Comments for Essex County Wind Resistance http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com Keep Turbines AWAY from Families! Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:46:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Excerpts from Nina Pierpont’s Book “Wind Turbine Syndrome” by WCO http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/excerpts-from-nina-pierpont%e2%80%99s-book-%e2%80%9cwind-turbine-syndrome%e2%80%9d/#comment-1052 WCO Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:46:39 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-1052 The book is due to be released on November 25th. It can be purchased through http://windturbinesyndrome.com The book is due to be released on November 25th. It can be purchased through http://windturbinesyndrome.com

]]> Comment on Excerpts from Nina Pierpont’s Book “Wind Turbine Syndrome” by Hollis Rinehart http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/excerpts-from-nina-pierpont%e2%80%99s-book-%e2%80%9cwind-turbine-syndrome%e2%80%9d/#comment-1051 Hollis Rinehart Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:15 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-1051 I would like to read this book and to recommend it. May we know when and where it will be published? I would like to read this book and to recommend it. May we know when and where it will be published?

]]> Comment on Jim Drummond (Golder Associates) Lobbies for Small Setbacks in Essex County by Grant Church http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/jim-drummond-golder-associates-lobbies-for-small-setbacks-in-essex-county/#comment-1002 Grant Church Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:01:43 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=602#comment-1002 Obviously, they subscribe to the principle: Health and safety come first unless it interferes with production. Maybe they're buddies of Dwight Duncan or just plain card carrying Liberals. Whoever they are they should show some respect for their neighbours. Obviously, they subscribe to the principle: Health and safety come first unless it interferes with production. Maybe they’re buddies of Dwight Duncan or just plain card carrying Liberals.
Whoever they are they should show some respect for their neighbours.

]]> Comment on Critic of Wolfe Island wind plant issued cease-and-desist order by Zen2then http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/critic-of-wolfe-island-wind-plant-issued-cease-and-desist-order/#comment-985 Zen2then Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:03:38 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-985 The wind turbines on Wolfe Island are an industrial development. They were no different than oil rigs from a distance. As industrial wind turbines age they will have oil leaks and mechanical failures as would any mechanical structure with moving parts and friction. To think birds will alter their migration routes is naive at best. The only altering will be the number of birds migrating. Experts in European countries know the impacts to birds are not as small as the wind industry try to make us believe. One of the criticisms is the the prop style technology we are employing is old. Solid vertical axis turbines, like a javex bottle lawn ornament designed and produced in Ontario, have promise. If wind is so important why would we not investigate how best to capture it to be integrated on the existing transmission network? Why not develop the technology ourselves to best meet our needs instead of trying to adapt an archaic technology? It may not answer all the problems, but way better than what is being pushed through at a high cost to the environment, tax payers and businesses. The wind turbines on Wolfe Island are an industrial development. They were no different than oil rigs from a distance. As industrial wind turbines age they will have oil leaks and mechanical failures as would any mechanical structure with moving parts and friction. To think birds will alter their migration routes is naive at best. The only altering will be the number of birds migrating. Experts in European countries know the impacts to birds are not as small as the wind industry try to make us believe. One of the criticisms is the the prop style technology we are employing is old. Solid vertical axis turbines, like a javex bottle lawn ornament designed and produced in Ontario, have promise. If wind is so important why would we not investigate how best to capture it to be integrated on the existing transmission network? Why not develop the technology ourselves to best meet our needs instead of trying to adapt an archaic technology? It may not answer all the problems, but way better than what is being pushed through at a high cost to the environment, tax payers and businesses.

