John Laforet at the Empire Club of Canada

 John Spears of the Toronto Star covered the speech and wrote : Wind Foe Vows to Defeat Liberals

The wind industry and it’s political supporters (and donation recipients) at the Ontario Liberal Party have turned the word ‘coal’ into a political weapon. If you disagree with their bizarre industrial wind energy scheme you must support burning coal (even if more wind power generation won’t result in less coal power generation). It also becomes your fault people are dying – apparently in droves if you believe non doctors from Canadian Association of ‘Physicians’ (used sparingly) for the Environment like Gideon Foreman. McGuinty will tell you coal related illnesses cost Ontarians $3 billion dollars a year in health care costs – just don’t expect him to prove it or produce the savings when coal generation is permanently phased out. Because it isn’t true and he knows it.

Dalton McGuinty has had two responses to Tim Hudak’s opposition to signing untendered, seven billion dollar secret deals with a corrupt company like Samsung and ending the Feed-in-Tariff program. First McGuinty tried to suggest Tim Hudak was a racist. Then he tried to suggest Tim Hudak wants to burn more coal.

Neither argument is true, but it’s Dalton McGuintyso the truth isn’t a necessary ingredient of any statement.

From Tuesday May 10th’s Toronto Sun:

Hudak “can’t mention Samsung without calling them foreigners,” McGuinty said. “It’s not the 1950s, it’s the 20th century.”

First, it actually isn’t the 20th century. It’s the 21st century and has been for a whole eleven years. Second, the Premier suggesting that racism in the 1950′s was OK and perhaps even a legitimate argument in determining business relationships is enlightening, but at the end of the day irrelevant because Samsung could be from Markham, or Ottawa, or Windsor, or Hamilton and it still would be a bad idea. Sole sourced, untendered contracts negotiated by George Smitherman, the man who brought us the e-Health scandal kickbacks of your money to Ontario Liberal friends, with a company known for buying politicians off is clearly a recipe for disaster.

From Tuesday May 10th’s Globe and Mail:

Mr. McGuinty said Mr. Hudak is against foreign investment and clean air. He said the Opposition Leader would kill jobs and take Ontario back to the dark days of relying on pollution-spewing, coal-fired plants for electricity.

First – the Progressive Conservatives have stated publicly they would phase out all coal plants in Ontario by 2015. Dalton McGuinty promised to by 2007 (broken promise) 2011 (broken promise)  2014.

Second – Wind turbines can never replace coal because they are an unreliable form of energy project that requires a fossil fuel back up. That’s what all these new Natural Gas plants are about (replacing coal fired generation and backing up wind turbines).

Third – On Tuesday May 10th 2011 when Tim Hudak pledged to scrap McGuinty’s deal with the corrupt Samsung and end the Feed-in-Tariff program to industrial wind developers coal output was at 4MW an hour all day.

So enough to keep a pilot light from going out.

 How much coal was burned on May 11th, the day after per hour? 3 to 4MW all day.

 And May 12th? 3 to 4MW all day.

OK, but how about May 13th? 4MW all day.

In other words coal fired generation in Ontario is already basically phased out and it has nothing to do with wind, why? Because when turbines were operating at 1000MW tilt two weeks ago we were generating 200MW of coal fired power, and today, May 13th when wind turbine generation fell to 33MW – coal was still at 4MW.

That said, don’t expect the Liberals to formally announce it just yet, because those turbines aren’t in the ground to credit for taking these plants offline.

Dalton McGuinty loves a good lie, and his cabinet seems obsessed with this ‘coal being replaced by wind’ lie. But it just isn’t credible and should have Ontarians wondering why we’re spending billions and billions of dollars on a plan with a stated purpose it can’t meet, and has already been met.

