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Globe and Mail editorial cartoon highlights wind power divide
If there is so much “green” hydropower to supply the U.S. then why is Ontario continuing to carpet the countryside with wind turbines? When Ontario sends power to Quebec, are we indirectly supplying the U.S.? Is Ontario the United State’s “wind plantation” so they don’t have to de-spoil their countryside? Talk about adding insult to injury!
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CBC News | Montreal. Aug.3, 2015
‘Hydro-Quebec looks to northeastern U.S.’
Six New England governors looking for electricity supplies for their states.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-looks-to-northeastern-u-s-1.3177819
If there is so much “green” hydropower to supply the U.S. then why is Ontario continuing to carpet the countryside with wind turbines? When Ontario sends power to Quebec, are we indirectly supplying the U.S.? Is Ontario the United State’s “wind plantation” so they don’t have to de-spoil their countryside? Talk about adding insult to injury!
Ontario can supply New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The Nanticoke Lake Erie HVDC cables will feed into western Pennsylvania where coal plants are being shut down.