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Posted 2/23/2012 1:43:00 AM

As the environmentalists line up to delay the pipelines heading south or west, the discussion continues over whether oil or coal is the worst polluter.  At one time, we thought wind power was the answer to clean energy, but then it was activist versus activist as birds died.  Now Canada’s best known Snowbird is against wind power, at least in her back yard.  Anne Murray is upset with plans to put up a dozen turbines to catch the ocean breeze in Nova Scotia.  She doesn’t want this sort of industrial development where tourists come to golf and retirees come to build their last beautiful homes.  Indeed, Anne has a home there herself, and she’s afraid this development might stop and housing prices might fall.  She wants Premier Darrell Dexter to stop the project before it starts generating emotions as well as electricity.  Murray says she is in favor of alternative sources of power, but she says the environment and the location must be considered.  Maybe she could get a hit song out of this.  I can see the sheet music now.  Lyrics by Bobby Nimby.  Let me know what you think.

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  1. Robert posted on 02/23/2012 07:38 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 08:19 AM on 02/23/2012
    "The environment and the location must be considered." And yet environmentalists, do they want to live in a world filled with smog, water polluted by industry, habitat destroyed by finding energy sources, just to keep birds from being killed by wind power?

    And under that same logic, they should also protest buildings having windows cause birds have a bad habit of flying into windows and dying in the process. And these are also 1 story buildings mind you.

    And why don't they protest birds that have sex while in flight cause they do occasionally crash into the ground?
  2. TomC_5980 posted on 02/23/2012 08:17 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 10:43 AM on 02/23/2012
    As my dear, old, departed Grandfather was known to say, "It all depends on whose ox is being gored." Eh Bob?

    Bob replies: Congrats - you just made the Friday mailbag,
  3. Bob S. posted on 02/23/2012 09:04 AM
    I think I might have a solution for her. We had about 20 of those things installed on lands just east of my location.
    The county solved the problem very uniquely. They placed them on land belonging to one of the councillors, who gets paid about $10,000.00 per year per "windy mill", as royalties for the use of their land.
    Pretty cool eh Anne?....except for one thing,...No one in the area recalls there being any tenders/notices being put out for this...they just started popping up on their property?????
  4. The Infidel - Mr. John posted on 02/23/2012 09:12 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 10:41 AM on 02/23/2012
    Maybe we could get the kids to paint happy faces or trees on them to disguise them from the rest of the "environment"....you know like camouflage. Anne Murray??? heard that name before??? Snowboard??? Snowfly???,......Oh yeah,....in the 70's used to be one of the ONLY three or four people that got airplay on Canadian radio stations. (CRTC 33% ruling)...You remember that Bob,...don't you!

    Bob replies: Some day, when there is space, I'll tell a true-life hilarious story about Anne Murray's Snowbird and my first job in radio.
    1. The Infidel - Mr. John posted on 02/23/2012 11:05 AM
      @The Infidel - Mr. John You're on Bob!
  5. David W. Lincoln posted on 02/23/2012 12:09 PM
    There were people who were laughing about birds being massacred via turbines and buildings in Toronto.

    Who is laughing now?
  6. John N posted on 02/23/2012 12:31 PM
    We have fanatical self interest groups complaining about everything oil, gas, coal, wind turbines, eating meat, cathing fish and just about every other thing.
    Maybe we should go back to living in caves and building fires for cooking and heating but then the tree fanatics would complain about cutting down trees and medical people will warn us about COPD from the fires.
  7. Bob S. posted on 02/23/2012 01:44 PM
    Now...if we could just harness the "wind" power at the Parliament sessions in Kiss-assa-lott-awa!!!
  8. Paul posted on 02/23/2012 03:10 PM
    I have a fan at home, a little thing about four feet tall that keeps me cool when I'm on my treadmill. The thing about this little fan is that it has an interesting design feature - a simple wire cage that surrounds the spinning blades and stops anyone from accidentally getting whacked by one of them. I'm no engineer, but couldn't we use similar technology to prevent birds from being killed by these wind mills?
  9. Sharon posted on 02/23/2012 09:06 PM
    There is an irritating hum associated with these turbines, so yes people's livelihood should be considered. Nikola Tesla's invention captured energy from the atmosphere which would have been available free to everyone, but he was soon shut down by J.P. Morgan, the big banking tycoon, as it couldn't be metered. The technology is there, but profit always wins out.
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