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		<title>Two sides clash at public meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/two-sides-clash-at-public-meeting/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A verbal battleground greeted those who entered the Norwich Community Centre&#8217;s Optimist Room Monday, as ProWind Canada&#8217;s Gunn&#8217;s Hill Wind Farm Inc. presented its latest plans to the public.
As you entered the door, opponents of wind-farm developments greeted you and offered literature showing their concerns that no independent epidemiological studies on the health impacts of wind turbines have been conducted. They were supported by residents from the Clear Creek area who already live adjacent to an existing wind farm.
Their literature .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine firm denies dodging bylaw; Amherstburg setback rule stringent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The president of a company trying to build a $25-million wind turbine project denied Monday trying to circumvent the town&#8217;s zoning bylaw.
&#8220;We are in no way trying to do an end-around,&#8221; GenGrowth&#8217;s Paul Merkur told council.
The company has nine wind turbine projects planned, under construction or completed in Southwestern Ontario, including another three in Lakeshore, Merkur said.
Merkur said the company is meeting all ministry environmental standards, and the Amherstburg project has been more heavily scrutinized than most as a result .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm opponents’ message: Go away</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/wind-farm-opponents%e2%80%99-message-go-away/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The message to wind farm developers was clear. Leave.
&#8220;What do we have to do to make you pack up your bags and go away?&#8221; said Durham-area resident Joan Rawski.
She was among about 400 people who packed the Durham community centre for a public information meeting on wind energy Thursday evening.
Florida-based Nextera Energy wants to put up about a dozen wind turbines east of Priceville and many residents of West Grey are opposed to the plan and say they will fight .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Nextera told by 400 at meeting to leave town!</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/nextera-told-by-400-at-meeting-to-leave-town/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[DURHAM – It was an amazing meeting! There were around 400 people in attendance.   The wind company was raked over the coals by everyone in the room! The speakers were great! The crowd was great!
Reporters and a few others were recording the proceedings from beginning to end.  One of the reporters had done a story beforehand to let people know about the meeting. At least 7 municipalities, including Tiny township who said several more councils in Simcoe .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Nextera wind project meets opposition in West Grey</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/nextera-wind-project-meets-opposition-in-west-grey/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A confrontational ratepayers meeting in the town of Durham last night left Municipality of West Grey council with no doubts that residents are concerned about a wind farm proposal for the area.
By the time question period rolled around, uniformed West Grey police officers were circling the crowd, reminding everyone to keep their emotions under control, and representatives for Nextera Energy Resources, which has proposed the project, looked uncomfortable.
“This is a rather intimidating group to stand before,” said project manager Nicole .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council joins West Grey in turbine fight</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/05/council-joins-west-grey-in-turbine-fight/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Arran-Elderslie is joining West Grey in its fight to have the Province of Ontario place an indefinite moratorium on the construction of industrial wind turbines in their, and other, Ontario municipalities.
Last fall, Elderslie ward councillor Mark Davis suggested placing a moratorium on turbine construction in Arran-Elderslie only to become frustrated with both municipal staff and county planners telling him such a moratorium wasn&#8217;t the right approach to the problem.
&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of hearing what we can&#8217;t do,&#8221; Davis said at the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Jones says deal means dire consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/05/jones-says-deal-means-dire-consequences/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones says the Ontario government’s recent $7 billion deal with a South Korean consortium to bolster the province’s green technology industry will have dire consequences for electricity consumers.
Premier Dalton McGuinty signed an agreement with Samsung C and T and the Korea Electric Power Corporation that will see $7 billion invested in Ontario to create 16,000 new jobs over six years.
Samsung will build wind and solar farms across Ontario that will generate 2,500 megawatts of power, and will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine project still on track</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/wind-turbine-project-still-on-track/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[NextEra Energy project director Ben Greenhouse (left) chats about the wind farm project during an open house at Adelaide-W.G. MacDonald School on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Opposed to the project is Esther Wrightman, of the Middlesex Wind Action Group (middle) and Lyric Allin, 11, of Arkona (right) who believes the constant shadow flickers that could be caused the turbines may impact traffic along Highway 402.
Story:
It may be as early as March when the Adelaide Wind Farm project could be submitted to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Province should have done more research before signing deal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/province-should-have-done-more-research-before-signing-deal/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario Energy Minister Brad Duguid&#8217;s rapturous optimism over the Samsung deal raises serious speculation about the McGuinty government&#8217;s grasp on reality.
