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EV as empty vessel in car sewers, Eric Reguly, Globe & Mail, May 20, 2023 |
Comic Piccini opera, Redux, Ontario auditor general Env Report, Globe & Mail, May 18, 2023 |
Venal or Venial? letter to Globe, May 16, 2023 |
"Cry me a river over a few bats", Redux, Globe & Mail, May 12,2023 |
Greenbelt "Scam": Barbarian Ford invasions, Globe & Mail, May 12, 2023 |
Barbarian Ford invasions case: City of Belleville Bell Creek dvlpt, Intelligencer, April 25, 2023 |
Road building projects in Wales, UK, cancelled as climate clangers, the Guardian, Feb 14, 2023 |
Unpublshed letter to Globe, 1996 opioids revisited, February 6, 2023 |
Cathal Kelly on climate charade, Globe & Mail, January 27, 2023 |
Ontario Bill 23, letter to the Premier, and Todd Smith MPP, Nov 24, 2022 |
Canola conundrum, letter to Globe & Mail, October 2022 |
3rd (Canadian) arm of U.S. Air Pollution Health Effects Study, the Guardian, Aug 12, 2022 |
Atomic awe and Boris blight, letter to Globe, July 11, 2022 |
Your !!*^%! car, Part II, Globe and Mail editorial, July 16, 2022 |
Your !!*^%! car, Part I, Globe and Mail, June 20, 2022 |
CAPE report on fossil fuels, Globe and Mail, June 9, 2022 |
Traffic Air Pollution Health Effects report, CAPE, April 2022 |
EU Bans Toxics, the Guardian, April 2022 |
Comic Piccini opera: Ontario Auditor General Environment Report, November 2021 |
......RIP Trillium...... November 16, 2021 |
Covid-19 Parlour Sessions 2020/2021, April 1, 2021 |
Mitch Podoluk, Obituary, Globe and Mail, September 2019 |
Notice to (Big Bay) Mariners, August 2019 |
Air Head, Globe and Mail, August 2019 |
Leon Redbone, RIP, June 2019 |
Ontario Endangered Species Act at risk, letter to Rod Phillips, April 2019 |
Slide to Extinction, Chris Humphrey, letter to Globe, October 31, 2018 |
Peter Galbraith, FRCP, obituary, October 2017 |
White Pines on Death Bed, Bruce Bell, Intelligencer, July 17,2018 |
Thucydides Trap, letter to Globe, May 2018 |
Great Lakes toxics down, SUNY Oswego/Clarkson U, April 2018 |
Machine subversion of democracy, letter to Globe, April 2018 |
Air Pollution overrides Ancestral Genes, Globe, March 2018 |
Olympian Cathal Kelly, letter to Globe, March 2018 |
Environmentalists seeking unemployment, letter to Globe, February 2018 |
Less is more on Bike Lanes, National Post, January 2018 |
Tramadol, 10 years on, Globe and Mail, November 2017 |
White Stripes: Belleville bicycle lanes, letters, November 2017 |
Occupational Cancers, CCO research results, Globe and Mail, October 2017 |
Big Pharmoney and Canadian Drug Use Guidelines, Globe and Mail, June 21, 2017, Kelly Grant |
Oxycontin, 20 years on, letter to Globe, May 2017 |
Lake Ontario wind turbines to remain on hold? Feb 2017 |
Obituary, Raold Serebrin, September 2016 |
Sartorial slip or signal? letter to Globe editor, October 2016 |
Weapons of mass distraction, letter to Globe editor, Oct 2016 |
Point O turbines 99% Down the Drain, CCSAGE, July 7, 2016 |
Point O turbines Dead and Damned, PECFN, July 6, 2016 |
Rabid diplomat, letter to Globe, May, 2016 |
More on bats: rabid rocker? letter to Globe, January 2016 |
Lighthouses of eastern Lake Ontario, new book by Marc Seguin, March 2016 |
Continuing corporate windpower malfeasance: Windstream and Trillium Corp, Feb 2016 |
Amherst Island: the next fine mess, Feb 2016 |
Valerie Langer: Thirty years of effort pays off on the B.C. coast, Feb 1,2016 |
Trillium log, 6th annual ELO expedtion, September 2015 |
Trillium Wind Corp intent on Spoliation of eastern Lake Ontario and Main Duck Isle, June 2015 |
Turtles rule? Ontario Court of Appeal Decision: Turtlegate, April 2015 |
Obituaries, Mary Terrance (Luke) Hill, January 2015; Valerie Ingrid (Hill) Kaldes, July 2015 |
Ontario Court of Appeal turtle hearing, December 2014 |
Trillium Log, 5th annual ELO expedition, September 2014 |
Planetary public health manifesto, The Lancet, March 2014 |
Ostrander Bioblitz, butterfly inventory walk, August 10, 2014 |
Victory at Cape Vincent: British Petroleum withdraws turbine proposal, February 2014 |
Stay of execution granted by Ontario Court of Appeal, March 2014 |
Never say die: Will the Court of Appeal let the Ostrander Phoenix fly free again? March 2014 |
Divisional Court ruling in Ostrander: turtles belly up, Trojan horses win, February 2014 |
