Oilsands activity blamed for caribou decline

The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 22, 2011 10:17 AM ET

DNA in the feces suggest there were about 330 caribou in Alberta's oilsands region, more than double the government's population estimate of 150. (Canadian Press)

 

 

 

Humans, not wolves, are behind declining caribou populations in Alberta's oilsands region, an analysis of animal feces shows.
The same research also found there may be many more caribou in the region than previously thought, meaning there may still be time for industry to change how it does business without resorting to wolf culls to protect the herds.
"Nobody is denying that the trend in caribou decline is alarming," said University of Washington biologist Samuel Wasser, lead author of a paper published Wednesday in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
"While we still think we need to do something now, we think that there's a little bit more time than some people have been advocating."
Caribou in the oilsands are considered a threatened species and have been in decline for decades. Balancing oilsands development and healthy herds has proved to be a tough act for the provincial government, which is still trying to develop a caribou policy for the area.

Biologist Samuel Wasser and his team were brought in by oilsands leasee North American Oil Sands, and their research continued when the lease was sold to Norway-based Statoil. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)

Some scientists have predicted caribou will be gone within 30 years, suggesting the desperate measure of a wolf cull could be the only way to preserve them. Alberta does cull wolves to protect caribou, but not in the oilsands area.
In 2006, Wasser and his team were brought in by oilsands leasee North American Oil Sands to look for answers. Their research continued when the lease was sold to Norway-based Statoil, which has so far spent about $500,000 on Wasser's work.
Using dogs trained to sniff out caribou, wolf, moose and deer droppings, scientists eventually found about 2,000 samples and carefully marked when and where each was found. Those samples were carefully analyzed for chemicals that revealed how the animal was feeling at that moment.
Animals under stress produce hormones that show up almost right away in their feces. Feces can also reveal how well-nourished an animal is. DNA contained in the material can even identify — and count individual animals.

Population higher than thought

After four winters of sampling, the researchers concluded that there seem to be a lot more caribou than previously thought.
Government estimates put the number in the area at about 150; DNA in the feces suggest there were about 330 animals. Nor did that number change during the study period.
They also found that about 80 per cent of the wolf diet was deer, with only about 11 per cent from caribou. Wolves even seek out deer in preference to caribou.
And once they started analyzing scat for stress hormones, they found what really bugged caribou was people. Stress increased the closer the animals got to busy roads and also during times when humans were nearby.
Caribou — unlike moose and deer — are so skittish they'd rather hang out somewhere where the food isn't as plentiful if it's further from human impact, Wasser concluded.

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Melting Northwest Passage lets Pacific species cross

The Associated Press Posted: Jun 27, 2011 9:54 AM ET

Grey whales still live in the Pacific Ocean, but were hunted to extinction in the Atlantic by the mid-1700s. The one spotted near Israel and Spain last year is believed to have entered the Atlantic Ocean through the Northwest Passage. Associated Press

When a 13-metre grey whale was spotted off the Israeli town of Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it must have wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier.
On a microscopic level, scientists also have found plankton in the North Atlantic where it had not existed for at least 800,000 years.
The whale's odyssey and the surprising appearance of the plankton indicates a migration of species through the Northwest Passage, a worrying sign of how global warming is affecting animals and plants in the oceans as well as on land.

'It's a threshold that has been crossed.'—Philip C. Reid, Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science

"It's an indication of the speed of change that is taking place in our world in the present day because of climate change," he said in a telephone interview Friday.
Reid said the last time the world witnessed such a major incursion from the Pacific was 2 million years ago, which had "a huge impact on the North Atlantic," driving some species to extinction as the newcomers dominated the competition for food.
Reid's study of plankton and the research on the whale, co-authored by Aviad Scheinin of the Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center, are among nearly 300 scientific papers written over the last 13 years that are being synthesized and published this year by Project Clamer, a collaboration of 17 institutes on climate change and the oceans.
Changes in the oceans' chemistry and temperature could have implications for fisheries, as species migrate northward to cooler waters, said Katja Philippart, of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research who is coordinating the project funded by the European Union.
"We try to put the information on the table for people who have to make decisions. We don't say whether it's bad or good. We say there is a high potential for change," she said.

