and carbon pricing.
https://www.economist.com/letters/2015/12/19/letters-to-the-editor
UNFCCC
“Investment And Financial Flows To Address Climate Change”, October 2007, ~ 273 pages.
P.138: VII. Potential Of Carbon Markets.
Includes Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/pub_07_financial_flows.pdf
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
“The Chicago Climate Exchange: Creating a Market for GHG Emissions Reductions”, 13 pages
CCX overview & Advisory Board
https://netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/03/carbon-seq/PDFs/214.pdf
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) Overview.
https://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/04/carbon-seq/004.pdf
Also available online.
UNFCCC
Chicago Climate Exchange
9 pages.
http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_11/climate_talk_series/application/pdf/cop11_kiosk_clark.pdf
UNFCCC
Search results: Chicago Climate Exchange.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Chicago%20Climate%20Exchange
UN News, 26 June 2009
“Free trade can help combat global warming, finds UN report”
WTO-UNEP Report: “Trade and Climate Change”
http://news.un.org/en/story/2009/06/304772-free-trade-can-help-combat-global-warming-finds-un-report
UNFCCC
WTO-UNEP Report: “Trade and Climate Change”, Part IV, 54 pages.
Topics include, emissions trading, cap-and-trade, feed-in-tariffs, PTCs, green buildings, etc.
https://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/adverse_effects_and_response_measures_art_48/application/pdf/part_iv_trade_and_climate_change_report.pdf
Also available online.
UNFCCC
Search results: World Trade Organization
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=World%20Trade%20Organization
Geneva Environment Network, Switzerland
World Trade Organization (WTO), Est. 1995
Description
http://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/?q=en/green_guide/world-trade-organization
UNFCCC
Emissions Trading
“Greenhouse gas emissions a new commodity”
Article
https://unfccc.int/process/the-kyoto-protocol/mechanisms/emissions-trading
UNFCCC
The Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms, 2010, 20 pages
International Emissions Trading
Clean Development Mechanism
Joint Implementation
https://cdm.unfccc.int/about/cdm_kpm.pdf
UNFCCC
Search results: Greenhouse gases new commodity.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Greenhouse%20gases%20new%20commodity
UNFCCC
Search results: Carbon taxes.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=carbon%20taxes
UNFCCC
Search results: Feed-in-tariff
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=feed%20in%20tariff
UNFCCC
Search results: Production tax credits
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Production%20tax%20credits
UNFCCC
Search results: Renewable energy finance.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20finance
U.S. State Department
Archive
UNFCCC (COP4), 1998, international emissions trading.
https://1997-2001.state.gov/global/global_issues/climate/buenos_aires_index.html
Select any item.
Also available online.
UNFCCC
Search results: COP4 (1998) emissions trading.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=COP4%20emissions%20trading
UNFCCC
Short Biography
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/dirk_forrister.pdf
UN Environment/UNEP
Re: Yieldcos/Green bonds
“Lenders And Investors Environmental Liability”
http://unepinquiry.org/country/usa
UN Environment/UNEP
Publications
http://unepinquiry.org/country/canada
UNFCCC
Search results: Green Bonds
Includes a bit of history.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Green%20Bonds
UNFCCC
EXTERNAL STATEMENT / 02 Nov, 2017
Re: Deployment of smart grids.
https://unfccc.int/news/shift-to-clean-affordable-energy-critical-to-attaining-global-goals
UNFCCC
Search results: smart meters
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=smart%20meters
UNFCCC
Search results: smart grids
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=smart%20grids
United Nations
5 March 2018
SG/A/1791*-BIO/5069-ENV/DEV/1836*
Secretary-General > Appointments
“Special Envoy for Climate Action”
http://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sga1791.doc.htm
The World Bank, June 2 & 4, 2011
Opinion/Commentary articles
Re: Climate change.
Toronto is mentioned.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/category/tags/bloomberg
The article sums it up nicely:
If you can’t measure it – you can’t manage it.
They cannot measure it and they sure cannot manage it.
