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Watch as John Laforet, President of WCO, skillfully takes Peter Tabuns (eco-fascist) to task on wind farms and the green energy movement. Watch the entire interview or jump in at the 5:30 mark.
Watch how John tears Tabuns apart and unmasks the lies of the Green Movement.
Well done John!
By: Pat Hewitt, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – How to stimulate Ontario’s economy while protecting the environment at the same time was the focus of the Good Green Jobs for All conference in Toronto on Saturday.
About 550 environmentalists, members of the labour movement and people interested in social justice attended the sold-out conference which featured speeches and workshops.
“There’s a huge opportunity out there to put people back to work and to rebuild Ontario’s industrial base, its manufacturing base,” said Ontario New Democrat environment critic Peter Tabuns, who was one of the speakers at the gathering.
In an interview, Tabuns said 250,000 people in Germany work in renewable power, while in Toledo, Ohio, 6,000 people work in the solar industry – many of whom used to make windshields for cars.
In Pennsylvania, the government signed a $650 million alternative energy bill into force in July, he said, and the state expects renewable energy will employ 10,000 people.
Billions of dollars have been invested in producing electric car batteries in Michigan and $1 billion has been invested into electric car production in Australia, said Tabuns.
“You can just see there is a tremendous opportunity for us to get jobs that are going to make a difference in people’s lives, and clean up the air and deal with climate change at the same time,” he said.
Wind turbines, solar panels, biogas generation plants, or expanding deep-lake water cooling are just some of the green technologies Ontario should be taking more advantage of to create jobs, said Tabuns.
Statistics Canada said Friday Canada’s struggling economy shed 43,200 jobs last month for a national jobless rate of 8.6 per cent, up from 8.4 per cent in September. Ontario’s unemployment rate rose a tenth of a point to 9.3 per cent in October.
Tabuns cited a recent study that said up to one million trades jobs could be created if every home in Canada was retrofitted to make it more energy efficient.
The former executive director of Greenpeace Canada said the conference was not so much a discussion about technology as one about how to get our society moving on a green jobs initiative and how to secure investment and government support – both financial and legislative.
The reality is people are going to need jobs and we have to deal with climate change, said Tabuns, adding the most productive to take on those issues is investing in renewable power.
Tabuns pointed to Denmark’s $6 billion-a-year wind power industry which employs more than 20,000 people.
But he said it’s important a “Made in Ontario” domestic manufacturing regulation keeps any green jobs created in the province instead of them shifting to countries where labour costs are cheaper.
“When governments are buying renewable energy technology or buying renewable electricity they need to specify the technologies that provide that electricity have a significant made in Ontario component,” Tabuns said.
The government Premier Dalton McGuinty has said it hopes its Green Energy Act will create 50,000 jobs and generate billions of dollars of economic growth in communities across Ontario within three years.
John Cartwright, president of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council who also spoke at the meeting, said greening the economy is not without its challenges.
“We’ve got a number of challenges and one is the influence and power of Big Oil,” Cartwright said in an interview.
He said the federal government listens too much to oil companies.
But Cartwright also said people’s attitudes must change.
“We’ve got to connect people and move them away from cynicism to saying we can and must adopt ways of living and ways of making things that are more in tune with the long-term environmental needs of this planet,” he said.
“Some of those old habits die hard.”
Editor:
More smoke and mirrors by a panel of people who should hang their heads in shame as industry continues it’s unrelenting march across Rural Ontario.
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Carol Mitchell, through her office staff, was invited to attend the taping of a television program at the Ripley wind farm. She never showed up. Granted the invite was on short notice but there was concern for her when she failed to show.
On the evening of June 22, it was understood she was scheduled to attend a Wind Turbine regulations public meeting in Port Elgin where approximately 180 citizens anticipated her arrival . She did not show up.
I don’t wish to alarm anyone by calling the police at this time. If you know of her whereabouts please ask her to contact me.
Carol Mitchell may or may not be sporting a small green tattoo.
