WELL BULLY FOR LONGYUAN OR LONGYUAN THE BULLY?

 

Thanks for forwarding this information to Minebuster-everyone who reads this, please forward to your MPP. 

 

And make no mistake.

 

This NEVER would have happened, nor would anyone have invited these bullies into our Township without the Liberal government's tax funded vote grabber, I mean Green Energy Act. 

 

I would BET this green initiative has cost tax payers more than the cancelled gas plant fiasco.

 

"Dufferin Wind Power has filed an application to expropriate the Rail Line from the county of Dufferin.

 

Included in the application is a request to be allowed to expropriate portions of the lands of 3 private property owners along the line in Amaranth Township ,and portions of the lands of 3 other landowners in the Township of Melancthon. The Melancthon landowners are part of the wind project.

 

 For the curious (and the outraged), here is the link to the application:

http://www.rds.ontarioenergyboard.ca/webdrawer/webdrawer.dll/webdrawer/search/rec?sm_udf10=EB-2013-0268&sortd1=rs_dateregistered&rows=200

 

All of these private landowners refused to accept the terms offered by the company, so the solution is, for the BULLY that is Dufferin Wind, steal the land from the owners. This is really an outrage, but no surprise, given the dealings of Dufferin Wind.

 

 Just wanted you to know some of the truth about the "good neighbour" (their words, not mine) that has been "invited" into our community. Shame on those who did the inviting.

 

 P.S. Please forward this to everyone else you know in the Township (and beyond). Make some noise!!"

TROUBLE WITH TURBINES....

"...What the Liberals have actually done is to replace coal with natural gas. (Natural gas, also a fossil fuel, burns more cleanly than coal.)

Which brings us to wind power, and the fact that never has so much been spent by so many — us — to generate so little electricity, so inefficiently."
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/05/wynnes-wind-fiasco

CARL COSACK'S INTERVIEW WITH GOLDHAWK ON THE LAND SALE

Click here to listen:
http://www.goldhawk.com/2013/07/18/carl-cosack-3/

DUFFERIN WIND AKAK FARM OWNED POWER/LONGYUAN POWER NOT BEING A VERY NICE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

The Township of Melancthon is being forced into court  because the Chinese wind turbine company seems to feel none of the rules apply to them.

 

'Back in March, however, Dufferin Wind informed Melancthon council that it planned to temporarily store its wind turbines at Strada Aggregate’s facility in Melancthon.

According to Hill, council determined that wouldn’t comply with the township’s planning rules. Melancthon officials informed Dufferin Wind that the storage plan would require a zoning or Official Plan amendment.

http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/3900838-dufferin-wind-and-melancthon-to-square-off-in-court/

Roberts said Dufferin Wind, which is owned by a North American subsidiary of China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited and Farm Owned Power (Melancthon) Ltd., aims to support local businesses whenever possible.'

Now why would our “local farmers” want to take their own municipality to court? 

 

And why would Strada be a party to this?

 

And it would appear the local business Dufferin Wind is supporting is the legal profession.

BONNEFIELD OR SMELLYFIELD????

This just in (and tx to the tipster):

Their chief agrologist is Erik Apedaile, P.Ag.

Erik is a Professional Agrologist with over sixteen years of experience in surface water quality management, biosolids management, soil and water conservation, environmental and public health impacts of agricultural activity and agronomy.

In 2000, Erik established the firm Apedaile Environmental Management and has advised both public and private sector clients in the areas of environmental monitoring, biosolids management and agricultural nutrient management.

He provides ongoing environmental program management support to Parmalat Canada, Hershey Canada and the City of Ottawa's biosolids management program.
http://bonnefield.com/index.php?page=executive-team

Senior Author of:
BIOSOLIDS PELLET REVIEW STUDY
HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT
http://www.toronto.ca/health/hphe/pdf/bio_soilds_acknowledgements.pdf

And of course, we all know where they can get FREE crap to spread on their pristine 6,500 acres.,..the Lystek facility in Dundalk.

BONNEFIELD

Tom Eisenhauer, President Bonnefield

Website:
http://bonnefield.com/index.php?page=Outlook-For-Canadian-Farmland

From a Globe and Mail 2011 article:

"If I could take money from non-Canadians, I'd be retired by now. But we adhere to farmland-ownership restrictions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba which means all our investors must be individual Canadian citizens.

