Last week at the candidate forum organised by the Pugwash Chamber of Commerce, Warden Keith Hunter stated that because of local opposition to a proposed wind "farm" on the Gulf Shore, it did not go ahead. He said he helped intervene on our behalf in a conversation with (then) Minister of Environment, Mark Parent.
This is in line with what representatives from Atlantic Wind Power Corp and Cobequid Area Wind Farms have stated publicly several times: that if this project was not welcome by the community, it would not go ahead.
All four candidates agreed that turbines should not intrude on the neighbouring property owners. People should be able to enjoy their properties.
They all agreed that wind energy, along with other forms of renewable energy, is part of what we should be doing as a Province to reduce greenhouse gases but, for a variety of reasons, they should not be placed too close to homes.
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With the wind farm dropped than hopefully this blog will also be dead.
I can't wait to never visit this part of NS for being so small minded!
Great News! now if only every other "Wind Farm" drops dead in it's tracks then the Wind Weasels will have to go out and find a real job instead of ripping of the hard working people of Canada. This Industry gives the word "Crime" a whole new meaning!
Disgusting destroyers of peoples lives with no regrets!
that goes for you too "Anonymous!"
We are the village green preservation society;
God save donald duck, vaudeville and variety...
NIMBY is alive and well.
Perhaps Quxote should read today's papers. It turns out that the wind energy funding, against which he is galloping, was secretly taken away and given to the non polluters in the oil sands. Good decision Stevie.
The hard working people of Canada may be ripped off, but it is not by the wind weasles.
Did anyone notice that two local politicians, eager to curry favour with a tiny pressure group, have been defeated. They didn't take the time to undersatand public support for renewable energy. Sorry.
I wonder how much influence Kieth has now and what will happen in the next few months.
How come I'm not a disgusting destroyer too? Am I loosing my touch?
John McManus
Glad to see politicians finally clued into the dangers imposed by these in the environment!
Every month or so I check this website only to want to puke even more every time I see it.
There is compromise or even meet half-way kinda thought, but you knuckleheads that occupy this small space want all your way or no-way at all.
Seems pretty lame to me and hopeless for society as a whole. Wonder what you will say to your children when they ask you what you did to help the environment when it was in crisis. "Oh well, uhm uhm let me see......I contributed to this great and wonderful blog created in Nova Scotia that helped defeat every wind farm that was ever proposed in that region"...."Oh" the child replies...."So in otherwords you did NOTHING OTHER THAN COMPLAIN AND DIDN'T TRY AND FIND A GOOD SPOT FOR WIND FARMS"...Imagine what your kids will think of you then!
"....what you did to help the environment when it was in crisis"
???
well try this
-reduced my speed on the highway
-used my computer,television,media electric toys,games,appliances less or better still taught my children to use none
-learned to open my garage door by hand
-stopped storing frozen foods and cooking every meal
-turned off my lights after 8:00
-stopped mowing my lawn to perfection,washing my car to perfection,washing my cloths to perfection,etc...
-stopped driving my atv,snowmobile,lawn tractor
etc,etc,etc
...
if you did these then we wouldn't need these blogs explaining the problems with windfarms and finding a good spot for them!
My fuel consumption has been cut by 4500 ltres in the past 4 years. My electric consumption averages 11.5 kwh a day ( against a national average of 24). I have " tried this".
We still need renewabbles and always will.
Scolding me for waste ignors the 50% generation used by industry and business. The salt mines and Oxford frozen foods et al are not about to accept power cuts.
John McManus
Although it is obvious that both of you above are making an effort to reduce your consumption and energy use and this is good. It is still only a fraction, perhaps 20% of your overall footprint, which is nothing to balk at, but it is still only averaging 20%.
What about the remaining 80% or 70% if you are doing really well. It has to come from somewhere and as I have stressed many times on this site it can come from many things. One of them being wind. Wind is a viable option and something that will and must be embraced. Enough of this wind farm bashing. This blog should focus on how to make wind farms work and not how they fail and "destroy their surroundings".
Think outside the box people!
Me thinks some of the commenters on this blog are more concerned about the money they're gonna make from these rather than their childrens future!
The comment about the tiny effect I am having on my carbon footprint is right on the button. I just ordered a wind turbine, but it won't help much.
Most of my carbon footprint comes from food and the public sector. Concider the public builings in our community: post office, churches, scools, service Nova Scotia, Canadian Tire, Sobeys, NSLC and on and on. I share in their energy consumption and folks, these buildings were designigned as if oil cost $20 a barrel.
I have made changes in the areas I control, but political will is needed for communal areas. I vote for parties that give minimal support to the environment ( Green. NDP ) and hope that the other parties, opposed to carbon reduction ( reform, liberal ) lose. They don't and won't until people realise that shallow self interest will eventually bite their own ass.
John McManus
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