Tim Hudak is doing the right thing withthis policy announcement. I like that he is honest and willing to say and do the right thing, even if it results in McGuinty going ballistic. It will prove politically popular in the right places and firmly draws the line between special interests and citizens. McGuinty’s attacks are so bizarre they won’t stick. Who knows, maybe the Premier is running for leader of the third party like his federal cousin?

That said, the number of folks who were tweeting for their jobs over the last two days, hammering Tim Hudak for standing up for those of us who don’t support giving these guys and their special interest partners the farm - has been a small but spirited bunch. Their utter lies and misrepresentations are frustrating to read. But it’s a good thing no one is listening to them anymore. Folks using the hashtag #comeclean are the equivelent of a handful of people standing in a circle screaming obsenities at the top of their lungs about someone who isn’t present and won’t hear them in front of  an audience made up entirely of other participants standing in the same circle who hold the same view and are saying ‘I know, right?’.

Claiming that Samsung is investing $7 billion in Ontario for a mere $500 million in incentives is just plain untrue. No business would ever do that and considering wind energy is 100% subsidized by the taxpayer it will surely be costing us far more than $7 billion (this is a whole article itself). Suggesting their are thousands of jobs on the line isn’t true either. The jobs just don’t actually exist. Industry and government both admitted that today. Announcing employment does not a job make. Claiming we aren’t paying more for wind, but more for new energy is cute, but misleading. Wind is new energy and we are paying more for wind then we are for other new energy.

It was interesting to see however is how the media has handled this.

These same folks who are spinning away on Twitter all day and their organizations aren’t being quoted in any of the papers around Ontario. Why? Because Environmental Defense, the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, Canadian Wind Energy Association and the other ‘Wind Welfare’ recipients who formed the ‘save wind welfare’ orgy of special interests – comeclean.ca are no longer relevant to the conversation. They have no credibility left, because their claims aren’t believable. They are now a parody of themselves. Fodder for laughter. Walking, talking lampoons.

(If you’d like to force these folks to find honest employment please visit http://endwindwelfare.ca and tell party leaders to stop funding their lies and hysterics.)

The special interests that brought you the Green Energy Act and have used it as a weapon to attack and tear apart the fabric of local communities have lost their place in the public debate. For the most part so have the industrial wind developers who benefit from the very programs Hudak is promising to end. This is a battle we’ve been waiting for, and fighting for the right to fight and are both ready and motivated to win. By coming out with a citizen focused, easy to understand pledge, Hudak has signaled to tens of thousands of concerned Ontarians that campaigning for the blue guy will mean change the Liberals won’t offer.

That’s good news for us, and Hudak, but not Dalton McGuinty or his whiney wind welfare brigade.

Ontario is still a democracy, and there is nothing Dalton McGuinty, dirty money or wind pimps can do about that.

The same folks whose voices no longer matter are the folks who were behind a $300,000 public relations fiasco put on by Sussex Strategy to ‘confuse’ the public, media and politicians to stop talking about the cost of electricity and renewables.

Remember how that went?

Well first – we all got to read the document (smooth move folks).

And since that $300,000 campaign of misinformation was leaked, Wind Concerns Ontario has won an offshore moratorium that has effectively ended any chance of offshore wind development in Ontario’s Great Lakes, and now has a clear commitment from Tim Hudak that should he become Premier there won’t be any more financial incentives for industrial wind developers.

There are 145 days until Ontario’s election, and these folks ought to be scared because we’re just getting started and as many have noticed – this current announcement that has seen these groups sidelined doesn’t even involve their sacred cow – the Green Energy Act. We are still advocating for and waiting to hear specifics on that file as well.

I was proud to see that this debate is largely being waged between the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals with Wind Concerns Ontario and our local groups playing a key role in providing citizen response to the announcement. Especially our groups in Liberal held ridings. Seeing that an end to Samsung’s deal and FIT get implemented into law is something we will fight tooth and nail for and can do in ways buying another botched strategy from Sussex Strategy simply can’t even begin to compete with.