What they can manage is to throw TRILLIONS of tax dollars at it.
World Bank Live
http://live.worldbank.org/experts/michael-bloomberg
Wikipedia
BNN Bloomberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNN_Bloomberg
UNFCCC
UN CLIMATE STATEMENT / 22 APR, 2018
https://unfccc.int/news/bloomberg-philanthropies-supports-climate-action
UNFCCC
Search results: Renewable sources energy storage articles.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=energy%20storage
UNFCCC
Search results: Clinton Global Initiative articles.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Clinton%20Global%20Initiative
UNFCCC
Search results: Clinton Climate Initiative articles.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Clinton%20Climate%20Initiative
U.S. Department of State
Archive
Spotlight: Climate Change
COP Index.
Select any item.
https://1997-2001.state.gov/global/global_issues/climate/index.html
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: IETA
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/IETA
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Greenpeace
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Greenpeace
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Earthjustice
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Earthjustice
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Oak Foundation
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Oak%20Foundation
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: C40
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/C40
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Regions of Climate Action – R20
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/regions%20climate%20action
Geneva International, Switzerland
Environment & Climate
Organizations: Select any item.
http://www.genevainternational.org/pages/en/102;Environment_
UNFCCC
Search results: Renewable energy.
Includes 100% renewable.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy
UNFCCC
Search results: 100% renewable energy.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=100%20%20renewable%20energy
UNFCCC
Renewable energy.
Also try: https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=100%20renewable%20energy
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Renewable Energy Mandates and Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20mandates
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20portfolio%20standards
Global Climate Action Summit, San Francisco, Calif., Sept.2018
Program: Sept. 13 & 14, 2018.
http://www.globalclimateactionsummit.org/program
UNFCCC
Update:
“What is Greenhouse Gas Data?”
Webpage also has links to more information.
https://unfccc.int/process/transparency-and-reporting//greenhouse-gas-data/what-is-greenhouse-gas-data
Correction: “What is Greenhouse Gas Data?”
https://unfccc.int/process/transparency-and-reporting/greenhouse-gas-data/what-is-greenhouse-gas-data
UNFCCC
Search results: Renewable energy public private partnerships.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20public%20private%20partnerships
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Renewable energy & IPCC.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewabe%20energy%20IPCC
UNFCCC
Articles
Search results: Renewable energy pension funding.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20pension%20funding
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Renewable energy government funding.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20government%20funding
UNFCCC
Articles:
Search results: Renewable energy private funding.
https://unfccc.int/gcse/?q=renewable%20energy%20private%20funding
UNFCCC
UN Climate Press Release / 14 SEP, 2018
“Global Climate Action Summit Brings Surge of New Commitments and Calls for Increased Government Action”
” Top UN officials welcomed the outcome of the Global Climate Action Summit that concluded today in San Francisco, …”
https://unfccc.int/news/global-climate-action-summit-brings-surge-of-new-commitments-and-calls-for-increased-government
UNFCCC
ANNOUNCEMENT / 14 SEP, 2018, San Francisco
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Still interested in the half-billion dollar ($500,000,000.00) “Charge of Easement” that BNP Paribas took over in 2011 for the eighteen (18) 1.65-megawatt Vestas wind turbines developed/operated under three (3) 9.9-megawatt RESOP contracts from the Ontario Power Authority by Mike Crawley & company / AIM PowerGen / AIM SOP Phase I LP / International Power Canada / GDF Suez / Engie at Clear Creek, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
“BNP Paribas Agrees to Plead Guilty and to Pay $8.9 Billion for llegally Processing Financial Transactions for Countries Subject to U.S. Economic Sanctions”
United States Department of Justice | JUSTICE NEWS | June 30, 2014 – http://www.justice.gov/opa […]
‘[excerpt] The United States Department of Justice announced on June 30 2014 that BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP), a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, was pleading guilty to knowingly and willfully conspiring to commit violations of the International Economic Powers Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act.
