Anti wind turbine thread ?

[3030]

was out on the bike today i seen they building them in Bethany poor town

[DanO]

Not sure what you're saying MikePal? Hunters should remain silent so that the windmills don't assume we're antis and thereby ban us from the property? I've hunted geese around them and everything was fine ...until somebody broke into one of the towers ..... company assumed it might be HUNTERS so now we're getting grief from the Windmill company through the landowners. Don't think keeping your mouth shut will help.

[Big Jack]

Nobody wants these things in our area but the liberals made it so we get them shoved down our throats anyway.

[MikePal]

Not sure what you're saying MikePal? Hunters should remain silent so that the windmills don't assume we're antis and thereby ban us from the property?

Who me ??? now what am I being accused of saying...???

[welsh]

Who me ??? now what am I being accused of saying...???

You're accused of saying what I said, although I didn't actually say "hunters should remain silent."

See, the OFAH could take the tack of meeting with the wind companies and talking with them. The OFAH could remind them that incidents of vandalism have nothing to do with hunting. And the OFAH could talk to them about hunting's excellent safety record, and remind them that across rural Ontario each fall, thousands of agricultural and other workers work outside within earshot of gunshots without any accidents. By sitting down and meeting with these people, the OFAH could make some headway.

Or, alternatively, the OFAH could join an anti-wind coalition dedicated to putting the wind companies out of business, and turn the whole thing into a fight -- a fight which, unless we have a change of government, the OFAH can only lose.

Well, I'll let people make up their own minds on the wise course of action....

[JBen]

OFAH has responded with fighting words already.
find it "interesting" that WFs use workplace safety laws as the basis of their concern, yet don't seem to care much about them (various laws, or protected acts including threatened/endangered species) when it doesn't suit their or Ms Wynnes purposes. However isn't that always the case with everything, smoke and mirrors. Proponents stand to make huge sums of money, tax revenue that might be garnered or lost. Lawsuits that might be launched, won or lost. (Believe there's over 60 lawsuits before the courts in Ont currently relating to wind)

So much at stake.

2 incidents
1 clearly vandalism.
1 employees were concerned because they heard shots...lmao

http://www.theobserver.ca/2016/08/07...-on-their-turf

Will developers start adding clauses to bar hunting, or have adequate insurance? They already have something of a history of squishing opponents, and there are accusations of more including shenanigans of burying data, altering.......

imo, why re-invent the wheel. If your one of the great majority sickened by by them, or what's going on. Speak out, add your voice and more. Let OFAH does what it does without a formal "anti WF" banner. The issue is way to political

[terrym]

The wind farms will prevail in the end as long as Wynne is in power. What's the solution here? Vote that idiot out.

[73hunter]

The wind farms will prevail in the end as long as Wynne is in power. What's the solution here? Vote that idiot out.

the above is the only way. too many clueless people in the GTA will prevent it from happening though

[JBen]

You really have to wonder when various agencies don't follow their mandates. Be it green lighting developments in environmentally sensitive areas (Bon Echo, the Oak Ridges Morraine). Or where endangered species are barely holding on (blanding Turtles), or where MPAC is quietly reducing assessments (see Wolfe Island). Where developers are suing the govt ( there's more than just the one famous one that made a big splash), squishing opposition, forcing non disclosure (gee aren't our governments all about Transparency?) and on and on.

theres not much to go by, but in the U.S. there's instances of both Big Wind starting to curtail hunting, and supporting. Hard to say imp which way the wind will blow. However this is not a good sign. Especially if push comes to shove, because I'm betting Ms Wynne will say..."not much can be done, workplace safety laws"...

[welsh]

the above is the only way. too many clueless people in the GTA will prevent it from happening though

The GTA has consistently been electing conservative mayors.

The PCs have to field a credible candidate. The last election was theirs to lose and they rose to the challenge.