Your attention in this matter is appreciated!
The above artricle is satire !
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Although renewable energy generation has now reached the numerically equivalent of about 26.5% of annual demand (Bülow, 2005a) and wind turbines account for about 20% of total power production (Eltra, 2005), most of the region’s wind power has to be exported in order to secure stability in the domestic grid. During 2003, for example, as much as 84% of the annual supply of wind electricity was surplus to demand at its moment of generation (Sharman, 2004), and only about 4% of domestic power consumption was satisfied by wind turbines – Source – Wind power in west Denmark
The proposed site of a wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs in Lake Ontario is the only place in the GTA where wind power might be feasible, Toronto Hydro said yesterday.
“Within the City of Toronto borders, it is pretty much the only option,” said Joan McLean, spokesperson for the project.
Noting they had already investigated the west end, McLean added: “The reality is that the construction of offshore wind turbines is not financially feasible (in) over 20 meters of water depth,” which excludes much of the GTA’s shoreline.
Toronto Hydro Energy Services has proposed placing up to 60 massive turbines on a swath of shallow reef from Ajax to the Leslie Spit. The project has prompted intense interest from locals concerned about its impact on the view, the shore, and residents. Some 400 people showed up to an information session Monday – twice as many as could fit in the hall. It was postponed and will be rescheduled.
“The noise concerns me,” said resident Jeanne Gagné. “This would be one of the first to be so close to a residential area. Everybody is pointing at us as being not-in-my-backyard. … But it’s more: Is this the best backyard?” she added.
Wind turbines belong in no ones backyard and yes the noise should concern everyone. The high cost for intermittent power should also be of major concern (added)
Family was forced to leave their home after wind turbines arrived
Iain Marlow
Staff Reporter
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When are the politicians going to stop listening to the Green Freaks?
The buses have turned out to be a colossal waste of taxpayers money, just like the wind farms will prove to be.
Did the politicians ask a mechanic before they ordered the buses?
Did they let the engineers evaluate the wind energy idea before they went ahead?
collapsed Vestas wind turbine
Or did they listen to the rhetoric of people like Al Gore and David Suzuki.
I’d put my money on the latter.
Billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted chasing the C02 boogie man.
It’s time to demand that your tax dollars go where they belong. Politicians continue to chase the boogie man while our health care,education,farm and manufacturing sectors all continue to suffer from underfunding.
This must stop now!
A perfectly good diesel bus costs $500,000. Instead, the city bought hybrid electric/diesel buses at $700,000 each.
Why? Because the only way Ottawa would give it the $300 million to buy the buses was if it bought “alternative fuel” vehicles. Naturally it complied. The only problem: the buses suck. They don’t save much fuel, and the batteries keep going kaput, requiring expensive towing operations by emission-spewing conventional vehicles.
So, in the name of environmental purity the federal government induced the city of Toronto to buy lousy buses at great expense, that don’t work well and don’t really save much in the way of fuel consumption.
Many of the Toronto Transit Commission’s nearly 500 diesel-electric hybrid buses have seen their rooftop lead-acid batteries fail after just 1½ years on the roads.
A handful of buses have even conked out mid-route, leaving passengers at the curb, TTC officials acknowledged.
From the BBC
Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals.
Canadian scientists examined bats found dead at a wind farm, and concluded that most had internal injuries consistent with sudden loss of air pressure.
Bats use echo-location to avoid hitting the blades but cannot detect the sharp pressure changes around the turbine.
The scientists say wind farms are more of an issue for bats than for birds.
“An atmospheric pressure drop at wind turbine blades is an undetectable – and potentially unforseeable – hazard for bats, thus partially explaining the large number of bat fatalities at these specific structures,” said Erin Baerwald, who led the research team at the University of Calgary.
Route cause
Bat deaths around wind farms have been widely documented across Europe and North America.
Two years ago, EU nations formally agreed to make developers aware of the risks, and find ways of monitoring bat migration routes.
