Great Lakes Wind Truth

05/23/2021

So much for useful recycling and thoughtful honest decommissioning.

Video follows. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA (acting as Explosives Design and Performance Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Dallas Demolition of Houston, Te…

05/18/2021

We will never recover the wildlife losses.

Une minute de silence ... .

01/03/2020

IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE, PRESS REPLY OR SEND, AND ASK FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES TO DO THE SAME.
TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE FOLLOWING LETTER, PLEASE SEND YOUR NAME AND EMAIL AND ADDRESS TO
[email protected]
THANK YOU!

DEAR FRIENDS,

In 2014, we asked for your signatures for support of a letter and sadly, we again ask, for the same reason. However, we fully believe that letter with signatures had a great deal of impact in the decision of then Chair of the OPSB Board, Todd Snitchler, to demand of the developer, LEEDCo, more comprehensive examination and completion of environmental studies, shoreline impacts and more. That stalled the project for about four additional years.

The LEEDCo/Icebreaker (the same basic project with a different name and international billionaire developer, Fred Olsen Renewables), is nearing a decision by the OPSB (Ohio Power Siting Board). It is inconceivable, but here we are. SIX MASSIVE TURBINES OFF SHORE OF CLEVELAND.

Now we ask you again, please give us your name, email, home address, so we can add to this list of now 200 or so. We hope to achieve 500 before sending hard copies. Your information is protected, and will not be shared, but with the recipients of the letter to Governor DeWine, and Chair of the Board, Sam Randazzo. Feel free to offer a short comment as well if you wish.

IN response to a now corrected placement of a bundle of letters in support of this ignoble proposal, which landed in a more highly viewed DOCUMENTS instead of COMMENTS, we decided to counter that with our own now growing list of objectors, groups and individuals.

If your entire group supports this letter, below, please let us know! We will gladly add this as well. Please indicate the approximate number of supporters in your group.

Thank you most sincerely. A good way to start the New Year, with a voice that will have a good deal of importance. We join with other groups such as Citizens Against Wind Turbines In Lake Erie, and others, who also are creating awareness and objection to turbines in Lake Erie. (More to come on this.)

Please send to

[email protected]

NAME
ADDRESS
EMAIL
COMMENT IF WISHED

If you offered a signature in 2014, feel free to repeat, and we will acknowledge that you have signed twice.
International comments and signatures welcome, too!



Dear Governor DeWine, Chair of the Ohio Power Siting Board, Sam Randazzo,
Please accept this letter to assist in your understanding of the volume of persons and groups who oppose industrialization of Lake Erie, or any of the Great Lakes. There is in short:
· No public need (OHIO is currently disengaging from power due to diminished demand), and wind turbines would never be able to supplant or augment any base load power source anyway. “GROWING ENERGY DEMAND DUE TO EXISTING PLANT RETIREMENTS” is a quote from LEEDCo defending the plan to put turbines into Lake Erie. However according to the US Energy Information Agency there is an excess capacity in the region driving retirements: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=7330 Most of the generators projected to retire are older, inefficient units primarily concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic, Ohio River Valley, and Southeastern U.S. where excess electricity generation capacity currently exists.

· Public Trust issues are abundant: this Lake is a source of potable water for about 11 million persons; the lake-bed lease now purportedly is in the control of a foreign multinational billionaire.

· Many reputable and environmental groups and persons, birding, fishing, advocacy, have proposed an EIS, stricter scrutiny of this proposal, and suggest that there are serious deficiencies in the existing EA that will not protect wildlife. Please see the final brief by Lawyer John Stock, who clearly indicates that not only has the developer failed to assess how much mortality will occur, but also that the means to do so are currently unattainable. How would a project that suggests it will NOT be about SIX turbines, but well over 1400 or more, a “Saudi Arabia” of wind, begin to maintain integrity and accountability when the means to study mortality will be a supremely clear case of unfortunate cover ups, and impossibly profit driven book- keeping on life/death itself.

· Our signatories are aware of mortality studies that are always in the favor of the developer, and of the lack of integrity in a process that assesses the damage without independent review, after the killing has begun. There is no adequate way to pre construction measure the harm. This is one of the most abundant and rich bio diverse areas in North America. Bird Friendly siting, this is NOT. We protest the entire system in place, in favor of developers, to have “threshold” numbers of mortality, birds and bats, facile and insincere counting methods, and the underlying idea that these creatures might be sacrificed to “save us from climate catastrophe.” If anything, Icebreaker will be one more “notch” in the belt of profit taking with impunity, where in cases entire species are being exterminated.

