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"You don't speak for me."
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Can we please start writing Trudeau below all the stop signs now?
“In a “gee, we really didn’t think this through” moment, turbine hosts are ruing the day that they ever set eyes on wind farm developers.”
What they set their eyes on was the tax dollar subsidies of their fellow citizens.
Much rue-age to them.
“Hemingway explains that under the province’s Construction Lien Act, turbine construction is interpreted as an improvement to a property that has the potential to earn money for the landowner.”
[…]
“He warns landowners and leaseholders that any potential financial liability arising from leases could be far greater than the leases are worth.”
Financial death to Rent Seekers.
May they rue the day that they thought they could make their fellow citizens to be tax slaves to them.
Live high by the tax trough, die by the tax trough.
The insider elites always get their pound of flesh, measured in Kilos for their own benefit and no one else’s.
A warning – never give anyone permission to do anything on your land. Let them expropriate if need be. I am not sure how it affects your rights but it can’t hurt.
“Let them expropriate if need be.”
I’d love to see an Eminent Domain court battle over a wind/solar panel farm with the defendant showing how the plaintiff could produce blood from a stone when it came to paying the tax assessment on the estimated windfall.
It would be an epic killer for the alternative energy industry.
Maybe the Kelo decision has a silver lining. (:^))
I don’t really feel sorry for those landowners that now have liens placed by construction firms on their properties. You play with the big boys in order to make a fast buck and you might get burned.
Locals plugging these monsters is the ultimate statement on intrusive urban NIMBY policy – yeah sure they’re all for wind mills as long as gummit doesn’t park one on the frontage of their little urban semi detached cracker box – as long as they are someone elses problem all is well in the self-obsessed urban cosmos.
So say you worked extra hard or took those big investment risks to get the money to escape this urban jungle and buy rural property and build the country dream home – next you know the gummint is erecting one of these scenery-ruining, property devaluing, low frequency generating monsters on you right of ways
Time to send a message that was ignored from the outset – at least that’s how these folks see it – can’t blame ’em at all.
Yes. Saw so many of the ‘Stop ‘Harper’ signs in my riding. Conservatives don’t deface public property to make a point, unlike progressives. But that soon may change…
Wonder how long the signs would stay up. In Harper’s case, I know of one sign that is still hanging. Bet Stop Trudeau would be replaced immediately!
Ma Wynne’s boys done gone and skinned some
more windmill yokels over yonder Paw!
I am told that the lien is against the lease of the turbine and the revenues thereof. As the lease covers a portion of the property, usually the area around the turbine and the roadway access, it does have some effect on the property of the leaseholder. At this point in time I say a pox upon them all, wind companies, landowners with turbines, provincial officials, GTA.