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Morning Brew: October 30th, 2008
Photo: "Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers..." by chewie2008~, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
What's happening in the GTA:
22 rural groups opposing wind farms have gotten organized, unifying their message that producing energy from wind hurts communities and isn't actually a green energy. I think this is the same group that said burning fossil fuels is actually good for the environment.
Dude, where's my trash bin? Roughly 75,000 households haven't received their trash receptacle, but the city's going ahead with its new user pay garbage program, set to start Saturday. Confused homeowners are unsure of how to dispose of the non-green non-blue waste. I miss the days when trash was trash.
If I had a million dollars... I'd still be $49 million short of the asking price for an original Jackson Pollack. The woman selling the painting bought it for $5 (US) and was planning to throw darts at it with a friend. Bet she's glad her friend's boyfriend was an art teacher, cause now she might get the biggest return on a $5 investment ever.
Steeles Ave was voted the worst road in Ontario, an honour it has now received twice in the last four years. Dufferin and Lawrence checked in at 11th and 13th worst. Next year the CAA should turn it around and have people vote on the best roads in Ontario. Inquiring minds want to know. Not surprising, Steeles won't be a contender for that prize anytime soon.
I meant to include it yesterday, but Happy Diwali. What a great holiday. Lots of lights, camaraderie and sweets sweeter than a ten year old's haul tomorrow night.
"Good night, Joe Carter" That was a banner unrolled by fans in the bleachers in Philadelphia last night after the Phillies won the World Series. Matt Stairs played a role, after begrudgingly getting traded to Philly from the Blue Jays this year. And Pat Gillick is the Philly GM, bringing joy to the fans who were so tortured by the Pat Gillick-assembled Jays back in 1993. Now maybe Mitch Williams can show his face in the city of Brotherly Love. And maybe Cito and company will make like 1993 again next year.
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I'm confused. When I called two weeks ago to ask if I can get a medium one instead of a large one they told me that they had to deliver the large one and than I had to call back to have them pick that one up and drop off a medium one. Than they said the bins are delayed because everyone wants a medium one...so I'm not too sure how I am effected because in fact, shouldn't I still be getting a large one since they couldn't change it in their system when I called? This post is as confusing as I am.
I'm still binless. It also took the city two months to exhange my blue recycling bin. Actually, I think one of my neighbours just exchanged my bin for their's. The bin I eventually got looked used.
This is so Toronto. Idea = 10; Implementation = 2
How does this work in multi-tenant homes?
Our neighbours dump their trash on our side of the house as it is...
As it is, they will be messed up anyway. Many more people than they anticipated chose to get a 'small' bin because there is no charge for that size. All that missing revenue will have to be made up, so expect the garbage tax to be raised every year.
I used to think the turbines were beautiful and that opponents were philistine knuckle-draggers. Then I spent some time around the Shelburne turbines. Here's a newsflash for ya: they're noisy. Not in a gentle whooshing way, either -- it's a mechanical noise.
Add to that the growing concerns about living near strong electromagnetic fields (which I imagine wind farms produce), and I'd have to say that opponents who live in the midst of these developments at least deserve to be heard.
I guess polluting the earth and killing us and causing us health problems is more acceptable than a few birds/bats dying.
For once we have a provincial government that is trying to implement green sustainable technology and there are still idiots who oppose it. I was just reminded why I hate people in general. There is always a moron in the crowd stirring up trouble and annoying everyone else.
The anti-wind farm people need to be told "tough shit" and just go forward with it. Same with the yahoo's fighting the rail link from Pearson to the core & the idiots who fought the bridge to the island airport.
We're getting held back far too much by politics of appeasement rather than action.
John Stuart Mill would approve as well.
These rural people do get a chance for public consultation through the environmental assessment process which examines and allows for input for a vast array of things such as noise guidelines and the distance these turbines have relative to homes.
And the greater good argument still stands for this. If Ontario is legally mandated to phase out coal power generation by 2012, how exactly is one going to power cities besides nuclear energy? A gerbil running in a cage?
That's why the wind-farms locations must be chosen very carefully to not be on the bird migrating paths.
"Fly into things"? That's really funny. LOL! Don't you think the wind turbines have moving parts? And, actually, rapidly moving. Never happened to you to hit a flying bird while driving your car? That's the same. Think before you post.
And this is indeed "end of conversation".
They may be better for the environment overall but I wouldn't want to live near one.