Between 2004 and 2012, BNPP illegally processed billions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions. BNPP also pled guilty in the New York State Supreme Court to falsifying business records and conspiring to falsify business records.
BNPP agreed to pay $8.9 billion (USD), the largest penalty ever obtained by the Department of Justice in a criminal economic sanctions case, and the largest penalty in any criminal case involving a bank.
“Working with financial institutions based in these countries and others, between 2004 and 2012, BNP engaged in a complex and pervasive scheme to illegally move billions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned entities,” Attorney General Holder said. “BNPP structured transactions in needlessly complicated ways — using sophisticated techniques that served no legitimate business purpose, but that allowed them to obscure the truth: that these transactions violated the law and should not have been occurring in the first place.”
BNPP’s conduct was sophisticated, involving the manipulation of documents, records and transactions, and the use of other “satellite” banks as “fronts” to evade detection.
“BNPP deliberately disregarded U.S. law of which it was well aware, and placed its financial network at the services of rogue nations, all to improve its bottom line.”
“Remarkably, BNPP continued to engage in this criminal conduct even after being told by its own lawyers that what it was doing was illegal.” And when contacted by law enforcement BNPP chose not to fully cooperate.
“This failure to cooperate had a real effect — it significantly impacted the government’s ability to bring charges against responsible individuals, sanctioned entities and satellite banks.” said Deputy Attorney General Cole.’
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‘[excerpt] Hon. David Robert Peterson […] became the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1982. Hon. Peterson served as Premier of Ontario from 1985 to 1990 […] He serves as Chairman of the Board of Transmission Developers Inc. […] Riverbank Power Corporation […] He serves as a Director of Ventus Energy Inc. and Direct Energy Marketing […] BNP Paribas (Canada) […]’
Deb Matthews
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‘[excerpt] Deborah Drake Matthews is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the riding of London North Centre. Matthews served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. […] She is the third of nine children born to Donald Jeune Matthews, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Her mother is Joyce Eleanor Matthews, and her sister is Shelley Peterson, the wife of former Ontario Premier David Peterson. […] Matthews was elected as President of the Ontario Liberal Party in 2003 and held the post until resigning in late 2006. […] On October 7, 2009, Matthews was named Minister of Health and Long-Term Care […] She was reappointed as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care on October 20, 2011. […] Following her reelection in 2014, Matthews was shuffled from Health to a revamped role as President of the Treasury Board. On June 13, 2016, she retained her position as Deputy Premier and was also appointed as Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development. She was additionally responsible for Digital Government. Matthews was shuffled out of Cabinet on January 17, 2018, having declining re-election in the 2018 election.’
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UPDATE: Private Prosecution of Ontario Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Judge allows Crown another 60 days to review evidence of the last decade……
Do you know what 60 days of sleep deprivation will do to “the average person” including children?
This is a stalling tactic used to get the government through to the election without having this story hit the headlines…so obvious how these stalling tactics are being used.
This government does not care if people are harmed for another 60 days. There’s plenty more than loss of sleep.
People need to go to the Waubra Foundation website to get the full list of symptoms.
On the topic of Stall Tactics:
Don’t be fooled.
The Huron County Health Unit Alleged “Investigation” of Wind Turbine Complaints is NOT a real “Investigation”.
The “Investigation” is mandated by the law, the Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act (“HPPA”), Section 11:
“Where a complaint is made to a board of health or a medical officer of health that a health hazard related to occupational or environmental health exists in the health unit served by the board of health or the medical officer of health, the medical officer of health shall notify the ministry of the Government of Ontario that has primary responsibility in the matter and, in consultation with the ministry, the medical officer of health shall investigate the complaint to determine whether the health hazard exists or does not exist. ”
The HPPA also states at Section 61 that the local Board of Health “shall superintend and ensure the carrying out” of the Investigation part of the Act.
This writer is not aware of anything in the Green Energy and Green Economy Act nor any other legislation in Canada that exempts these fiduciaries from their Investigation responsibilities defined in the HPPA.
