Upping the ante
Despite Tribunal ruling, White Pines developer intends to begin site clearing next week The developers of the proposed industrial wind project, White Pines, appear to view an Environmental Review Tribunal decision as a bump in the road rather than a dead end. wpd Canada has decided it won’t wait until it can persuade the Tribunal that it […]
Appealed
OMB to review council size decision The story isn’t over yet. After more than eight years of debate, surveys, meetings, a Citizen’s Assembly and electoral ballot, many believed the size of council matter might have been settled by now. Not quite. With four days remaining to the March 11 deadline, Athol resident Pierre Klein filed an […]
‘Site is poorly chosen’
Tribunal stops White Pines wind project Another industrial wind project has been stopped by the Blanding’s turtle in Prince Edward County. This time the turtle got help from the little brown bat and migrating birds. On Friday, the Environmental Review Tribunal, considering the appeal of the White Pines development—comprising 27 turbines scattered from Milford to […]
Little Brown Bat
The little brown bat is in trouble. Once one of the most common bats in North America, its numbers have been decimated by disease. White nose syndrome is a fungal disease that is killing the little brown bat by the millions. According to uncontested evidence presented at the Tribunal, as much as 95 per cent […]
Blanding’s Turtle
The Tribunal also found that the White Pines wind project posed an unacceptable threat to the Blanding’s turtle. In 2013, a previous Tribunal revoked the permit of another developer at Ostrander Point—located within close proximity of the proposed White Pines turbines— because the project would cause serious and irreversible harm to this endangered species. In […]
Migratory Birds
Birds species that migrate south across Lake Ontario in the fall to the warmer climes of the Gulf of Mexico and beyond and then return in the spring tend to fly at an altitude higher than the sweep of 500- foot-high industrial wind turbines. But what happens when you install an array of spinning turbines […]
Standing up
John Hirsch picked up the torch for the County’s natural environment in fight against wind development John Hirsch doesn’t live in South Marysburgh. It is possible he could have spent his retirement days at his home north of Bloomfield without having to endure the sight of 50-storey industrial wind turbines spinning on the horizon. There was no […]
White Pines update
ERT stops another wind project in Prince Edward County Dear APPEC supporters and friends, We are pleased to announce that APPEC’s appeal of wpd’s White Pines Wind Project has been upheld in part. In the decision, which was issued late Friday afternoon, the Tribunal found that the White Pines project will cause serious and irreversible […]
Seedier and seedier
Seed lovers will get their fill Saturday As February draws to an end, gardeners like self-professed seed geek Stacey Hubbs are yearning to dig their fingers into the spring soil and plunk in the first seedlings of the season. Not that Hubbs is twiddling her thumbs. The owner of Edible Antiques, a Countybased company that […]
Good food
Cooking classes coming to help people eat healthy Once a month, truckloads of fresh fruits and vegetables are delivered to a community centre in Belleville, where dozens of volunteers are ready to unpack and distribute the pallets of tomatoes, cabbage and apples into boxes. These are, in turn, delivered to communities across Prince Edward and Hastings […]