Stop The CAW Wind Turbine

The Canadian Press   Posted: Feb 28, 2012 8:33 AM ET      Last Updated: Feb 28, 2012 11:00 AM ET

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/02/28/toronto-ontario-mcguinty-green-projects.html

 

A great resource site worth looking at

http://ontario-wind-resistance.org

 

An great video interview with Lorrie Goldstein discussing “why Ottawa should ignore Ontario’s model’ when it comes to Wind Turbines. Ottawa plans to copy Ontario’s wind turbine model which is the WORST possible strategy according to Lorrie Goldstein and his investigation  . . .

http://en.video.canoe.tv/video/avoid-ontario’s-errors!/1437361456001

 

Dr Robert McMurtry, Order of Canada, records his concerns about Industrial Wind Turbines.  Find out about the effect of Wind Turbines on human health and community well-being, in this powerful video called “No Safe Place.”

Only 13 minutes long, this video is compelling.  Please take the time to watch it.

www.quixoteslaststand.com

Last Thursday, the Toronto Star ran an article (link below) about the travesty in our community where 100 families live inside 550 m and 4,000 people live inside 2,000 m which is the Town’s setback policy.

The Star told us they would run additional articles if measureable interest is shown in the article.

We need to get our message to the GTA, so please spread the word.

1. Please forward the article to everyone you know:

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1121903–caw-faces-boycott-over-port-elgin-wind-turbine

2. Click on the ‘Recommend’ tab at the bottom of the article (to post it to facebook) so it will have the opportunity to go viral. If we can get the ‘recommends’ into the triple digits, the Star will notice.

3. Send a letter about it to the Star:

http://www.thestar.com/staticcontent/993465

Jan 18, 2012

A video on Wind Turbine Noise and Shadow Flicker

Please watch this and come back and sign out petition ( on this site)

What’s it like?

I have tried to explain, as best I can since I haven’t lived it, some of what people have experienced when industrial wind turbines move in next door.  I don’t think I’ve succeeded. If people truly understood, they would lay on the road or strap themselves to turbine parts or do anything they could think of to try to stop anymore from being built in this province, far too closely to homes, schools and towns.

Some think they can decide to tolerate it, that they will be okay as if they have a choice and control over noise and vibration assaulting their body and brain.  Some think more insulation or burying power lines or plain old will power will overcome this assault. Some think you have to be prone to other problems before it will affect you.  Some think they are so healthy and strong that they will be able to handle anything. Reports from across the province and the world do not bear any of these statements out.

I have just heard from another who has, after fighting valiantly for a long time, sold thier home with the hell and torment of emotion that comes from being forced into ill health and then forced to leave a dream/nightmare.

Try to sit and take that in for a few minutes.  Try to begin to imagine what this would do to you and your family.

How would you manage at your job and your life if you were hardly able to function through the day because you can’t sleep anymore, you can’t think anymore, because you constantly feel unwell, because you are so nauseated you can’t keep food down or your head hurts so badly, you just want to jump off a bridge?

What if you needed to take care of family members who were ill or in need, but you just don’t bring them home because it’s toxic there?

Imagine being completely ignored or denied and dismissed, after two solid years of firm, but polite communication with Ministry people, MPPs, etc. asking for help because you are in this desperate and devastating situation through no fault of your own.

Then imagine listening to the likes of Dr. Colby and King (literature review doctors who will not talk to you), Tyler Hamilton (media person), Kris Stevens(special interest group) and McGuinty and his cast of cronies (politicians), tell everyone there is no problem with wind turbines and health over and over again.  How would it sit with you to hear them say that people who are getting paid to host turbines are just fine? This is not true by the way but it becomes another verbal assault and insult to you because no one could pay you enough to live like this.

Imagine sitting during the few times the turbines are down and not running, tensed and waiting for the assault on your body to restart. Imagine the bittersweet joy of hearing a bumblebee and the wind in the trees without turbines whomping in the background, knowing that it’s not going to last for long.

The premier of the province calls you or your sick family member a NIMBY.  How does it feel as McGuinty looks directly into your eyes, as someone who has been forced from your home by his turbine crusade, while you are holding a sign saying, ” I WANT MY HOME BACK” and smiles and waves to you as he boards his big election tour bus.

Imagine all of this still swirling around you as you’ve finally had to move out of your toxic home to find some relief.