Earlier this year, a bid to build a wind farm near Bideford in north Devon was turned down because of the potential impact on the mammals.
Research is underway to find ways of scaring bats from wind farms
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But among all this, understanding of how turbines affect bats has been lacking.
The Calgary team collected carcasses of hoary and silver-haired bats killed at a wind farm in south-western Alberta.
Examinations showed that fewer than half had external injuries that could have been caused by collision.
But about 90% had internal haemorrhaging, most notably in the chest cavity, a condition that puts pressure on the lung and can be fatal.
The idea is that the pressure around a rotating turbine blade is lower than in the surrounding air. A bat flying into the low-pressure zone finds its lungs suddenly expanding, bursting capillaries in the surrounding tissue which then becomes flooded with blood.
Full Story at BBC
Editor:
Picken-s your pockets and Gore-ing your rights. What a team.
Are Picken’s TV ads part of Al Gore’s 300 million media campaign?
They’re sitting back counting their sheep. Are you one?
Virtually every claim made by T. Boone
Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he is seeking for his wind
energy investments is flat wrong.
First, oil imports are not the
cause of high gasoline prices. On the contrary, oil imports serve to
keep gasoline prices down. After all, we import oil for a reason –
it’s cheaper than the domestic alternative. If we were to restrict our
energy diet to energy produced in the United States, it would make
domestic energy producers (like Mr. Pickens) far richer and energy
consumers (the rest of us) far poorer, and GDP would be reduced as
well. While one can understand why Mr. Pickens is attracted to the idea
of “energy independence,” for the rest of us, keeping the country open
to imported goods is pro-consumer, whether we’re talking about oil,
steel, textiles or athletic shoes.
Second, we are no more forced
to rely on the “goodwill” of foreign oil producers when we shop for
petroleum than we are forced to rely on the “goodwill” of supermarkets
when we shop for eggs and milk. Oil producers export crude oil because
it’s a great way to make money — and for many, the only way to make
money. And once that oil is in the global marketplace, market actors,
not oil producers, dictate where it goes. Hence, we are betting on
producer greed — which is a pretty safe bet.
Third, if wind
energy were a sensible economic investment, it would not need the
lavish federal and state subsidies already in place or the additional
largesse sought after by Mr. Pickens. Likewise, if compressed natural
gas (CNG) vehicles are an economically sensible alternative to
conventional gasoline-powered vehicles, then no government “master
plan” is necessary to deliver them to market. Price signals will induce
investors to invest and consumers to buy, without government having to
lift a finger. The same goes for all the other energy-related R&D
Mr. Pickens would like the taxpayer to dole out. If that R&D is
promising, it will be pursued, whether government subsidizes it or not.
Fourth,
if reducing our carbon footprint is the goal, then the most direct and
efficient means of reducing that footprint is to impose a tax on carbon
emissions and then leave it to the market to sort out how to most
efficiently order affairs under those new prices. Maybe it will mean
windmills and CNG, but maybe not. Perhaps it will mean more nuclear
power, new hydrogen-powered fuel cells, “clean” coal, the emergence of
cellulosic ethanol, battery-powered cars or hybrids — or a
continuation of the existing energy base but less consumption as a
consequence.
Of course, if the market were to go into any of
those directions, Mr. Pickens would be out a lot of money, which is
probably why he wants to hard-wire the market to consume the things
he’s investing in and have the government lavish him with subsidies in
the course of doing so. I wish Mr. Pickens well in his wind energy
business, but I see no reason why taxpayers, ratepayers or consumers
ought to be forced to sacrifice in order to fatten his already ample
bank account. – Jerry Taylor is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
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Govt.visit. They spend a lot of time on this site. Hope they learn something.
Domain Name gov.on.ca ? (Canada) IP Address 142.106.170.# (Government of the Province of Ontario)
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Editor:
Lunatics or criminals? You make the call.
The Liberal party is proof positive how low politicians can go. Cover up a massive sewage spill into the Ottawa river,OttawaSun, and trash the lives of people with wind turbines. Glad we have the Mnistry of Environment. What would we do without them? A-holes.