Wind Concerns Ontario has been clear on that as well, and will continue to be during the ‘Truth about Turbines Tour’ that will be travelling six thousand kilometres to over thirty five communities in sixteen Liberal held ridings, eight PC ridings and one NDP riding. We are more committed than ever to winning this ‘winner take all’ fight that was forced upon us by the Wind Industry and it’s ‘wind welfare warriors”

If these wind welfare warriors continue to conduct themselves in such a blatantly partisan and dishonest fashion – our campaign to cut all public funds to these organizations will take on a new seriousness because I  and others I am sure will be damned if we are to be beaten with our own money but a bunch of  dishonest swines at the trough.

Folks like http://energyonthestreet.ca (Pearl Street Communications) can talk about ‘changing the channel’ and engaging communities better – but it’s beyond spending more time talking – it’s about being credible and telling the truth, something the wind industry just doesn’t fundamentally believe in doing.

The environmental devastation required to build this project is something not seen in southern Ontario and is something that I can only describe as shocking. Having seen the results of clear cutting and blasting for industrial wind development underway in Dorion Ontario near the Ouimet Canyon, and being able to visit the proposed site for Horizon’s project, I see no responsible way anyone can argue any environmental benefit with this kind of development. Each turbine site requires the clearing of a full hectare of land. In Dorion, the developer used something like four hundred dynamite blast caps per turbine location. Under Horizon’s plan they will clear cut and blast 150 acres of pristine, untouched, until now protected escarpment under a deal that will see the City and ratepayers financially hosed for the privilege of enabling all of this (as the land owner) to happen.

The Green Energy Act has gutted the environmental planning process, and fails to recognize the genuine environmental uniqueness and significance in the North that is threatned by irresponsible developers who intend on bullying their way through the process and blasting their way through the environment.

I’m really happy to be heading back to Thunder Bay to lend my voice and the support of Wind Concerns Ontario to resident’s fight up there. It will be my third trip up since December 2010 and the start of Wind Concerns Ontario spring tour titled the ‘Truth about Turbines Tour’. It’s an ambitious project that will see events, meetings, marches and rallies throughout Ontario to raise awareness and organize opposition to this government’s industrial wind energy proposals. Wind Concerns Ontario can only do these kinds of things because of the thousands of volunteers on the ground in communities all over our province. It’s their strength and support that makes this all happen and it’s something not even the best industry strategy can defeat.

As the election approachs, its becoming clearer and clearer that should the Liberals choose not to back down, they will lose a number of seats on this issue as concerned citizens take political action in defense of their homes. I continue to be amazed by the lengths folks will go to stand up for what they know is right and am thrilled to have the opportunity to learn from, meet and work with such an amazing range and diversity of people from all over our province.

Spending forty-four days on the road, travelling six-thousand kilometres, visiting thirty six communities, in sixteen Liberal, eight PC and one NDP riding is not how I intended to spend part of May and most of June, but is something I think is important, because of the hard work so many are doing to stand up for their communities. I look forward to doing my part to help, and to lay the ground work to defeat this government in the fall, should they decide to force a de facto referendum on this issue through their candidates.

By RANDY RICHMOND THE LONDON FREE PRESS

Grey-haired, 81-year-old Stephana Johnston is the kind of person to give the provincial Liberals fits when she waits outside Dalton McGuinty’s campaign bus this fall.

Leaning against her walker, she looks frail — except when she starts talking about wind power.

“We are suffering and it is a horror story and you are responsible because you agreed to the Green Energy Act,” Johnston tells Lambton-Kent-Middlesex Liberal MPP Maria Van Bommel.

With the next Ontario election only five months away, wind energy and the Green Energy Act is on track to become a huge issue of the campaign.

Johnston says she had to move from her home on the north shore of Lake Erie near Long Point after nearby wind turbines started interrupting her sleep.

“There are some nights when I wake up and just everything inside me is quivering. It has compromised my immune system. I am going everywhere I can go to prevent what has happened to us,” she vows.