Overwhelming response. But our approach is different: We're not going into these small communities, perusing the MLS listings and buying up farms. If you do that, you make yourself really unpopular in the local Tim Hortons because invariably there's some farmer who's had his eye on that property for years. Then some guy from Bay Street shows up to buy it."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/staking-out-a-farmland-business/article624700/

Market Watch article
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bonnefield-research-paper-examines-rising-values-of-canadian-farmland-2012-10-18
"Bonnefield Financial has just released a new research paper, The Economic Value of Farmland, that examines the rising costs of Canadian farmland from the perspective of Canadian farmers."

Several articles about the sale of the land to Bonnefield with quotes that you hope don’t come back to bite them, aka Team Highlands/Lowndes/Daniher

"Bonnefield representatives have stated publicly that the farmland will be used for farming"
http://globalnews.ca/news/726606/land-at-centre-of-mega-quarry-fight-sold/

"in a phone interview, Mr. Eisenhauer insisted Bonnefield is only interested in agriculture. “Our investors want exposure to farming,” he said. “They don’t want exposure to oil and gas, or quarries for that matter.”

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Mega+quarry+land+north+Toronto+bought+burgeoning+farm+fund+Bonnefield/8673369/story.htmlSpeaking

“We spent the first two years just going about the country and talking to farmers about how we could do this and what their needs are,” he said. “We raised our first fund in 2010, but it was frankly our own money to get the ball rolling.”

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/17/mega-quarry-land-north-of-toronto-bought-by-burgeoning-farm-fund-bonnefield/

BAUPOST BAILS

"We have just learned that the Class 1 farmland we have fought so hard to protect in Melancthon has been sold to Canadian investors who say the land will continue to be farmed! Bonnefield Financial now owns Highland's potato fields. We're going to look further into this company, but at this point, we must take the president's quote at face value: "Here we have Canadian investors, supporting Canadian farmers to ensure that one of our most precious resources – farmland – continues to be used for farming."

This news, however, does not stop our efforts to change Ontario's Aggregate Resources Act. Ontario's prime farmland and source water must be priority. ‪#‎FoodAndWaterFirst‬

Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130716-908352.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

About Bonnefield: http://bonnefield.com/index.php?mact=News%2Ccntnt01%2Cdetail%2C0&cntnt01articleid=34&cntnt01returnid=90

Thanks to all the anon people who sent this to Minebuster.....

And I got an email from Lowndes, wondering where he can pick up his commission cheque...this is where minebuster directed him....

WHY I DECLARE THAT BILL HAS DECLARED

In the July 11, 2013 edition of the Shelburne Free Press, Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill, in a letter to the editor, declares his intention to seek the position of Warden of the County of Dufferin for the 2014 term.

He outlines his vast and considerable experience and states that there appears to be considerable support for his desire to serve as Warden.

Well, good for him.

One of his stated priorities is the implementation of the County Official Plan.

No denying he has considerable experience at that.

It has been at LEAST 8 years and thousands of $$$ that Melancthon has been trying to get an Official Plan passed, during which the entire time Bill sat on Council.

So if you want him to get the County OP passed during his term of Warden, better be prepared for a Warden that sits at least 8 years.....

IF IT WEREN'T FOR AGRICULTURAL LAND AND RURAL ONTARIO......

Just think, if it weren't for agricultural land and rural Ontario, there would be no where for the urbanites to ship their garbage, generate their "green" wind power, ship their offal material or obtain their source water....and now....nuclear waste.

http://users.xplornet.com/~dbaylis/AWARE/Issues/Nuclear_DGRP/OPG%20DGR%20Huron%20Overview.htm
.... to approve its proposal to bury low and intermediate level radioactive nuclear waste under the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant site, directly on the shore of Lake Huron, in the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario.

Called a Deep Geological Repository, DGR or Nuclear Waste Dump, the 31 burial caverns are planned to be 680 metres below the ground carved out of limestone, and will extend to approximately 400 metres from Lake Huron.
 
