Hunters Dream

07/03/2024

From Jasona Rondeau

Hello again everyone! Just a reminder for those who would like to learn more about the 6 solar, battery, and wind projects planned for your area in 2024, to please come join me at the Metiskow Hall THIS SATURDAY NIGHT from 5pm -8:30pm. There will be displays, handouts, lots of questions and answers, an interesting presentation, and the chance to sit and chat with your friends and neighbors over coffee and a few sweets that some very lovely local ladies are putting together for us 🙂
In the comments, I am including links to a couple videos: the first one is of my oral submission to the AUC inquiry in December.
The second one, is from REDA (a group helping landowners who have terrible contracts with developers) and is VERY eye-opening to learn how developers treat their project hosts!
Hope to see you on Saturday!

26/02/2024

Please attend at least one of these meetings !!!
March 2 or March 9

Please share !!

20/02/2024

David Lake Concerned Citizens, wrote:
Happy Family Day everyone!
I made it home safe and sound and am finally organized enough to send out the first group email. I am very glad I made the trip to Wainwright as I was able to accomplish many things wonderful things!

What I needed to do was secure at least 1 landowner or leaseholder, within 800 meters of the project, to file a complaint by the end of my trip. I was able to do this with some other concerned citizens as a bonus!

Because we have 2 bordering landowners now registered (and I think 2 more to come this week as I start making calls tomorrow morning), any neighbors beyond the 800m can now join the group and have a say.

I am including the complaint, called a SIP (like the drink you take), that was filed for Garth Arneson so you can see an example of what can be said and what needs to be said about this project. (SIP is short for Statement of Intent to Participate). I wrote all the content so we can use it as an example of what everyone can write. There are no rules against copying here!

In order to file a SIP, you will need an account on the AUC eFiling system and then need to file the complaint after that is all set up. I can help you with both of those things over the phone taking up only about 15-20 minutes.

In order to file a SIP, you will need:
your name
your phone number
mailing address
L*D of nearby property and approximate distance to the project boundary
-to state your reasons why you oppose this application
-to state how this project affects you or your neighbors or the natural area of Wainwright Dunes and David Lake
- state how you would like to participate in this process and why (for example: share written evidence, share pictures as evidence, speak during the oral hearing, submit only the complaint and nothing more)

So, if you can please spread this message to as many people as possible as quickly as possible, we can get our people signed up and begin preparing for the next steps of this process... asking the developer a long list of questions about their application and reports (Information Requests).

Our lawyer, Richard Secord, is included on this email. He is from the law firm, Ackroyd LLP, in Edmonton. He and his team of experts and legal colleagues were critical to the win my community had against a solar project in Blackie. You can read a bit more about the firm and Richard here:
https://www.ackroydlaw.com/legal-services/environmental-law/

I'd like to keep this relatively short so I will end here. If you have any questions AT ALL, please send them to me anytime, day or night, and I'll do my best to get back to you right away! Thank you for being part of the group and for standing up to Westbridge & Dolcy.

Jasona (Rondeau)
David Lake Communications Coordinator

18/02/2024

Update from Jasona Rondeau

anyone who is opposed to send an email to the David Lake Concerned Citizens at [email protected]. The meetings I had were extremely successful and the group, including a growing number of adjacent landowners, are officially filed with the AUC by the deadline! We are off to the races folks 🤩

17/02/2024

This is a copy of a post that was on a group that you may not be able to see

Unfortunately I wasn’t aware of the meeting Friday Feb 16

Perhaps this is something we should all be aware of and take action ….

Jasona Rondeau ….

Good day folks! I have an urgent message for anyone who is living near the location of the Dolcy Solar + Battery project proposed by David Lake and the Wainwright Dunes. I know Edgerton well as I lived there in 87-88 when my mom had a little barber/hair shop between the post office and laundromat, not to mention that she was born and raised in Chauvin. She later had the Mainstreet Barbershop in Wainwright for 10 years, so you may remember Roana. As her daughter, I feel obligated to try to help people in this area because the community where I live is the first one in Alberta to have stopped a solar project that was harming farmland and the environment just as much as this project will.

This project will use 625,000 solar panels and will require 87,000 steel piles dug down to 10 ft on just under 1000 acres (11 quarters) of cropland, grassland, and wetlands - all 3 of which this planet is not making any more of! It will also have 62 Tesla megapack batteries that have serious risks for fire and explosions causing at least 3 severe toxic gases being released...

The deadline to voice your concerns is TODAY at 4pm because the developer applied right before Christmas so nobody would notice...

I am available all day today (Friday Feb 16th) at the Ramada meeting room in Wainwright to help anyone who would like to know more about this Dolcy project or about a twin-project being developed north of Provost called Eastervale. My phone number is 403-401-3700 so please call, text, or messenger me for more info. I drove all the way from south of Calgary yesterday for this so please know, I am committed to helping in any way I can!

All it takes is one landowner to kick off the whole process- in my community (Blackie pop. 300), we have 185 people in our group so I can tell you, we believe in farmers and ranchers rights to stand up to these projects. We have done it once before and so we have a blueprint to help folks further north since we have already been hit super-hard down south! (99 solar projects on the books so far consuming 65,000 acres of agricultural land and putting up 27 million solar panels...)

Please take 13 minutes to watch my very informal video and share with others if you feel that's the right thing to do 🙂 thanks so much for reading this whole message 🤗🤓

since the recording of this video, new reports have been submitted by the developer so there is new info to report in person :) Open house at the Wainwright Ramada Friday Feb 16th, 2024 from 10 am to

17/09/2021

Ready for guests
PM to book

24/08/2021

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17/08/2021

Hi everyone

Since the gov’t decided they wanted a share of rentals through Airbnb I took down my listing. Apparently our little cabin in the middle of nowhere is hard to find on the www, so I have created this page to help you find our humble little cabin.

If you are looking for a warm dry place to hang your hat while bird or big game hunting in the area of the MD of Wainwright or the MD of Provost we would be happy to share our treasure with you.