Slowed by her walker but energized by her anger, Johnston still marched down the main street of Strathroy Saturday with about 80 others to protest wind turbines.

The peaceful protest march erupted into a raucous, hour-long confrontation with Van Bommel.

Van Bommel could barely finish a sentence without being shouted down by furious protesters who demanded she support a moratorium on turbines until research proves they are safe.

At times she had to stop and simply take the barrage of insults from protesters, some in tears and some claiming she betrayed their friendship.

“Imagine when (McGuinty’s) bus is met 28 days straight with crowds like that in Strathroy,” says John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario.

Urban dwellers and political analysts are underestimating the anger in rural and small town Ontario over wind turbines, he says. “This is the fight for the life and death of rural life. There is a huge anger out there and I think it is going to get worse.”

For wind energy opponents, the stakes are high. “This is our only shot,” Laforet says.

Wind Concerns — a coalition of 57 groups — will likely endorse either parties or individual candidates and encourage rural residents unhappy with McGuinty to work on getting him ousted.

Eighty municipalities representing two million people have called for a moratorium on wind farms, Laforet adds.

“There a lot of people looking for something to do. Direct political action is the most effective thing a resident of Ontario with concerns about wind can do.”

Hundreds of wind turbines have been installed or proposed in many areas of Southwestern Ontario, a 10-riding region dominated by McGuinty’s Liberals.

Opponents say turbines emit low-pitched sounds that disrupt the body’s rhythms and cause headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, nausea, rapid heart rate irritability and concentration problems.

Proponents say there is no proof of ill effects and turbines are better for the environment and personal health than the coal-fired generating plants they are supposed to replace.

“It’s a very emotional issue and I think we have to recognize that,” Van Bommel said Saturday after the protest. “There are many things that are going to be election issues in rural Ontario. I‘m sure the Green Energy Act will be uppermost in many people’s minds.”

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“The panel of judges determined it was not up to them to determine the wisdom of the Minister, which is a far cry from determining the Minister’s actions to be wise.” John Laforet said, noting “approximately 8 million voters in 107 ridings around Ontario, including 74 municipalities where motions of moratorium have already been approved by local councils will have the opportunity to rule on the wisdom of the Green Energy Act and Dalton McGuinty’s handling of the energy file on October 6^th 2011. We’re confident that if the government doesn’t change its tune on this issue, voters will change the government.”

Wind Concerns Ontario also acknowledged the court did not rule that 550 metres was a safe distance for the installation of industrial wind turbines, something a wide range of international medical experts believes is far too close to be safe for humans. This is an issue of agreement among municipalities in Ontario representing more than two million citizens who’ve passed motions calling for a province wide moratorium until a full health study is completed.

“We stand by our statement: if the government and industry have nothing to hide, why not agree to a fully independent, third party epidemiological health study to determine what is a safe distance from homes. Is it really worth the risk of having industrial wind turbines too close to communities decommissioned once a study is done and proves they causing serious harm to residents?” Laforet added.

Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of fifty seven community based organizations in over thirty five counties across Ontario that opposes industrial wind development that harms human health, the environment and damages Ontario’s economy in the process. Combined, Wind Concerns Ontario members have won seventy-four local municipal motions of moratorium, a province-wide moratorium on all offshore wind development. Wind Concerns Ontario continues to call on the province to halt all land based industrial wind development until a human health and science based decision is made on the safety and merits of industrial wind energy.   

For further information please contact:

John Laforet – President Wind Concerns Ontario 647 724 0600 john.laforet@laforet.ca

Wind Turbine discussion. Theresa Clemen of North Gower and Laforet of Scarborough distribute “No Turbines” buttons during the Jan. 23 turbine information meeting at the Alfred Taylor Centre in North Gower which was filled to capacity. Laforet spoke about the effects the Green Energy Act is having on Ontarians. He is the president of the Wind Concerns Ontario. LJ Matheson

By LJ Matheson

Three Ottawa-area communities concerned about proposals for industrial scale wind turbine developments held a public meeting on Sunday Jan. 23 at the Alfred Taylor Centre in North Gower.

