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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News- Hundreds attend public hearing on turbines
- Lambton Shores ‘not a willing host’ to turbines
- IEA warns Germany on soaring green dream costs
- Ingen vindmøller hos de rige — No wind turbines near the rich
- Feds give wind farm a pass if turbine blades kill endangered condors
- Neighbors react to town’s vote to not dismantle wind turbines
- Hydro ‘funds for votes’ accusation
- Broken windmill in Saco takes turn for better
- Industrial Wind Action: News Watch
- Urgent call to tear down school-based turbines
- Hundreds attend public hearing on turbines
- £1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm
- Payback gone with the wind: Turbine not producing as much energy as expected
- Feds give wind farm a pass if turbine blades kill endangered condors
- Neighbors react to town's vote to not dismantle wind turbines
- U.S. Average Annual Capacity factors by project and State
- Business groups take on Cape Wind in ads
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Tag Archives: smitherman
Queen’s Park dingbats frightened?
Hmmm, McGuinty, and Energy Ministers Duguid, Smitherman, Bentley… What’s spooking them?
Posted in Green Energy Act, Ministry of Energy, Ontario government
Tagged bentley, energy ministers, McGuinty, smitherman
Do you agree?
(Reprint from 2009) The dire need to stop global warming with an aggressive renewable energy plan for Ontario outstrips potential damage to sensitive environmental areas, says Marion Fraser, a founding member of the Green Energy Act Alliance. The Sarnia Observer
Posted in Green Energy Act
Tagged Bats and Birds, Conflict of Interest, greenwashing, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
44 Comments
Look who Dalton McGuinty has crawled into bed with
The McGuinty Liberals made a undertendered, ½ billion dollar sweetheart deal behind closed doors, against the wishes of his caucus with our tax money. Samsung has no experience in the wind industry, not even in Korea. The Auditor General needs to take a closer … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Legal
Tagged corporate welfare, corruption, McGuinty, Ontario government, samsung, smitherman
7 Comments
Good Riddance, Smitherman. You can have him, Toronto.
Smitherman Quits Ontario Cabinet CTV Toronto Some analysts believe that Smitherman’s announcement was hastened by a recent dust-up at Queen’s Park, in which Smitherman was confronted about his dealings with the Samsung Group. Smitherman had been courting the South Korean … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government
Tagged corruption, dishonesty, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
3 Comments
Smitherman dithers while cabinet fumes
ADAM RADWANSKI Globe and Mail “…there’s some suggestion that the risk he’s prepared to take – preferential access to valuable transmission capacity, and maybe an investment return above the going rate, to a foreign company with limited experience in developing wind … Continue reading
McGuinty stalls plan after cabinet uproar
Toronto Star The Ontario government’s multi-billion-dollar wind turbine deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group is in jeopardy after a power play in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet, the Toronto Star has learned. Sources say rival ministers opposed to Deputy … Continue reading
Vote highlights turbine critics’ health concerns
Read Hansard Transcript Here Posted By Bill Henry Sun Times Local wind farm opponents vowed yesterday to keep pushing for independent studies into the effects wind turbines have on people. Ontario legislators rejected Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch’s call to … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Ontario government
Tagged Civil Liberty, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
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Ontario set to Swing Right
Posted By MICHAEL DEN TANDT Calgary Sun The eHealth boondoggle, on its own, is more than enough to split 416 in two years. Every citizen in every emergency waiting room with a sick child today knows that a billion health-care … Continue reading
Dirty Little Secret – Amy Tang’s “Omission”
Owen Sound Sun Times The front-page story headlined “Turbines part of green plan” (Sun Times, Oct.10/09), is a perfect example of how our provincial government is misleading the public with regard to the issue of wind turbines. Amy Tang, identified … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Green Energy Act, Natural Gas, Ontario government
Tagged Energy viability, greenwashing, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
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In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario, all I expect is a bigger hydro bill
By CONNIE WOODCOCK Toronto Sun There’s a farmer in Northumberland County, east of Oshawa, who wants to build a house for his daughter on his farm, but he can’t because he’s on the heavily protected Oak Ridges Moraine. But it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, greenwashing, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
2 Comments
Canada’s worst government
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Every now and then a province falls into the hands of blundering politicians so inept that their government ends up deserving of the title “Canada’s Worst Government.” It’s a rare award. At any time somebody has … Continue reading
Posted in First Nations, Green Energy Act, Ontario government
Tagged corruption, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
2 Comments
Call for Public Inquiry on Liberal eHealth Scandal
QUEENS PARK – Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP John Yakabuski today called for a public inquiry to resolve the many unanswered questions that remain about the serious, and potentially criminal, abuses of the taxpayer money that occurred with the McGuinty Liberal eHealth Scandal. … Continue reading
Smitherman has to go
Editor: This is directed at the Ontario government. Do Ontario and Toronto a favour, George, and retire from politics. I am calling on Premier Dalton McGuinty to demand the resignation of George Smitherman from his position of Minister of Energy … Continue reading
Think eHealth was bad?
