I wondered why Mr. Fuhr was so vile in his response to WCO. WCO asked his council to consider joining other councils asking for a health study before any more wind turbines are erected in Ontario.
Yesterday when this was posted I thought Mr. Fuhr was just misinformed.
NOW WE KNOW
Council Minutes, Jan 30, 2006 7:30 p.m.
Roger Fuhr and Tyler Moore, CEO of Permanent Power Solutions met with council to make a presentation on Wind Energy. Council asked questions of the presenters. Reeve McKay thanked them for coming and explaining this interesting concept. Council will give it some consideration when working on the building plans.
Township of Perth South – Local Business Listings:
FREE BREEZE Energy Systems ltd.
4236 Perth Line 20
St. Pauls, Ontario, N0K 1V0
ph. 519-271-1636
fx. 519-271-1636
eml. roger@freebreeze.com
www.freebreeze.com
Primary Contact: Roger Fuhr
Number of Employees 2007: 8
Wind & Solar Power – FreeBreeze Energy Systems Ltd. provides turn-key renewable energy systems. We specialize in custom wind and solar installations of all sizes.
Operating since 2001 out of Waterloo and St. Pauls
Mr. Fuhr is a fox in the hen house – are there more on this council?
What about the other councils?
The foxes and weasels must be rooted out!
Put them on a slow boat to China so they can be with their mentor Maurice Strong
As you can see below, Mr. Fuhr appears to be wearing his turbine proudly and refuses to accept any information that may cast a shadow on his turbine or its perceived benefits for society.
No one is suggesting Mr. Fuhr give up his turbine – live and let live – but should his beliefs be forced upon the rest of society?
Money above all else!
Township of Perth South,
Council & Staff
Back Row – left to right: James Aitcheson, Councillor; Wm. Doupe, Operations Manager; Cathy Barker, Councillor; Stuart Arkett, Councillor; Elizabeth Armstrong, Councillor; Roger Fuhr, Councillor; Don Templeman, CBO; Front Row: Muriel King, Clerk-Treasurer; Ronald McKay, Reeve; Robert Wilhelm, Deputy-Reeve
Mr. Fuhr – The govt. of Ontario visits this site on a daily basis. I requested they look over the information contained and to contact me if they find any information they feel is incorrect. To date there have been no requests for any changes. Please educate yourself and your council.
Premier, Dalton McGuinty Talks About Renewable Energy For Ontario
Are turbines making some people sick?
Germany Plans Boom in Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind turbines cause health problems, residents say – CTV News
The Wind Energy Scam- Compare the Numbers
Wind energy unreliable, says E.On
Here is the request sent to you and your council by WCO ( Wind Concerns Ontario)
Honorable Mayor and Councilors,
- Loyalist Township (Lennox and Addington County)
- Dawn Emphemia Township (Lambton County)
- Norwich Township (Oxford County)
- Township of Essex (Essex County)
- Township of Leamington (Essex County)
- South Algonquin Township (Renfrew County)
- Prince Edward County
- St. Clair Township (Lambton County)
FACT: In comparison with other countries in the world, the province of Ontario is allowing some of the closest setbacks from homes and families. This allows virtually no protection from any health, noise or flicker problems.
FACT: The Province of Ontario has refused every request to date (appox 19) to conduct a full environmental assessment – only proponent driven “reviews” (basically checklists) with no independent confirmation or peer review.
FACT: The Province of Ontario has relied on CanWEA, a consortium and industrial lobby group for 350 wind companies to obtain the majority of their pricing, policy and information in regards to siting.
FACT: Families in Melanchon have been bought out of their homes and then made to sign gag orders to stop any complaints. Families in Ripley have been evacuated from their homes due to dirty electricity and stray voltage due to industrial wind turbines. There are also complaints from the Goderich and Port Burwell wind farms and most recently, Port Alma.
FACT: The Province of Ontario has downloaded the entire responsiblity onto small rural municipalities who do not have the resources to deal with this new, complex issue.
WHY? So the Provincial government will be blameless in the end.
Dear Mr. Fuhr
To offer the alternative of a coal or nuclear generation in my backyard is clearly not an option our provincial gov’t is imposing on myself and my neighbours having to face Industrial Wind Development. What is being forced upon us, is plain and simply several 400 ft structures that are causing Vibroacoustic disease among residents living within 2 km of these behemoths. Have a look at Ripley, Goderich, Shelburne and now Melancthon. In addition because there is no good regulation that can help municipalities site these fans on a stick properly, wind developers are getting away with undersized transmission design which are leading stray voltage and dirty electricity into people’s homes. The symptoms are described as living in a microwave. I can see from your sarcasm you would boil that down to the NIMBY syndrome without so much as an effort to investigate for yourself. I’ve been to visit these people and it’s nothing short of a train wreck.