About 150 people were in attendance at the centre where they heard personal stories from three people whose lives have been changed by turbine projects in their areas.

The North Gower Wind Action Group, the South Branch Wind Opposition Group, and the Beckwith Responsible Wind Action Group hosted the event.

“It’s a way for us to get information out to people so they can make informed decisions about wind turbines,” said Jane Wilson of the North Gower Wind Action Group.

Posters dotted the walls of the community centre, outlining some of the issues residents are concerned about – like health risks of living close to a wind turbine, and how property values will be affected.

Posters to stop the wind turbine projects and buttons declaring “No to Turbines” were also prevalent.

One of the guest speakers was Ian Hanna of Prince Edward County who has launched a lawsuit against the Ontario government and the Green Energy Act.

He says he has travelled extensively throughout Ontario and doesn’t feel any of those communities should be home to a cluster of wind turbines.

“There isn’t a community in Ontario that I want to see destroyed by an enormous industrial disaster,” he said.

Hannah says that the government failed to comply with the Precautionary Principle, as it is required to do, when it established the Green Energy Act regulations.

The Precautionary Principle requires that, in situations where there is scientific uncertainty about environmental or human health effects of a proposed action, the proponent should not proceed until the uncertainty is satisfactorily resolved.

“If there is a health risk to people, animals or the environment, then there is cause for further study,” he said.

“We need to try and stop things (the progress of wind turbine projects) until we can find out what those health risks are.”

Hannah said he will continue with his efforts, regardless of the court’s decision.

Wolfe Island resident Janet White was one of a few people who were against the wind turbines in her area.

The passionate advocate and stay-at-home mother and wife said she and her family were hounded for 10 years to lease part of their heritage property to Canadian Hydro.

“They didn’t understand when we said ‘no’ we meant ‘no’,” she said. “What they offer (in terms of rental fees) and what we receive… there is no comparison. They spent billions on our island and there is not one millionaire.”

White urged those in attendance to not sell out and to learn the health risks above all else.

She spoke about a time when her children were outside when the turbines were running.

“Within 15 minutes, both their noses exploded with blood,” she said.

“It makes you wonder, but can I prove it… I’m just a housewife and no Kingston lawyer will take on the case. They don’t want anything to do with it… I have to go to Toronto to find a lawyer.”
The third speaker was John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of more than 50 community groups.

Laforet spoke about the effects of the removal of local democratic powers under the Green Energy Act, and what Ontario’s energy plan is doing to electricity bills.

“We are having an impact,” he said. “Projects are being slowed down. But we have to wake up the government… they need to get real and listen.”

“The province and industry say these industrial machines don’t make noise, but they do,” noted Wilson.

“They say property values won’t decline, but we know from other places in Ontario that they can. Worst of all, we’re told there will not be health effects from the constant noise and vibration, yet we’re learning that people all over Ontario are getting sick and some are having to leave their homes. We want the truth. ”

Gary Thomas of North Gower says he’s feels more information is needed before decisions should be made. His home will be close to about three proposed turbines.

“There should be proper health studies done,” he said. “Delay the projects for a year and implement the precautionary measure… if it’s delayed a year, then the health studies can be done.”

Another North Gower resident Stephen Nourse says he’s been at public meetings since the proposed projects started two years ago.

He says these turbines “have a habit of mushrooming” and he wants to know why they can’t be located farther away from homes.
“Why do they have to be practically on top of homes?” he asked. Each of the three communities is facing an industrial wind turbine project with as many as 10, 190-meter or 60-storey tall turbine towers.

Wilson added that more than 70 municipalities in Ontario are demanding that the province halt wind turbine development, and return planning powers to communities for renewable energy projects so they can protect their citizens.