Read the full story here

Lemons and Cancer

Eating a Lemon is lot Healthier than eating an Orange ........

LEMON will clean all your INTESTINES.. Oranges do NOT….

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Baltimore , MD 1201

This is the latest in medicine, effective for cancer!

Read carefully & you be the judge.

Lemon (Citrus ) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells . It is 10,000 times
stronger than chemotherapy .

Why do we not know about that?   Because there are laboratories interested in making a synthetic
version that will bring them huge profits. You can now help a friend in need by letting him/her
know that lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease. Its taste is pleasant and it does not
produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy. How many people will die while this closely
guarded secret is kept, so as not to jeopardize the beneficial multimillionaires large corporations?
As you know, the lemon tree is known for its varieties of lemons and limes. You can eat the
fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries, etc...
It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and
tumors. This plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Some say it is very
useful in all variants of cancer .

It is considered also as an anti microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi, effective
against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressure which is too high and an
antidepressant, combats stress and nervous disorders. The source of this information is fascinating: it
comes from one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world, says that after more than 20
laboratory tests since 1970, the extracts revealed that: It destroys the malignant
cells in 12 cancers , including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreas ... The compounds of this tree showed 10,000 times better than the product Adriamycin, a drug normally used chemotherapeutic in the world,
slowing the growth of cancer cells. And what is even more astonishing: this type of therapy with
lemon extract only destroys malignant cancer cells and it does not affect healthy cells.


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Baltimore, MD1201

Polar Bears - On Thin Ice

Ashore on Svalbard, a male polar bear investigates a whale's backbone. Fat reserves from hunting ringed and bearded seals, and sometimes walruses, must carry bears through lean summers.  Photograph by Florian Shultz

 

 

On Thin Ice

The Arctic is warming so fast that by 2050 it may be largely ice free in summer. Without their frozen hunting platform, how will polar bears survive?

By Susan McGrath

Photograph by Florian Schulz

In August 1881 the naturalist John Muir was sailing off Alaska aboard the steamer Thomas Corwin, searching for three vessels that had gone missing in the Arctic. Off Point Barrow he spotted three polar bears, "magnificent fellows, fat and hearty, rejoicing in their strength out here in the bosom of the icy wilderness."

Were Muir to sail off Point Barrow in August today, any polar bears he'd see would not be living in a wilderness of ice but swimming through open water, burning precious fat reserves. That's because the bears' sea-ice habitat is disappearing. And it's going fast.
Polar bears ply the Arctic niche where air, ice, and water intersect. Superbly adapted to this harsh environment, most spend their entire lives on the sea ice, hunting year-round, visiting land only to build maternal birthing dens. They prey mainly on ringed and bearded seals (it's been said that they can smell a seal's breathing hole from more than a mile away) but sometimes catch walruses and even beluga whales.

Sea ice is the foundation of the Arctic marine environment. Vital organisms live underneath and within the ice itself, which is not solid but pierced with channels and tunnels large, small, and smaller. Trillions of diatoms, zooplankton, and crustaceans pepper the ice column. In spring, sunlight penetrates the ice, triggering algal blooms. The algae sink to the bottom, and in shallow continental shelf areas they sustain a food web that includes clams, sea stars, arctic cod, seals, walruses—and polar bears.
Read full story here

Solar for Dummies

By Nick Hodge | Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The headlines say it all...
Total (NYSE: TOT) Pays $1.4 Billion for Stake in SunPower

Army/Marines Charge Critical Equipment With Solar Panels

Google Invests $280 Million in SolarCity

Solar Market Tops $70 Billion in 2010

In only a few years' time, the solar market has gone from “That stuff'll never work” to a billion-dollar acquisition target of the biggest oil companies in the world.

At the turn of the century the world only had 1.4 gigawatts (GWs) of installed solar capacity.

By the end of last year 40.7 GW had been installed – a growth of 2,752%.

Oil didn't do that. Coal didn't do that. Nuclear didn't do that.

Most of the growth has come from Europe – particularly Germany with 17 GW – which boasts over 75% of all installed solar worldwide.

Their head start can be attributed to attractive policies the U.S. failed to embrace. But falling prices, as you'll soon see, will mean the spread and mass adoption of solar in the next few years.

