The following letter has been adapted from one sent to the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario, on November 28, 2016, by Sherri Lange, CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA-PAW). The second part of the letter will be posted tomorrow and the third part on Friday.

Dear Ombudsman Dube, Deputy Ombudsman Finlay, Mr. Pomerant, and Ms. Driscoll:

Please accept our appreciation for the investigation by your good office into numerous complaints over the years, concerning the health, economic, environmental, and legal/judicial degradation resulting from the proliferation of industrial wind in Ontario.

The North American Platform Against Wind Power represents more than 370 groups and tens of thousands of individuals in a worldwide network, and is in daily contact with its European counterparts, numbering in the thousands of groups. From our perspective, we can see that the problems of industrial wind power are not specific to Ontario, as is suggested by developers; they are universal.…

” … building renewable energy infrastructure need not – and must not – be at the expense of birds and wildlife. Migratory birds face many threats and poorly sited renewable energy facilities and their associated infrastructure, notably power lines and towers, are killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of birds annually, including species of conservation concern.”-

– Open Letter to the US Department of Interior (below)

The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has actively complained to state and federal authorities about a double standard applied to politically correct, environmentally incorrect wind farms and central-station solar farms cited in bird-sensitive areas. The letter below is the latest attempt of ABC to apply existing statutes to energy infrastructure.

Dear Secretary Jewell and Acting Manager Goldfuss,

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty, a landmark and unparalleled international agreement that has protected, recovered, and maintained abundant bird populations for many groups of birds, especially shorebirds, waterfowl, and herons, and has helped maintain the spectacle of bird migration throughout the hemisphere.…

“The Clinton plan states that: ‘the United States has 17 national labs that work on energy, but not one that is focused exclusively on water’.”

“In California, they say: ‘water runs uphill toward money.’ To that, now should be added the adage: ‘Water runs up-Hillary to money’.”

News flash: Hillary’s Western Water Plan would trickle up to elites.

On Sept. 18 the San Francisco Chronicle poured water on Donald Trump for having no water infrastructure plan at all other than his scoffing that “there was no California drought” (see “Clinton Plans While Trump Scoffs on Water, Environment”). Trump was right, but that is besides the point here.

Left out of the Chronicle article was that the benefits of Hillary Clinton’s “Western Water Partnership”plan, as part of her proposed $275 billion infrastructure funding and make-work jobs program, would flow mainly to high-level, planners, union labor, well-connected engineering firms and politicians.…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information)

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

How Intermittent Renewables Are Harming the Grid

A Technical Expert’s Superior Wind Energy Critique

World Health Organization Investigating Industrial Wind Energy

Superior: ABC letter re Turbines, Birds and Bats

Excellent collection of short videos about energy and climate change

Study: US Cost To Cut Emissions = $5± Trillion

In New Book Scholar Peels Back Layers of Deception in Climate Change

Climate Alarmism: Probably the Greatest Hoax in History

How the World was Deceived about Global Warming and Climate Change

Worthwhile Climate Change Debate

Ocean Acidification: This Scam Exposed

25 New Papers Confirm A Remarkably Stable Modern Climate

The Polarization of Climate Debate — the Solution They All Miss

The Psychopolitics of Climate Change and Population Control

Greed Energy Economics:

How Intermittent Renewables Are Harming the Grid

A Technical Expert’s Superior Wind Energy Critique

UK Wind Constraint Payments

Study: US Cost To Cut Emissions = $5± Trillion

The More the Wind Blows, the Higher the Cost to Consumers

Wind Turbines Suck Money and Electricity in South Australia

Ontario’s Present & Future: Lashed by Electricity Bills

The outrageous cost of replacing some coal facilities in Ontario

Save Ontario $500 Million by Cancelling Wind Contract

Renewable Consultant: How Liberals Have Bungled Green Energy

Audit finds “suspicious behavior” in dozens of energy projects getting credits

Solar Project Consultant Charged With Forgery

Turbine Health Matters:

World Health Organization Investigating Industrial Wind Energy

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

Superior: ABC letter re Turbines, Birds and Bats

Study: Wind Turbines Cause Chronic Stress to Badgers

Bat-ageddon: Turbines Slaughter Millions of Bats – all to ‘Save’ the Planet

Archive: Wind Turbine Fires are 10X what the industry admits

German Wind Turbine Burns

Canadian Wind Turbine Collapses

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Despoiling the Environment to Save the Climate

Confused by Renewable Energy Studies?…