I continue to be proud of and amazed by the strength and dedication residents around Ontario are showing in standing up in defiance to the anti democratic nature of the Green Energy Act. Thousands of Ontarians from around our province have come out, stood up and said no at debates, rallies and information meetings in their community. We’re getting ready and gearing up for the next provincial election, a promise we made in April 2010 on the steps of Queen’s Park when I declared on behalf of Wind Concerns Ontario that the Liberals would have ‘a hell of a problem at the ballot box’ in 2011.

Dalton McGuinty – Here we come, we’re bigger, we’re stronger, we’re louder and we’re ready to fire your caucus and restore our rights at Queen’s Park. A stingy ten percent vote buying rebate intended to confuse Ontarians into thinking there is some benefit to building industrial wind turbines won’t stop us. Restoring local planning control, creating setbacks from turbines based on science, ending the multi billion dollar corporate welfare payouts to the wind industry and providing a plan to address the issues existing turbines are causing nearby residents is what we expect from our next government, no matter who is in power.

Wind industry players might kickback tens of thousands of dollars in donations each to the Ontario Liberal Party while receiving contracts from the Province, but we all know unethical donations don’t vote. The people do and we can’t be bought with their money or our own. What’s clear from the “Ontario Clean Energy Benefit” is that even a $5.5 billion dollar attempt to buy votes can’t cap this fury.

This is a fight for the future of rural Ontario and it’s not a fight we’re going to give up. We’re working hard to reclaim our voice and ensure our next batch of representatives stand with us, stand for us and protect us from the insanity of this current government’s half baked Green Energy Act.

I’m proud to be spending much of December and part of January on the road, travelling from community to community across Ontario to spread the word that this government, and MPPs who don’t stand with us, need to be defeated if we are to re-claim our democracy from the vested moneyed interests of the foreign owned wind industry players that are wreaking havoc on our province and our communities. If you’d like to help organize a rally in your town please do contact me and we’ll set it up.

Wind Concerns Ontario has fifty three groups in over thirty counties across this province. I’m looking forward to visiting every region of Ontario over the coming weeks and continuing to work with our supporters on the ground to use democratic tools to dramatically alter the landscape of this debate, and shut out the MPPs who voted to shut us out of the debate.

If you’d like to get involved in standing up for rural Ontario. Please send me a note.

Below is a video I was happy to come across on the WCO website from the Wind Concerns Ontario Queen’s Park rally in April 2010. The second one is beautiful black and white photos from our march down University Avenue to the Ontario Power Authority that same afternoon.

WINDSOR, Ont. — The $7-billion energy deal with Korean manufacturing giant Samsung announced by the Ontario government was supposed to send about $750 million of wind turbine construction to Essex County, and maybe a manufacturing plant or two in Windsor or the county.

But 10 months after the deal was announced with great fanfare, energy experts and critics are still looking for some clear plan from the province that implements the Samsung vision of departed energy minister — and now failed Toronto mayoral candidate — George Smitherman.

Windsor and Essex County were supposed to be in the first phase of the Samsung deal with 260 megawatts of wind energy here, and 240 megawatts of wind and solar in Haldimand County, according to a September update to the province’s Wind Power Standing Committee in Toronto.

Those projects are supposed to be in operation by 2013. A 260-megawatt wind farm would require about 110 turbines with a total price tag of around $750 million, dwarfing anything already built here.

Industry experts wonder whether enough farmland still not leased for other projects could be found to host it. Some wonder if the province is going to reverse itself on recent promises to residents along shorelines and allow wind turbine developments on the Great Lakes. They see that as the only way to accommodate the deal that gave Samsung priority to generate some 2,500 megawatts of renewable power in Ontario. As part of the 25-year deal, the province was paying $467 million to Samsung to build four energy-related manufacturing plants in Ontario.

