A Foreword by Doug Draper, publisher, Niagara At Large
(We’ve heard most of the crap, over and over again, from Tim Hudak/Mike Harris/Tea Party-type s in ths region, around how these wind farms are going to destroy their health and diminish the value of their properties. And of course, if they keep up this negative rhetoric they are being spoon-fed by from corporate interests in the nuclear, gas and coal industries, and over and over again from a Hudak, some of their worst fears might come true. Self-fulfilling prophesies, if even half of these idiots know what a self-fullfilling prophecy is, have a way of coming true – specially the part about their property values.
Thanks to a majority on Niagara, Ontario’s regional council, we may never see this here. How pathetic. How unprogressive this regional government is.
Just keep telling the rest of the world, over and over again, ad nausea, that wind farms or solar panel farms are the worst things you can have in your community, and you might just devalue the value of property even more than it might be devalued if a coal-fired power plant or nuclear power plant, which are apparently your alternative energy sources, were located in your neighbourhood.
Now Niagara At Large wants to offer you the full text of an alternative voice from the Niagara, Ontario community of Lincoln, Ontario who tried to speak to a Niagara regional council whose majority of members would eventually re-vote for a position the council approved this past spring, essentially saying that Niagara, Ontario is unfriendly to renewable energy industries.
Here is the test of the talk by Lincoln/Beamsville, Ontario resident Virgil Nose. Keep in mind that it took a lot of courage for this individual to deliver this speech with many dozens of anti-wind farm people in the audience who, at times, audibly hissed him.)
Good evening,
My name is Virgil Nose and I am a resident of Beamsville.
I want to talk about a divisive subject – Wind Turbines. As I understand it, there are many people against the construction of Wind Turbines in Niagara.
I have been following the story in the local newspapers and have read about property values plummeting, people getting sick from low frequency sound, and birds and bats dying. At the same time in those same newspapers I have read about the 8.5% unemployment rate in Niagara and the loss of good paying industrial jobs. We are also well aware of the rise of asthma in our children, and the ever increasing rates of cancer and respiratory diseases.
As a resident of Niagara and a heavy equipment operator by trade, I am also member of the International Union of Operating Engineers (Local 793). My livelihood and my ability to provide for my family, and the livelihood of all others in my Local, is impacted by any decision to block the construction of wind turbines here. I will also mention that any contract won by a Local 793 union company is subject to a fair and open bid process against competitors from the non-union.
I moved here from Northern Ontario, seeking a better life for my family, and better employment opportunities in Southern Ontario, where it is perceived by many to be a place of opportunity. I, along with all other equipment operators in Niagara want to be able to practice our professions and have satisfying careers here, where we live. The livelihood and ability to provide for families in the construction industry, union or not will be impacted by the choices made here.
Wind turbines and wind energy can create new high-value jobs, providing employment opportunities for local trades-people and contractors as well as full-time permanent jobs once the wind farm is operational, and wind energy projects can bring direct investment in the form of contracts for materials and additional business for local companies.
I have lived in Niagara for the last 8 years. During this time I have heard about this area “hemorrhaging jobs”, and the need to attract new business and industry to the Region. We need “good paying” jobs. It baffles me when I hear of new industry coming into the region, and we choose not to support it. Now we have wind turbine manufacturers investing in plants in Niagara, hiring and employing Niagara residents. Are we saying that while we welcome the jobs you create and the taxes you pay, we don’t want your product? What kind of message is that? Why would any other companies invest here if that’s the case?
So this past June, Regional Council passed a motion that sent a very strong message to the renewable energy sector, to the manufacturing companies that support it, and to support industries that support the manufacturers, that the entire Niagara Region is not interested in supporting the green energy sector, and the jobs that it will bring for decades to come. While the motion didn’t specifically say we didn’t want wind and green energy, it doesn’t matter. The message that you sent in supporting it did.
