AI Wind - Change Log

I find myself updating this site on a regular (several times a week) basis. Instead of trying to update the RSS feed to reflect all these changes, I'll start keeping track of them here. For my hoards of RSS subscribers, I'll simply point here on a weekly basis if I've made any significant changes.

July 2010

June 28, 2010. We finally received a picture of the Wolfe Island Shoals layout, at theWolfe Island Shoals page.

June 2010

June 26, 2010. Major reorganization underway, now expanding local coverage to cover the entire eastern end of Lake Ontario.
June 11, 2010. Posted May's Ontario daily production numbers, 24.7%.

May 2010

May 6, 2010. Posted April's Ontario daily production numbers, 33.4%.
May 4, 2010. Updated the Amherst Island history page with a recent letter from Gaia.

April 2010

April 30, 2010. Added the Ontario FIT page, where I provide some details into the Feed In Tariff program.
April 12, 2010. Posted March's Ontario daily production numbers, 29.4%.

March 2010

March 23, 2010. Added a link to Watts with Wind by Don Robinson to the Fossil Plant Replacement page. It examines Ontario's production and how it could never be considered as base generation. Added a link to McKitrick's paper on the problems with the assertion of coal plant health effects to the Health page.
March 12, 2010. Added a link to Jay Apt's article to the CO2 page. Also edited my explanation of CHP and its effect on emissions in Ontario.
March 7, 2010. Added a link to Bushnell's study to the CO2 page, along with some minor editorial changes. Added a link to an English noise study to the Noise page.
March 5, 2010. Posted February's Ontario daily production numbers, 23.9%. Also added links to John Droz (on the Links page), Monbiot (on the Economics page), de Groot (on the CO2 page) and Bryce (on the Health page).

February 2010

February 20, 2010. Added a major new critique of Canning's recent property values study to the Pseudo Scientific page and the Property Values page.
February 16, 2010. Added a link to an article that really takes the Hoen property values study to task to my critique. Added a link to a nice article about economic issues to the Economics Page.
February 12, 2010. Added a truly scary quote from Leventhall to the Health Page. Added an old Beacon article to the Amherst Island History page.
February 10, 2010. Added a major new critique of Hoen's recent property values study to the Pseudo Scientific page and the Property Values page.
February 5, 2010. Posted January's Ontario daily production numbers, 32.9%. Also updated the Wolfe Island page. The bad news there is starting to come out.
February 4, 2010. Added a summary of Dr. Nissenbaum's cohort study to my AWEA/CanWEA Health Review Critique and to my Health page.
February 1, 2010. Editorial changes and added a link to the NHS critique of the AWEA/CanWEA Health Review to my Review Critique. Added a link to the evidence provided by Dr. Bratby to the CO2 page. Added a link to a health warning from the UK's NAS to the Health page.

January 2010

January 16, 2010. Added a links to John Harrison's Whig-Standard article and a Queen's presentation to the Harrison Papers page. added links to Oerlemans(7mb!) and Bowdler to the Noise Point Source page. Minor editing of the Health page and added a link to a letter by Malcolm Swinbanks.
January 12, 2010. Added links to interesting discussions about Peter Lang's paper to the co2 page. Added a link to Wind Vigilance's critique of the CanWEA/AWEA Health Review.
January 4, 2010. Posted December's Ontario daily production numbers, 34.2%.
January 1, 2010. Major update to my Colby examination. in the Health page.

December 2009

December 27, 2009. Completed an analysis of an Australian study's "evidence" of CO2 emission savings.
December 21, 2009. Added a major critique of the CanWEA/AWEA 2009 Health Review to the Pseudo Scientific and Health pages. Added a link to a radio interview (60+ mb!) of Vinalhaven residents to the History and NY Noise pages.
December 19, 2009. Added a link to an article about Denmark to the CO2 page.
December 11, 2009. Added an instructive letter from Vinalhaven, Maine and the developer's response to the New England Noise Page and the Amherst Island History Page.
December 3, 2009. Posted November's Ontario daily production numbers, 26.9%.
December 2, 2009. Added the Harrison masking commentary and the Gulden offshoot to the Ontario Regulations page, as well as to the Harrison Papers page. Added the Halkema paper to the CO2 page.
December 1, 2009. Added a link to the Wegner Location article, 1.6mb, to the birds page. Made editorial changes to the CO2 page about lack of fuel savings, in addition to the lack of emissions savings.