Lorrie Gillis

Reports from across the province and the world do not bear any of these statements out.  I have just heard from another who has, after fighting valiantly for a long time, sold their home with the hell and torment of emotion that comes from being forced into ill health and then forced to leave a dream/nightmare.

Try to sit and take that in for a few minutes. Try to begin to imagine what this would do to you and your family.

How would you manage at your job and your life if you were hardly able to function through the day because you can’t sleep anymore, you can’t think anymore, because you constantly feel unwell, because you are so nauseated you can’t keep food down or your head hurts so badly and meds won’t touch the pain?

What if you needed to take care of family members who were ill or in need, but you just don’t bring them home because it’s toxic there?Imagine being completely ignored or denied and dismissed, after two solid years of firm, but polite communication with Ministry people, MPPs, etc. asking for help because you are in this desperate and devastating situation through no fault of your own.

Then imagine listening to the likes of Dr. Colby and King (literature review doctors who will not talk to you), Tyler Hamilton (media person), Kris Stevens(special interest group) and McGuinty and his cast of cronies (politicians), tell everyone there is no problem with wind turbines and health over and over again.

How would it sit with you to hear them say that people who are getting paid to host turbines are all just fine? This is not true by the way but it becomes another verbal assault and insult to you because no one could pay you enough to live like this.Imagine sitting during the few times the turbines are down and not running, tensed and waiting for the assault on your body to restart. Imagine the bittersweet joy of hearing a bumblebee and the wind in the trees without turbines whomping in the background, knowing that it’s not going to last for long.

The premier of the province calls you or your sick family member a NIMBY. How does it feel as McGuinty looks directly into your eyes, as someone who has been forced from your home by his turbine crusade, while you are holding a sign saying, ” I WANT MY HOME BACK” and smiles and waves to you as he boards his big election tour bus.Your doctor changes the subject and becomes distant to you when you try to tell him/her why you are sick. You want to cry as you leave the office, humiliated.

After trying all kinds of legitimate means to make your home healthy again, you finally move out, sometimes for good, sometimes being compensated, sometimes not.Imagine all of this still swirling around you as you’ve finally had to move out of your toxic home to find some relief.

There are families who are still undergoing wind company and MOE noise testing after 3 years of doing all they’ve been told to do,  with no resolution to the problem.

They don’t want to be guineau pigs anymore.

They are tired and sick. They are betrayed and they are angry.

In March of 2009 we launched WindVOiCe, which stands for Wind Vigilance for Ontario Communities and is a valid health survey using strict protocol to protect data integrity.

By April of 2009, 53 people were reporting adverse health effects and disturbed living conditions.

In February, 2011,  we released the seventh and final update of the WindVOiCe© health survey results with a final total of 136 people reporting problems.

I believe this number represents the tip of the iceburg.

Nearly 25 families from Ontario that we know of, have been forced from their homes after the start up of turbines nearby.

We don’t know how many have quietly sold and escaped to regain health.

Almost every week I hear from someone new who is having difficulty.

The two year “snapshot” of information presented in WindVOiCe should have raised a red flag with the McGuinty government but it did not.

A recent tribunal appeal decision for a project in Ontario acknowledged that wind turbines can cause harm to humans. (Reference: Environmental Review Tribunal, Case Nos.: 10-121/10-122 Erickson v. Director, Ministry of the Environment, Dated this 18th day of July, 2011 by Jerry V. DeMarco, Panel Chair and Paul Muldoon, Vice-Chair). The decision states, “While the Appellants were not successful in their appeals, the Tribunal notes that their involvement and that of the Respondents, has served to advance the state of the debate about wind turbines and human health. This case has successfully shown that the debate should not be simplified to one about whether wind turbines can cause harm to humans. The evidence presented to the Tribunal demonstrates that they can, if facilities are placed too close to residents. The debate has now evolved to one of degree.” The debate has now evolved to one of degree.

The term “degree” means we must prove there will be serious harm to an individual, in a specific project, before it is built and operating.  It’s a very challenging test and one that, to my knowledge, is not a typical requirement for other industries. The government is well aware of the fact that there are health problems; they have received the evidence many times including recently published peer reviewed articles.

Their energy policy is based on politics, not people.”To do no harm” is the job of any governmental authority. People are being harmed.  I’m in touch with many of them. There is a realization that the systems we thought were in place to protect us, aren’t working. Please, consider my words before you invite turbines into your community.

Thank you for inviting me here to speak.