Also this past June, at about the same time Regional Council voted to support the motion to block wind energy development in Niagara, and the jobs that it could generate, Niagara College was graduating its first class of Renewable Energy Technicians, students trained to support the growing wind and renewable energy sector. Do we really want to say to yet another class of graduates in Niagara that the opportunities for your career again only exist outside of the region, so good luck and good bye? I would hope not, as I too have experienced the lack of opportunity where I grew up and have had to move across the province away from my friends, family and all that I knew, just to find good, well-paying employment. Today this now is in jeopardy.
This brings me to talk about our collective health and well being. It is also a comment on our current way of life and the fear of change.
We as a society are hypocrites. We are always waiting for someone else to tackle the big problems. We all need A/C and big screen TV’s, but someone else, somewhere else, can deal with the generation of that power. It’s not my problem, but I still want to benefit from it.
Morally we should be so very thankful to those who live in the vicinity of the Bruce or Pickering Nuclear Power Plants, facilities which have powered our province for decades. We are only talking about wind turbines here.
We as humans need only three things to survive, and that is air, food and water. We are doing a wonderful job of destroying these three things in the short sighted pursuit of cheap money, cheap dirty energy, and self-absorbing luxuries. Live a life of denial if you wish, but we as a species are horrible stewards of our only home. It is short sighted and selfish to continuously brush aside the problems we ignore today and the problems past generations have created and leave it to the next generation or future generations to deal with. The status quo is not good enough, and we must change the way we live. It is this change that scares people, but to do nothing is only going to kill us. Many of us are religious or spiritual. Nowhere in the teachings of any religion is there an advocate for passing the buck, or not making any personal sacrifice. How about doing the right thing because it benefits someone other than me?
It is rational to say that the cheapest product is not the best, or that what is best for us will come cheap and easy. We can look at the current way we meet our energy needs and say it’s good enough, and we don’t need to change anything. To continue through to extract various types of material from the earth to burn or react is a finite resource and a self-destructive energy source. It kills us. Maybe not right away, but what we don’t see or smell, is still there, absorbing into and poisoning our food and water supplies, and suspended in microscopic particulate matter in the air we breathe, causing respiratory illness and cancers. We need to start now to transition for the future to have clean, independent, balanced energy sources. Wind energy may not be the cheapest source of energy now, but that’s only in today’s circumstances. Let’s stop focusing on short-term issues when the solutions require long-term thinking and vision.
When our era is written into the history books and future generations look back, are we going to be looked at as the ones who almost killed them, or are as the ones who saved them?
Here in Niagara, we are not going to change the world, but we can be leaders and advocates of change. Let us be the beacon of sustainable living, let’s show others how it’s done and create an industry of sustainability that only enhances our agricultural expertise and our industrial knowledge.
Supporting the original motion sends a very strong message to industry that the manufacturing and construction opportunities are elsewhere. I ask you demonstrate your leadership and not to support the original motion, and show that Niagara wants new jobs, new economic opportunities, and a healthier environment for our children and grandchildren.
Thank-you
(Niagara At Large dares anyone who also cares to share their name to share their views on this post in the comment space below. NAL will not post comments from those who do not have the courage to share their name.)
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Well said. NIMBYISM is rampant. So turbines and solar panels are unsightly. So are hydro poles and transmission lines. So what? Nuclear energy, while effective, leaves the problems of waste fuel that takes centuries to become safe. I don’t mind a turbine in my area at all.
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I agree with every word written in this article. Enough is enough. The same maroons who want to put a gazillion casinos to support more violently seasonal jobs in this area are stifling a burgeoning industry. I am one of the aforementioned graduates of that first renewable energy technician program at Niagara College and it has changed my life.
The good change has been that I have a shot a career to try to make the world a better place with clean green energy. The bad change is that a vocal MINORITY is showing that the leaders in our Region care about posturing more than they care about trying to do something with this struggling region.
