Lumps of coal for everybody else… Christmas was great day for Michigan and New York, courtesy of Santa Claus Ontario and wind power: Ontario exported 16.5 % (about 66,000 MWh) of our total…
Costly contracts from the OPA add to consumer bills Are the agencies of the Ontario government doing all they can to contain electricity bill increases and costs of power generation in Ontario? The…
Jennifer Paterson, Canadian Real Estate Wealth, December 18, 2014 A recent study by the University of Guelph, which found wind turbines do not have an impact on nearby property values, might have earned…
Electricity Prices jump over 3,000 % in one hour Recent events evolving at the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) should make anyone familiar with the Ontario electricity sector and IESO’s forecasting ability very…
Auditor General report confirms: the “guru” was right The Auditor General of Ontario’s report, released December 9, 2014, confirmed what many of us have been saying for years: the electricity sector in Ontario…
From today’s National Post Blowing in the wind Re: Turbines’ Impact On Realty Limited, Dec. 8. This study’s authors were able to use less than 1% of the sales collected for them by…
Letter to the Editors of Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics: The paper by Vyn and McCullough (2014) should not have been published in its current form as the results are being misinterpreted and…
Colin Perkel, Canadian Press, December 7, 2014 Wind turbines generally have little effect on the value of nearby properties with possibly isolated exceptions, a recent study of thousands of home and farm sales…
Detailed data in Health Canada study contradicts Ontario government claim 550-metre wind turbine setback is safe The results of a Health Canada study released November 6 show that Ontario is not protecting the…
EDITORIAL: Peter Epp, QMI Agency, December 2, 2014 Several factors contributed to Ontario’s rural-urban divide, but perhaps the greatest has been the Ontario Green Energy Act of 2009, which continues to exclusively target…
The wind power development lobby group in Canada, the Canadian Wind Energy Association or CanWEA, funded a research project by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT on wind turbine noise and health. The “study”…