A report from the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research one of Germany&#8217;s leading independent research institutes comprised of professors from four universities, considers Germany&#8217;s experience with renewable energy over the last decade &#8220;a cautionary tale of massively expensive environmental and energy policy that is devoid of economic and environmental benefits&#8221;.
It warns: other governments &#8220;should scrutinize the logic of supporting energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Government should review health concerns related to wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/government-should-review-health-concerns-related-to-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Congratulations on the Whig&#8217;s story on the health concerns around industrial wind turbines (&#8220;Noise annoys,&#8221; Jan. 16). As a resident of Prince Edward County and a &#8220;lifer&#8221; in rural Ontario, I find the prospect of the devastation of rural Ontario by the wind industry and Liberal provincial government quite frightening on a number of fronts.
First of all, around the world, wherever there are industrial wind farm installations close to human habitation, the same sort of health complaints are independently reported. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbours of turbine sites await ruling on defintion of  dwellings requiring setbacks</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/neighbours-of-turbine-sites-await-ruling-on-defintion-of-dwellings-requiring-setbacks/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ MANITOULIN &#8212; Opponents of the Northland Power wind farm proposed for McLean&#8217;s Mountain could lose their last chance at blocking the project when the ministry of the environment introduces new guidelines for designating receptors.
Receptors are the structures by which developers measure the setbacks from turbines; these generally mean houses and, in some cases, hunt camps. In an effort to thwart, or at least delay, the Northland project, landowners in the area have been securing building permits through the town .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Replying to Zwig</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/replying-to-zwig/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I, along with many residents of Thunder Bay, recently received an open letter from Anthony Zwig, President and CEO of Horizon Wind Inc. The letter included nice little animations of a house, lightbulb, child at play, trees and Wind Turbines. If the Turbines were to scale with the child, the page would have had to be 50 inches tall.
Horizon Wind Inc. is proposing to install industrial wind turbines on the Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment on city land at the end of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The War of Winds</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/02/the-war-of-winds/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[It is a bright mid-September day. Hal and Judy Graham are sitting in the living room of their restored 19th century farmhouse, which looks out over the still-green rolling hills near Cohocton, a rural community in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
The pastoral view is punctuated by two 420-foot-high structures. The sleek towers, almost alien in appearance, are wind turbines. One of them stands 1,000 feet from the farmhouse, on a neighbor’s property. The second is 2,000 feet .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council brings sides together for wind meeting; Industry, opponents represented in meeting set for Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/02/council-brings-sides-together-for-wind-meeting-industry-opponents-represented-in-meeting-set-for-thursday/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents of West Grey and surrounding municipalities have a chance to learn more about industrial wind turbines and their effects on health, the local economy and property values.
Speakers at a meeting being organized by West Grey council later this week include a representative of Nextera, a Florida-based company that plans to build a dozen industrial turbines west of Priceville, a spokesperson for Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) and Carmen Krogh, a retired pharmacist, as well as real estate agent and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind talkers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/02/wind-talkers/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Developers of a proposed wind project went before council Monday night to address concerns and answer questions.
Security was beefed up to include extra guards and two police officers at Monday’s meeting. The crowd overflowed, leaving some members of the public to sit in the main lobby at city hall. Horizon Wind Inc. president Anthony Swig, project manager Nhung Nguyen and consultant Steven Wright spoke of the benefits the proposed 18 turbine project would bring to the region.
Nguyen said the project .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green is good &#8211; but insignificant</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/01/green-is-good-but-insignificant/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The McGuinty government is spending the Ontario electricity revenue to encourage investments in wind and solar green-power generation, without any chance of a benefit to the system or to the customer.
The big corporate investors in wind farms and maybe solar farms will reap rich rewards for 20 years, while the customers pay higher and higher prices for electrical energy.
This push for more green power while at the same time delaying decisions on extending the Darlington nuclear plant, could result in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowback from wind farms threatens air-traffic control</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/31/blowback-from-wind-farms-threatens-air-traffic-control/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines may be seen by Ontario’s government as the power source for the future, but a group of Canadian engineers could hold the key to ensuring the clean energy system doesn’t end up causing an aviation disaster.