Over the course of the last decade, citizens in Huron County, Ontario and elsewhere have insisted on the carrying out of the HPPA Duty to Investigate their Complaints about harm caused by newly-developed industrial wind turbine projects.
In Huron County, Ontario, Dr. Erica Clark (Ph.D.) conspired with the local Medical Officer of Health, the local Health Unit and the local Board of Health, to design a process purporting to be a HPPA “Investigation”.
They consumed local Health Unit resources intending to study Complainants who reported being harmed. The process was designed to take many months, stretching into years, even though it is known that the effects of exposure to these industrial emissions are cumulative; that is, the longer they go on, the worse it becomes.
If any IWTs have to be shut down, money will be lost?
In the meantime, we watch the “march” of the IWTs across North America.
If IWTs have to be shut down because it’s acknowledged they’re harming people including children, maybe it’s better to think of any revenues not realized as “money they had no right to earn”?
However, if restitution must be paid to victims because profit-seeking, industrial operations caused unmitigated damage, this could be regarded as “money lost”?
A multi-billion-dollar, international tragedy propagated because a local health unit failed to properly investigate?
There won’t be any real IWT heath studies done anywhere as long as the IWT food-chain has a hand in this?
Real IWT health studies have been done but too often the results are covered up and misrepresented.
For example, notice the mangling of Health Canada’s “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study” in this “news” article:
“Interim report expected for Huron wind turbine study”
By Fadi Didi | Bayshore Broadcasting | June 15, 2018 | www .bayshorebroadcasting.ca
“About a hundred people have, so far, taken part in an ongoing study about the health effects of wind turbines in Huron County.
The study will examine reported negative health effects associated with turbines, including noise, vibration and light.
Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Clark says anyone living in Huron County within 10 kilometres of a wind turbine is eligible for the study.
Clark says an interim report is in the works, detailing some of the results gathered at this juncture in the study.
Those include the process for recruitment, how many people are taking part, and preliminary results from the registration survey.
Clark is encouraging those with summer homes near wind turbine sites to take part in the ongoing study.
In late 2014, Health Canada released the results of a study, which found no link between wind turbines and adverse health in those living nearby.
The study did, however, link turbine noise with increased levels of annoyance of nearby residents.”
The Ontario Public Health Standards define legal responsibilities of the local health units. For example, here an excerpt from the OPHS:
“Health Promotion and Policy Development
Requirements:
3. The board of health shall increases awareness of health risk factors associated with the following health hazards: indoor air quality; outdoor air quality; extreme weather; climate change; exposure to radiation; and other measures, as emerging health issues arise.
These efforts shall include:
a. Adapting and/or supplementing national and provincial health communications strategies; and/or
b. Developing and implementing regional/local communications strategies. […]
“Health” is “the complete state of physical, mental and social well-being …” so a reasonable person would wonder what those people think “annoyance” means …
The Health Protection and Promotion Act defines HEALTH HAZARD:
“(a) a condition of a premises,
(b) a substance, thing, plant or animal other than man, or
(c) a solid, liquid, gas or combination of any of them,
that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of any person.”
Being located within the impact zone of radiation-emitting industrial wind turbines may be a condition of a premises.
The Ontario Public Health Standards can be used to evaluate whether or not local health units and boards of health have fulfilled their legal responsibilities.
You be the judge…
In the “Health Hazard Prevention and Management” section of the OPHS, the stated Goal is:
“To prevent or reduce the burden of illness from health hazards in the physical environment.”
“Societal Outcomes” to be achieved are listed:
” – There is a reduced incidence of adverse health outcomes from exposure to chemical, radiological, biological, and other physical factors in the environment
– There is reduced public exposure to health hazards.
– There is increased capacity on the part of the public and community partners to address the risk factors that reduce health hazard exposure and diseases. ”
“Board of Health Outcomes” are identified:
” – The board of health achieves timely and effective detection and identification of exposures of human health concern and associated public health risks, trends and illnesses.
– The public and community partners are aware of health hazard incidents and risks in a timely manner.”
