In sworn testimony at an environmental review tribunal, a Health Canada official confirmed industrial wind turbines — large, noise-emitting devices — are regulated by the Radiation Emitting Devices Act. So why isn’t it…
Wind turbine noise testing needs total overhaul, Wind Concerns Ontario says NEWS RELEASE June 27, 2016, OTTAWA – Ontario needs to do a complete revision of procedures for wind turbine noise testing, Wind…
In short, just paying and paying. Parker Gallant reviews the first five months in the electricity sector in Ontario, and asks what new Energy Minister Thibeault will do about the impact of the province’s…
CBC News June 20, 2016 Seventy-five municipalities across Ontario are calling on the provincial government to give them more say on future wind farm projects. Some eastern Ontario communities have declared themselves…
Subsidies mask the real cost of producing electricity from wind, says a recent U.S. report The wind power lobby is currently putting forward the idea that generation of electricity from wind energy is actually…
NEWS RELEASE Municipalities call on Ontario government to make municipal support mandatory for wind power bids Plevna, June 15, 2016— Seventy-five municipalities have now endorsed resolutions that call on Ontario’s Independent Electrical…
The Whig-Standard, June 7, 2016 By Elliot Ferguson The public waits for the Amherst Island hearing to begin June 7th. Photo: Elliot Ferguson/Whig-Standard STELLA — The two sides in the legal battle over…
The people of Prince Edward County have been battling a wind power project planned for–and supported by the Ontario government–for more than six years. An Important Bird Area and staging area for hundreds…
The IESO asked for comments on its Large Renewable Procurement process. Looks like nobody is happy, least of all Ontario citizens and the municipalities that would be forced to have the power projects.…
Blackburn News, June 3, 2016 Huron Considering University Partnership On Wind Turbine Study BY BOB MONTGOMERYJUNE 3, 2016 4:24AM A study being proposed by the Huron County Health Unit on the health impacts of…
Further proof that Ontario’s Green Energy Act was not based on any real scientific evidence, or that its setbacks and other regulations were really created for public safety. Former Energy Minister George Smitherman’s…