OPG suggests that the Nuclear Waste Dump will safely hold its radioactive contents for 100,000 years. Is it reasonable to conclude that an unmonitored Nuclear Waste Dump will contain its radioactive contents for 100,000 years? The Great Lakes were created only 12,000 years ago.

But it might be closer to home than you think, particularly if they are looking to bury it in "limestone":

http://www.caledonenterprise.com/news-story/3843438-third-ontario-nuclear-waste-site-possible-in-the-orangeville-area/
Decommissioning low and intermediate level waste (LLW and ILW) will be disposed of at a regional disposal facility located in Ontario, approximately equidistant from OPG’s five nuclear stations.” 
                      

That could conceivably place the proposed site somewhere in the Orangeville area, suggested Brennain Lloyd of Northwatch, who first noticed the proposal in a blizzard of documents filed with the safety commission. Northwatch is a coalition of environmental and community groups in northeastern Ontario.

 

 

BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST?

Rumours everywhere about Highlands selling, NOT selling, selling to Chinese, selling ONLY to people who are not part of NDACT.... who knows?

But perhaps this is the reason they are selling:

Are farmland investments heading for a barn bubble?
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20130604-headed-for-a-barn-bubble
Farmland has become the darling of alternative investing, sending hedge funds and wealthy investors into bidding wars for plots of land once deemed ordinary. And it is not just big money getting in on the game.....

Some investors may not even know that they, too, own faraway farmland, particularly those who have money in pension funds......

From Stockholm to Chicago to Vancouver, ordinary investor money is pouring into fields around the world.And there are some jitters that land prices in soil-rich states like Illinois have risen too fast.

With some types of investment off limits — some states like Iowa and Minnesota prohibit institutions from owning land — ownership prohibitions may be artificially contributing contributed to price increases in other states.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE FLY HER TO THE MOON-SERIOUSLY

Here she goes again.....

"This is the second action the deputy mayor has commenced again the same three councillors.  The previous one, launched in 2010, alleges defamation of character."
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2013-07-11/Regional_News/Mulmur_township_councillors_face_second_lawsuit.html

Defamation of character? Wow, wouldn't you have to be of good character to suffer from defamation?

At least she had the good sense not to sue herself, unlike the last lawsuit. She filed that one against the Council of the Township of Mulmur. I guess she forgot she WAS a member of Council, ipso facto, she sued herself. Wonder if she will settle with herself out of court?

And she may think she is going to win in court, but word on the street is she has lost in the court of public opinion.

JUST RECEIVED THIS IMPORTANT REMINDER VIA EMAIL

FIRST:Highlands is not gone and the legislation has NOT been changed to prevent Class 1 farmland from being turned into a 2,300 acre 200 foot below the water table, open pit limestone mine.
PROOF?
Their drilling rigs are back...as of last week...
 

(Fracking Highlands, what R they up 2?) 

 
SECOND....

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING:

To all NDACT members and supporters – the Annual Meeting, held for the purpose of receiving and reviewing the financial statements of the corporation and to present the current slate of directors is to be held at Hornings Mills Community Hall on July 13 at 9:30 am.

Chair Carl Cosack will speak to our current issues and there will be opportunity for questions.

This is your opportunity to renew your membership, take out a membership, ask questions, pick up your Food and Water First sign and a brochure of the new GPS tour.

Refreshments will be served. See you there!

CRUX OF THE COUNTY PROBLEM

Words more true were never spoken, by the CAO of the County of Dufferin no less, which explains clearly the problem with the County system as it now stands:

 

“(Mulmur’s) vote was a no anyway,” Pritchard said. “It doesn’t change the triple majority.”

http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/3876061-waste-exodus-would-be-pricey-for-mulmur/

 

HEY HIGHLANDS (BAUPOST) WHAT UP?

Spotted on the property now owned by Highlands,

formerly by Eddie Downey.

 

What up?

 

Looks like well drilling rigs.......

WHAT NOT TO DO ON CANADA DAY?

GIANT Garage Sale, Honeywood from 9 to 1.

HUGE party at the arena in Shelburne, most of the day.

DELICIOUS strawberry supper in Honeywood from 5 to 8.

Don't miss a minute!!

