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Outside ESSAR Steel's Gate 2 property limits, LSarc members joined in the Wind Concerns Ontario "whistle-blowers" campaign which has dogged the heels of the Premier as he dashes about Ontario trying to buy votes with borrowed money and imaginary green jobs. The determined group braved chilly temperatures, rain showers, and blustery policing to blow the whistle on the great wind scam which has already sucked enough wealth out of the economies of Europe to cost Spain 2.2 conventional jobs for every temporary "green" one. In Italy the subsidies required to create one "green" job could create almost 5 jobs in the general economy. In Germany subsidies required to create "green" jobs amount to $240,000 per job per year and in the UK, for every "green" job created, 3.7 jobs are lost in the rest of the economy. Furthermore the subsidies to "green" energy in the UK costs electricity ratepayers an additional $1.75 billion per year.
Even less acceptable to the LSarc's grassroots membership than the present economic decline of the Province, is the proposed extension of renewables' industrial-scale footprint into Lake Superior's watershed and potentially even her lake bed. There is a logical fear that the iconic wilderness vistas we hold so dear, that they are part of our self-image, will be scarred by replicas of Prince Wind Farm and the visual blight it spreads for 40 km around, and permitting the certain fragmentation and degradation of minimally impacted wetland and forest ecosystems is completely contrary to the conservation principles inculcated in residents through generations of public education.
While waiting for the advance media bus to deposit the press safely within ESSAR's gates, the McGuinty campaign bus idled on a side street, facing parked vehicles bearing boldly written BAN GREED ENERGY and NO WINDFARMS HERE signs and sWINDle placard carrying protesters. Reporters acknowledged the demonstration as did the smiles and "thumbs up" gestures of friendly passers-by.
Liberal candidate for Sault Ste. Marie David Orazeitti continues deftly playing his shell game with re-announcements of previously announced Liberal spending from coffers depleted by the Liberals' costly energy experiments. We see little real value on our investment of either Federal or Provincial tax dollars when spending on tourism infrastructure is to be offset by vandalism of our Superior views by wildlife-slashing industrial wind machinery.
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http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/dalton-mcguinty-in-the-sault-blows-off-anti-wind-protestors/