If studies such as Dr. Richard is proposing are done, then the IWT saga/era will likely be over. Not only here but in other places as well.
Dr. Richard Mann at the University of Waterloo has been diligently examining industrial wind turbine sound emissions and the related human health impacts. For many years it has been known that certain types of infrasound are very disturbing to human beings. Dr. Mann has documented the evolution of his wind turbine research on his website http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr
Here is one excerpt describing Dr. Mann’s recent research:
‘[excerpt] CS Tech Report. CS-2018-01 (PDF).
Title. Research Report on Infra Sound.
Author. Richard Mann.
Date. February 25, 2018; public release: March 2, 2018.
Abstract. We have successfully produced infrasound, as a mirror of that produced by Industrial Wind Turbines, in a chamber capable of accommodating a human test subject. This will permit others, with appropriate medical training and ethical oversight, to research the effects of infrasound on humans.’
Residents in Ontario & globally have likened the experience of living within an industrial wind turbine electricity generation zone as “Torture.” The regulators and the industry deny this fact urgently needs to be reconciled to prevent the harm and liabilities from proliferating.
Dr. Mann is contributing to a possible resolution of this regrettable situation. Some observe that he has, in effect, created what some would say is a “torture chamber”. Ethics reviewers are now in the position of needing to determine whether it is ethical to study humans in a laboratory environment that replicates the real-world situation our governments say is legal, ethical & fair-game, or not.
The problem is so pervasive; the following article was published approximately the same time as the comment above.
“Tortured by the turbines”
Credit: By Emma Cowing and Campbell Thomas | Scottish Daily Mail | Saturday, August 25, 2018 (truncated for length)
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/08/26/tortured-by-the-turbines/
‘[excerpt] The first time it happened, Pat Spence thought she was having a heart attack.
‘I woke up in the middle of the night in a panic with my heart hammering and thought, “Oh my God, this is it.” I was terrified.’
Alone in her remote farmhouse in a secluded part of Ayrshire, Pat lay back in bed and breathed deeply as her heartbeat started to slow. A musician, she was accustomed to tuning in to the sounds around her.
‘That’s when I became aware of a steady “thump, thump, woof, woof” sound,’ she says. ‘Eventually it dawned on me: the only thing around here big enough to make a sound like that is a wind turbine.’
Over the past ten years Pat, 75, has watched helpless as her rural idyll has been turned into a nightmare.
Where she once gazed out on peaceful woodland, fields and moors she is now surrounded by a whopping 184 wind turbines. She says the sound and vibrations of the turbines have made her ill, causing serious pains in her ears, high blood pressure and terrible headaches.
‘My life is an absolute hell because of this and I’ve just had enough,’ she says.
‘I just can’t live with it any more.’ […]
‘Sometimes the clash of them wakes me up in the night. It’s almost as if they get into sync with each other. Every now and again there’s a crash and the house shakes.
‘It hurts my ears, they become very painful, and when it’s really bad it’s as though someone’s banging a hammer on the back of my head.
‘When it gets that bad I just grab the car keys, get in the car and go. I’ve slept in my car dozens of times over the past few years.
‘I try to drive somewhere out of the way to find somewhere to sleep. Some days I just don’t get any sleep at all. Whenever there’s a windy day my heart just sinks.’
Sitting at her kitchen table on a blustery August day, I can see what she means. Listen carefully and there is a very low hum, a deep sound right at the edge of my hearing.
And something else, deeper still, a unpleasant vibration that I can feel at my temples. Within just 30 minutes of being in Pat’s house, I have developed a headache.
Pat has started taking medication for high blood pressure, which she believes has been caused by the wind turbines, and says she finds it hard to get anything done in the house now, as she simply doesn’t want to be there.
A once well-tended cottage garden and veg patch have grown out of control as she can’t face being outside, and she says that in the past few years the house has developed cracks in the wall, despite never having experienced structural issues in the past, and damp that she cannot find the source of. […]
The whole situation has made her miserable.
