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A review of the movie "Windfall" |
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Dear Editor, I sat through the movie, "Windfall," curious about what was to be presented. It showed the anti-wind side of the wind debate, in typical anti-wind fashion. It relied on “citizen scientists” to deliver their interpretation of the facts - facts whose sources were not identified. A good contrast to this movie, is the Ontario documentary by Mitch Haigh – "Winded," which examines wind issues in Ontario. Part of the movie shows wind activists making speeches and stating facts, which are shown later to be false. Check it out at: www.envirocitizen.org/forums/wind-energy What was shown in "Windfall" did not apply in Ontario. Some of the differences between the Ontario situation and Meredith are: New York State has no regulations regarding the wind industry – it is left to the town boards who don’t have the resources for regulation or study. Ontario has very strict regulations and pre-construction study requirements before a project is approved to go forward. In the U.S., there are state and federal subsidies given to wind; in Ontario, wind companies sign Feed-In Tariff contracts, which pay only for the power produced by the turbines. The development and state of the electricity grid in Ontario is vastly different than the system in New York State. Ontario’s grid has been built to work with a variety of electricity-producing stations across Ontario. It has worked with a variable supply of power from the beginning – hydro-electric power. The northern Ontario rivers and falls of Niagara do not flow at the same rate all the time.
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movie and wind activists present a lot of conflicting information.
For example, they can’t seem to decide which it is – turbines are
noisy all the time or turbines are standing still not producing
power. Either they are constantly noisy or terribly inefficient – they can’t be both. One argument cancels out the other. Just as so much of the anti-wind platform does. Jodi Jerome Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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