THES Illegal Application Accepted by Bought and Paid For Ontario Liberal Government

by John Laforet
posted on April 15th, 2009 at 01:17:18 am

This post was updated at the request of the Toronto Hydro Corporation Legal Department in light of hundreds of privacy violation they committed in the appendices of the illegal project evaluation. The links were swapped with links to the illegal application that don’t violate the privacy of hundreds of people – April 20th 2009

I need to start by saying it was not lost on me that the individual who prepared this report has ‘BS’ as his initials. While his name may not be Bull Shit – the report and process to date certainly have been and it would be a fitting name for Blair Shoniker’s (Environmental Planner at AECOM) version of fact contained in the Illegal Project Evaluation Report.

Public ‘Consultation’ begins again… Toronto Hydro style of course. You know how that goes by now, they lie, we get furious and respond with facts, our local politicians try to look busy doing other stuff and the bought and paid for Liberal government at Queen’s Park rubber stamps whatever crosses their desk, from an industry that has chowed on more rubber chicken at political dinners than anyone should have to tolerate. 

Guildwood residents, myself included, were hopeful that our Provincial ‘representative’ would rise to the occasion and stand up for our community. I went to great lengths to try to work with her and her office to make that happen and in the end, it appears she sat back and stuck to the party line – the one the wind industry bought with it’s tens of thousands of dollars in kick backs to the Ontario Liberal Party. I say kick back because when someone receives a public subsidy and then turns around and donates the legal maximum to the political party that the Minister who made the decision represents – it is for all intents and purposes a kick back and an attempt at influence peddling. 

Guildwood residents will not lay down. We’re in this fight and are continuing to find new support within the community as residents wake up to the rank process THES has led. Expect hundreds of residents to be pouring over the documents made available as part of this process for the next couple of days with more to come once it has been digested.

If you’re anyone who is remotely interested in this process, and would like any assistance at all in writing the Ministry to condemn this sham process and help us force a proper environmental review – contact me. john.laforet@laforet.ca is the best way of doing that. Unlike Joyce Mclean, David O’Brien, Chris Tyrrell or Jack Simpson at Toronto Hydro – I do actually answer my emails. 

I’m including links to the documents:

Toronto Hydro Energy Services Illegal Application – Project Evaluation Report

Toronto Hydro Energy Services Illegal Application Appendices 

Tags: Anemometer, Blair Shoniker, Bull Shit, Class B Environmental Assessment, Guildwood, Joyce McLean, Lake Ontario Wind Farm, Margarett Best, Ministry of Natural Resources, Offshore Wind Ontario, Ontario Liberal Party, Project Evaluation Report, Scarborough Bluffs, Scarborough Guildwood, Toronto Hydro Energy Services, Wind Farm Application Ontario