Wind farms are sprouting up around the world, but aviation specialists are raising concerns that the giant turbines are creating blackout zones for air-traffic control radars. The spinning blades of the turbines are being detected by the radars, presenting false images or generating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for answers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/30/looking-for-answers/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A city councillor doesn’t know what to expect when Horizon Wind Inc. makes a deputation before council Monday.
Coun. Linda Rydhom said she wants to know why the company’s proposed 18-turbine wind farm has moved closer to Loch Lomond Ski area and Neebing residences since entering into a lease agreement for 17,000 acres of land with the city in 2007. The Big Thunder Wind Park was supposed to be closer to the former Big Thunder site and further away from people, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>West Grey Seeks Moratorium on Industrial Wind Turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/29/west-grey-seeks-moratorium-on-industrial-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[As Mayor of the Municipality of West Grey, on behalf of the Council and citizens of West Grey, I am calling upon the Province of Ontario to place an indefinite moratorium on industrial wind turbines in the Municipality of West Grey and other Ontario municipalities.
The Council of the Municipality of West Grey, as its meeting held on January 11, 2010 passed the attached resolution regarding industrial wind turbines and is seeking all Provincial Ministers, MPP&#8217;s, local and area MP&#8217;s and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Township supports moratorium on wind energy projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/29/township-supports-moratorium-on-wind-energy-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Asphodel-Norwood – Council says the province should impose a moratorium on wind energy projects until a study of their impact on human health is carried out by an independent third party.
Asphodel-Norwood declared its stance this week by supporting a resolution by the Township of Mapleton calling for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to put a moratorium in place.
Late last year Mapleton council received a petition signed by more than 250 people who are concerned about possible health issues related .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>TransAlta assures islanders no plans for second phase of wind plant</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/28/transalta-assures-islanders-no-plans-for-second-phase-of-wind-plant/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[EMC Business &#8211; TransAlta executives Jason Edworthy, director of community relations, and Michael Lawrence, manager of external relations, came from Calgary to Wolfe Island for their first meetings with islanders since their company acquired the island&#8217;s wind plant project from Canadian Hydro Developers.
A public meeting hosted by the Township of Frontenac Islands was held at the Wolfe Island Town Hall. Their second meeting was with the landowners who have towers on their property.
&#8220;This is a long term relationship and we .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce County pushing for research on wind turbine health effects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/28/bruce-county-pushing-for-research-on-wind-turbine-health-effects/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Bruce County is still pushing for research on the health impacts of wind turbines. 
On Thursday the Agriculture, Tourism and Planning committee recommended support of resolutions from Grey County, Grey Bruce Public Health and Kawartha Lakes all calling for investigation into reports of adverse health effects reported by people living near turbines.
All levels of government are under pressure over reports of those adverse health affects, said Warden Mike Smith.
He wants a definitive study to determine if the reports are legitimate.
&#8220;There&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm efficiency lacking: expert</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/wind-farm-efficiency-lacking-expert/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A retired Queen&#8217;s University physics professor says wind farms don&#8217;t live up to the hype generated by energy companies and governments.
John Harrison says that for the final six months of 2009, the Wolfe Island wind farm operated at about one-quarter efficiency.
It&#8217;s misleading, Harrison said, for Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen and TransAlta, the company that recently bought the wind farm, to claim that the 86 turbines power 75,000 homes.
&#8220;Based upon full-year numbers for the other wind farms,&#8221; he wrote in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents, council want more answers on wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/residents-council-want-more-answers-on-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[AMHERSTBURG — Several residents living near the proposed five-turbine South Side Wind Farm are looking for answers and it appears town council is also seeking more information on the project.
Mick MacCorquodale, accompanied by his wife and several other neighbors of the proposed wind farm, addressed town council Monday night and believed the town&#8217;s 600 metre setback requirement between turbines and area homes should still take precedence. GenGrowth is proposing the project.
According to MacCorquodale, GenGrowth received final approval from the Ministry .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Why does anybody support wind turbines?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/why-does-anybody-support-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. Sometimes I have a hard time keeping a straight face while I listen to our elected politicians debate certain issues.
On January 18 I was almost bursting at the seams listening to Meaford council debate wind turbines.
The issue was simple. Some councillors wanted to pass a resolution telling the province and federal government that they need to do more research into the growing concerns about negative health effects being experienced by people living near wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition group makes presentation to school board</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/opposition-group-makes-presentation-to-school-board/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A citizen’s group has asked the Lakehead Public School Board to join the fight against the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park.
Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee health and safety co-chair Margot Freitag, who is also a school board employee, made a presentation to the board Tuesday evening to discuss health concerns for students and staff at Nor’Westerview Public School should the estimated 18 wind turbines be installed. Freitag said the project would be within 2.6 kilometres of the school which could .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind co-operation urged</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/wind-co-operation-urged/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[MONTREAL &#8211; Interprovincial rivalry in the wind-energy sector won&#8217;t help develop Canadian expertise and export potential in a growth industry, according to manufacturers that would like a melding of local-content regulations for wind farms in Quebec and Ontario.
In Quebec, wind-farm developers must guarantee the expenditure of at least 60 per cent of total wind farm costs in the province while the comparable figure in Ontario will be &#8211; by 2012 &#8211; 50 per cent. The goal for each province is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm foes back bylaw</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/26/wind-farm-foes-back-bylaw/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents opposing a $25-million wind turbine project along Con. 6 want to know which rules apply &#8212; the town&#8217;s tougher zoning bylaw or the new guidelines of Ontario&#8217;s Green Energy Act.
Town council didn&#8217;t have clear answers for them Monday on the future of GenGrowth&#8217;s 10-megawatt South Side project.
&#8220;When we run around in circles like this, I can see why people get upset,&#8221; said Coun. John Sutton.
Amherstburg requires a 600-metre setback from turbines and homes that are not on the land .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm in provincial hands now</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/26/wind-farm-in-provincial-hands-now/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The fate of a proposed wind turbine farm in central Innisfil will be decided by the provincial government under the new Green Energy Act.
Schneider Power had applied to build five turbines on Conc. 5 near Hwy. 400 in 2007 through the town under the provincial Planning Act.
But since then, the province has taken over the reins in an effort to push renewable energy projects past municipal scrutiny.
Schneider’s plan, which is opposed by nearby residents and the owner of the Cookstown .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Unfair&#8217; advantage cited in Samsung deal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/25/unfair-advantage-cited-in-samsung-deal/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario&#8217;s $7-billion pact with South Korean company includes hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives not available to other firms
Canadian-based green power firms say the lucrative deal Ontario has signed with Samsung Group will give the South Korean company an unfair advantage in the key Ontario renewable energy market.
Under the $7-billion agreement with Samsung and Korea Electric Power Corp. , announced last week, the Ontario government will pay $437-million in incentives if the consortium completes four manufacturing plants in the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The fallacy of wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/23/the-fallacy-of-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Re: Ontario Puts $10B In The Wind, Terence Corcoran, Jan. 22.
Terence Corcoran is right in identifying the huge subsidy that the taxpayers are providing to Samsung and their partner(s), but the actual giveaway is even more. The Ontario Power Authority under the Feed in Tariff program actually pays 19¢ per kilowatt hour (plus the additional cent) for offshore wind power. Onshore is 13.5¢. Based on Mr. Corcoran&#8217;s calculations, this will add another $6.6-billion to the subsidy, based on the 110 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Local wind producers fear being muscled out by Samsung</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/23/local-wind-producers-fear-being-muscled-out-by-samsung/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[THOROLD — Niagara businesses could cash in on a $7-billion green-energy investment in Ontario by a South Korean conglomerate headed by Samsung, but local wind developers wonder whether they&#8217;ll be muscled out of the clean power picture.
Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the massive deal Thursday, which includes a $437-million provincial subsidy over 25 years. The conglomerate is expected to build four new wind and solar factories that could create up to 16,000 permanent and temporary jobs, as well as multiple green-energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals fear green-deal backlash</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/23/liberals-fear-green-deal-backlash/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[There is mounting anger within the Liberal caucus over Premier Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s decision to award a $7 billion green-energy deal to a South Korean consortium, sources told the Star.
MPPs, who were advised on a conference call that the controversial accord with Samsung C&#038;T and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) would be proceeding, complain they had no input on an arrangement.
The deal, signed Thursday, will increase ratepayers&#8217; hydro bills and critics say it will undermine domestic renewable energy producers.
&#8220;This thing was .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Counties in dark over plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/22/counties-in-dark-over-plan/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Town hall has no idea if Norfolk will be the site for new wind and solar farms the province has approved for the north shore of Lake Erie and is powerless to stop their construction here, warns Mayor Dennis Travale.
