To the Expositor: Landowners and homeowners have the option for reassessment submissions to MPAC for property devaluations in proximity of industrial wind turbines. Deadlines are approaching. You may have to search out last year’s notices as new notices may not have been sent if there were no changes to the previous assessment. This can be done online also at About ... Read More »
HIGHWAY 17–Manitoulin and Sudbury Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are advising the public that as of September 16 officers will be providing escorts for the wind turbines heading to Manitoulin Island. The escorts begin on Regional Road 35 at the Millman Yard (Day Construction) then south west on Highway 144 bypass, west onto Highway 17, then south onto Highway 6. The ... Read More »
To the Expositor: We have just found out that wind turbines are being built on Manitoulin Island’s McLean’s Mountain. These turbines will be 700 ft. (213 meters) high, 500 ft. (150 meters) higher than the tallest white pine industrial turbines on Manitoulin Island. These turbines hurt the land, animals and people while producing relatively little power at a significant cost ... Read More »
To the Expositor: While vacationing on the Island a few weeks ago, I read with interest the editorial of July 31, 2013 about the building of additional industrial wind turbines on Manitoulin. If I were to choose one word to describe the content of this editorial, it would be the adjective sophomoric, to be understood in its plain meaning of ... Read More »
To the Expositor: NEMI has turned its back on a great potential tax base and a lifeline for the community: retiring Baby Boomers. We retired and moved to the Strawberry Channel in December 2011. Almost a year later, we found that 24 Northland Power Wind Turbines (the largest in Ontario: 422 feet high) will be built in our backyard. Had ... Read More »
MANITOULIN—The decision by a Gore Bay dentist to refuse service to Henry Panamick, a member of the M’Chigeeng First Nation band council, over the council’s support of wind power led to Chief Joseph Hare calling an emergency meeting of the First Nation’s governing body to investigate the incident and to decide what, if any, response was called for by the ... Read More »
To the Expositor: A few days ago, a story appeared in The Globe and Mail. It told us that, in the US, 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion “small mammals” are killed each year by pet cats. Divide by 10 for a Canadian estimate: that’s 370,000,000 birds and 2.7 billion small mammals. Turbines, of which there are about 6,200 now ... Read More »
To the Expositor: The wood is the fire, as a place moves in its rhythms and sounds. Likewise, we can’t label this industrial energy project “green” if it destroys the ecosystem on which it stands, if it displaces the life around it, and disrupts the very fabric of nature. The drone and noise pollution from turbines is enough of a ... Read More »
To the Expositor: The MCSEA (Manitoulin Coalition for Safe Energy Alternatives) will try to stop the McLean’s Mountain wind farm at yet another hearing in December, of course arguing on health grounds. I don’t know if people are aware that health and environmental damage are the only two legal grounds for stopping an approved project. This is why opponents of ... Read More »
LITTLE CURRENT—The date has been set for the Environmental Review Tribunal preliminary hearing concerning the recent appeal from the Manitoulin Coalition for Safe Energy Alternatives (MCSEA) against the Ministry of Environment’s (MOE) Renewable Energy Approval (REA) of Northland Power’s (NPI) McLean’s Mountain wind farm project. The hearing will be held on Tuesday, December 18 at 1 pm at the Lions ... Read More »
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