The only one with any details so far is the Siemens Canada proposal for a 300-job plant to build wind turbine blades for Samsung and other companies.

Windsor and Essex County are on the short list of the Siemens’ site search across southern Ontario, which could be concluded soon. Answers to questions about the province’s future direction in energy — and the Samsung deal in particular — are coming in a matter of weeks, says Andrew Block, a spokesman for current Ontario Energy Minister Brad Duguid.

An update to the province’s long-term energy plan has been promised by the end of the year at the latest, Block said. Because of the size of the Samsung deal, “it would have to be factored in” to that update, Block added. Brookfield Renewable Energy senior manager Ian Kerr is looking forward to the updated energy plan, and is hoping for some answers about how the Samsung deal will play out. Brookfield has the biggest wind development now in Essex County — two projects with a total of 94 turbines and a construction value of about $650 million. One project is completed and the other is under way.

Kerr has no idea how Samsung could fit a 260-megawatt wind turbine project into Essex County, given the development that’s already occurred.

The other obstacle is the length of time it takes to acquire land leases, and carry out environmental assessments. Kerr said Brookfield’s projects in Essex County have been eight years in the planning. It appears Samsung has been attempting to buy up development rights to some smaller projects in the province to speed things up, Kerr said. Kerr said Samsung could end up being a development competitor elsewhere in Ontario, but could also be a positive influence for overall growth in the renewable energy industry.

John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, fears the province will allow wind energy development on the Great Lakes to give Samsung its opportunity to develop 2,500 megawatts of power.

Ontario Hydro has proposed an offshore wind farm in Lake Ontario. Leamington’s SouthPoint Wind has generated controversy with local residents and area municipalities with its proposal for 715 turbines in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. received no mention in the list of 184 approvals announced by the OPA.

In Haldimand County, the Ontario Realty Corporation owns enough land to give Samsung a start on a project there, Laforet said. The land is currently leased out for farming and that’s created a backlash that food growing ought to take precedent over turbines, he said. Laforet can’t make any sense of the Samsung deal. The company received approval to develop a massive amount of energy at premium prices over other developers waiting in line in a lengthy approval process, he said. “Samsung has the sweetest of sweetheart deals,” he said. “It doesn’t make any business sense.”

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It calls for $300,000 to be spent immediately as seed money trying to fight back for the Liberals, by the same moneyed interests that they’ve rewarded since taking power. It calls for lying to Ontarians about wind energy on a number of fronts, dividing communities and and colluding with government, industry and NGOs.

Perhaps the worst part is the $300,000 is just seed money, and in bold they talk about taking anonymous donations to fund their desperate scramble for more of your hard earned money and defence of the government that shovels it out the door by the billion to these guys.

Read for yourself as the wind industry admits the jobs that were promised never showed up, that bills have spiked and that the environment and health aren’t really the point of this whole exercise. Seriously folks. – This is the wind industry talking.

The reality is, the wind industry is dying world wide. Subsidies are drying up, public opinion is shifting and jurisdictions are now in a race to see who is the last to be conned by this corrupt industry.

Wind Concerns Ontario will continue to fight like hell and stand up to the moneyed interests of the desperate pro-wind forces. We’ll continue to stand with Ontarians facing these projects, fight off the foreign corporations destroying rural Ontario and defeat the politicans that let it happen.

Here is a link to the appalling document (Renewable Energy Matters – Campaign Outline) that outlines how this slimy industry’s ‘hail mary’ pass to your wallet is supposed to work.

As I said to Robert Hornung, President of CanWEA in September 2009 – you can spend all the money you want, we will defeat you, and the political backers you’ve bought because we’ve got the bodies on the ground and money can’t change that.

Over the last month we’ve shown that with rally after rally and it’s going to continue until we’ve reclaimed our rights, can protect our communities and defeat the bought and paid for politicians that let this happen.

If you’re disgusted by this latest ethical fumbling by this disgusting industry – please get in touch with me.