While the Wynne government claims to be “Building Ontario Up” the reality is different for rural communities where wind power developers offered leases to farmers, who then chose money over their neighbours and…
February 29, 2016 Bon Echo Residents Against Turbines (BEARAT) has published the documents its lawyer received under a Freedom of Information request, pertaining to communication between wind power developers (the very litigious) NextEra…
[Photo Clarkson University] Understanding the Varying Impacts of Cross-Border Wind Development Wind power is among the fastest growing energy sources in the world today, and is widely viewed as a substantial part of…
“Increasingly hostile planning environment” The Independent, December 25, 2015 Councils across the country are now rejecting over a third of all onshore renewable wind projects – often refusing planning permission even when they…
The Financial Post, December 14, 2015 BRINSTON, ONT. • Jason Cardinal fiddles with his baseball cap, leans back on the wall and mockingly counts his gripes with the latest energy project imposed on his…
London Free Press, November 24, 2015 by John Miner In a province where it’s been deeply polarizing and hugely costly, wind energy hasn’t lost its steam. So many applicants are chasing Ontario’s next…
Topsy turvy November 20, 2015 | Posted by: The Times Wind approval process puts responsibility on citizens, not the developer, to protect the County The thing that troubles Henri Garand about the Green Energy Act is…
This story is interesting not because the dismissal of the appeal by citizens (real citizens, people who live in the community and will be affected by the utility-scale wind turbines), but because of…
CKWS-TV, October 16, 2015 (See website for video clip; transcript follows) THE “ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT AMHERST ISLAND” HAS LAUNCHED AN APPEAL AGAINST THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO ALLOW 26 WIND TURBINES TO BE…
Eastern AgriNews, October 2015 by Nelson Zandbergen Finch- Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will not intervene to quash proposed wind turbine projects currently being evaluated for the Township of North Stormont and the Municipality of…
WPD’s slogan: “Wind has no limits.” Apparently, greed doesn’t either. MILFORD Ont., September 28, 2015— As more than 300 residents of Prince Edward County gathered on Sunday to protest the assault on their…