Lafarge 2020, pushing the air envelope again, Hazardous waste as cement kiln fuel proposal, Jan2014 |
Another fine mess in Port Hope: municipal waste incinerator proposal, January 2014 |
Ostrander: fiasco, or snafu? you decide, December 2013 |
Ostrander rises again, Noli illegitimi carborundum, December 2013 |
British Petroleum backing off Cape Vincent after a decade of aggression? December 2013 |
Turbines best Bald Eagles in U.S law, December 2013 |
SARStock 10 years after, letter to Globe, August 2003 |
Trillium log September 2013: Surfin' USA: Hanging Ten in a Hughes 29 |
ERT Post mortem: Garth Manning lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
ERT post mortem: Cheryl Anderson lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
ERT Post Mortem: Ian Dubin lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
Great Lakes United turns thirty, goes down, RIP GLU, July 29, 2013 |
ERT decision, Ostrander turns turtle, goes down, July 3, 2013 |
PECFN Thankyou, and Appeal for funds, July 6, 2013 |
Minister of Env on Lake Ontario Off shore wind turbine status, June 2013 |
Lake Ontario water level control plan, June 2013 |
Play by Play, Part II, APPEC Ostrander ERT Appeal, June 2013 |
Ostrander ERT June 2013, Appendix VI, an indirect cause of human morbidity and mortality ? |
ELOERG Presentation to Ostrander ERT, Part II, Human Health, May 2013 |
The Dirty E-Word, Terry Sprague, Picton Gazette, April 2013 |
Toxics in Great Lakes Plastic Pollution, April 2013 |
Bill Evans on Birds and Wind farms, April 2013 |
Mayday, Naval Marine Archive, April 2013 |
Experimental Lakes Area, Kenora, Closing by Federal Gov't, March 2013 |
Fishing Lease Phase out on Prince Edward Point, March 2013 |
Windstream makes $1/2 Billion NAFTA claim, March 2013 |
Play by Play, PECFN Ostrander ERT Appeal, March 2013 |
Offshore Wind turbine moratorium 2 years later, The Star, Feb 2013 |
ELOERG ERT submission on Ostrander: Appendix V: Pushing the Envelope of the MoE SEV, Feb 2013 |
Wente on Wind and Bald Eagle mugging, Globe and Mail, February 2, 2013 |
Sprague on Wind and Bald Eagle mugging, Picton Gazette, Jan 25, 2013 |
Cry Me a River over a Few Bats: Submission to Env Review Tribunal, ELOERG, January 2013 |
Lake Ontario's Troubled Waters: U of Michigan GLEAM, January 2013 |
Letter to Minister of Environment re: Ostrander, January 2013 |
No Balm in Gilead: Ostrander IWT's as Trojan Horses, January 2013 |
Ostrander Turbines: another Christmas gift by the MoE, Dec 2012 |
Occupational carcinogens: Ontario Blue Collar breast cancer study, November 2012 |
Fresh water fish Extinctions, Scientific American,November 2012 |
Great Lakes Toxics revisited, November 2012 |
Frack the What ? November 2012 |
$ 2 1/4 Billion Trillium Power lawsuit knockback Appeal, November 2012 |
Canada Centre for Inland Waters decimated, October 2012 |
Birds, Bats, Turbines, and the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, October 2012 |
Ecological public health, the 21st centurys big idea? British MedicalJournal Sept1,2012 |
Trillium log, Sept 2012 |
George Prevost, Saviour of the Canadas, 1812 - 1814. June 2012 |
The Victory at Picton: Bicentennial Conference on War of 1812-1814, Differing Perspectives, May 2012 |
Carleton Island and the 1812, letter to the Globe, October 2011 |
Queen's Fine Arts Department Succumbs, letter to Principal, December 2011 |
Mr. Kumar and the Super 30, November 2011 |
Letters, Articles and Projects from the Nineties |
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from the Wellington TimesNow, more than
everThe folks who are the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists have faced an array of well-financed and motivated
opponents so far in their struggle to protect the habitat and endangered species threatened by the development of nine industrial
wind turbines on Ostrander Point, a rugged and largely unspoiled bit of shoreline in South Marysburgh. The developer,
Gilead Power Corporation, is growing more desperate to see its project overcome the roadblock thrown in its path by an Environmental
Review Tribunal that revoked the project’s approval last July. The Tribunal reasoned that its role was that of
a detached and objective guardian of the living things that stood to be damaged by this large scale industrial installation.
