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Posted by: MA | 04/19/2010

Scarborough wind turbine plan blows in controversy
By JONATHAN JENKINS, Queen’s Park Bureau Toronto Sun

Wind turbines off the Scarborough Bluffs could kill birds, foul the water, wreck the waterfront and damage human
health, a stream of concerned residents told city council’s executive committee Monday.

“There is nowhere in the world that you can build turbines so close to shore,” said John LaForet, president of Wind
Concerns Ontario.

“There are real risks here to human health and there are real risks to the health of the lake,” added LaForet, a council
candidate for Ward 43.

LaForet and other anti-wind proponents were speaking in support of a motion at executive committee calling for a
moratorium on wind development across the province, put forward by Scarborough area councillors Paul Ainslie —
the incumbent in Ward 43 — and Brian Ashton.

“A persistent and growing number of Ontarians have expressed serious and numerous concerns regarding the
impacts of industrial wind turbines on their health, lifestyle, the operation of their businesses and on their property
values,” the motion reads, in part.

But while the motion called for the city to press the province to slow down on such projects, it was clear the specific
project sparking worries was Toronto Hydro’s plan to test wind speeds off the bluffs for the next two years. Members
of the influential executive committee voted to refer the motion for more study, effectively killing it.

If wind speeds are sufficient, Hydro would like to build up to 60, 140-metre tall turbines about two kilometres
offshore and generate power — a plan Ashton called a “hideous destruction of a beautiful pristine feature.”

Harry Spindel, vice-president of the Guildwood Community Association, called it a David and Goliath battle between
residents and Hydro, with the province’s Green Energy Act effectively squelching local concerns.

“We may well destroy the lakefront environment and our health,” he said. “No matter how you look at it it’s a bad
deal for Toronto, not just those who have to look at those industrial giants.”

But the litany of ill effects attributed to the construction of wind turbines was hotly disputed by scientists and
environmental advocates who said clean, renewable wind power was the best answer to fighting climate change and
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“The science does not show adverse health impacts,” said Dr. Gideon Forman, the executive director of the Canadian
Association of Physicians for the Environment.

Executive committee member Glenn De Baeremaeker, an ardent supporter of wind power, dismissed health
concerns, saying: “The health fears are just that — fears. They don’t exist.”

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1.
“The science does not show adverse health impacts,” said Dr. Gideon Forman, the executive director of the
 Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.”

OH PLEASE!!! Another example of the Industrial Wind Industries unethical, misleading, lying tactics!
Somebody, somewhere, somehow has to stop this guy Gideon Forman from representing himself as a doctor!!!!

He is no doctor, although he has routinely been misrepresented as such over the past 3 or 4 years. Interestingly
there never seems to be any attempt to set the record straight.

The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons needs to put a stop to this despicable misrepresentation –
people all over this province are reading this stuff and believing this phony Doctor.

Once again, Industrial Wind strikes a mighty blow to truth!

By: PECV on 04/19/2010

at 22:08

2.

How much grease has this so called Doctor for the government and the environment being paid????

Why has he not interviewed people that have had to abandon their homes???

What a hoax! Report him to the Ontario College of Physicians—– Please!

By: Melodie Burkett on 04/20/2010

at 07:39

3.

Colby already has been reported to the Ontario College of Physicians. They warned him not to pass himself off
as an expert on this subject as he has no background, experience or expertise whatsoever with this issue.

He then was hired by CanWEA to do this “review”. Money must have been too good to pass up.

By: MA on 04/20/2010
at 09:12

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