&#8220;We might see windmills out on the water on the lakefront. We might see windmills close to shore in Port Dover,&#8221; Travale said Thursday following Queen&#8217;s Park&#8217;s announcement that it has approved a $7 billion wind-solar project by a Korean consortium .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario puts $10B in the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/22/ontario-puts-10b-in-the-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When government and industry talk about green energy, what they mean by green is the green stuff that will be going into the pockets of special corporate and government interests.
In a dramatic move yesterday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty struck a green electricity deal &#8212; allegedly the biggest of its kind in the world &#8212; that will transmit a subsidy worth as much as $10-billion into the hands of a Korean state enterprise and corporate giant Samsung.
Green economics is a wonderful .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dalton’s big green gamble: Editorial</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/22/dalton%e2%80%99s-big-green-gamble-editorial/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Premier Dalton McGuinty says his $7-billion deal with South Korea’s Samsung Group to create 16,000 new jobs over six years and generate 2,500 megawatts of renewable energy will “make Ontario the place for green energy manufacturing in North America.”
He’d better hope so. That’s a huge price tag to provide less than one-third of the 50,000 green jobs McGuinty promised would result from his Green Energy Act.
At 16,000 jobs (only 4,000 permanent) it’s $437,500 to create each one.
All while paying a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind studies occurring worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/22/wind-studies-occurring-worldwide/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[There is a misconception that Ontario is the only place reporting health problems associated with living near industrial wind turbines.
Dr. Michael Nissenbaum of the United States reports on preliminary findings of a controlled study (Mars Hill, Maine) to investigate potential adverse health effects. He concludes that adults living within 1,100 metres of industrial wind turbines suffer high incidences of chronic sleep disturbances and headaches, among other somatic complaints, and high incidences of dysphoric psychiatric symptomatology, compared to a control group .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Headline misleading</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/22/headline-misleading/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Re: &#8216;Anti-turbine group addresses school board,&#8217; Jan. 15
This headline e could not be any further from the truth!
Although I am not a member of the organization, Gone with the Wind, I have used their website, attended their public meetings and phoned with questions I have had on turbines and can assure the public the Gone with The Wind organization is not against the use of turbines. They have stated this openly from the start of their campaign.
The message to which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm bad for environment, tourism and wildlife</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/wind-farm-bad-for-environment-tourism-and-wildlife/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Here in Northumberland, we live in one of the most beautiful counties east of Toronto. But, I am not sure our local governments really appreciate the effect of what is not in place for safety and environmental issues, and future protection from visual and noise pollution.
Why the focus on large wind farms? They are not environmentally friendly and pose a real danger for wildlife and its future in the area. The humming noise from these farms is harmful to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind-farm fight continues</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/wind-farm-fight-continues/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[An activist group opposed to a Neebing wind farm says the city needs to block the controversial project and stop using the province as a scapegoat.
More than 200 residents packed the Vickers Height Community Centre Wednesday night for a Neebing Ward meeting that focused on the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park. The proposal would see Horizon Wind Inc. erect about 18 wind turbines along the Nor’Wester Mountain range, a plan that led to the creation of the activist group called .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents hope to put brakes on wind farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[DRAYTON — With Premier Dalton McGuinty expected to announce, maybe as early as today, a $7 billion deal which would see wind farms sprouting up across the province, some still hope to put the brakes on the controversial installations.
Mapleton Township councillors recently passed a motion asking for a provincial moratorium on new wind farms, after receiving a 250-name petition opposed to one such project south-east of Arthur.
“It was just to ask the province to look into some of the concerns .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tories seek probe into $7B green energy deal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/tories-seek-probe-into-7b-green-energy-deal/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Premier Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s $7 billion &#8220;sweetheart deal&#8221; with Samsung Group to develop green energy technology in Ontario should be vetted by the provincial auditor general before proceeding, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says.
Hudak warned that the agreement, which McGuinty will unveil Thursday at The Exchange Tower, could end up being &#8220;a massive multibillion-dollar giveaway to a foreign-based conglomerate without even the most basic of public reviews.&#8221;
&#8220;At its core, it is a preferential, sole-sourced deal that is likely in violation of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Health worries of wind farm opponents should be taken seriously by government</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/health-worries-of-wind-farm-opponents-should-be-taken-seriously-by-government/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wolfe Island has, in years, been roiled by division and debate over the wind turbines that now adorn (or deface, in the view of some) the island. And it isn&#8217;t just there that controversy has swirled around the wind farm industry. Across Ontario, plans to erect turbines in rural communities are running into stiff headwinds.
