What our government, the wind companies and their lobby groups won’t tell you about wind energy…

Mr. McGuinty may not have cared about the precautionary principle, but he soon will as an Ontario farmer takes the Provincial Government’s Green Energy Act to the Ontario Supreme Court.

Mark your calendars!

Hundreds of concerned citizens from communities all over Ontario turned out to a wind turbine protest at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday April 28th…

Inside the house, Norma, a tiny little wisp of a thing, flew to her feet and spoke from the deepest place in her heart. She was like a smack in the head, a kick in the stomach as to the reality of this issue!

She told our provincial government that she was evidence that something is wrong, that the problems are real, that people are getting sick. She is an RN and SHE KNOWS ABOUT HEALTH and knows symptoms, that she has been sick since the Enbridge wind turbines started up, that she has experienced the headaches, the nausea, the sleep deprivation, she has had to give up her job; a job she dearly loved, that she is going to have to give up her home of 32 years, the home she raised her 3 children in.

The Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bruce Crozier): “Sergeant, will you remove that person, please?”

Interruption.

The security person did NOT remove Norma. To the credit of the guards, they were courteous and sensitive to the situation. Little Norma continued on. HOW DARE THIS GOVERNMENT, a government who is supposed to protect us deny that this is happening to us! How can you all sit there and deny what is going on? Where is my government? Where is Carol Mitchell? Where is Carol Mitchell, my MPP who is supposed to be representing me? Where is my government? Where is my government? YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!

Many in the gallery said, Shame on you! Shame on you!

You could feel the pressure building in the room and, in the blink of an eye, the entire public gallery on either side of the room was ON THEIR FEET VIGOROUSLY APPLAUDING AND CHEERING! THE CONSERVATIVES WERE STANDING, LOOKING UP AND APPLAUDING NORMA AS WELL!

This is the Dalton McGuinty, the Liberal Party Leader and current Ontario Premier, whose Green Energy Act now overrides any municipal decisions and cuts out local families so he can drive his agenda of building industrial wind farms in everyone’s backyard but his own.

The Premier has determined that there is no basis for any of the concerns raised by Ontario residents and other experts from wind turbines.

“We’re now funding a research chair devoted to putting in place a longitudinal study so we can ensure that we are in fact not compromising the health of Ontarians.”

A little late and in the mean time he continues to plunder ahead so that by the time those health studies are done, it’ll be too late. No surprise there… the man lied to get into office only to break every election promise ever made. What a guy!

The real question is how much damage can one man do in before the October 2011 Provincial elections?

When Homer opens his ever climbing electric bill, he decides to go off the grid by installing a giant size wind turbine. Only to discover the “knots” of wind energy… knot cost-effective, knot quiet, and knot reliable since the wind is knot blowing all the time.

You can watch the entire episode right here…

Didn’t there use to be a big tree where the wind turbine now sits? Talk about reducing your carbon footprint!!!

My favorite part is when Bart is out spinning the blades manually to keep the television powered. Of course that can’t last forever. The second half centers around a beached whale no doubt trying to escape the industrialization of offshore wind factories.

You know you’re in trouble when the Simpsons are making fun of you…
Ahem… Dalton.

Seems an appropriate slogan for the SouthPoint Wind development planned for Pigeon Bay in Lake Erie just one kilometer (half a mile) off the shores of the City of Leamington and Kingville.

It would appear that there is no cost too high in the name of green energy… even when other environmental factors are at risk. Pigeon Bay is one of North Americas busiest migratory paths for hundreds of thousands of birds and Monarch butterflies.

Will this be their fate…

Of course developers and proponents of wind energy will argue that more cats, cars and buildings kill birds than wind turbines. While this is true, it is certainly not in proportion. Of course they do… there are millions of them! But per unit, wind turbines win the award.

Others will argue that the average number of bird deaths is only 2.18 birds per turbine per year. That sounds great if you’re comparing apples with apples. But this is basically a wildlife park, not the middle of nowhere land.

