Gartner Lee / AECOM

by John Laforet
posted on May 1st, 2009 at 15:00:31 pm

A lot of folks appreciate why I go after McGuinty, Smitherman, Toronto Hydro Energy Services and the folks who’ve demonstrated a total disregard for civic participation, the environment and the safety of humans, pets and wild life through a process of ignoring both known concerns, and cutting corners. Many may not understand why I cat call a bit at Gartner Lee or AECOM as it is now known. 

Gartner Lee or AECOM is Toronto Hydro’s partner in crime (literally, like they’ve actually broken laws together) like Thelma & Louise. So Toronto Hydro has this plan, they’re going to put these turbines in the Lake, off a community in Scarborough, but there are some pesky environmental standards they need to at least find their way around. That’s where Gartner Lee comes in. That’s what they do for a living. 

So I don’t get in trouble, I will let you decide who is Thelma and who is Louise based on the clip and text below. 

Thelma: Let’s not get caught.

Louise: What are you talking about?

Thelma: Let’s keep going. 

Louise: What do you mean?

Thelma: (looks toward what will certainly be their mutual death) Go!

Louise: You sure? 

Thelma: Yeah!

Louise: (kisses Thelma)

Thelma and Louise hold hands as they fly off the cliff. 

Ok that was a longer segway than is usual even for me, but I hope you liked it. 

To date, I’ve written about 60 000 words against this project and the Green Energy Act, and about 57 000 words ago, I received the following comment on my blog:

Anne Mometer Says:
January 27th, 2009 at 10:11 am edit

Hey John,

Forget the turbines, they should just put you offshore because with all the wind you’re generating you could power this whole province!

 

Clearly not a fan of mine. Stupid name too. Turns out Anne Mometer wrote from a computer at Gartner Lee. ‘She’ is an employee and clearly not very smart. I mean it was clear I thought folks like her and her friends at Toronto Hydro are scum bags, so why wouldn’t I engage in response to something like this. 

So I did. 

Here are the posts that resulted. It should be noted though that “Anne Mometer” is the only person from Toronto Hydro Energy Services or the folks behind their illegal application to ever respond to any of my invites to respond to any challenges I’ve made. Well there was also that time a member of Toronto Hydro’s legal department responded to ask for my help in covering their tracks after it became clear that Anne Mometer’s idiot friends at Gartner Lee or AECOM helped Toronto Hydro breath the privacy of hundreds of folks in Scarborough. 

Anyways – after the posts where I encouraged people to vote on where Anne Mometer worked, and gave ‘Anne’ something to worry about for a bit before I disclosed her employer, immediately after I made it clear Anne Mometer worked at Gartner Lee – guess who suddenly stopped visiting laforet.ca for months? 

They’ve been back regularly recently and it may have something to do with me not being able to leave alone the fact that Blair Shoniker who wrote Toronto Hydro’s illegal, law breaking application has BS as his initials (and as the content of his report). 

Remember though, that someone at Gartner Lee felt the way to correspond with a member of what is legally known as the ‘affected public’ was to insult them in an anonymous blog comment (and one that demonstrated a lack of understanding of how wind energy is generated). 

Here are those links I was talking about:

Who Is “Anne Mometer”?

 - January 27th 2009

The Adventures Of Annie Mometer - January 28th 2009

Anne Mometer’s Employer Revealed - January 28th 2009

 

Tags: AECOM, Anne Mometer, Gartner Lee, Toronto Hydro Energy Services