Strife in Ontario - The IWT Resistance - Sunday April 15th, 7pm ET

Rural Ontario is being plundered by the McGuinty government and his wind developer allies.  The citizens are actively resisting the onslaught. We will talk to some of the leaders of the resistance.

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Annie Cool has graciously accepted co-host duties again for this week's program and will join us for an amazing line-up of guests.  Annie is living in the shadow of  the public health nusiance know as "Wind One."

Mark Davis,  Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Arran Elderslie , farm country consisting of 1 town, 2 villages, several hamlets and about 7000 people,  located in central Bruce County which is about 10 miles off the shore of Lake Huron about 3 hours northwest of Toronto. Cash crop and Beef farmer, Real Estate Sales Rep for Coldwell Banker and Auctioneer doing charity auctions for worthwhile causes.  Mark has been a strong opponent of Industrial Wind Turbines for quite some time and is chair of the Inter Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group consisting of 12 to 15 municipalities from about 6 counties of like minded elected and appointed citizens doing their very best to work with the Ontario Green Energy Act and come up with bylaws and ideas to get some control back to local government and the people directly involved.

Greg Schmalz, the founder of S.T.O.P. Saugeen Shores Turbine Operation Policy resisted group opposing placement of CAW ( UAW in Canada) whose 35 story turbine on the grounds of their $70M resort is surrounded by 100 families living within 550 m and over 4,000 people within 2,000 m. This turbine has become the lightning rod representing all that is wrong with placing turbines too close to people's homes and businesses.

Lisa Thompson is the MPP for Bruce-Huron.  She was elected to the Ontario Legislature on October 6, 2011, winning the riding of Huron-Bruce by defeating a Liberal cabinet Minister. Residents of Huron-Bruce were tired of their voice not being heard at Queen’s Park, and Lisa was determined to change that, hence her motto “Huron-Bruce Matters” and “Rural Ontario Matters.”

In her first three weeks as a MPP, Lisa stood up numerous times to lend her voice to the plight of rural Ontario and the divide that the development of industrial wind farms is having on the area. On December 8th, 2011, she tabled a motion calling for a moratorium on further wind development until third party health and environmental studies have been completed. On March 8th, that motion was debated in the Ontario Legislature, and was defeated by the Liberals and NDP. Lisa was extremely disappointed, as were the 100 or so people in the public galleries who came to watch the proceedings. They effectively stood up and turned around, turning their backs to the Liberal government, as they feel the Liberal government has turned their back on them. Lisa has continued to stand up for citizens who feel violated by this government’s divisive and irresponsible energy policies.  More information can be found at Lisa’s website, www.lisathompsonmpp.ca.

Jane Wilson, a Registered Nurse and health care writer and editor, who is the current president of Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of individuals and community groups in Canada's most populous province, Ontario. She is also the editor of a book on how the Ontario government has pushed the industrial wind power generation agenda at the expense of Ontario's people and communities, called Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario's rush to wind power. Jane lives in a rural community which is part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa; her community is threatened by a 20-megawatt industrial power project that will be too close to hundreds of homes.

Along with our special guests:

Gail and Ed Kenney of Wolfe Island Ontario whose appeal of their property value assessment was rejected this past week by Ontario’s assessment review board because they could find "no evidence".  Didn't the fact that zero homes had sold since the 86 Turbines went up actually constitute stark, compelling evidence?

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From Wind Farm Realities:

It is often said that one picture is worth a thousand words, and often that is true.  And words don’t do justice to the wind turbine build-out going on in the Chatham-Kent area in southern Ontario.  So I’ve gathered up the coordinates of the wind turbines for a number of projects and placed the turbines on Google Earth with kml files.  The picture above (click to enlarge) shows the spread south from the 401 to Lake Erie, and even the picture doesn’t do it justice.  There are 462 push pins on the picture, one per turbine, and many of them are not visible in this overall picture. Upon request I can send the kml files so you can import them into your Google Earth to get the entire effect as you zoom on in.  The picture above is clickable, thank goodness, but even that doesn’t really show everything.
The yellow mass is roughly 100km long and 20 wide at its widest, and aside from the empty section SE of Chatham it is pretty much saturated with wind turbines.  Also, I know there are more turbines north of the 401 that I’m not showing, so if anyone out there can get me some of those turbine locations (or tell me where to look) I’ll add them to the picture.