The panel concluded, based upon the evidence it heard over several months, that the threat to the Blanding’s turtle
was too simply too great. The turtle’s plight was too perilous. The risk posed by the Ostrander Point project exceeded
even the recklessly absurd standard of “serious and irreversible harm” set by provincial mandarins rabid to see
Ontario’s countryside transformed by industrial wind turbines and thousands of acres solar panels. The developer
is represented by McCarthy Tetrault, one of the largest legal firms in the country. About 650 lawyers toil for this behemoth. The
Ministry of Environment (MOE)—despite the common perception the government agency’s purpose is to protect and
preserve the environment—has already expended a vast amount of energy, resources and taxpayer funds on clearing the
path for this developer. The MOE’s in-house counsel battled side by side with Gilead Power through more than 40 days
of hearings this past spring, arguing that the birds and beasts at Ostrander Point are expendable, even those whose very existence
on this planet is considered endangered and threatened. Both Gilead Power and the MOE have the means and the determination
to carry this fight as far as the courts will allow them. For PECFN the struggle is more precarious. They comprise a
small group, many of whom are grandmothers, who share a passion for wildlife and the special habitat that Prince Edward County
affords a diverse array of species. They are not legal experts. Nor are they particularly experienced at raising the funds
necessary to hire the legal talent needed to wage a fight of this complexity and duration. But they share a commitment to
do whatever is needed to protect Ostrander Point and the south shore of Prince Edward County. They are ably represented
by Eric Gillespie and Nathalie Smith. Eric’s firm is small and young, compared with the forces arrayed against PECFN
in this fight. Yet, in this epic David and Goliath battle, it is the diminutive PECFN and Gillespie who have collectively
struck the first blow—staggering the developer, the MOE and perhaps even the provincial government, in its victory before
the Tribunal. In January, the fight moves to an Ontario Superior Courtroom. There, a small army of very expensive legal
talent will argue with great vigour that the Tribunal was mistaken in its ruling, that the court should overturn its decision
and reinstate the approval of the Ostrander Point industrial wind turbine installation. But when the Prince Edward County
Field Naturalists travel to Toronto next month to resume its defence of this precious habitat—it will be taking on more
than a well-financed and motivated developer and an obtuse and misguided provincial government. It will be going head to head
with the entire wind energy industry. CanWEA, the association of wind energy developers in this country, has applied
for and been granted intervenor status in the appeal hearing. That means yet another set of lawyers, these funded by the wind
industry, arrayed against Myrna Wood and her fellow Field Naturalists. It is an obscenely grotesque exhibition of legal might
being brought to bear upon a handful of grandmothers and a turtle. It is, however, a measure of the threat that big
wind views the Tribunal’s decision made in July, that it must unleash its forces upon the Feild Naturalists. It is a
measure of the significance of PECFN’s victory. PECFN needs your help to preserve this victory. This community
has given generously so far. An improbable victory has been achieved. Now the Field Naturalists need your help more than ever
to ensure the victory remains intact. Please, in this holiday season, consider giving generously to help save Ostrander
Point—and the creatures that live there and those that simply pause on their way through. It is an unfair fight—but
such improbable victories frequently define history. saveostranderpoint.org. 269 Main St. Wellington, ON K0K 3L0. rick@wellingtontimes.ca Gilead, MOE and CanWEA are desperate to kill/harm/harass PECFN’s Ostrander Point win
Please don’t kill/harm/harass me Rick Conroy, editor of The Times, had lots to
say this past week about the bizarre situation of Prince Edward Field Naturalists’ having to fight the
combined forces of Gilead Power Corporation, the Ministry of the Environment and now the Canadian Wind Energy Association, in
order to protect its win on the Ostrander Point project. To describe PECFN as the underdog would be one of the
great understatements of the year. Gilead and its buddies MOE and CanWEA are making a desperate attempt
to salvage the Ostrander Point project via an appeal to the Divisional Court which: - Argues that the ERT exceeded
its jurisdiction in second-guessing MNR’s approval to kill/harm/harass Blanding’s turtle;
- Attempts to
introduce new evidence (normally not allowed in an appeal) — namely, to install a series of lockable gates to reduce
road mortality;
- Introduces Big Brother CanWEA as an intervenor to help run up PECFN’s legal bills even further.
Most
contemptible of all, Gilead is asking the court to make PECFN pay its (Gilead’s) legal costs for the appeal.
Q: Have they no shame? A: Of course they don’t. You can read the full story here: http://wellingtontimes.ca/?p=10302 and Rick’s editorial at http://wellingtontimes.ca/?p=10321 . County residents and nature lovers from near and far have generously supported PECFN, and so far $117,463 has
been raised to cover legal costs for the ERT appeal. The largest donation to date was from County government, which
provided a grant of $20,000 following PECFN’s ERT win. Way to go, Shire Hall! But most amounts
received — donations and purchases — are modest. Many donations at $100, quite a few at $200 or $250, some
larger, some smaller. PECFN’s latest fundraiser was the sale of custom-made winter floral arrangements
at $15 to $50 each, which added about $2,000 to the legal fund. This small group of intrepid fighters now needs tens
of thousands dollars more to defend its win at the upcoming Divisional Court appeal, scheduled to be heard in Toronto
on Jan 21-24, 2014. We are nearing Christmas. Will you consider adding PECFN to your gift list? Are
you able to donate a single amount of $52, equivalent to $1 per week for a year? Or maybe even $104? But
any amount will be greatly appreciated. You can send your Christmas gift to PECFN by clicking on the Donate
to PECFN button on the right hand side of this page, or by mailing a cheque to Ostrander Point Appeal Fund, 59 King Street,
Unit 2, Picton, ON K0K 2T0. Lets all do our bit to ensure that PECFN has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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