November 2009

November 26, 2009. Added a link to the Beitzel Letter, 0.1mb and made some editorial changes to the CO2 page.
November 25, 2009. Made major editorial changes to my Colby Examination. Started a collection of bad wind industry science on my Pseudo-Science Examples page, and I'll be adding more examples as I have the time. Added two Barbara Ashbee letters to the Ontario noise page.
November 21, 2009. Added a link to a NY Times article to the fossil plant replacement page.
November 19, 2009. Added a letter to the home page. Minor changes to the CO2 page.
November 14, 2009. I did a comparison of the OFA's lease suggestions with the Amherst Island sample contract.
November 6, 2009. Posted October's Ontario daily production numbers, 30.4%.
November 5, 2009. Added links to two letters to the Ontario Noise page.
November 3-5, 2009. Added a link to the Palmer explanation and chart of noise and dB issues along with safety setbacks to the noise weighting and setbacks page. Also changed the schedule for producing the monthly Ontario generation reports.

October 2009

October 31, 2009. Added a link to a NY Times article to the fossil plant replacement page. Added the Copes Report, 7.6mb, to the health page. Added the Palmer letter and the Ashbee letter to the Ontario noise page.
October 28, 2009. Added The Armstrong letter to the Ontario noise page. A strong letter comdemming Ontario's medical head for comments she made.
October 21, 2009. Major updates to the noise page, precipitated by receiving John Harrison's CAA presentation, an excellent summary of why Ontario's rules do not protect its citizens. Part of that presentation was the Ashbee-Lormand measurements, to which I added my comments. Additional editorial changes to other parts of the noise section and of course to the Harrison papers.
October 19, 2009. Added a link to the German Econmonic Impacts Report (0.5mb) to the economics page.
October 15, 2009. As part of fixing broken links, I found some interesting stuff I had forgotten about.

Position Paper from Bird Life International, 0.1mb
Paying people to take it, our excess power, that is.
Environment Canada EA Guide
Kamperman and James how-to book, including health commentary.
Minnesota Dept of Health effects of wind turbines.

October 13, 2009. Added a link to this most excellent letter to the home page, along with minor editing.
October 7, 2009. Added a link to the FCM resolution, requesting health studies, to the health page. Fixed a bunch of missing links that sneaked into my site, for which I apologize.
October 4, 2009. Expanded the "worse" section and added a links to a WSJ opinion piece and a good Palmer Paper to the CO2 page.
October 3, 2009. Added links to the Gillis Letter and an MOE Letter to the Ontario Noise page. Ontario is hardly even pretending to protect rural residents.
October 1, 2009. Added links to Nissenbaum's report and affidavit to the health page. Posted September's Ontario daily production numbers, 16.9%.

September 2009

September 26, 2009. Added a link to a some actual studies about how bird populations decrease around turbines to the bird page. Added a link to an opinion piece from Maine to the CO2 page.
September 24, 2009. Added a link to a Tom Adams article about the use of coal to lessen emissions to the co2 page.
September 22, 2009. Added a link to a USA Today article about the continuing bird carnage and a heart-breaking letter from California to the bird page. Made minor changes to the home page.
September 17, 2009. Added a link to Health Canada's opinions on wind turbines to the health page. Added the latest ad to the Grey Highlands ads page.
September 15, 2009. Added a link to Appraisal Group One study, 4.1mb to the property values page. Added a link to the CEPOS study, 2.1mb of the latest situation in poster-child Denmark to the co2 page.
September 13, 2009. Added a link to the resolution from the Maine Medical Assoc to the health page.
September 7, 2009. Added a link to an article in the Toronto Star about building a new gas plant, in part to backup wind generation, to the CO2 page. Added a link to the Poyry Intermittency Summary, 0.8mb on the fossil plant replacement page.
September 3, 2009. Added a link to the Grey Highlands Wind Action Group ads on the home page. Added the Whitehead analysis of the HCG study of the noise problems at the D'Entremont home to the Ontario noise page.
September 1, 2009. Posted August's Ontario daily production numbers, 18.3%. Also added bat research, (3.0mb) to the birds page.