If the health issues are not enough for you, how about sinking taxpayers dollars into an unreliable, non dispatchable, inefficient, miniscule amount of energy all to the tune of 2.5 x the going electricity rates. In turn, there will be not one fossil fuel generating plant closed nor will we gain on the GHG emissions. Looks like your wish for us NIMBY’s to face a coal generating plant my happen anyway just like Germany is presently doing with 26 new coal generating plants despite having the largest penetration of wind energy.
Dear Ms. McLean: I sincerely apologize for any offense taken by you for my comments. There certainly was no intent there to do so. While I do not consider myself to be an expert in the field, your comment regarding lack of effort to investigate is absolutely not true. I have been educating myself for almost 5 years now regarding such issues. I, for one, view the installations at Shelburne and etc. as beautiful projects indicating our desire to become responsible users of power.
Vibrocaustic disease is, in my opinion, not a proven fact, and even if it was, it pales in comparison to the effects of nuclear accidents. I’m sure you have viewed the effects of the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl. Which medical issues do you view as being worse? I do not know of anyone who would want a nuclear reactor in their back yard. And, I view the issue of leaving nuclear waste behind for future generations to deal with as absolutely irresponsible in every way, shape and form. How long do you think it will be before these wastes poison our water, land, and whatever other resources that we do not own, but simply borrow from our children, would you like some of this heavy water in your well? Living near hydro lines of any type has been an issue for years, I’m sure you know that homes are not allowed to be built close to such transmission lines. Why do you think that is, perhaps because wind generators cause this? No, it is because electricity in the forms we produce it and move it, is not a natural occurence which is yet another example of how man abuses nature.
Do you have a microwave oven in your home? Do you use it or ever eat food cooked in a microwave? Do you believe that such food is safe for human consumption? If yes to any of these, then you are already near to, and consuming microwaved foods. Are you prepared to ban microwave ovens from society?
Wind developers are hooking their equipment into one of the most antiquated transmission systems in the developed world, and so are generating devices of all kinds, such as coal, nuclear, hydro and etc. It is the fault of our provincial government that our transmission system has been allowed to be outdated, despite the billions of dollars that have been poured into the grid over the decades. Some of this investment has been absolutely wasted on such things as drastic cost overruns to build nuclear plants and also millions of dollars to get rid of executives within hydro one and related firms. Are you pleased to be paying a debt retirement fee on your power bill? Do you believe that any business should be allowed to make such charges to their customers? The behemoths known as Hydro One, OPA, OPG and whatever other derivitives the provincial goverment can come up with, are totally dysfunctional organizations in every sense of the word.
Regards,
Councillor Roger Fuhr
Colette McLean
—– Original Message —–
From: roger fuhr
To: Colette McLean
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:30 PM
Subject: Re:
Dear Ms. McLean: I sincerely apologize for any offense taken by you for my comments. And yet you continue through this message to further expound hugely offensive and ill informed statements. There certainly was no intent there to do so. I beg to differ on this one. While I do not consider myself to be an expert in the field, your comment regarding lack of effort to investigate is absolutely not true. My condemnation here is meant for politicians such as yourself who have the responsibility and the power to protect the residents of their municipality or county, to find out from other areas in Ontario what is going on now with wind development. We are going into our 4th year of wind, and for some reason even local politicians are not investigating and are actually ignoring their residents who are suffering. I have been educating myself for almost 5 years now regarding such issues. I, for one, view the installations at Shelburne and etc. as beautiful projects indicating our desire to become responsible users of power. This is the problem, wind turbines are only a symbol of our desires, not a real solution
Vibrocaustic disease is, in my opinion, not a proven fact, and because of your power to make this decision, based on exactly what kind of epidemiological experience? low frequency noise generated by wind turbines (all it takes is a dBC scale reading to determine) affects people. That is a proven fact (check the World Health Organization site ) whether you want to call it VAD or Wind Turbine Syndrome. www.windturbinesyndrome.org Until we have a full epidemiological study no one will ever know the true extent of this issue.