Failed Decontamination System Fukushima ‘again’

Overhead shot of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan.

The operator of a damaged reacttor preformed another test run of a newly installed water-treatment system after its pump stopped on Tuesday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co said the pump was overburdened by excessive liquid flow, Kyodo News reported.

The system designed to decontaminate highly radioactive water stopped only five hours into full operation on Friday at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo.
The operator concluded on Monday that absorbent materials inside the decontamination equipment needed changing more frequently than previously estimated, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The company is trying to reduce radioactivity in water that has accumulated around the plant as a result of emergency measures to cool the reactor cores. Storage facilities for contaminated water were reaching capacity.

Several of the plant’s six reactors have been overheating and leaking radioactive material since it was damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The operator also said Monday night that a plant worker was found to have been exposed to radiation above the official limit, 

                            official limit? You mean the limit they recently raised or 
                                      the original so called safe limit..

bringing the number of over-exposed workers to nine, Kyodo reported.
The operator has been checking the external and internal radiation exposure of a total of more than 3,500 workers engaged in the emergency work, Kyodo said.

Reported on Visions Green Blog

Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms

Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms
June 27-30 Speaking Tour

You are invited to join the Climate Action Network Canada, Pembina Institute, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and The United Church of Canada, for the launch of a new report “Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms” to be featured on a Southern Ontario speaking tour the week of June 27-30, 2011.

The report and tour will highlight the untapped business opportunities for Ontario’s farmers that can be found in the field of renewable energy; the numerous other benefits of renewable energy, such as rural economic development and improved environmental conditions; and finally, the government policies needed to allow farmers to embrace the benefits of renewable energy.  Alongside Canadian and European clean energy experts, Hans-Detlef Feddersen, a leading German farmer, clean energy pioneer and founder of Germany’s first citizen-owned wind park will be our featured speaker.

We would be delighted if you could join us at one of our tour stops to hear the report findings give us your valuable input on this growing project.  The tour will begin in Ottawa on June 27 and will travel through Kingston, Toronto, Cambridge and surrounding areas and will end in Guelph on June 30. Please see the attached for detailed schedule and event information.  The schedule may be updated online at www.climateactionnetwork.ca.

Space at events is limited and RSVP is required for all events.  Please RSVP to Lauryn Drainie by email @ ldrainie@climateactionnetwork.ca and include your name and affiliated organization(s).

We would like to thank The United Church of Canada, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the German Government with its Transatlantic Climate Bridge for providing the funds to make this project possible.  Thank you as well to all our partner agricultural organizations that have provided feedback, time and organizational support on both the tour and report.

Climate Action Network Canada is a nation-wide coalition of more than 75 environmental, faith, labour, development, aboriginal, health, and youth organizations committed to making action on climate change a reality.

Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms
Southern-Ontario Speaking Tour

Space is limited and RSVP is required for all events. Please RSVP to Lauryn Drainie @ ldrainie@climateactionnetwork.ca and include your name and affiliated organization(s).

Monday, June 27, Ottawa Area

7:30 pm           Presentation of Report Findings with the National Farmers Union Local 362
Knox Presbyterian Church
1 St. Polycarp Street Box 192 Moose Creek ON K0C 1W0

Tuesday, June 28, Kingston Area


2:00 pm           Presentation of Report Findings with SWITCH Kingston National Farmers Union Local 316, Frontenac Federation of Agriculture, and the County of Frontenac Green Energy Task Force
                        Memorial Hall, Kingston City Hall, 216 Ontario Street, Kingston, ON

7:30 pm           Presentation of Report Findings with the National Farmers Union Local 316, Frontenac Federation of Agriculture, and the County of Frontenac Green Energy Task Force
Verona Lions’ Hall, 4504 Verona Sand Rd, Verona, ON

Wednesday, June 29 Toronto, Guelph & Cambridge

2:30 pm           Presentation of Report Findings
Room 202, Crop Science Building, Ontario Agricultural College,
50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, http://www.uoguelph.ca/campus/map/cropscience/

7:30 pm           Public tour of the Grober Biogas Facility,
Delft Blue Veal Farms, 435 Dobbie Drive, Cambridge, ON

Thursday, June 30, Guelph

2:00 pm           Presentation of Report Findings with the National Farmers Union Local 340
                        St. Brigid’s Villa, Ignatius Jesuit Centre, 5420 Highway 6 North, Guelph ON
 

Update on Japan's Nuclear crisis.