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun Beware of Dalton and George on ‘green’ energy For Ontario to blow $1 billion over seven years not delivering on electronic health (eHealth) records, as Auditor General Jim McCarter documented last week, is frightening. But here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government, Subsidies / Costs
Tagged corporate welfare, government subsidies, McGuinty, property devaluation, smitherman
Smitherman Still in Denial, Calls for Health Study Grow
Two recent health unit meetings, in Owen Sound and Walkerton, were dominated by people protesting industrial wind turbine development and listing health and other concerns. Dr. Hazel Lynn, the Grey Bruce regional medical officer of health, supported Murdoch’s call this … Continue reading
Posted in Green Energy Act, Ontario government
Tagged Ontario government, smitherman
Owen Sound Sun Times: Good for Murdoch for raising his hand
Bill Murdoch has raised his hand at Queen’s Park. His message: “Hang on folks, let’s rethink this wind power business.” Murdoch wants a moratorium on further big wind power development projects until provincial health and environmental authorities can attest to … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government
Tagged due diligence, Health, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
Windmills: Bigger Waste than eHealth
Posted: September 30, 2009, National Post Wind reduces CO2 emissions at a subsidy cost of about $124 per tonne — one of the most expensive plans in the world By Michael Trebilcock Ontarians take note. A detailed new Danish study shatters … Continue reading
Quebec government cares more about residents than McGuinty government
“Yes to wind development, but not … at any price” Q & A with Nathalie Normandeau, Deputy Premier and Minister of Natural Resources And Wildlife Marian Scott The Montreal Gazette I can tell you, for our government, there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Green Energy Act, Ontario government
Tagged Gerretsen, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
4 Comments
George Smitherman Deathly Afraid of More Protests Today
Back in April of this year at the Grand Opening of the Enbridge Wind Farm in Kincardine, George Smitherman was met with a large group of very angry protestors. Seems this time, he’s not taking any chances. A little birdie … Continue reading
National Post: Northern Ontario Residents Critical of Process
Drafty reception for wind farm development Megan O’Toole, National Post Published: September 03, 2009 A group of Manitoulin Island residents is taking on a Toronto-based energy company, accusing Northland Power Inc. of fast-tracking a wind farm project without proper consultation. The … Continue reading
Posted in Municipalities of Ontario, Protest
Tagged due diligence, McGuinty, Ontario government, rural, smitherman
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Analysis of the GEA Regulations
Analysis of Proposed Content for the Renewable Energy Approval Regulation under the Environmental Protection Act Download full document here
We are Victims of Wind – Don’t Let This Happen to You
We suffer from: House Vibration Electrical Pollution Tightening in the Chest Ringing in the Ears High Stress Cardiac Arrythmia Acute Hypertension Sleep Deprivation Depression Severe Financial Loss Altered Living Conditions Abandoned by our government
24.3% Increase: McGuinty and Smitherman Have Clearly Pulled a Fast One
To voice your opinion email boardsec@oeb.gov.on.ca Reference: EB-2009-0096 Deadline: September 16th 2009 (Ottawa, ON) – Energy Critic John Yakabuski (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP) said today that Dalton McGuinty and George Smitherman have clearly pulled a fast one on Ontario electricity customers. Yakabuski … Continue reading
The Day Democracy Died in Ontario
The Community Press – Hastings County How many Ontarians are aware that democracy died in Ontario on May 14 this year? That is the date that Bill 150, the Ontario Green Energy and Green Economy Act 2009 received royal assent. … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Green Energy Act
Tagged Civil Liberty, Conflict of Interest, dishonesty, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
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Another Ontario Family Driven from their Home
Update to this story, See: Natural Resources Canada Eco-Bullies So whatever happened to Barbara Lormand and Dennis Lormand? The picture shows it all. They have finally been driven from their home. Read the Hansard transcript from Barbara Ashbee’s Testamony to the Green … Continue reading
Posted in Land Values
Tagged corruption, due diligence, environment, Gerretsen, Health, low frequency, Noise, Ontario government, property devaluation, smitherman, Victims
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OFCA: Stop the Turbines Until Health Study Conducted
By Hugo Rodrigues, SENTINEL-REVIEW The Oxford County Federation of Agriculture is adding its voice to those calling for a freeze on wind-farm developments in this county. Read entire story here: oxfordreview.com
Posted in Agriculture
Tagged Agriculture, Gerretsen, Health, McGuinty, Ontario government, rural, smitherman
9 Comments
We are not children to be condescended to
The Sudbury Star By Ruth Farquhar, freelance writer based on Manitoulin Island. I wonder how many wind farms it will take to shut down one coal fired plant in Ontario? Are legitimate concerns from the public being dismissed by an Ontario … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government
Tagged dishonesty, Gerretsen, greenwashing, Ontario government, smitherman
Call for Gerretsen’s Resignation
The following ad appeared in the Kingston Whig Standard July 4th, 2009: Which Community Will Be Next, Courtesy of John Gerretsen? Marysville, Wolfe Island Photo courtesy Brian Little Ontarians are suffering serious health problems because industrial wind turbines are placed … Continue reading
Huron County Federation of Agriculture: “We need better regulations to protect farm families.”
The Huron County Federation of Agriculture will be visiting municipalities throughout Huron County asking them to follow Huron East’s lead by passing interim control bylaws on commercial wind energy projects within their borders.
Posted in Agriculture, Health
Tagged Health, Ontario government, smitherman, Victims, wind turbine syndrome
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