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I was not aware the government had already done away with the endangered species act requirments last week's court ruling bizarrely emphasized. I thought the goverment could simply issue a permit to kill any animal they wanted - didn't realize that was far more room for slaughter.

A Prince Edward County website has posted not only an article on an Ontario divisional Court determination on what had been the sole instance of an industrial wind turbine project in Ontario being rejected by an environmental review tribunal, but also the ruling itself. “The deck is stacked.” Prince Edward-Hastings MPP Todd Smith said. “Across Ontario we’re talking about small, rural municipalities with small budgets being asked to defend their citizens from the money of major multinational wind developers and the province of Ontario. Even when they win, they’re going to lose because they’ll keep getting dragged into court until the side with the most money wins.” ...The case was unique in Ontario as it questioned Renewable Energy Act regulations, their interpretation by the ERT and the intent of legislation From  OSTRANDER-POINT-GP-INC-et-al-v.-PRINCE-EDWARD-COUNTY.pdf [35] It seems unquestionable from the evidence that was placed before the Tribunal that there was a risk of serious ...

Good First Monday opinon piece from Chris Cooke Thanks Kathleen, I’m Breathing Easier Now So, here is how this works. The huge scrubber worth about a billion dollars towers over the idled Lambton Generating Station. Nothing is coming out of it because the generating station took its last coal in September and premier Kathleen Wynne would like me to believe that I can now breathe easier.It’s a Sunday and I’m northbound between Wallaceburg and Sarnia. In the distance the billion - dollar scrubber can barely be seen. The crap coming out of Detroit Edison’s Belle River power plants at Marysville, Michigan is obliterating it. They don’t have scrubbers and by the emissions on this Sunday I question whether they are even using low sulphur coal. I can assure the premier I’m not breathing easier. via Column | First Monday . Another article from the same site reports on Sarnia mayor Mike Bradley and why he says the Green Energy Act has been a disaster:  Green Energy "Disaster" Stumblin...

There something nasty about reposting this - like posting an embarrassing photo of a sudden ex ... I think the worst thing I've ever read by Severin Borenstein by a factor of infinite (said due to Andrew Leach's claim today that " "It’s not correct to say you can’t have infinite growth with a finite resource") It's only been two weeks since I wrote/compiled a post on wood burning that cited a good entry at the same blog as this "claim of learning" article today. A couple of things that might be relevant other than a flippant disregard for the well-being of the planet: the Bay area has some of the worst air in the United States , and is among the most desirable places to live in the world (it's a very weak contender for poor air quality internationally, as most of the residents there would know); the earth is NOT warming due to the invention of heating with wood, or the heavy utilization of California's rapidly drying wood stock, and ...

The presence of wind turbines  near homes has wiped tens of thousands of pounds off their value, according to the first major study into the impact the eyesore structures have on house prices.The study by the London School  of Economics LSE – which looked at more than a million sales of properties close to wind farm sites over a 12-year period – found that values of homes within 1.2  miles of large wind farms were being slashed by about 11 per cent.This means that if such a wind farm were near an average house  in Britain, which now costs almost £250,000, it would lose more than £27,000 in value. In sought-after rural idylls where property prices are higher, the financial damage is even more substantial... The study further discovered that even a small wind farm that blighted views would hit house values... The report’s author, Professor Steve Gibbons, said his research was the first strong evidence that wind farms are harmful to house prices. continue reading at  Proof wind turbines t...

Nice work charting the increased approval of wind projects. I'll add that is in no small part due to the offering of curtailment payments almost as soon as Wynne moved into the Premier's office: http://coldair.luftonline.net/2013/12/big-thunder-is-big-mistake-and-its-not.html

I did not see this one coming from Gail The Actuary, but original. provocative, thinking is why I check her blog often.