On Friday June 17, 2011 60 Minutes television program ran this story on the Fukishima Melt Down.

I was so moved by this episode for the Japanese people.

Watch this video and share with others so that they too may see the truth about the Nuclear Melt Down and the effects it has on people, the ocean and the planet.

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/8262363/fallout

Hydro One introduces capacity evaluation tool to help FIT and MicroFIT applicants

Dear Ontario PV Caucus and Manufacturers Caucus,

Hydro One has created a capacity evaluation tool to help Feed-In Tariff (including microFIT) project applicants determine whether there is sufficient capacity to connect their proposed renewable generation installation to a Hydro One-operated station or feeder closest to, or in the vicinity of, their project location.

For more information please click here  http://www.hydroone.com/Generators/Pages/StationCapacityCalculator.aspx and look for the link under "Download the Station and Feeder Capacity Calculator".

Ocean life on the brink of mass extinctions: study

Small waves crash over rocks across the harbour from the Sydney city skyline May 23, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Tim Wimborne

 OSLO (Reuters) - Life in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday.

Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones," according to the study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO).

"We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation," according to the study by 27 experts to be presented to the United Nations.

"Unless action is taken now, the consequences of our activities are at a high risk of causing, through the combined effects of climate change, over-exploitation, pollution and habitat loss, the next globally significant extinction event in the ocean," it said.

Scientists list five mass extinctions over 600 million years -- most recently when the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago, apparently after an asteroid struck. Among others, the Permian period abruptly ended 250 million years ago.

"The findings are shocking," Alex Rogers, scientific director of IPSO, wrote of the conclusions from a 2011 workshop of ocean experts staged by IPSO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at Oxford University.

Fish are the main source of protein for a fifth of the world's population and the seas cycle oxygen and help absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas from human activities.

OXYGEN

Jelle Bijma, of the Alfred Wegener Institute, said the seas faced a "deadly trio" of threats of higher temperatures, acidification and lack of oxygen, known as anoxia, that had featured in several past mass extinctions.

A build-up of carbon dioxide, blamed by the U.N. panel of climate scientists on human use of fossil fuels, is heating the planet. Absorbed into the oceans, it causes acidification, while run-off of fertilizers and pollution stokes anoxia.

"From a geological point of view, mass extinctions happen overnight, but on human timescales we may not realize that we are in the middle of such an event," Bijma wrote.

The study said that over-fishing is the easiest for governments to reverse -- countering global warming means a shift from fossil fuels, for instance, toward cleaner energies such as wind and solar power.

"Unlike climate change, it can be directly, immediately and effectively tackled by policy change," said William Cheung of the University of East Anglia.

"Over-fishing is now estimated to account for over 60 percent of the known local and global extinction of marine fishes," he wrote.

Among examples of over-fishing are the Chinese bahaba that can grow 2 meters long. Prices per kilo (2.2 lbs) for its swim bladder -- meant to have medicinal properties -- have risen from a few dollars in the 1930s to $20,000-$70,000.

Read the full article here

The truth about the Samsung deal

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Samsung C&T CEO Chi Sung Ha shake hands in Toronto January 21, 2010.

