Resource Library Category: Ontario
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Two Dozen Suggestions About Wind Power Leases for Farmers
Author: Ontario Federation of Agriculture
1. Meet with your neighbours — The wind company will be approaching your neighbours. Meet with them and work together with your OFA MSR.
2. Cost of a Lawyer — Ask the wind power company to pay to have the agreement reviewed by a lawyer who will work for everyone in the area. This saves you $ 500 to $ 1,000.
3. Transferability — Add a clause that stipulates that the agreement cannot be transferred by the wind company . . .
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Dr. Nina Pierpont on CFCO radio
Author: Pierpont, Nina
Nina Pierpont, who has described “wind turbine syndrome” — the constellation of symptoms that affects many people living near industrial wind turbines — was interviewed on Kim Iles and Greg Foster’s “Ask the Experts” show, CFCO radio, Chatham, Ontario, on Feb. 28, 2008.
This recording was kindly provided to National Wind Watch by Calvin Luther Martin.
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Richmond Road Turbine Splatters
Author: Bell, Ken
Ken Bell, Water Quality Monitoring Coordinator, Rondeau Watershed Coalition, noticed patterned splatters on the top third of the tower of a 1.5-MW GE turbine. Assuming that they indicate spilled oil thrown from the blades (and not, as originally suspected and still possible, collisions of birds and bats), he used to them to estimate the total amount of oil spilled.
“Richmond Road Turbine Splatters”
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Calculating the Real Cost of Industrial Wind Power
Author: Stelling, Keith
An information update for Ontario Electricity Consumers from the Friends of Arran Lake Wind Action Group, Bruce County, Ontario, Compiled by Keith Stelling, November 2007.
Introduction
The history of human technological innovation is littered with projects that have had to be abandoned because they were based on a narrow theoretical view that failed to take into account the whole picture. The commercial exploitation of wind energy is fast showing signs of such failure.
The last ten years in Europe has provided ample opportunity . . .
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Review of Wind Power Results in Ontario: May to October 2006
Author: Adams, Tom
From Energy Probe, “a consumer and environmental research team, active in the fight against nuclear power, and dedicated to resource conservation, economic efficiency, and effective utility regulation.” Energy Probe is part of Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s largest independent think tanks, which strives “to eliminate tragedies of the commons.”
“The study presents results from a synchronized database of actual wind production and consumer demand. Recognizing that the production experience to date covers a relatively short period of seven . . .
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Policy Comments on Point Petre Commercial Wind Turbine Generating Plant
Author: Berry, Ray
A thorough analysis of industrial wind and its shortcomings, from Ontario, Canada
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