Billions wasted on deeply flawed energy policy: more disaster to come Toronto Sun, July 31, 2015 EDITORIAL To understand the mess Ontario’s Liberal government has made of the hydro file, one only needs…
Wind power slump causes CO2 spike The Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) summary report for July 28, 2015 demonstrated how it was an atypical day for Ontario’s industrial wind generators. The…
Toronto area resident and photographer Gord Benner took a circle tour of Lake Superior this summer and was astonished to see the damage being done by wind “farm” construction in Ontario’s formerly pristine…
Lovely, aren’t they? Friendly, too. Extortion required for community support now in Ontario “The process stinks,” mayor says of money offered by developers for municipal support Petrolia Independent, July 29, 2015 Warwick…
Thanks to the blog Stop These Things for posting testimony from Canada’s Dr Robert McMurtry, to the Senate Committee on Wind Turbines in Australia, in may. Read the whole testimony here.
Is Big Wind going to win out over community concerns? Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, July 27, 2015 Can communities say no to wind turbine installation? The answer, my friend, may be blowing in the wind.…
While the wind industry likes to boast of a 30% efficiency rate (Algonquin Power claimed 40% for 20 years in its prospectus for the Amherst Island project) the truth is somewhat different. In…
Ratepayers to Queen’s Park: we have a problem Wind power costs plenty for only 4% of generation In the past six months, reports from the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, the C.D. Howe Institute,…
OPINION: Is Ontario allowing nuisance to become lawful? Ontario Farmer, July 21, 2015 Letter to the editor, excerpted In the past few months, the Ontario Landowners Association has been asked to enter the…
NEWS RELEASE Federal government grant to wind power project questioned Wind power forcing electricity bills up and business out of Ontario Toronto, July 22, 2015 Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO) has written a letter…
Christopher Ollson was paid $20,000 to review documents and appear as an expert witness in the Gunn’s Hill appeal, as he has for other wind power developers. Trained in chemical toxicology, Ollson admitted…