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I totally agree with Mr. Nose on the need to support the cleanest, greenest energy sources . For me though, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro electric (Think Niagara-Falls and other potential water power) and particularly energy conservation, energy efficiencies and co-generation , far outrank the nuclear power he mentions- with praise for the residents in Pickering and Bruce communities near by. And, if community activists around the province continue to block advances in the ‘soft, renewable’ energy sources, we will surely end up with even more nuclear power which is far from clean, definitely not green, exorbitantly expensive ( check your hydro bill for the pay down of the remainder of a nuclear debt of over $30 billion) and dangerous to those millions of people within at least a 65 km radius (Think potential earthquake, human error, malevolent act) . Of course, there need to be proper distance separations between homes , schools , workplaces and new installations of mega- solar and wind projects, but there are also individuals, sometimes farmers, who want to tap into the electricity grid,. But its nuclear power that is sucking up all the line-space-particularly in south western Ontario where the Bruce nuclear plants take precedence. Niagara Region should indeed rescind its non-green vote, not just for the potential jobs involved, but for a less dangerous and far greener future. They really need to be leaders, and work with communities to find a solution that helps everyone.
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Gracia Janes
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I, for one, support wind farms! There is a small wind farm not far from my partner Sandra’s cottage near the mouth of the Grand River.
I have also been “up close” with a big wind farm in southern Saskatchewan and was very impressed.
I understand that wind power and solar power will not replace our hydro power, but they are good alternate supplies.
The gentleman who wrote the article above makes many very good and valid points. Those voting against alternative power generation systems are knee-jerk red-neck luddites.
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Hurrah to Mr. Virgil Nose for stating his opinion in the most eloquent manner
but he must learn how the region works, you have to talk to the real people in charge and that is staff.,they are the ones in control. most councillors are too inept or lazy to bother reading these reports or doing their own research,so staff do what they want, look what happens to the ones that really want to do their job, what did our forefathers fight in generations of wars for
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Sorry for the sloppy comment but as I typed my comment the section would turn blue and not allow me to finish, but this gentleman hit the nail on the head and I applaud him for his efforts. Thank you Richard Berry
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Rather than or in addition to the usual talk on moral and environmental concerns, it would be nice to see some facts on the viability of environmentally friendly energy alternatives. I note with interest a town in Colorado instituting an entire city (I think it was Boulder) with environmentally efficient energy. The push-back is coming from dirty energy providers. So what’s needed is cost outs, job impact, longevity, etc. Perhaps armed with this information, it may be a little easier to push.
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Re. nuclear: The Fukushima disaster is FAR worse than corporate messaging might suggest, and west coast North America is already being impacted. Expect media black-outs and more revised “food-safety” measurements.
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What do you base this assessment on?
How is this a risk for Ontario?
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I would like to take up Doug Draper’s dare to challenge Virgil Nose’s brave conjecture regarding the placing of wind turbines in areas where they are not wanted, not needed and against the express wishes of the citizens in those areas.
First let me say that indeed we need good paying jobs here in Niagara and indeed we want Mr. Nose to be able to feed his family, but Mr. Nose is presenting from a personal interest perspective.
However there are a couple of kinks in his presentation, such as the need for wind turbines being placed where they are not only unwanted but are proven that they are not needed.
How can anyone claim a need for these turbines when the Ontario Liberals are already paying for turbine wind producers not to produce electrical power from their unsightly monoliths? What the hell are we saying when the cry is for corporations to erect more wind turbines so that the corporation can earn money by not producing electrical power!
Mr. Nose is wrong when he says that the Niagara Regional Councilors voted to support a motion to BLOCK wind energy development in Niagara. The Regional Council voted the support Niagara communities that wanted the democratic right to opt out of any forced imposition of wind turbines in their midst.
Where is our future if we continually make expensive wrong-headed decisions now? Unnecessary expenses are driving up the cost of doing business in Niagara and more importantly in Ontario to the point that we are already witnessing the flight of much needed companies and their much needed jobs!
But what the hell, we can keep on selling our over-priced electricity at a spectacular loss ($1.2 billion) in the name (and name only) of bragging rights to our GREEN CULTURE and our ability to brag about having the highest electrical rates in North America.
Besides, newer and better wind turbines will always be a future option!
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It would seem that Europe is way ahead of us in the use of solar/wind energy. So sad to see people ready to shut down job opportunities and the future because of perceived negative effects of wind power. Some were worried about the pollutants that may come from the wind blade manufacturing plant in Welland yet failed to notice those same pollutants coming from other industries in their community.