and even if it was, it pales in comparison to the effects of nuclear accidents. I’m sure you have viewed the effects of the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl. When was the last time you heard of such a incident in Ontario after 50 years of Nuclear. Which medical issues do you view as being worse? The choice is not between wind or nuclear, because wind will never be able to replace nuclear. Besides I thought wind was meant to replace fossil fuels?? in order to decrease GHG emissions. Nuclear as you know does not contribute to GHG. I do not know of anyone who would want a nuclear reactor in their back yard. And, I view the issue of leaving nuclear waste behind for future generations to deal with as absolutely irresponsible in every way, shape and form. How long do you think it will be before these wastes poison our water, land, and whatever other resources that we do not own, but simply borrow from our children, would you like some of this heavy water in your well? Again how is wind going to address this issue in any significant way? Living near hydro lines of any type has been an issue for years, I’m sure you know that homes are not allowed to be built close to such transmission lines. and yet throughout the county I see houses within less than 500 m. Why do you think that is, perhaps because wind generators cause this? No, it is because electricity in the forms we produce it and move it, is not a natural occurrence which is yet another example of how man abuses nature. Are you suggesting we stop generating electricity?? You are not understanding my comment, because of wind installations, the issue of stray voltage and dirty electricity has become more of an issue. These installations are undersized and poorly designed and because wind developers need to hand over the transmission to Ontario Hydro (since they are responsible now for the maintenance of this transmission system), wind developers (the generating company) can walk away blaming the transmission problems on Ontario Hydro.
Do you have a microwave oven in your home? Yes Do you use it or ever eat food cooked in a microwave? Yes Do you believe that such food is safe for human consumption? Yes If yes to any of these, then you are already near to, and consuming microwaved foods. Are you prepared to ban microwave ovens from society? No, I don’t object to using a microwave but I have issues to living in one. Your line of questions I find completely patronizing and irrelevant to the issues raised.
Wind developers are hooking their equipment into one of the most antiquated transmission systems in the developed world, and so are generating devices of all kinds, such as coal, nuclear, hydro and etc. It is the fault of our provincial government that our transmission system has been allowed to be outdated, despite the billions of dollars that have been poured into the grid over the decades. Some of this investment has been absolutely wasted on such things as drastic cost overruns (based on concerns from citizens who oppose Nuclear, which pushed the gov’t to stop and start these projects over and over again) I thought you were talking about the transmission system not the building of generating plants??? to build nuclear plants and also millions of dollars to get rid of executives within hydro one and related firms. Are you pleased to be paying a debt retirement fee on your power bill? So are you saying that if I agree to wind development this will all go away? Do you believe that any business should be allowed to make such charges to their customers? The behemoths known as Hydro One, OPA, OPG and whatever other derivatives the provincial government can come up with, are totally dysfunctional organizations in every sense of the word. Again if I say yes to wind development, will the dysfunction go away? Mr. Fuhr, you are simply getting side tracked by a very convoluted argument and problem. I never said we didn’t have problems with our energy industry in Ontario but I just can’t see how wind is going to solve any of what you mention, In fact, I can see wind is only going to complicate things as well as increase the cost to us as consumers. My latest hydro bill just announced that the recent increases where due, in part, conservation measures and renewable projects.
In closing Ms. McLean, I want you to know that my comments here are not directed at you or any specific group. Did you not direct your response to Wind Concerns Ontario, a group of 26 affiliates all across Ontario of concerned citizens, who are fighting for their lives with not so much as any kind of financial support other than out of pocket expenses for flyers, Internet services travel etc. Rather, this is entirely directed at the Provincial Government. Than I would suggest you direct your letter to Minister George Smitherman and Dalton McGuinty and not me or to Wind Concerns Ontario. Successive governments have been irresponsible in matters of power production, transmission and management thereof. It is time for us to stop downloading our problems onto future generations, it sickens me to think that we cannot as a society, be responsible for our own power needs without leaving a legacy of pollution, debt and perhaps total environmental disasters. I beg not only you, but all members of the human race to start being responsible for the power that you use, or to stop using power. Does this mean you want to shut down hospitals, nursing homes, manufacturing where people earn their living? Can you explain to me how I am suppose to stiop using power?? Stop wasting it, conserve, educate yourself, commit acts of green. But above all, please stop the propaganda machine that I believe the wind concerns website represents. Contact a scientist to get their opinion instead. I would suggest the same to you Mr Fuhr. Our groups has among us scientist, engineers, doctors and lawyers, all expressing the same concerns about wind development. We are not against initiatives that help improve wise use of energy, reduction of GHG emissions, or renewable energy sources. We are seeking from people like yourself, who have the power to make the decisions with regards to policy, to make these decisions based on good science, not ideology.
Regards,
The final response from Mr. Fuhr
From: roger fuhr
To: Colette McLean
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:06 PM
Subject: Re:
But if you did, your turbine might fall off your head – and we wouldn’t want that.