‘I don’t have a life any more,’ she says. ‘I give the odd flute lesson but I can’t have pupils here because of the turbines, so I have to go to them. I play chamber music with friends and they have to host. It’s little things like that. I can’t even live properly in my own house.’
For its part, ScottishPower has installed noise and vibration recording equipment at her home to monitor the issue, but Pat is refusing to allow workers to remove it until she is given the data. She claims they are withholding the information because they fear an academic, Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira, who studies low frequency noise and infrasound and its effects on health and who Pat has commissioned to analyse the figures from her property, will skew the findings in her favour.
‘Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira is a reputable professor specialising in acoustics from wind turbines, with peer reviewed material that can be checked out,’ she says. […]
Meanwhile, her case has been taken up by the Independent Noise Working Group, which challenges claims made by the wind turbine industry, and Susan Crosthwaite, UK representative for the European Platform Against Windfarms and who lives near Pat.
Dr Crosthwaite cites the case of Kay Siddell and her husband John, who in 2014 abandoned their home in Old Dailly, 15 miles from Barrhill, after a 53-turbine wind farm was built near their home, which Siddell claimed caused similar symptoms to Pat’s.
‘Kay Siddell had sound measuring equipment but nothing was ever done about it. In the end she had to leave,’ says Dr Crosthwaite. ‘Pat has the right to live in a home where she feels safe and happy and where she can sleep, not this continuous noise pollution which is like a torture chamber to her.’ […]
Although Pat would like to take legal action, she cannot afford it.
Instead, her hope now is that ScottishPower might buy her out.
‘It’s the only thing that can happen. They’re not going to stop 184 turbines for a few people.’
She says she couldn’t imagine putting the house on the market, or that it would sell, surrounded as it is now by wind farms.
‘Could I persuade someone else to come and live in these conditions? Could I stand there and say “this is the ideal place”? I just don’t think I could do it. To have any chance of selling it I would have to tell lies and I don’t do that.’’
Sleep disturbance and sleep deprivation are dead easy to understand.
And Sommer is right: the harm caused by acute and chronic exposure to industrial wind turbine operations include many other very serious, debilitating health impacts.
For example, at Clear Creek in Norfolk County, Ontario, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Officer Tim Webb, Badge #125 was on-site at victims’ homes in 2010, responding to complaints of harm being caused by the recently-constructed wind turbines.
While in the wind turbine zone, Officer Webb had admitted to sensing some of the adverse effects. Following-up, the complainant asked Officer Webb to describe his experience.
Here is that series of correspondence dating back to October 2010. Readers are encouraged to consider that Officer Webb’s exposure was very brief, accumulating, maybe, to a few hours — he was not attempting to live [die] there as most victims were.
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 2:36pm
To: Webb, Tim (ENE); McConnochie, Martin (ENE)
Subject: Vibration
Hi Tim,
Could you please describe, in your words the vibrations that you sensed at our house last week at Clear Creek. I was trying to describe those vibrations to friends last weekend in my words. The noise/vibration were not present last weekend.
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Subject: RE: Vibration
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:10
From: Tim.Webb@ Ontario .ca
CC: Martin.McConnochie@ Ontario .ca
I would describe it as a sensation that was neither a discernable sound nor a detectable vibration, but somewhere between the two. Definitely more felt than heard. If I concentrated very hard, I could sense something below the hearing threshold, but above what can be felt as a vibration. I have to say, though, that it takes an unusual amount of concentration to even notice it.
Tim Webb
Provincial Officer #125
Hamilton District Office
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Tel: (905) 521-7727
Fax: (905) 521-7806
Spills/After-Hours: 1-800-268-6060
“Interim Report for Huron County Wind Turbine Study about Noise, Vibration and Light, July 2018” released today.
The “Interim Report” omits to mention the basis of this Huron County Health Unit allocation of resources is the Health Protection and Promotion Act Duty to Investigate.
The “Interim Report” erroneously states: “In Ontario, wind turbines must be at least 550 metres from a private dwelling.”