As usual, the Niagara Region is sending the wrong message to the universe: welcome gamblers, but if you want to bring new industries to the region, move on down the road.
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I think that the anti-wind people must also belong to the Flat Earth Society. The events at Chernobyl and Fukishima are ignored, while NIMBYs worry about unproven disease and waste. Can you imagine if these folks were around when the Niagara power Station Project was in the planning stage? Surely they would have found some horrible thing to worry about from that.
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I can understand what Mr. Nose is saying but he missed some facts. For example Regional Council supported Wainfleet and West Lincoln in their motion to be Non Willing Hosts, (a choice presented by our premier K. Wynne). Does Mr. Nose realize that once these turbines are installed his job will be eliminated: it might take two years before completion, but the turbines will stay approximately 20- years. All those jobs that are mentioned in the retoric about the wind projects are for the whole province, not for Niagara. 700 jobs would not make a big dent in the job deficit for Niagara, and yet they are to be shared by the whole province! If the turbines are sited properly and safely Wainfleet and West Lincoln would not be unwilling hosts: but the MOE must change the policy which states that 550 m is safe. If turbines are sited at the very least 2km from the outside parameter of the property of receptors, we would not have to be going through this exercise. We would still be unhappy about the costs of energy, as everyone is, but we could live with the Turbines.
I disagree with Mr. Draper that Nose is a hero for going to speak while surrounded by anti wind people, you must realize that we are not allowed to express our feeling about what speakers are saying in the council chambers and there were many people from both sides of this issue in the house, and if comments were heard, they were heard from both sides.
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DEMOCRACY MATTERS
I am thankful for the members of Regional Council that supported West Lincoln and Wainfleet in their declaration of “Not a Willing Host” status with regards to industrial wind turbines. The issues are complicated but the underlying principle is not – democracy matters.
Over and over and over again history shows us that when you remove the democratic rights of the people, the oppression escalates. The process is flawed and the product – be it tobacco, snake oil, surplus energy or the next get rich quick scheme will always be presented with you placing your trust in someone that stands to gain at the expense of others.
Instead of exercising caution and due diligence the provincial government refuses to listen to any criticism of the renewable energy initiative. Read the 2011 Ontario Auditor General’s Report on Renewable Energy.
With the creation of the Green Energy Act, the Ontario government changed laws that protected the health of the citizens of Ontario; changed laws that required an Environmental Assessment to determine the impact of new development on the environment; and changed laws so that the authority of municipal councils has been undermined. The rural citizens have had their municipal councils stripped of their planning rights to control the siting of Industrial Wind Turbines in their communities. Citizens of West Lincoln and Wainfleet have been denied their democratic right to participate in the planning of their community.
To disenfranchise the smallest communities as a business opportunity is not how we have done democracy in the past. If elected officials fail to protect the democratic rights of the citizens of West Lincoln and Wainfleet, then they will fail to protect the democratic rights of the citizens in other communities. Will it be too late when the provincial government decides to close the community hospital with no input from you, or closes the elementary school or high school where your children attend or fails to provide adequate facilities for the elderly in your community? This is far more than a business decision.
All councilors were elected to serve and protect the people in their community.
Democracy dictates that every elected official has an ethical duty and a legal obligation to protect the health, safety, quality of life and well- being of citizens and their properties. All democratic decisions must pass through this filter or decisions will allow for some to disenfranchise others. The smallest, the weakest, the youngest are frequently the victims of bad decisions
See this for what it is – an appeal by West Lincoln and Wainfleet councils to regain the democratic rights to serve and protect the members of their communities and participate in the planning rights to control the siting of Industrial Wind turbines in their communities.
I thank the regional councilors for their support of West Lincoln and Wainfleet in their right to declare themselves “Not a Willing Host” to industrial wind turbines. In Jeff Bolichowski’s report in the St Catharines’ Standard he has an opinion poll on whether the Regonal Council should have revisited their vote to support Wainfleet and West Lincoln? At the moment 97% of the respondents claim that the entire Niagara Region should not allow industrial wind turbines. Interesting!
