Comments on: Wind Turbine Week for Ellen

By: Jake Lewis

Jake Lewis — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:45:44 +0000

actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.*;.

By: Daryl Vernon

Daryl Vernon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:58:52 +0000

Good of Ellen to put herself on the line like this, whether she can directly discern the physical effects herself or not.
See throughout webpage http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/1819/2009-10-20/wind-energy and further earlier pages http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/930/2009-08-28/told-you-so and http://www.greenparty.ca/node/2208
for some of my own lengthy contribution in consideration of this controversy. Questions of scale and local appropriateness are at the heart, far underappreciated as “Greens” clamour for too rapid often ill-considered action. There are alternatives. Be wary of pushy financiers being behind too speedy depleoyments, in this and other fields. Consideration of complexity is what must be at the heart of authentic green politics, as it is at the inspirational and intellectual heart of ecology, including the human. Consideration of complexity requires more time than the pushy would admit. This is at root a cultural problem. Even if Ellen can give but a week, it is a hopeful start.

“When someone says, “it hurts”, you just stop, step back, and reconsider. Pressing on anyway is akin to rape, a metaphor widely understood as applying to too much human activity on the earth.”

By: admin

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45:06 +0000

Thanks, Moe, for your url recommendation, which heartens me, as I was already aware of it. Talking to people directly affected is exactly what I hope to be doing this coming week – I am grateful for the invitation to spend that long as an invited guest in a wind farm area. Best from Ellen

By: Moe Anderson

Moe Anderson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:47 +0000

Standing under a single wind turbine for 10 minutes on a sunny afternoon does not give you the right to form an opinion.

Talk to the people who are suffering. Talk to the people who have had to abandon their homes. Talk to the people who live with dozens of monstrous turbines surrounding their homes 24/7/365.

Go to http://windconcernsontario.org and spend some time reading.