· Bird study/protection organizations both sides of the border have expressed concern about the impacts on bird life and recognize that these impacts can be cumulative. Lake Erie's proposal would be the first North American Offshore Fresh Water installation. Many bird protection agencies articulate conditions under which IWTs (Industrial Wind Turbines) should be banned. Some offer border protections from the shoreline to the fresh water of ten miles. The extensive shorelines and interior of the Lakes need to be protected and preserved. IWTs most certainly disrupt all areas. There will be 1) barrier and displacement from preferred habitat, 2) physical habitat loss, and 3) a direct demographic element of mortality from physical collision.

· Water contamination is unfortunately something that anyone with a clear eye, can see. Each of the turbines slated for the Lake will contain 404 gallons of oil and lubricants. No one in the public has yet seen a containment system, a maintenance program, or a decommissioning plan.

· We agree with the formal Icebreaker opposition position expressed by the American Bird Conservancy and the Black Swamp Bird Observatory of Oak Harbor, Ohio, in their comments to the OPSB and in their recent federal lawsuit filed in Washington, DC.

· The promise of permanent jobs and supply chains is at the usual level of tooth fairy imagining. Europe has LOST net jobs due to wind and solar subsidies, making the cost of “doing business,” manufacturing, impossible in many cases. Ontario, Canada, has lost 800,000 manufacturing jobs in about 8 years, a result as most agree, of the disastrous Green Energy Act, which forced the highly subsidized power to gain entry to the grid first, leaving ramping up and down of gas fired plants to carry that additional burden. Spain is another Poster Child for job losses:

Green job advocates once touted Spain's aggressive alternative energy policy as a model for America. But, today, Spain's green-jobs bubble has burst.

Unemployment there stands at 18 percent, nearly twice that of the United States. Gabriel Calzada, economics professor at Madrid's King Juan Carlos University, estimates that each green job Spain creates prevents 2.2 other jobs from being created.

Please do not permit the LEEDCo/Icebreaker six turbine proposal. It will prove to be just as disastrous as the realities playing out in Europe, or Ontario, where eco systems are collapsing.
It is our intention to circle Lake Erie with the facts and work with citizen lobby groups to protect these assets. (Please note Senator Jacobs’ call for a moratorium.)

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2019/09/18/state-senator-chris-jacobs-legislates-moratorium-on-turbines-in-the-great-lakes

Icebreaker’s Master Plan is to proliferate the Lakes. We cannot allow this richness of life and sustenance for living things, to be desecrated. We count on your leadership to prevent this and any future Great Lakes proposals.

Thank you.
PLEASE VISIT FOR MORE INFORMATION
http://WWW.GREATLAKESWINDTRUTH.ORG

11/30/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4m-Cs-u3Y&feature=youtu.be

Lord Christopher Monckton joins us on stage for a quick talk to discuss the economics behind windmills and the problems behind them.

09/20/2019

Here is one reason for not having a "climate strike"

The dots at the bottom are 40 years of satellite data since 1979.
All the scribbles are adjusted data from computer programs.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/19/emulation-4-w-m-long-wave-cloud-forcing-error-and-meaning/

09/20/2019

9:50AM, 9-20-2019 Wind was contributing only 50MW to the NYS power grid of a stated generating capacity of 1,987MW
Pathetic

09/09/2019

Great Lakes Basin Report 7

The Iconic Image of the Global Warming Movement Is a Fraud

It's official: No U.S. warming since at least 2005

New NOAA measuring system complies with federal standards Global warming alarmist Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State University has lost his multimillion dollar libel suit in British Columbia. Not only did he lose; the suit was thrown out and Mann was ordered to pay defendant Dr. Tim Ball's legal costs. The judge threw out the case "with prejudice" meaning Mann cannot not refile it.
Some years ago, Dr. Tim Ball wrote that climate scientist Michael Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn State.” At issue was Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show a sudden and unprecedented 20th century warming trend. The hockey stick featured prominently in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report (2001), but has since been shown to be wrong. The question, in my view, is whether it was an innocent mistake or deliberate fraud on Mann’s part. (Mann, I believe, continues to assert the accuracy of his debunked graph.) Mann sued Ball for libel in 2011. Principia Scientific now reports the court in British Columbia dismissed Mann’s lawsuit with prejudice, and assessed costs against him.
What happened was that Dr. Ball asserted a truth defense. He argued that the hockey stick was a deliberate fraud, something that could be proved if one had access to the data and calculations, in particular the R2 regression analysis, underlying it. Mann refused to produce these documents. He was ordered to produce them by the court and given a deadline. He still refused to produce them, so the court dismissed his case.