Just imagine the migration of Canadian Geese…

And the Monarch Butterflies…

As they journey thousands of miles only to be welcomed by 180 wind turbines and their slice-and-dice blades swinging in their wake. Birds will be falling from the sky.

Even the developers own 2009 bird study for the project area revealed over 1400 birds at risk in their 11 day survey period. Note, each day consisted of one and a half hour sessions and the project size consisted of 15 turbines… Now 180 turbines planned for the same area.

Imagine the true numbers of birds that will soon be falling from the skies.

The ironic part is that these birds are federally protected by the Migratory Bird Act and the Monarch Butterflies are federally protected by the Species at Risk Act.

Unless the federal government intervenes, it’ll be “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!”

Look to be slapped with a new tax.  Those subsidiaries for the development of green energy projects don’t come free… We get to pay for it to the tune of $53 million dollars.

The new tax will appear on your hydro bills just as the 13% harmonized sales tax (yet another McGuinty scam) is about to be charged.  Our esteemed Premier of Ontario hitting us below the belt during these hard economic times.   But don’t worry, “it’s about $4 for this year for consumers and it’s a one-year program. It gets reassessed every year,” the Energy and Infrastructure Minister said.

Hmmm… I wonder if it’ll be lowered next year?
Not.

Just how will all those laid off workers pay for these extra taxes?    Ahhh… but wait… here’s the promise of new green jobs.  How unfortunate that they’ll all be temporary and at the cost of tourism in quaint rural Ontario.

But my question is why are we taxpayers bearing the costs?

Let’s remember that these subsidies will be used so that “for profit” businesses can develop green energy projects.  And with a guaranteed payout rate of $0.13/kWh (on land) and $0.19/kWh (for offshore) for electricity sent to the grid.

Someone stands to make an awful lot of money.

Consider that a 2MW turbine (your average 400 foot turbine) can produce 6 million kWh per year. That’s 52,560 million kW per year.   The government will pay him 13.5 cents per 1,000 kW that is put into the electrical grid.  By my calculations that amount’s to $6.8 million per turbine per year for land turbines and $9.9 million per year for offshore turbines.

FOR TWENTY YEARS!!!
Again… why are we the taxpayers footing the bill?

Is it any wonder SouthPoint Wind of Leamington is fighting so hard to ruin Lake Erie and Lake St.Clair with the development of 715 of these industrial metal monsters placed in the center of  what is essentially a provincial wildlife water park.

This is the color of green in Ontario.

SouthPoint Wind is back…

This time they want to put 180 industrial wind turbines in Pigeon Bay just 1-2 km off the shorelines of Kingsville and Leamington in Lake Erie.

I’m a nimby and proud of it.

There’s a reason why people don’t want these monsters in our backyards and the Provincial Government of Ontario knows it. Instead of environmental assessments and health studies, they passes the anti-democratic Green Energy Act to force green energy projects into communities.

Unfortunately the real green is the color of the money being promised to developers with feed-in tariffs that guaranteed them a fixed rate for the next 20 years… $0.13/kWh for land projects and $0.19/kWh for offshore projects.   It’s no wonder SouthPoint Wind wants to ravage our lakes will their greed.

Since we only pay $0.06/kWh right now in Ontario, you can easily see how this will bankrupt us all.

Received some Christmas funnies in my email a few days ago.   This one is my favorite…

For some reason, that devilish cat reminds me of my husband.   Since he’s the “stinker” in the family, this one is for him.

Merry Christmas honey!

Miss Tabytha would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas… “with lots of presents too!”

How cute is that Mrs. Claus!!!

With only a few more days until Christmas and another winter storm hitting the northeast coast,  we’ve only had a sprinkling of snow.   I’m no fan of winter, but man, it’s just not Christmas without it.

While we haven’t had much snow fall from the sky, we’ve had a plenty from the lake.

It’s neat how the spray from the waves crashing against the shore turns to ice snow on it’s way down… forming snow dunes on the lakes edge.