MARK BLINCH/REUTERS

Cheol Woo Lee is feeling betrayed these days.
The senior vice-president of Samsung C&T understands why Ontarians are getting frustrated by higher energy bills, but he’s disturbed that his company is taking much of the blame.
He’s embarrassed that Samsung – its well-known brand and international reputation—has become a political punching bag to win votes. The unfolding drama is being watched closely at the company’s headquarters in South Korea.
“We haven’t received one cent of money from Ontario,” said Lee, chatting over coffee at a downtown hotel. “We’ve only been spending money—and big money so far. Why do we have to be blamed or criticized?”
He was talking about the well publicized but often mischaracterized “Samsung deal,” frequently referred to in the media and by Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak as that $7-billion “sweetheart” deal signed back in January 2010 by the McGuinty government.
Hudak has said he will kill the deal if elected in October. Even if Hudak is bluffing, Lee said irreparable damage has been done. “The comment has affected our projects seriously. Our partners, our investors, are considering very seriously whether Samsung can manage the situation.”
You’d think, the way it has been framed, that Samsung stands to get $7 billion from the deal, but in fact it’s the other way around – the agreement requires that a Samsung-led consortium deliver $7 billion in investment to Ontario.
This will involve developing 2,000 megawatts of wind power projects, 500 megawatts of solar, and arranging for a manufacturing supply chain that will provide wind turbines and solar panels for those projects. In all, Samsung’s efforts and promised investments are expected to deliver 2,140 direct jobs and 13,860 indirect jobs.
In return, the company gets a premium – called an “economic development adder” – that’s expected to amount to $437 million during the first 20 years of operation of its wind and solar projects. That works out to about $22 million a year, on top of feed-in-tariff rates that apply to all solar and wind projects.

Read the full story here

Another opinion about the Green Energy Act – Looking at overall costs and benefits

There has been a lot of talk about how the Feed-In-Tariff being the main culprit in the rising energy prices, here’s a fresh view on the topic.
If you look at the FIT program as a stimulus package that came amidst the recession then it’s benefits should also be analyzed from a “cure to a recession” standpoint and we can see:

• Green energy creates 12 times more jobs per kWh than nuclear and 15 times more than natural gas. The articles gives a figure of 1200 jobs in Kitchener-Waterloo area alone quoting the mayor.
• The highest tariff of 80.2c is paid for small projects to individual home owners. These people then spend the money on goods and services putting it back in the economy. It is estimated that $1 paid to a homeowner contributes a minimum of $7 to the economy by recirculating.

There is an additional benefit that the article fails to mention – lower health care costs. Since green energy causes 0 pollution, it works towards reducing respiratory sicknesses associated with burning carbon based fuels such as gas and coal. It’s a real cost the provincial government has to bear.
Read the full article by Derek Satnick here: The Green Energy Act is Saving us Money!

Solar industry ponders Ontario media campaign

The Canadian Solar Industry Association is trying to raise $2 million from its members to mount a media campaign in Ontario, promoting the benefits of solar.
A message to members says the campaign is needed because “our industry has become threatened due to political rhetoric and a misunderstanding within the province of the value we have created.”
“It is now a critical time to speak out and clarify these misapprehensions,” says the letter from association president Elizabeth McDonald.
“This is not a political campaign but an information campaign – we must remain non-partisan,” it says. The letter names no political party.
But Ontario’s Conservative party leader Tim Hudak has taken dead aim at the energy policies of the current Liberal government, which have promoted solar energy and offered solar producers premium prices for their power.
An Ontario election is scheduled for Oct. 6.
Hudak has vowed to cancel the province’s feed-in tariff rates, which pay solar producers prices ranging from 44.3 cents to 80.2 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity. To qualify, power developers must source a large portion of their equipment in Ontario.
Hudak also says he’ll cancel the province’s agreement with the South Korean firm Samsung, which includes a big commitment to manufacture solar equipment and develop solar power.
In an interview, McDonald said solar needs to concentrate on two key demographic segments.
“The first one is women 25 to 65, who are very, very supportive of renewable energy and the environmental impact, but know very little.”
“The second would be men over 35 who are very concerned about money, but don’t understand actually how things work, etcetera,” she said.
“We felt that if there was going to be a lot of discussion about the impact of solar, about what solar costs, what jobs have been created, that we should be the ones who are telling the story.”
The association wants its members to work locally, pointing out jobs that are being created by firms in their communities, McDonald said.
Polling done for the association has disclosed broad support for renewable energy, but little detailed understanding of the benefits, including the jobs being created, she said:
“There’s so much going on, it’s about time everybody understood.”
If CanSIA succeeds in raising the $2 million from its members, about 75 per cent would be spent on “media buys – mostly television,” McDonald’s letter says.
“This is predicated on a campaign that will have a real, material and measurable effect on public and political opinion.”
Several companies have already offered up to $50,000 each toward the cost of the campaign, the letter says.
Link to the story

Is SOLAR really increasing our Hydro bills???