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Industrial wind turbines produce acoustical noise, low frequency noise, mechanical noise, infrasound, electro magnetic radiation, “dirty electricity” or transient voltage, light flicker, vibration, as well as have a catastrophic effect on the property values of those in the viewshed. IWT’s are industrial installations. Wind developers are the ONLY business that is allowed to misrepresent, misinform, and outright lie without any overseeing body saying, “Wait a minute.”
1 Wind proponents are not asked to independently PROVE the merits of their claims before (or after) their product is forced on the public.
2 There is no penalty for making bogus assertions or dishonest claims about their product’s “benefits,”
3 Promoting wind is a political agenda that is divorced from real science. A true scientific assessment is a comprehensive, objective evaluation with transparent real world data – not carefully massaged computer models and slick advertising campaigns, which are the mainstay of those promoting this political agendas.
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“Wind developers are the ONLY business that is allowed to misrepresent, misinform, and outright lie without any overseeing body saying, “Wait a minute”.
Hmmmm, how about cigarette manufacturers, big oil conglomerates (“BP cares, come to the gulf, the waters are clean, we’re open for business”), natural gas fracking advocates….) need I go on?
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[1) take head of out wind hole 2) smell the fresh air 3) admit democracy does not matter to “Da Harper Government” ..although, asbestos $ales, bitumen $ales, and bludgeoning baby $eals to death, most certainly do]—–>”There are anecdotal reports of negative effects from noise on people who live very close to wind turbines.[8] Peer-reviewed research has not supported these claims.[9] [10]” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/24/oh_canada —–>http://www.buffalospree.com/Buffalo-Spree/April-2010/A-windmill-of-a-different-color-mdashand-silhouette-mdasharrives-in-WNY/ ——>http://www.keanwindturbines.com/index.php ——>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Winds ——>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_power ——>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power ——>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shulman/got-science-a-green-tea-p_b_3726459.html ——>http://climatecrocks.com/2013/08/12/the-koch-brothers-worst-nightmare-a-green-tea-coalition/comment-page-1/ ——>http://grist.org/news/worlds-biggest-solar-thermal-power-plant-fired-up-in-california/
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Catherine. The notion that a politician will agree with wind energy just because it is political is rather disingenuous. No one just agrees with something unless there is good reason to do so. One would assume that the research was done and that the decision was based on this research and not just because “a politician wanted this on their agenda”.. On the other hand, if the research was done by the exact people who sell the technology, then this could be questioned. So the real question would be, who did the research and what was its result. As an example, you site 3 reasons not to have wind energy but omit where you got this information. Could this also be considered political motivation?
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Well said, and thank you for bringing this presentation to light. I’m still wondering why Niagara differs from the majority of the planet when it comes to wind.
I can understand that some politicians choose to support fear, or to bury their heads (and our futures) in the sand. I’m shocked that it’s so pervasive here in Niagara.
I’d like to see information in mainstream papers about the numbers of progressive countries that are entirely shifting their energy component make up.
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Please consider the following mismanagement of taxpayers money in the province of Ontario.
In 2011 the Ontario’s auditor general looked at the Liberals’ renewable energy policies (page 87 – 121) and he found they (a) rushed into the renewable energy field without knowing what they were doing. (Not a great way to start any project.) So the Ontario government engaged in the renewable energy industry without health studies, environmental impact studies, feasibility studies, etc.
(b) failed to develop a business plan. So what you have is some bureaucrat who signed a $7 billion dollars deal in my name without a business plan, without an escape clause, without a compensation package to cover anyone who might be disenfranchised by this provincial initiative. Grade nine general business students at the local high school can put a business plan together. Should we not expect more from the people that we have elected to serve and protect us?
(c) did no internal audit work to determine if Ontario needed additional energy creation. Now we find that we have had surplus generation for years but the approvals for additional creation of renewable energy just keep being handed out.
(d) ignored the advice of their own experts on reducing costs. The energy experts suggested other options that would have saved the Ontario tax payers millions of dollars.
(e) did not put contracts out to public tender. Instead the Ontario government signed a deal with Samsung – a private for profit multinational corporation and have the Ontario taxpayers on the hook for the bill.
(f) grossly over-estimated the number of jobs they would create. The government is now beginning to admit that most of the green energy jobs are temporary during construction!