“As a result of [the integrity commissioner’s] advice and ruling, Premier Dalton McGuinty has appointed Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca, to exercise my decision-making authority with respect to the Wolfe Island Wind Project,” Gerretsen wrote in his letter to constituents.
So, Gerretsen is still calling the shots – but they are coming out of the mouth Peter Fonseca. Kind of like a puppet sitting on Gerretsens’ lap. A dummy so to speak.
I have an idea for tourism on Wolfe Island Mr. Fonseca. Take the entire Liberal Party and put them in stocks in the center of Wolfe Island and sell fruit and vegetables to the tourists to throw at them – and it’s carbon neutral
I feel this would be a good use of politicians and I’m sure this plan would generate far more income than the wind turbines.
I call it “A better tourism plan for Ontario”
The McGuinty govt has their heads so far up the ass of business interests only their toes are sticking out.
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Conflict claims plague minister; Gerretsen withdraws from key decision on wind project
Three days before Environment Minister John Gerretsen was to make a key decision about the fate of the wind-power project on Wolfe Island, the Kingston and the Islands MPP has withdrawn from the heart of the contentious issue.
Gerretsen yesterday announced he was recusing his decision-making authority with respect to the Wolfe Island Wind Project because of allegations from island residents that he was in a conflict of interest.
In a letter sent to media outlets and about 15 citizens on Wolfe Island, Gerretsen described how opponents to the project have questioned his ability to deal with the project in a “fair and unbiased fashion.”
“I take any potential conflict of interest allegations very seriously,” Gerretsen told the Whig-Standard.
He declined to comment on whether he personally believes he was in a conflict situation.
“I’d rather not give you my own personal opinion on it at this point in time,” he said in an interview. “I’m not prepared to answer that. “I did what I thought was the right action and the integrity commissioner has dealt with that.”
The allegations stem from Gerretsen’s attendance last summer, before he was appointed environment minister, at a corn roast on Wolfe Island organized by Canadian Hydro Developers Inc., the proponent for the wind project. The event, held at a private residence, was also attended by local media and municipal politicians from the Township of Frontenac Islands.
As well, the proponents, Canadian Hydro, bought tickets totalling $1,500 to attend at least one fundraising dinner for Gerretsen.
Gerretsen made the decision to divest himself of the decision-making responsibility on the wind project after consulting with Ontario’s integrity commissioner, whose office ensures that provincial politicians aren’t making decisions on issues that could benefit them.
“As a result of [the integrity commissioner’s] advice and ruling, Premier Dalton McGuinty has appointed Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca, to exercise my decision-making authority with respect to the Wolfe Island Wind Project,” Gerretsen wrote in his letter to constituents.
While the integrity commissioner determined there was no conflict of interest, she recommended Gerretsen to withdraw from the decision-making process because of a perceived conflict.
In her written decision to Gerretsen, she addressed his attendance at a Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. event last year.
“It is my opinion attending and speaking at the event was not contrary to the Members’ Integrity Act. However, both of these events appear to have created a perception that you favour one group of ministry stakeholders over another,” said Lynn Morrison, acting integrity commissioner.
In a letter to Gerretsen, Fonseca and deputy environment minister Gail Beggs, McGuinty directed ministry officials to “refrain from having any discussions with Minister Gerretsen or his staff on this file, and to seek direction from Minister Fonseca on the matter as appropriate.”
It’s unknown whether the decision that was expected early next week will still be made on schedule.
Gerretsen had been reviewing a decision of the director of the environmental assessment and approvals branch not to grant a request from citizens to require Canadian Hydro to complete an environmental assessment that will investigate the impacts of the project.
“I would imagine that it will still be within the timelines, but it may be somewhat later,” said Gerretsen. “These decisions aren’t always necessarily made within the necessary timelines.”
He said Fonseca will be briefed by Environment Ministry officials.
By Jennifer Pritchett
30 May 2008