Renewable energy is taking a beating in the press lately, misinformation is being reported and repeated by those who have an interest
in non renewable energy.

Scan_ 0001 is the Ontario Power Authority's proposed energy supply by 2030. Please note that solar only represents 1.5% of the
mix by 2030, how can it be blamed for the increase in your hydro bill when it represents less than 0.4% today???????

We are foolish and insane to continue pooping in our nest as we have for the past 150 years. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster are recent examples of our fallibility.

We have come to a most important juncture. Our population has multiplied exponentially, we have used up most of our planet's resources
and have created so much pollution that new diseases are showing up everywhere. We are on a destructive path and soon the planet will become uninhabitable for humans or beasts. If Global warming doesn't get us our bad habits will.

The time for change is now and we are up to it if we commit to truth, transparency and a determined focus to improve the state of
the world for us and future generations.

Technologies are available today; see "Suppressed technologies" www.brasschecktv.com;  to replace oil, gas and nuclear and that is
without any innovations which will undoubtedly develop as we commit to a better future. Many of these technologies have been
suppressed because they threaten those who benefit from keeping us trapped in a cycle of wars and economic crisis thus profiting
from the suffering of the masses in the interest of a few.

Free energy is available all around us in the form of flowing waters (hydro power), sunlight (solar), wind (wind turbines), in the
ground (geothermal heating and cooling) and fuels made from many sources including methane made from feces and food waste
(bio digestion), and algae (not from corn) Ethanol . These are only a few of the existing alternatives, many others are being
developed and improved.

Hydro: The hydro power tunnel in Niagara Falls broke through on May 13th. 2011 http://www.niagarafrontier.com/tunnel.html
Quebec derives 94% of it's power from water and they are the first province to put a moratorium on nuclear. Ontario has 90% of nuclear
plants (20) in Canada yet the only moratorium is on offshore wind turbines. 

Solar: 175 kW installation on barn roofs in Cobden, ON (IMG_0313) this farm also includes a 500 kW bio digester making methane gas
from cow manure and restaurant wastes. The solar systems on pedestals (IMG_0361) are 2 axis 10 kW tracking systems which can provide power for 2 homes if they were using energy efficiently. The cost of solar will continue to fall, we will be able to buy solar panels at $1 per
watt soon, they sell for $3 or more at the present.

Solar Thermal: heats water very effictively and can do it throughout the year. Most households will profit from installing a solar thermal
system on their roof or property (IMG_0730) is a commercial solar thermal system.

Wind: turbines are becoming more and more efficient bringing down the cost of power. (PA210020) photo of a few of the hundreds of
wind turbines producing Safe Green Renewable energy while earning money for cash strapped Ontario farmers in South Western Ontario.
Take a Sunday ride along Hwy 3 on the shores of Lake Erie from Blenheim to Leamington to see how the Green Energy Act and Fit program are benefiting our farmers and creating employment.

Fuel: future transportation will not use so called fossil fuels as existing suppressed technologies are employed. Fuels such as Biogas made
from our waste products including mining existing garbage dumps, Water based fuels which supply Hydrogen as we drive, Compressed air
transportation, Ethanol made from algae instead of corn  http://embowered.com/vertical-algae-bioreactor/ Magnetic energy reaching nearly perpetual motion efficiency and many others being held very close to the chest until the environment becomes more welcoming.

Geothermal: The earth holds a tremendous source of savings for heating and cooling our homes and businesses (IMG_9791 & IMG_9889)
are an example of a geothermal system installation in a 10,000 sq. ft. home that has improved the family's wellbeing and saves them 75%
of their energy costs.

LED lighting: reduces energy use by up to 90% and LED's last a minimum of 50,000 hours making them extremely efficient and cost
effective. Why are compact florescent bulbs being promoted instead when they have been proven to cause negative health responses?
In B.C. a grant system encourages the population to install LED's why not in Ontario?    


It seems that those forming future policies lack foresight, are living in the middle ages and have little faith in our ingenuity.
We are placing our future in the hands of those who lack vision and are blinded by the influence of the corrupt energy merchants.