Anne Mometer’s Employer Revealed
Below I will disclose where ‘Anne Mometer’ works. I will release the results of the “where does Anne Mometer work?” poll. I will also use the number of visits and the spread of time between visits to determine Anne’s work output, which I will then compare to the Exhibition Turbine’s performance of just 12% on average over the last five years. Read along. Enjoy as I rule out her non employers and give reasons why Anne wouldn’t be a good fit there.
Thank you for those who took time to guess where you thought Anne Mometer worked. I have been highly critical of Toronto Hydro Energy Services complete incompetence as it relates to the public consultation process of this project, and now I must admit to a failure of my own. You see, in a spirit of fair warning, I announced that the poll would close at 8:00pm tonight. I then set it to close tonight at that time. But it closed early and I was unable to fix the problem. Toronto Hydro Energy Services and I share a challenge in maintaining an ‘open’ consultation. Mine was technical and unfortunate, Toronto Hydro’s challenge was by design and is considerably more suspect. In recognition of this shared challenge, however, I will agree that I will not propose or try to build any poorly thought out, poorly located or ill advised, wind power projects in Lake Ontario. Heck, I’ll go so far as to call for the Scarborough Bluffs to be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and promise not to recommend any energy projects on Lake Ontario. I wonder if Toronto Hydro Energy Services will join me in making a similar commitment?
I’m sure a lot of people wanted to know why I asked where individuals thought Anne Mometer worked, especially considering I can already confirm without a shadow of a doubt her place of employment. Some may have thought it was an attempt to have some fun at Anne’s expense, but in truth, it was a measure of trust. I wanted to know which company, readers believed, would be most likely to have an employee who hiding behind an unoriginal moniker while insulting someone who has made cogent arguments against a bad project. You answered. You answered clearly.
An overwhelming majority of readers believed that Anne Mometer would be found at Toronto Hydro Energy Services with 56% of respondents choosing this option. The City of Toronto was deemed the second most likely hidden lair of Anne Mometer by 22% of respondents. The Ontario Power Authority came in third with 14% of readers believing Anne spent her days reading my blog from this provincial agency. 6% of readers thought Anne worked at the Independent Electricity Operator, while just 2% thought Anne worked at Gartner Lee (AECOM).
I think we can all agree anyone who has time to visit a website some thirty times between 9:30AM and 3:30PM yesterday can’t be a terribly useful employee or one who has a heck of a lot to do. Today Anne’s IP address visited thirty three times between 9:45AM and 3:45PM. It appears her work is uninterrupted for a total of two hours of the business day on average. Her work output of 25% capacity is actually twice Toronto Hydro Energy Services five year average energy output to capacity at it’s single wind turbine project. Perhaps this is why people thought Anne worked at Toronto Hydro? Considering 12% capacity is considered defensible within this organization, it seems reasonable that many would have thought this as a natural home for Anne. But Anne doesn’t work there.
The City of Toronto takes a lot of flak for the sometimes head scratching things that come out of City Council, such as a bloated budget and the traditional dislike of bureaucrats. I think bureaucrats on the whole are hard working folks who would be ashamed to work with someone as lazy as Anne. – She doesn’t work there either.
The Ontario Power Authority isn’t technically a partner in this project and has the good sense to recognize projects like this are simply a bad idea. Such insight would presumably preclude allowing members of staff to sit at their computer’s reading blogs all day. She doesn’t work there.
Okay. So there are two choices left: is it – The Ontario Electricity System Operator – The guys responsible for making sure the lights stay on and for the day-to-day management of the electricity market in Ontario? These are the guys who have to deal with the constant under delivery of promised electricity supply from industrial wind generators. Considering, 58% of the time, wind developers under deliver causing increased expense to the system – they probably loathe folks like Anne who don’t really seem to do much. A lack of productivity from others causes these folks to have to pick up the slack and solve the wind industry’s regular failures to deliver on their short term forecasts. Anne doesn’t work there either.
So that leaves one option – AECOM (Gartner Lee). Anne Mometer works at a firm that describes itself as “a Canadian-based firm at the forefront of our industry in providing environmental science, economics, planning and engineering services.” Really? Anne Mometer? The person who sits online reading a single blog thirty times in a single day? We’re trusting her to even spell environment?
Seriously. Anne Mometer, who has the high honour and distinction of being my single biggest reader (by frequency) of late, works at a firm that is responsible for determining the environmental concerns of projects and designing plans that strike a balance between the two.
Is anyone else concerned that Anne Mometer can work at a firm responsible for such serious aspects of a project like this, and not even understand enough about wind power to know that you can’t just increase wind to generate electricity but do in fact need turbines to spin to translate the wind strength into usable energy?
Is anyone else concerned that Anne Mometer – an employee of AECOM is the only official to respond to my open invitation for unedited response from anyone at Toronto Hydro Energy Services? I will give her top marks for speed. I posted the following at 7:15AM on January 27th 2009. “I welcome anyone at Toronto Hydro Energy Services to challenge any of the claims I’ve made here. I will publish any unedited response I receive from anyone at Toronto Hydro Energy Services so long as it addresses the points in here.”
Anne Mometer of AECOM’s response was received at 10:11AM the same day. While she is technically not from Toronto Hydro Energy Services, AECOM is a partner in the project and I did hold up my pledge to publish any unedited response I received.
I will welcome anyone from AECOM who would like to respond to this to do so. Feel free to email me at john.laforet@laforet.ca to do so. I will publish unedited verifiable response I receive from AECOM.
Think I’ve been tough on Anne? Anne isn’t real. But the concerns above are.
Tags: AECOM, Anne Mometer, City of Toronto, Gartner Lee, The Independent Electricity Operator, The Ontario Power Authority, Toronto Hydro Corporation
January 29th, 2009 at 8:53 am
AECOM (Gartner Lee) is supposed to be the overseer and environmental authority on this project? Hahaha
This all goes to show what a total farce this entire process is. A bunch of talking heads following each other around in a circle. No objectivity, no concern for the community, no accountability and no critical thinking going on anywhere.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
One can probably safely assume “Anne” got “her” stalking orders from a higher-up. Makes you wonder what other citizen forums big business is unethically infiltrating masking themselves as average Joes to sway public opinion.
I’m surprised Gary Dale hasn’t posted here. He seems to be on an obsessive one-man media campaign to stick turbines in the lake at all costs. Gary, are you out there?
January 29th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hi Mike,
I suspect you are correct. Toronto Hydro Corporation visited this page this morning around 9:10AM and Anne’s IP has not visited all day. Strange eh?
Perhaps someone was called off? Although Anne may have also realized that she has three days worth of work to catch up on and was just busy doing that…
January 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
You must be having some kind of effect, John, for them to be so interested in your blog. Heaven forbid someone actually speaks the truth and educates the public.
Praise be to the internet and freedom of information.