Some critics just don&#8217;t like the look of the things, but others say the noise and vibrations the turbines produce affect the health of people living .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind doesn&#8217;t mask turbine noise</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/wind-doesnt-mask-turbine-noise/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In Saturday&#8217;s story on wind turbine noise ( &#8220;Noise annoys,&#8221; Jan. 16), Kingston and the Islands MPP John Gerretsen is quoted as saying that the new Ontario turbine noise regulations (40 decibels and a minimum 550-metre setback) exceed those of all other jurisdictions.
He is wrong. Germany, for instance, has a nighttime noise limit of 35 decibels, significantly lower than Ontario&#8217;s limit. This limit automatically pushes the setback from a single turbine out to about 650 metres, and from three neighbouring .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Critics warn Ont. government&#8217;s green energy deal with Samsung bad for taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/critics-warn-ont-governments-green-energy-deal-with-samsung-bad-for-taxpayers/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[TORONTO &#8211; Critics of a $7-billion green energy agreement between Ontario and South Korean giant Samsung said Wednesday it gives a foreign consortium an unfair advantage over local wind and solar producers and will be a bad deal for taxpayers.
The agreement, which was to be signed Thursday by Premier Dalton McGuinty, would see Samsung build wind and solar farms across Ontario to generate 2,500 megawatts of renewable energy, a source close to the deal said Wednesday.
The construction will occur in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>AOK First Nation opposes wind farm on health grounds; Demands 2-2.5 km setback of turbines from reserve boundary</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/20/aok-first-nation-opposes-wind-farm-on-health-grounds-demands-2-2-5-km-setback-of-turbines-from-reserve-boundary/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ AUNDECK OMNI KANING-As Northland Power, with input from the Northeast Town, finalizes its plan for a 43-turbine wind farm at McLean&#8217;s Mountain, nearby Aundeck Omni Kaning (AOK) has made it known through a recent band council resolution (BCR) that the First Nation is firmly against the project.
A copy of the BCR, approved by AOK council on January 12, was distributed late last week to the mayor and council of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands, along with a cover letter .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents concerned with wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/20/residents-concerned-with-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Some Huron-Kinloss Twp. residents want to make it clear that they are still concerned with wind turbine development in the municipality.
Township resident David Colling attended the Jan. 11 council meeting and said he wanted to clear up any misconception about the wind turbine company burying the transmission lines. He said not all lines have been buried yet and families are not able to move back into their homes.
&#8220;One family is still in a hotel, paid for by the wind turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency numbers hot air, professor says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/20/efficiency-numbers-hot-air-professor-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A retired Queen&#8217;s University physics professor says wind farms don&#8217;t live up to the hype generated by energy companies and governments.
John Harrison says that for the final six months of 2009, the Wolfe Island wind farm operated at about one-quarter efficiency.
It&#8217;s misleading, Harrison said, for Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen and Trans -Alta, the company that recently bought the wind farm, to claim that the 86 turbines power 75,000 homes.
&#8220;Based upon full-year numbers for the other wind farms,&#8221; he wrote .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung deal to bring wind, solar farms to Ontario: sources</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/20/samsung-deal-to-bring-wind-solar-farms-to-ontario-sources/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A huge green energy deal between the Ontario government and a consortium of South Korean companies led by Samsung is expected to be announced by Premier Dalton McGuinty this week, The Canadian Press has learned.
The negotiations were still going on Tuesday night, but an agreement to have Samsung build dozens of wind and solar farms across the province could be signed by McGuinty as early as Thursday, sources familiar with the deal confirmed.
&#8220;The government&#8217;s really keen to bring a group .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>First wind turbine to rise in Essex County</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Essex County&#8217;s first industrial wind turbine is expected to be completely erected today as part as the $110-million International Power Canada project.
Town council got an update Monday on the 24-turbine project spread over about 1,400 acres of farmland southwest of Harrow.
Construction manager Gus Dimaria said about 125 workers are on site, with 23 of the turbine foundations installed and about 10 kilometres of internal roads completed.
Erection of tower sections has begun, to be followed by attachment of blades.
Completion of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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