GREEN ENERGY COLLOSAL FAILURE

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/green-energy-deal-between-ontario-and-samsung-slashed-by-3-7b-1.1334522

"the Liberal government slashed the $9.7-billion agreement by more than one third.

 

The NDP said the Liberals' green energy policies are driving up electricity prices but not creating the thousands of jobs the government had promised.

 

We've clearly seen that sweetheart deals with private companies have not delivered good jobs, and they've created increased costs."

 

Wow, who cudda saw that coming?

 

Well everyone except the Liberals and their dogma and their policy wonks....

 

I would think in the beginning Liberals were hoping that these monstrous turbines, being erected in RURAL Ontario at a record pace with unsustainable taxpayer funded subsidies would serve as a PR move.  Everyone that saw one would remember the Liberals were behind this green energy policy.

 

Well, it has worked.  Everytime someone sees one of these monstrous turbines will remember, at voting time, the Liberals were behind this green energy policy.

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2013 IN HONEYWOOD

Farmland crusaders set to party

NDACT celebrates with mini Foodstock

Orangeville Banner

By Bill Tremblay

                           

While the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce (NDACT) is widely known as defenders of farmland, they also throw one heck of a party.

                           

On Sunday, Aug. 18, the group returns to party-mode to celebrate Food & Water First at the Honeywood arena.

 

“It’s not about raising lots and lots of funds. It’s about bringing attention to the importance of food and water,” said Shirley Boxam, who is organizing the party.

                           

NDACT was created with the mandate to stop The Highland Companies quarry plans in Melancthon, as well as influence change in the province's Aggregate Resources Act (ARA).

                           

The group organized Foodstock in 2011 and Soupstock last year to aid in raising awareness and funds for their quarry battle.

                           

With the Highland application withdrawn, the group is now focusing on ensuring legislation exists to protect Ontario’s edible assets.

 

“We tried to come up with something for an event that would retain the recognition points on the mega quarry fight, but also bring recognition to this second phase,” Boxam said.

                           

While Foodstock and Soupstock each drew tens of thousands of people, Boxam said the Food & Water First celebration mixes chefs and music on a smaller scale.

 

“It’s not quite as big as Foodstock and Soupstock, but hopefully something that will interest people from outside Dufferin County,” Boxam said.

 

“We wanted to hold an event that would extend the reach, outside of our own neighbourhood.”

 

Harlan Pepper will headline the musical side of the event, with other artists being announced later in the summer.

                           

On the food side of the celebration, chefs from Men With Knives, Terra Nova Public House, Matthew Flett and One99 Restaurant have signed on for the event.

                           

As well, an art show and sale, farmers’ market and kids' activities join the festivities.

                           

With 50,000 hectares of prime farmland disappearing annually in Ontario, Boxam said the Food & Water First message is more important than defeating any single quarry plan.

 

“It’s actually a far more compelling issue, but it doesn’t feel that way. It’s not as immediate,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like David and Goliath the way the mega quarry was.”

 

NDACT chair Carl Cosack said the timing is right for the celebration as the review of the ARA continues throughout the summer.

 

“We need to remind those who write it that we’re not going away until this is done the right way,” Cosack said. “We just have to take care of our farmland better than we’re doing. There’s only so much left.”

 

Admission to the celebration costs $5 with hot food items priced between $2 and $5. It is free for youth younger than five-years-old. The ticket price covers the cost of operating the event.

 

“The only funds being raised at this event will pay for the event,” Boxam said. “It’s just supposed to hold its own.”

 

For tickets, visit ndact.com or foodandwaterfirst.com

 

http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/3857819-farmland-crusaders-set-to-party/

INEXPERIENCE RULES

Excerpts from a recent article on the DEEP-Sixed plant:
                      

“Alter NRG has told us that at this point they’re not going to pursue anything,” said Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill. “That is over. They’ve signed the divorce papers.”

 

About three years ago, Dufferin’s lower-tier municipalities agreed to upload waste collection duties to the county, which officially occurred on Jan. 1.

                           

The initial plan was to process waste into electricity at the proposed EFW facility at the DEEP site..                      

