Industrialization of rural communities by wind turbines, battery storage rejected by multiple communities As wind power developers prepared to submit proposals to the Independent Electricity Sysem Operator or IESO for contracts for new…
Wind turbines are not popular. They are expensive, noisy, use up valuable productive farmland, and don’t work for climate change. Why say Yes to more? The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Request for…
A critical part of our eco-system, bats are the new canary in the coal mine for grid-scale wind turbines. With turbines now larger, it’s about to get worse. CBC Radio has published a…
Deadline for submissions to IESO for new projects is next week, but the majority of proposals failed to win support Adelaide-Metcalfe put the final nail into a project proposed that would have involved…
Formerly supportive council slams poor procurement process, lack of regulatory response to existing wind turbine problems October 7, 2025 Citizen speaks against more wind turbines at October 6 C-K Council: no one should…
WCO presents excerpts from a recent IESO document, the Provincial Policy Statement and the AMO toolkit to answer questions about wind turbines and protection of prime agricultural land in Ontario
Another industrial wind power project proposed for “rugged and wild” forest area A few weeks ago, residents of South Algonquin, on the eastern edge of national historic site Algonquin Park, learned that an…
Hay Lake, South Algonquin, view of hills where industrial wind turbines were proposed. Photo: Phil Morlock August 26, 2025 The Mayor of South Algonquin Township announced today that SWEB, a subsidiary of Austrian…
Audible sound from wind turbines could be attenuated by distance, but now, more powerful turbines may produce more infrasound: what protection is there?
Sixteen years of the expensive disaster of non-performing, out of phase with demand wind power don’t seem to matter. July 11, 2025 After months of back and forth on approval process and contract…
June 23, 2025 With the addition of two more municipalities in Ontario to the list of those that have declared themselves Unwilling Hosts to new wind power developments, we needed to update the…