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…
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…
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.
Why? They already have wind turbines and they’re not happy. One of the hallmarks of the list of Unwilling Host communities in Ontario is the fact that all of these municipalities already have…
As IESO procurement set to launch, rural Ontario municipalities are saying, Not here!! Now at 157 In the absence of any change to Ontario’s regulations for setbacks from homes and noise limits for…
Minister confirms municipal support mandatory for new power projects to proceed Stephe Lecce, Ontario Minister of Energy and Electrification, announced today that the newest Request For Proposals from the Independent Electricity System Operator…
And why not? Nothing has changed. June 4, 2024 Two more Ontario municipalities have passed resolutions to declare themselves Unwilling Hosts to new industrial wind power sites, bringing the total to date to…
A letter sent in 2011 to then environment minister by the mayor of Amaranth requested action on negative impacts of wind turbines and a transformer, specifically greater setbacks. Nothing has been done. February…
Letter from energy minister Todd Smith is unequivocal: “I asked the IESO to be clear” January 30, 2023 When the Indendent Electricity System Operator or IESO began releasing drafts of documents for its…
October 30, 2018 Last week, MPP Jim McDonell (Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry) rose in the Legislature to speak in favour of changes to the Green Energy Act, and brought forward the serious concerns for the…
The sitting Liberal government persists in “green” ideology despite energy poverty, no environmental benefit from industrial-scale wind turbines Sam Oosterhoff, MPP for Niagara-West Glanbrook, put forward a Private Member’s Bill in the Legislature…