{"id":4184,"date":"2009-10-01T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2012-02-03T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T13:12:47","slug":"ontarios-chuckleheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/ontarios-chuckleheads\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#039;s Chuckleheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><h4><em>A\u00a0howler from Canada!<\/em>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<br \/>\n<\/span>Ontario&#8217;s &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Ministry of the Environment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ene.gov.on.ca\/en\/index.php\">Chuckleheads of the Environment<\/a><\/span>&#8221; first tell the wind developers their turbines can&#8217;t exceed a certain noise limit.\u00a0 (Now get ready to wet your pants.)\u00a0 Then they turn around and tell the people going bonkers from turbine noise that the Ministry has, um,\u00a0<a title=\"MoE to McLean 9-30-09\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MoO-re-noise-measurements-9-30-09.pdf\">no realistic way of measuring (monitoring) turbine noise<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Which means that wind energy in the once reputable Province of Ontario is a free-for-all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Al-with-text-300x810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4185\" title=\"&quot;What, me worry?&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Al-with-text-300x810.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;What, me worry?&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Al-with-text-300x810.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Al-with-text-300x810-111x300.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->(Just when you thought <em>The Three Stooges<\/em> had gone off the air for good, they&#8217;re back as <em>McGuinty, Smitherman, and Gerretsen, LLC<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t laugh too hard, dear reader, \u2018cause your government also doesn&#8217;t have a clue how to do these measurements.\u00a0 <em>It&#8217;s a free-for-all<\/em> <em>everywhere<\/em>.\u00a0 Wet your pants again.\u00a0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0howler from Canada!\u00a0 \u00b7 Ontario&#8217;s &#8220;Chuckleheads of the Environment&#8221; first tell the wind developers their turbines can&#8217;t exceed a certain noise limit.\u00a0 (Now get ready to wet your pants.)\u00a0 Then they turn around and tell the people going bonkers from turbine noise that the Ministry has, um,\u00a0no realistic way of measuring (monitoring) turbine noise.\u00a0 Which means that wind energy in the once reputable Province of Ontario is a free-for-all. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}