August 2009

August 28, 2009. Minor changes to the Ontario noise page, adding a link to the Melancthon buyouts. Minor changes to the noise complaint overview page.
August 26, 2009. Editorial changes to the RF interference page, added a link to Doppler problems. Minor changes to the bird page and added a link to a blistering FWS rejection letter, 13mb. Minor changes to the CO2 page and added a link to a Kirby Mountain article about fuel savings. Editorial changes to the plant shutdown page, added a link to a Capacity Credit article.
August 17, 2009. Editorial changes to the CO2 page, added links to the Oswald report and an article about Ontario forecasting.
August 12, 2009. Significant changes to the health page, also added some links to the OFA GEA comments and a Grey Highlands ad.
August 11, 2009. Added a paragraph to the Amherst Island history page concerning the latest news, especially concerning a Federal EA. Minor editorial changes to the home page.
August 5, 2009. Added two links to blogs reporting first-hand on Port Alma and Wolfe Island to the Ontario noise page.
August 2, 2009. Updated the health page with newer links, and added a link to the Wind Turbine Syndrome web site.
August 1, 2009. Posted July's Ontario daily production numbers, 14.5%. Added a reference to Bonneville's actions to the CO2 page.

July 2009

July 30, 2009. Minor editorial changes to my noise pages.
July 26, 2009. Added a link about hydro backup complications to the CO2 page, as well as making minor editorial changes. Added a link to an article, 2.3mb by van den Berg to the noise intrusion page. Added pictures of the Hands Sculpture on Wolfe Island to the picture albums.
July 25, 2009. Added William Palmer's EBR Submission to the Ontario noise regs page and the safety page. Also created a new Palmer Papers page.
July 22, 2009. Added John Harrison's EBR Submission on noise. Added new doctors' letter regarding health studies. Added an industry article regarding CO2 emissions.
July 20, 2009. Added a mention of the protest sculpture to the Wolfe Island page.
July 15, 2009. Added a link to a well-written letter and comment to the Wolfe Island page. Also added a link to an English couple's experiences to the noise complaints page.
July 8, 2009. Update the Wolfe Island page, official opening and health study.
July 6, 2009. A busy day. Added a link to the recent CPAI advertisement on my history page. Moved the Capacity Credit discussion to the generation plant replacement page and added more references. More problems at Port Burwell. Added a reference to the forecasting discussion on my CO2 page.
July 4, 2009. Edited the home page, added health to the list of questions I can't get answers to.
July 3, 2009. Added dirty electric reference and the excellent Henning report on noise and sleep to the health page.
July 2, 2009. Posted June's numbers at Ontario daily production record. Just 13.1%, an all-time low.

June 2009

June 25, 2009. Posted Bill Palmer's report, 0.1mb on the Wind Turbine Conference 2009 held in Europe. Added a link to the Schomer report on my ambient noise page, where the noise consultant for a Cape Vincent project was caught biasing the ambient noise measurements.
June 24, 2009. Posted a letter from WIRE that was sent out to Wolfe Island residents. Added a link to Barry Bridgeford's site.
June 23, 2009. Explained my stance on participants on the noise page. Added ambient measurement issues to the renamed Ambient Measurement page. Added my MOE submission re the GEA proposed regulations to my Ontario Interpretation
June 21, 2009. Editorial changes to the health page, added stress as a sixth health problem. Added an analysis of the Ontario GEA to my Ontario noise regulation page.
June 20, 2009. Minor editorial changes to home page, hardening my opponent opinions. Included the link to this page.
June 19, 2009. Added Tom Adams' paper on geographical wind speed correlation to the Harrison papers and to the CO2 page. Added NWS concerns about wind turbines and Doppler radar to the rf interference page.
June 18, 2009. Added Harrison's letter to the Whig in the Harrison papers. Added Beckel's letter to the AI history page. Added a graph showing Denmark's CO2 emissions vs. wind production to the CO2 page, look for "casual look".
June 17, 2009. Added Wisconsin's care flight policy and McMurtry's opinion of the Colby report to the health page.
June 9, 2009. Lots of changes over the last 4 days to the noise section. Latest Ontario Interpretation. Latest proposed Ontario setbacks. Turbine closest to Barbara Ashbee was shut down, took out references to never shutting them down. Editorial changes to how regulations are created discussion. Ontario finally eliminates the masking provisions. Added new complaints to Wisconsin/Midwest and Ontario pages.
June 4, 2009. Added RES advertisement as an example of bad science. Added a link to a Minnesota health study.
June 3, 2009. Major additions to the Harrison papers. Included McMurtry's criticism in my Colby examination. Also completed the Ontario daily usage record.