Clear Skies Over Orangeville Blog

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Name: stella
From: everywhere
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I'm with you CANOES! Orangeville is very beautiful. We bought some land there to build a house too and now I'm not so sure. I as well do not want to live in the middle of an INDUSTRIAL area. I'm not from a farm, but my mother's side of the family were farmers and worked very hard for everything they had. I feel bad for some of the farmers that are getting bashed here. My hat's off to farmers, they are the backbone of the economy along with the American trucker. There is enough room for all of us to co-exist happily, however I have been out West many times & seen the turbines in the mts. & deserts (non-populated areas). They do not belong near people's homes.
Added: March 14, 2010
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Name: Sam Millson
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Seriosly if farming is so good and you know so much about farming you say.Sounds like you are madd because you don't have $1,000,000 toys or you would be in farming then. Did you know why they have " IMMIGRANTS " working on farms? I do no one wants to work for $10.00- $15.00 an HR. like i did and you say you know how so you had better get to work on the farm!
Added: March 13, 2010
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Name: seriosly
From: Orangeville
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Hmm, let's see it has been a few days. The comments about those hard working farmers in Orangeville with $50,000 vehicles over $100,000 pulling tractors, and lots of other BS items; they have hard working IMMIGRANTS. They-the so called farmers work hard at finding government subsidies. As for farming you have no idea who I am, what I do, or have done. Hint: obviously I know more about farming than you do, so SHHHHH, you are making yourself look uneducated. As for suburbia, I live in an agricultural area because I have all my life and I love it. If I wanted Industrial I would have moved to Lackawanna. Thank you to those weekenders who love this rural area and are standing up to Bullying Subsidized Farmers, and those trying to fit into the 'Good 'o boys club'
Added: March 13, 2010
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Name: Orangeville WTG
From: Cow Country
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-continued- I will term this the BS factor. An example of this BS factor displayed in public would be the couple in Sheldon up on the French Rd that moved out from the burbs, built a house and are participants in the High Sheldon Wind Farm. They turned against the WTGs when they didn't get one on their property...noisy and unsightly! Then csoo member(s) had them come to an O'ville Town Board meeting to cry to our Town Board about all the ill effects of these devices. I say if they didn't want to look at these things, why in the he!! did they sign an Agreement with the developer for a WTG on their prop. in the first place!
Added: March 12, 2010
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Name: Orangeville WTG
From: Cow Country
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-continued- Also Canoes, I'm not going to outright dismiss the sound issue-I know better. Any moving structure 389' up in the air with an 82.5m diam. rotor is going to make some noise when air interacts with it; noise that varies with atmospheric conditions. However, one can clearly see this noise issue is a ‘front’ for the larger visual issue that some people in orangeville (mainly csoo members) have.
Added: March 12, 2010
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Name: Orangeville WTG
From: Cow Country
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Canoes, I can't do anything about the visual perceptions...that's a subjective thing. It’s the same concept that applies to humanoids; person A finds person B attractive yet person C finds person B ugly or unsightly.

I don’t want to live in suburbia! For me, it pains me to see former farm ground in O'ville now with residential structures on it with 3-5 acres of mowed lawn...that's ugly in my book! Farm ground in an ag district lost to residential development is lost FOREVER.
Added: March 12, 2010
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Submitted by
Name: canoes
From: Orangeville
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Orangeville WTG, I have no problem living out here in farm country. When we bought the land and built on it we knew what we were moving to and what goes with it. We wanted the quiet countryside and the beautiful views. Sure, there is an occasional tractor or slurry truck that goes by. And once in awhile there is the unmistakable odor from the farms but we knew this going into the move here. My problem is that I don't want to live in an industrial wind turbine park. I don't want to see or hear 410' wind turbines out my front window. That is not what was here when we purchased the land and started building.
Added: March 10, 2010
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Name: Orangeville WTG
From: Cow Country
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Seriously, as you know the majority of farming in O'ville is dairy. Just what are all these subsidies you are referring to?...I'd like to get in on them myself. Other than the MILC payment, which in todays dairy business has a low monthly production cap (in pounds), again, which subsidies are you specifically referring to? I believe this statement is largely without merit.

As far as ag assessments go, would you rather have the dairy farms assessed at full residential land rates? If so, you obviously are asking for most of your food to come from places such as China, you know the country that makes the majority of the "stuff" most lame a$$ Americans use in everyday life.

As far as the folks with the puller tractor go, that family works [physically] hard for what they got and have for generations in Orangeville and surrounding towns.

If you folks don't like the fact that you moved into an ag oriented county, then you know what you need to do!
Added: March 10, 2010
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Name: Farm Country
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You had better not be eating any meat of any kind or any vegetable,our use any thing grown by any farmer from any place. I hope you have a green thum you will need it.I would love to see you farm ( cows ) for one year you would be dead after 30-45 days. You would have to get up every day at 5am ( or before ) milk the cows feed them take care of all the sweet smelling brown gold they give every day many times a day,fix anything that does not work,mix more feed,milk them a 2nd time at about 5pm (yes they must be milked 2 X a day ) and that is a easy day in the cold winter.Try summer 14-18 hr days every day. You must be a CITYIT
Added: March 9, 2010
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Submitted by
Name: Seriously
From: Orangeville
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This is something most already know--that is that farmers in Orangeville have their hands out time and time again. And becasue they are so sudsidized I pay more in taxes-or should I pay for them. And yet they are the ones crying they need the Turbines to reduce their taxes? Whose taxes? Well I will pay more and will continue to pay their subsidized property gladly over havig turbines in our prestine town.

How many hand outs do they need. And please I do not want to hear they have it so bad, have you seen the Pull tractor our one farmer/board member has, or the new 50,000 vehicles the other drives, or the fact they have nor mortgage. They wouldn't be in business if it wasn't profitable--basic economics
Added: March 8, 2010
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