The rules of discovery provide that a litigant must make available to opposing parties documents that reasonably bear on the issues in the case. Here, it is absurd for Mann to sue Ball for libel, and then refuse to produce the documents that would have helped to show whether Ball’s statement about him—he belongs in the state pen—was true or false. The logical inference is that the R2 regression analysis and other materials, if produced, would have supported Ball’s claim that the hockey stick was a deliberate fraud on Mann’s part.
Mann is considering an appeal. He can appeal to his heart’s content, but there is not a court in North America that will allow a libel case to proceed where the plaintiff refuses to produce the documents that may show whether the statements made about him were true or false.
Mann responded to the dismissal of his lawsuit in typically mean- spirited and dishonest fashion: “The dismissal involved the alleged exercise of a discretion on [sic] the Court to dismiss a lawsuit for delay.” The dismissal was for failure to obey a court order, and the delay went on for eight years.
The difficulty of accurately measuring average temperatures around the globe and across the United States has helped fuel the conflicting claims regarding climate change. Purveyors of the belief that mankind is catastrophically impacting the global climate insist it's getting warmer year by year. But a new, improved system to assess surface temperatures established in 2005 by NOAA indicates otherwise.
In fact, the U.S. Climate Reference Network — comprised of 114 pristinely maintained temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states — finds there has been no warming for the past 14 years at least, noted the Powerline blog. While historically the U.S. has been considered to have the best records, surveys show that over half of the nation's weather stations do not comply with written standards, pointed out Powerline contributor John Hinderaker. Some are next to airport runways and many are in cities, where temperatures are artificially inflated.
"And on top of all of that, the alarmists who curate weather records have systematically fiddled with them, lowering temperatures that were recorded decades ago and raising recent ones, to exaggerate the supposed phenomenon of global warming," he wrote. Climate-change skeptics have pointed to examples such as Penn State Professor Michael Mann's iconic "hockey stick" graph purporting to show a spike in average global temperatures in the 20th century. Mann lost a defamation suit after failing to present evidence to back his claim. Critics argue his graph doesn't take into account periods such as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warming Period. NOAA's system utilizes locations far away from urban and land- development impacts, eliminating the need to adjust the data.
James Taylor, director of the Center for Climate and Environmen- tal Policy at the Heartland Institute, writes at Real Clear Energy that there's "also good reason to believe U.S. temperatures have not warmed at all since the 1930s."
"Raw temperature readings at the preexisting stations indicate temperatures are the same now as 80 years ago," he writes. "All of the asserted U.S. warming since 1930 is the product of the controversial adjustments made to the raw data. Skeptics point out that as the American population has grown, so has the artificial warming signal generated by growing cities, more asphalt, automobiles, and machinery."
Taylor contends that, if anything, the raw temperature readings "should be adjusted downward today relative to past temperatures (or past temperatures adjusted upward in comparison to present temperatures) rather than the other way around." "If raw temperature readings are the same today as they were 80 years ago, when there were fewer artificial factors spuriously raising temperature readings, then U.S. temperatures today may actually be cooler than they were in the early 20th century," he reasons. GLSFC

07/17/2019

“Commissioners have announced today that the IJC plans to add two new seats to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board. These new members would come from municipalities along the shores of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. https://t.co/STv5tIuADO”

06/08/2019

Going back over our archives and refreshing memories for our piece on Oaxaca, we came across this 2014 piece by Mark Duchamp of Save the Eagles International, on the subject of the destruction of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Mark was asked by the Catopec people for his help. This is what he said in a comment against the link below.

'Others complicit in this criminal enterprise are Mexico’s ornithologists, who like Audubon, ABC, the Sierra Club, the Peregrine Fund, NRDC etc. (all NGOs but Save the Eagles International and WCFN.org, who oppose windfarms) have been allowing 1,600 wind turbines to be built in the world’s most important migration bottleneck: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. A massacre is taking place, but the windfarms are not being monitored — so no figures have been published – and the bird societies find their financial interest in looking the other way.

The plan is to put 6000 wind turbines across the windy isthmus.

The Zapotec people asked me for help in 2005. I went there, at my own expense, and delivered a speech. I wrote three articles, two of them in Spanish, and joined the Mexican ornithology forum run by Cipamex, to alert them. But they are like other ornithologists around the world: money clouds their vision. No matter how vigorously I shake them, they won’t act. I am still giving them a hard time today, but their skin is pretty thick.

The situation of the villages of San Mateo and San Dionisio del Mar is particularly horrendous, as the lagoons where villagers fish for their livelihood will be polluted by cement dust, lubricating oil, and cleaning liquids used by the wind turbines. These will be built on the sand bar separating two lagoons. (Click here.)

Countless brown pelicans will be slaughtered. As for the people, their fate isn’t much better.'

https://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/2014/six-bullets-wind-developer-goons-shoot-locals-who-oppose-them-mexico/

05/02/2019

This is a great commercial that proves wind turbines have NO CAPACITY VALUE. In other words wind can not promise delivery of electricity because the source of energy (the wind) is not guaranteed. Natural Gas is the energy for today it can promise power 24/7/365.

BP welcomes you to Fowler, Indiana, which is said to be one of the windiest places in America and home to three BP wind farms. In the event the wind stops blowing in Fowler, BP assures that it's natural gas would be able to power the city. The power company also says its dedicated to create more ren...