<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Wind Farms, Land Banks, Farms and Water. It is all linked.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Lulu</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
"ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca" <ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca" <tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "catherinefife@on.ndp.ca" <catherinefife@on.ndp.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 8, 2013 10:37:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Windmills in Collingwood may be linked to land banking schemes. <br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv922579214"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Dear Ms. Horwath, Ms. Fife and Mr. Tabuns</div><div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><div id="yiv922579214shellcontent" class="yiv922579214" style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:top;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(221, 221,
221);overflow:hidden;margin-left:180px;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(221, 221, 221);"><div class="yiv922579214reselectable" style="visibility:visible;"><div class="yiv922579214messagepane " style="outline:none 0px;"><div class="yiv922579214message yiv922579214content" style=""><div class="yiv922579214msg-body yiv922579214inner yiv922579214undoreset" style="margin:25px 24px 22px 23px;word-wrap:break-word;"><div id="yiv922579214"><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">As I understand it, there is a Wind project from a German firm that wants to place enormous wind mills in close proximity to the Collingwood Airport posing an obvious flight hazard. An article on this can be viewed here: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/2012/12/04/council-voices-disapproval-of-wind-project" style="color:rgb(40, 98, 197);outline:0px;font-size:12pt;">http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/2012/12/04/council-voices-disapproval-of-wind-project</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">The close proximity is a reasonable concern but in my view I believe this is a CRAFTED </font>scenario<font size="3"> designed specifically to delay wind farm installations in Ontario by creating a situation so bad, it demands revised policy. Here is why I believe this issue was fabricated with the intent to delay wind farms. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color:
transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_57 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_58" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;">Currently there are numerous multi-national firms
buying up massive tracts of farmlands for quarries, dumps and development and "Land Banking" schemes. <br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_58 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_59" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;"><br id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_183"></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_59 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_60" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;">First we had Seth Klarman's Baupost Group in Boston purchasing the lands for the Melancthon Mega Quarry. The quarry project was cancelled but this US based group still owns that farmland. </div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_60 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_61" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;"><br
id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_143"></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_61 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_62" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;">In Oxford County, Calgary based Walker Industries wants to build Canada's forth largest mega dump which would go below the water table. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2013/02/07/peer-review-panel-appointed-to-watch-guard-walker-environmental-assessment" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_200" style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(40, 98, 197);outline:0px;">http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2013/02/07/peer-review-panel-appointed-to-watch-guard-walker-environmental-assessment</a></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_63 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_64" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54"
style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_65 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_66" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_161">In Brant County, Walton International Group </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;">(linked to investors from Singapore) </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;">has purchased 4,400 acres of prime farmland.</span></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_66 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_67" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.brantnews.com/news/brant-residents-voice-concerns-over-development/"
id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_195" style="color:rgb(40, 98, 197);outline:0px;">http://www.brantnews.com/news/brant-residents-voice-concerns-over-development</a><br id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_138"></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_66 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_67" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_66 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_67" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54" style="background-color:transparent;">In Waterloo Region Activa Holdings is the Region's largest land owner, funded by German investments and many of their projects are in proximity to water sensitive features and farmlands as well. </div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_67 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_68" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_54"
style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_59" class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_58 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_68 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_69" style="font-size:12pt;"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_62 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_69 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_70" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_233" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv922579214"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_68 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_70
yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_71" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_232" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_69 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_71 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_72" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_231" style="font-size:12pt;"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_70 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_72 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_73" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_230" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv922579214"><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_71 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_73 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_74" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_229" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div
class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362720502987_69
yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_74 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_74 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_75" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_203" style="font-size:12pt;">In light of these issues, I found a very interesting article that contains the following statements: </div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_77 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_75 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_76" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_78 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_76 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_77" style="background-color:transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_79 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_77 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_78" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_210" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
line-height: 17.84375px;">-Institutional investors are extremely interested in Canadian land, which is far cheaper than in much of the world. </span><br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_80 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_78 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_79" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_82 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_80 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_81" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_83 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_81 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_82" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_212" style="line-height:17.84375px;">-Ontario, British Columbia and other, smaller Canadian provinces have no restrictions on foreign ownership of
farmland. </span></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_88
yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_82 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_83" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_89 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_83 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_84" style="line-height:17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_206" class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_90 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_84 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_85" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_91 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_85 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_86" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_215" style="line-height:17.84375px;">-Land grabs in Canada
have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions.<br></span></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_92 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_86 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_87" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_93 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_87 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_88" style="line-height:17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_204" class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_94 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_88 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_89" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_95
yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_89 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_90" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_220" style="line-height:17.84375px;">-There are also speculations that buying Canadian farmland may be a smokescreen for access to fields of potash, oil and gas.<br></span></div><div><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_97 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_91 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_92" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_98 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_92 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_93" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_99 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_93
yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_94" style="line-height:17.84375px;">“Around the world a lot of land grabbing is actually about gaining control of water, which is far more scarce than land; without water, you cannot farm, and a lot of land grabbers are from water scarce countries. This has been acknowledged by the head of Nestle.”<br></span></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_100 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_94 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_95" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_101 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_18_1362723635058_95 yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_17_1362795635293_96" id="yiv922579214yui_3_7_2_19_1362720502987_222" style="background-color:transparent;">To read the entire article please visit here: </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/land-grabs-canadian-connection" style="color:rgb(40, 98, 197);outline:0px;">http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/land-grabs-canadian-connection</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">In my view, there are people trying to create issues with wind in order to create the delay to grab the land for future development prospects. If the windmills are there THEY CAN'T USE IT for dumps, or pits or development. Those windmills may actually serve a function to help protect farmlands and watersheds for the long term. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Interesting to note that Walton Industries and their parent company, Interborder Holdings Limited are both located in Calgary but have offices in Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong. The EVP of Interborder Holdings Ltd. is CBC political commentator Rick Anderson who is a political strategist. He went from being a an active Liberal member, then he joined the Reform Party and later he worked with Premier Mike Harris in Ontario. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">About 30 years back there was a Liberal vision to build Waterloo Region to a huge city thinking it would be cost effective to do because we have plenty of rich aggregate deposits in our
area. O</font><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;">ur official plan includes a future pipeline to Erie and many of our elected officials still believe if we get that pipe, growth potentials will be unlimited. As a result we have international land purchases happening all over this area in spite of the fact current science shows our ecological systems area already collapsing due to development, pits, pavement and dumps over top our recharge areas. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;">We have legacy spills of TCE, NDMA and 1,4 dioxane that has already cost millions to address. We have overpopulation, effluent, pesticides, closed wells due to roadsalt and water shortages
that have resulted in permanent water bans. Every time they cut into our primary recharge areas, it concentrates all the known contamination issues we are already dealing with in our wells, in the Grand and it's having adverse impacts on downstream communities and Lake Erie. </span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">A pipeline to Lake Erie won't work because blue green algae is a growing issue. We have zebra mussels that clog up intake pipes and lowering volumes due to climate change. Erie is on the verge of collapse and these pits, dumps and developments over the primary recharge area simply aggravating this ecological and economic disaster all the faster. </font></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Please, to protect
Ontario's economy, farms and water resources by putting a stop to these multinational land purchases and work on prohibiting development on A1 farmlands and primary recharge areas. We have no time to waste. If we can secure Ontario's ability to produce food and protect the water that allows us to do it we will prosper greatly in the future. The world will need our ability to provide food. In the age of climate change, those lands are priceless and will give us the key to long term economic prosperity for our province of we protect them. </font></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Thank you kindly for your time. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color:
transparent;">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">Waterloo Ont.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">N2V 2L2</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>