]]> Comment on Critic of Wolfe Island wind plant issued cease-and-desist order by WCO http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/critic-of-wolfe-island-wind-plant-issued-cease-and-desist-order/#comment-967 WCO Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:16:35 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-967 Reports say the cabins are sitting vacant and tourism has dropped off substantially. Read the latest on the Wolfe Island story here: http://windconcernsontairo.org Reports say the cabins are sitting vacant and tourism has dropped off substantially. Read the latest on the Wolfe Island story here: http://windconcernsontairo.org

]]> Comment on Critic of Wolfe Island wind plant issued cease-and-desist order by G T http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/critic-of-wolfe-island-wind-plant-issued-cease-and-desist-order/#comment-965 G T Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:10:04 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-965 I can understand your concern about the impact that the wind farm will have on the tourism industry. But to say that wind turbines will have the same impact as oil rigs is like comparing apples to oranges. Oil rigs deal with the extraction of gas and oil, which are both very volatile substances prone to explosions and spreading their pollution to the surrounding areas. Wind does have its issues with sound and shadow and it takes a few seasons before birds slightly alter their migration routes....but does that really compare with putting toxins in the water and air as the oil industry does? So now it is July... how has the tourism been? I can understand your concern about the impact that the wind farm will have on the tourism industry. But to say that wind turbines will have the same impact as oil rigs is like comparing apples to oranges. Oil rigs deal with the extraction of gas and oil, which are both very volatile substances prone to explosions and spreading their pollution to the surrounding areas. Wind does have its issues with sound and shadow and it takes a few seasons before birds slightly alter their migration routes….but does that really compare with putting toxins in the water and air as the oil industry does?

So now it is July… how has the tourism been?

]]> Comment on Critic of Wolfe Island wind plant issued cease-and-desist order by Gennady E. Platoff http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/critic-of-wolfe-island-wind-plant-issued-cease-and-desist-order/#comment-547 Gennady E. Platoff Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:07:14 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-547 I'm a summer vacation resident of Wolfe Island. Our family owns a home towards the foot of the island where we have vacationed for years. We just returned from a spring trip to the island. We are in disbelief! Did anyone think about the tourist industry or the summer residents that come to Wolfe Island for the pristine, pastoral and beautiful panoramas and solitude the island represented? I doubt it. I was appalled and upset when I saw the island last weekend. How could anyone be so naive as to think that the wind farm won't affect the island negatively? Only a few will profit financially. The rest of us get nothing except eye sores, noise pollution and dead bats and birds. Just reading about wind farms for a few minutes on the internet and it's apparent that present day wind technology is immature and inefficient at best. The windmills they erected are old wind technology and obviously surplus from Europe. Also, other countries recognize that the farms are offensive to people. If wind farms are built at all, other countries build them far away from any population areas. So now the rest of us, including the Kingstonians and the summer residents, have to live with the ugliest thing I've ever seen. The wind farm is not progress. The wind farm is not green. The wind farm is just plain ugly. My family doesn't travel 10 hours to vacation at Wolfe Island to live next to an industrial park. If I wanted to do that, I'll buy a condo in Jersey City, New Jersey and live amongst the oil refineries. When the other summer residents and vacationers start arriving in a month or so, there will be no shortage of upset residents as the island swells by a factor of 3 during the summer. I predict a surplus of vacation homes will become available for sale. And whoever thinks that it won’t affect property values, take a lesson from the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas when the oil rigs appeared off the coast of those once beautiful beaches. Property values WILL drop. Vacationers and the tourist trade WILL drop off dramatically. Who in the world would want to vacation amongst wind-mills? Shame on those responsible for allowing this to happen! My father-in-law used to sit on our dock and look out at the head of Wolfe Island and say, "who needs heaven when you can live in a place like this". Thank God he died before the wind farm appeared. He would have died of a broken heart. I’m a summer vacation resident of Wolfe Island. Our family owns a home towards the foot of the island where we have vacationed for years. We just returned from a spring trip to the island. We are in disbelief! Did anyone think about the tourist industry or the summer residents that come to Wolfe Island for the pristine, pastoral and beautiful panoramas and solitude the island represented? I doubt it. I was appalled and upset when I saw the island last weekend. How could anyone be so naive as to think that the wind farm won’t affect the island negatively? Only a few will profit financially. The rest of us get nothing except eye sores, noise pollution and dead bats and birds. Just reading about wind farms for a few minutes on the internet and it’s apparent that present day wind technology is immature and inefficient at best. The windmills they erected are old wind technology and obviously surplus from Europe. Also, other countries recognize that the farms are offensive to people. If wind farms are built at all, other countries build them far away from any population areas. So now the rest of us, including the Kingstonians and the summer residents, have to live with the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. The wind farm is not progress. The wind farm is not green. The wind farm is just plain ugly. My family doesn’t travel 10 hours to vacation at Wolfe Island to live next to an industrial park. If I wanted to do that, I’ll buy a condo in Jersey City, New Jersey and live amongst the oil refineries. When the other summer residents and vacationers start arriving in a month or so, there will be no shortage of upset residents as the island swells by a factor of 3 during the summer. I predict a surplus of vacation homes will become available for sale. And whoever thinks that it won’t affect property values, take a lesson from the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas when the oil rigs appeared off the coast of those once beautiful beaches. Property values WILL drop. Vacationers and the tourist trade WILL drop off dramatically. Who in the world would want to vacation amongst wind-mills? Shame on those responsible for allowing this to happen! My father-in-law used to sit on our dock and look out at the head of Wolfe Island and say, “who needs heaven when you can live in a place like this”. Thank God he died before the wind farm appeared. He would have died of a broken heart.