Instead of exercising caution and due diligence the province refuses to listen to any criticism of the renewable energy initiative and continues to offer Feed in Tariff (FIT) contracts to private for profit frequently multinational corporations.
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NIMBYISM and the pollution of the mental landscape by our friends such as the Koch bros. means we all lose. These same discussions are happening throughout North America as the planet burns and the tab is picked up by the public, which is becoming increasingly pauperized.
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Now is an excellent time to build a filthy, poisonous, capital intensive, seasonal, ecocidal -natural creek/carolinian forest/farmland destroying- vroom-vroom track in Fort Erie, therefore.
—–>http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/27 —–>http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/27
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I agree with Eric Morgan. Boogity-Boogity-Boogity-Let’s go racing boys. Good to see the development has started.
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Ya, good to see the development HAS started -however- you forgot one minor detail: not in Fort Erie ….vroom-vroom-vroom! [http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/4075828-speedway-facing-more-legal-trouble/]
——>http://www.buffaloplace.com/rocks ——>http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/canadian-furniture-manufacturer-coming-to-outer-harbor-20130926 ——>http://www.buffalonews.com/business/ecida-gives-candymaker-51-million-in-tax-breaks-for-new-tonawanda-factory-20130916 ——>http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/buffalo/improving-life-block-by-block-in-buffalo-neighborhoods-20130917 ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/firm-picks-south-buffalo-site-for-100-million-steel-mill-project/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/buffalo-river-cleanup-work-continues/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/buffalo-niagara-medical-campus-to-open-co-working-space/ ——–>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/beach-upgraded-recreational-facilities-private-development-planned-for-outer-harbor/#comment-261120 ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/front-park-play-time/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/buffalo-spaceport-of-the-future/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/buffalo-is-as-buffalo-does/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/silo-city-gateway-wall/ ——>http://buffalorising.com/2013/09/resurgence-brewing-company/ ——>http://medicine.buffalo.edu/new-medical-school.html ——>http://buffalorising.com/2012/05/construction-watch-buff-state-science-and-math-complex/ ——>http://www.buffalonews.com/business/new-owners-of-south-end-marina-property-hope-to-incorporate-silos-in-plans-20130923
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Eric nice of you to report last weeks news. Just to catch you up work has started on Phase 1 of the CMS. Boogity-Boogity-Boogity.
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2 [not 22] surveyors standing on the side of a corn field for an afternoon is realistic evidence of the beginnings of an 823 acre/$400,000,000.00 vroom-vroom track? The residual effects of Fort Erie *brain drain* shouldn’t be that difficult to locate.
——>http://farm1.staticflickr.com/111/263385549_8cfc7c0239_z.jpg?zz=1
——>http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/29-6
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Keep deluding yourself Eric. This project is to important the the economics of all of Niagara not to go through. Even a divided FE council is unanimous in support.
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Human primates [especially the ones with one foot in the grave] more often than not tend to relate to the environment the same way as they relate with themselves: poison in, poison out/garbage in, garbage out. Their thoughts, too. That’s Phase 1. Phase 2 is the hideous psychological/sociological *projection* of this filthy habit onto the rest of us who know better. Vroom-vroom-vroom!
——>http://tiltmodearmy.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/5560__640x480_halba_beer-goggles.jpg
—–>http://www.naturalnews.com/029484_smoking_IQ.html
http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/letters/2011-06-08/racetrack-noise-leaves-property-owner-disgruntled
——>http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2008-06-29/sports/nascargreen29_1_fuel-nascar-races-lead-additives
——>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2013/022013/02252013/755386
——>http://www.nonoise.org/resource/racetrack/waynecounty.htm
——>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/your-money/despite-drop-in-commodity-prices-farmland-values-rise.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
——>http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/economy/executive-says-value-us-farmland-will-grow
——>http://omaha.com/article/20130624/MONEY/706249974
——>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-10/being-like-soros-in-buying-farm-land-lets-investors-reap-16-annual-gains.html
——>”Growing your own food is like printing your own money” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/how-a-gangster-gardener-h_n_2822272.html
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