 

“If there is a way we can satisfy our own waste requirements and do it economically in Dufferin, then let’s pursue that,” Hill said. “That was always the mandate of the (CDC). It just morphed into something else.” (minebuster note: good for Bill)

 

Full article here: http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/3842405-county-hammers-nail-in-deep-coffin-starting-fresh/

 

So lets take a look at what happened here.

 

Experienced con artists, "investors", heavily subsidized, so they thought, by provincial taxpayers, did a song and dance on County staff and politicians who had absolutely NO expertise or experience in this type of facility (gasification of garbage to "green" energy).  

 

In order to feed the beast however, one of the conditions imposed by the investors was the County would need to find more garbage. 

 

To quote some famous lyrics: 

 

 

 

So in a backasswards move, the County on a recommendation by staff, who did not PUT A PENCIL TO PAPER TO FIGURE OUT COSTS, and without actually having the gasification plant built, uploaded waste on January 1, 2013, closing local landfills and thereby costing most municipal taxpayers more money and inconvenience to dispose of their garbage.

 

THEN of course the entire gasification thing falls apart, because the provincial government, feeling the heat from rising hydro prices due to their ridiculous subsidies to "green energy", couldn't guarantee theses investors their inflated subsidy, price for energy they were to produce.

 

WTF?

 

Oh yeah, and this priceless exerpt from the above noted article:

 

“Let’s look at the options of importing (waste). If it is yes, then what should we do about importing? Are we going to look at exporting?” Taylor said. “We’re going to take a real evaluation of what we’re supposed to do with our waste in Dufferin.”

 

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A (FEW) YEAR MAKES

Head line in the June 20, 2013 editorial of the Orangeville Citizen:

The Province Should Pay!!
The Province and developers of properties to the south have the greatest desire and need for the gravel.

The township doesn’t realize any great revenue from the mining of aggregates, and precious little of that funnels its way to the county’s coffers.

On the other hand, the Province not only gets the desired gravel production but also benefits from taxes arising from increased fuel consumption because of the haulage from the pit, along with other tax revenues, including those from developments made possible by the gravel production.

Accordingly, we submit that the Province should have to foot the cost of bringing Airport Road up to required standards if, indeed, its ministries and agencies approve the pit notwithstanding the wishes of local residents and township council.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2013-06-20/Editorial/The_Province_should_pay.html

What a far cry from the editorial that appeared in the same publication in 2009 with the head line:

Fighting quarry will be expensive

With the asinine advice:

In the circumstances, perhaps the best course for NDACT will be to strive for a compromise under which Highland will be barred from having an operation that occupies more than 100 of its 6,000 acres and is encouraged to move the aggregates by rail, not trucks on County 124.
 http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2009-06-25/editorial/028.html

The abrupt change in editorial stance can only be attributed to NDACT and their supporters, who never once waivered from their message and their cause which is to ensure that food and water take priority over rock and stone.

They, unlike this blogger, calmly and rationally stuck to their factual message to ensure people understood about not only the Highlands application, but the aggregate industry and the Aggregate Resources Act and the Provincial Policy Statement in general.

There were some pretty bleak times.  Some families have been divided forever, local papers took editorial stances against individuals and NDACT supporters, but NDACT and supporters resolutely stood firm and kept their "eye on the prize".

And, to do date they have achieved remarkable things with 
Highlands abruptly withdrawing their aggregate application in the fall of 2013 in the face of world wide opposition.

World wide opposition you say? 

Yes!!!

Remember the pictures of Stop the Quarry on  Juno Beach?

Or on Mt Kilimanjaro???

 

 

 

BUT, it is NOT over.  

NDACT and supporters are now focusing on the next phase of the campaign, Food and Water First, which involves lobbying the government, who really, really, really needs rural votes, to make changes to the Aggregate Resources Act and the Provincial Policy statement, so once and for all, Food and Water come first-over everything!!

Please get a sign, a button, make a donation and continue to support the cause.

They have the momentum, please help them capitalize on it now, so your children, grandchildren and their grandchildren's futures are secure!!

www.ndact.com

 

CLASSIC PRUSSKY

We used to farm potatoes

And that was mighty fine

But there's simply nothing nicer

Than a Chinese wind turbine