]]> Comment on Videos by Grant Church http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/videos/#comment-414 Grant Church Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:57 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/videos/#comment-414 This is a video that will demonstrate the need for adequate setbacks: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NLInrjUtFGI This is a video that will demonstrate the need for adequate setbacks:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NLInrjUtFGI

]]> Comment on Free Breeze Wind Developer Shows his True Colors by andy http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/free-breeze-wind-developer-shows-his-true-colors/#comment-411 andy Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:45:07 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-411 There is many solutions; 1-how about subsidies so i can buy personal wind generators and solar panels and battery banks to store the power so that i could use it when i need it-this would help with conservation. 2-scrubbers on the coal plants 3-clean coal technology 4-stop shipping our coal to third world countries In Canada we must get off the IMF and out of the UN and start manufacturing goods in our own country-walmart and free trade will be the end of us a cleaning of the political network global government is hardly the way to go start a new political party-we need a fianancial officer so that we can donate 20dollars each to become a member and then we can have a convention and vote our new candidate There is many solutions;
1-how about subsidies so i can buy personal wind generators and solar panels and battery banks to store the power so that i could use it when i need it-this would help with conservation.
2-scrubbers on the coal plants
3-clean coal technology
4-stop shipping our coal to third world countries
In Canada we must get off the IMF and out of the UN and start manufacturing goods in our own country-walmart and free trade will be the end of us
a cleaning of the political network global government is hardly the way to go
start a new political party-we need a fianancial officer so that we can donate 20dollars each to become a member and then we can have a convention and vote our new candidate

]]> Comment on Free Breeze Wind Developer Shows his True Colors by Quixote http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/free-breeze-wind-developer-shows-his-true-colors/#comment-407 Quixote Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:28:56 +0000 http://essexcountywind.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-407 Nice! Really "professional" individual. This guy is typical of a non educated, non enlightened student of the greed and corruption that circles the wind industry. Wind Companies have found a quick and easy way of draining our tax dollars from the Government vault and won't allow any opposition to their scam by anyone. Their tactics include name calling, propaganda and statements that are totally without any scientific backup. We can expect this type of behaviour from any and all wind proponents. Too bad they wouldn't walk in the shoes of the poor souls who have had to abandon their homes that they worked all their lives to in and then maybe they would just "disappear". Shameful! Nice!
Really “professional” individual. This guy is typical of a non educated, non enlightened student of the greed and corruption that circles the wind industry. Wind Companies have found a quick and easy way of draining our tax dollars from the Government vault and won’t allow any opposition to their scam by anyone. Their tactics include name calling, propaganda and statements that are totally without any scientific backup.
We can expect this type of behaviour from any and all wind proponents. Too bad they wouldn’t walk in the shoes of the poor souls who have had to abandon their homes that they worked all their lives to in and then maybe they would just “disappear”.
Shameful!

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