There are many documented examples of wind turbines that were constructed and are operating closer than 550 metres from the homes of non-consenting persons.
The “Interim Report” states: “Approximately 30,000 Huron County residents are eligible to participate in the study. […] To date, 105 eligible Huron County residents have signed consent forms to participate in the Huron County Wind Turbine Study about Noise, Vibration and Light. Of those, 40 have completed the Registration Survey and 35 have been providing information through the Observation Diary. Of the 40 people who have completed a Registration Survey so far, half are male and most are not leaseholders for a wind turbine company.”
Leaseholders are biased in that they may have contracted to limit their rights to complain, and may be liable for any damages that are caused from something that occurs on their property.
The “Interim Report” repeats the unproven, misleading and possibly negligent contention: “Further, the Medical Officer of Health does not have the authority to write an order under section 13 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act to curtail or shut down wind turbines.”
To make such an allegation may reveal the Investigators are biased in favour of allowing wind turbines to continue harming persons including children.
The “Interim Report” finds: “Approximately 60% of respondents reported they have been bothered, disturbed or annoyed by noise, vibration, light and/or sensations from the wind turbines. Noise was most commonly reported.”
This finding supports the conclusion of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s commissioned expert, licensed professional engineer, Mr. Brian Howe, HGC Engineering, who reported in 2010:
“The audible sound from wind turbines, at the levels experienced at typical receptor distances in Ontario, is nonetheless expected to result in a nontrivial percentage of persons being highly annoyed. As with sounds from many sources, research has shown that annoyance associated with sound from wind turbines can be expected to contribute to stress related health impacts in some persons.”
The Huron County Board of Health, taxpayers, persons affected by the IWTs and anyone concerned about justice in Canada should be demanding to know what is the purpose of this exercise designed and being carried out (at significant expense) by Erica Clark on behalf of the Health Unit?
The Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act which mandates the Investigation “to determine whether a health hazard exists or does not exist” defines “Health Hazard” to include a condition of a premises (ie – proximity to IWTs) “that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of any person.”
It is already understood that exposure to industrial wind turbines can have an adverse effect on the health of persons. The Interim Report acknowledges this.
Based on what is already known, the Health Unit should declare the IWTs are a “Health Hazard”.
They should be increasing awareness of health risk factors; adapting and supplementing national and provincial health communications strategies; and developing and implementing regional/local communications strategies, such that there is a reduced incidence of adverse health outcomes from exposure, there is reduced public exposure to the health hazards, there is increased capacity on the part of the public and community partners to address the risk factors that reduce health hazard exposure and diseases, and that the public and community partners are aware of health hazard incidents and risks in a timely manner.
But this Health Unit is not doing that. Instead they are perpetuating the misconception that “One of the contested issues regarding wind turbines is WHETHER they cause adverse effects on human health at the setback currently mandated by the Government of Ontario.” (page 3 of the Interim Report, emphasis added)
This misleading approach deprives affected people of vital information that they need to be able to protect themselves and their families and communities.
Going forward in this exercise, taking the position that we need to study these people so that we can better understand exactly how wind turbines negatively effect people, while omitting to state it has already been determined that wind turbines ARE a Health Hazard, can be interpreted as human experimentation on non-consenting persons.
It is an “Experiment”: [?]
– The Ontario and Canada governments contracted to install and operate devices that were known to cause health risks and harm to some people.
– The governments identified knowledge gaps and vulnerable populations.
– The governments committed to “monitoring” and “studying” the effects of the deployment of the technology, reserving the rights to adjust the schemes as evidence of the effects surfaced.
– The development scheme was designed such that the developers were NOT required to get the CONSENT of every person who would be exposed to the health risks of the development and operation of the devices.
“Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation”
Curt Devlin, Boston College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Devlin, C. (2017) Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation. Open Journal of Social Sciences , 5, 23-48. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2017.55003
‘[excerpt] Within the medical research community, many efforts have been made to refine the definition of human research. As noted earlier, however, these tend to focus their attention almost exclusively on medical and scientific research pro per se ; and tend to focus on formal investigation only. For example, the Research Ethics Committee (of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2009) [13] has published the following: Any social science, biomedical, behavioural or epidemiological activity that entails systematic collection or analysis of data with the intent to generate new knowledge; in which human beings: 1) are exposed to manipulation, intervention, observation or other interaction with investigators, either directly or through alteration of their environment; or 2) become individually identifiable through investigators’ collection, preparation or use of biological material or medical or other records. […]
One mitigation tactic used by the wind industry is especially telling for this discussion. Most industrial wind facilities systematically collect operational data about IWT performance and operating conditions, known as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). When complaints about adverse health effects mount, developers or public officials sometimes collect health information from complainants about the associated time, location, and environmental conditions. Ostensibly, these data are then correlated with the SCADA data and analyzed for patterns to guide mitigation tactics, such as depowering under those conditions. Typically, the analysis is done in complete absence of any training in public health or true clinical expertise, based on the patently absurd claim that exposing the SCADA data to such scrutiny would compromise trade secrets. Intentionally withholding or suppressing information about the causes of adverse health effects for this reason is flagrantly unethical and a manifest violation of informed consent.
Tracking complaints, compiling public health records, and recording SCADA data, all fall easily within the systematic data collection identified by the WHO Ethics Committee as a hallmark of human research in the definition cited […]’
The first principle of the Nuremberg Code is the voluntary consent of the human research subject.
Erica Clark, acting for the Huron County Health Unit has “engaged in the experiment” and so “the duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon” her and “may not be delegated to another with impunity.”
Excerpt rom the Nuremberg Code:
‘ 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.’
“Wind turbine health impact study wants more Huron County participants”
Bob Montgomery | Sept. 25, 2018
https://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/2018/09/25/wind-turbine-health-impact-study-wants-huron-county-participants/
‘[excerpt] The response to the Huron County Health Unit study into possible health impacts of wind turbines has been surprisingly low at this point. Just over 100 people have registered to take part in the study.
Dr. Erica Clark says they want to hear from anyone who lives within 10 kilometres of a turbine, and they want to hear from people who believe the turbines have impacted their health as well as people who say they have not suffered any negative health impact.
The deadline for registering as a participant for the study is October 31.
Dr. Clark says copies for all of the materials for the study are on the Huron County Health Unit website by just clicking on the wind turbine button. You can also get a hard copy of the documentation at the Huron County Health Unit office or at any Huron County library branch.’
Possible reasons for “surprisingly low response” include:
– Persons who have died or are suffering from conditions known to be caused or aggravated by exposure to industrial wind turbine emissions (such as sleep deprivation, hospitalization, cancer & c.) may be unable to participate in Ms. Clarke’s survey.
– There may be lack of confidence or doubt about the scientific and or legal validity of this Huron County exercise.
– Leaseholders may be under contract prohibiting them from expressing about negative impacts of the industrial wind turbines.
– Similarly, some negatively effected persons may have been “bought out” and “gagged’ by non-disclosure agreements.
– Some persons who have been negatively effected by the indus trial wind turbines may have moved away and are now ineligible to participate in the survey.
Have there ever been any replies/communications to Ontario from the WHO regarding the Ontario IWT situation?
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Search results: World Health Organization wind energy.
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Search results: World Medical Association wind energy.
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Search results: World Wind Energy Association (WWEA)
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WCO Facebook.
Meeting this Monday, just announced.
Will this meeting be recorded? It does not appear open to the public.
Quote:”
Monday at Queen’s Park: The Standing Committee on Social Policy will meet to consider Bill 34, An Act to repeal the Green Energy Act, 2009 and to amend the Electricity Act, 1998, the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act and various other statutes. Among the presenters will be Tom Adams, energy consultant; Bruce Pardy, Queen’s University professor of law and Economics, and Warren Howard, vice-president, Wind Concerns Ontario”