Wind power: get past the hype.
Citizens are aware that they need their municipal elected officials to be informed, and aware of community wishes as regards industrial power projects.
May 23,2025 “Rural communities should not be pressured to accept industrial risks in exchange for sports equipment.” There is a battle ongoing in rural Ottawa as the developer for a lithium ion battery…
May 20, 2025 “I cannot support Evolugen,” Ottawa area MPP Karen McCrimmon told a local online newspaper in a wide-ranging interview that included questions about a proposed battery energy storage system or BESS.…
May 19, 2025 Citizens of South-West Oxford and Malahide have grouped together to stop a huge, 200-megawattwind power project proposed by German power developer wpd. They have a new website, Stop Cedar Flats…
Ontario municipality conducts a resident survey before deciding whether to accept wind power developer proposal. The answer was clear: NO. In the fall of 2024, the Council of the Municipality of Mapleton, Ontario,…
Energy economist Robert Lyman lays out the facts and analysis, and explains why Net Zero goals need a rethink We occasionally publish comment or reviews with regard to the role of wind power…
Corporate wind power or the environment? Guess which side they’re on March 18, 2025 Last week, Environmental Defence published a statement on renewable energy development in Ontario, complaining about the government’s policies that…
Economist Edgardo Sepulveda shows demonstrates wind power’s fatal flaw in Ontario: completely out of sync with demand (and no, batteries can’t fix that) Building on his report and ground-breaking cost-benefit analysis of wind…
The IESO is adopting “caretaker” mode during the upcoming Ontario election, to be held February 27 Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO announced on Monday that with the upcoming Ontario election, it…
A short documentary filmed in upstate New York follows the massive deforestation and destruction by one power project, and brings the facts of the wind power “charade” January 3, 2025 It’s one thing…
With potential new wind turbine proposals coming in the New Year, Ontario will make the same mistakes all over again without changes to important regulations for noise limits and setbacks December 18, 2024…