Many municipalities that have declared themselves to be an Unwilling Host to new or extended industrial wind power sites know what they are talking about: they already have noisy wind turbines, or are…
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…
With new power proposals coming in 2025, Ontario’s rural communities are looking at whether they want to be power plantations for cities. Guess what the answer is? March 18, 2024 The Unwilling Host…
Wind turbine project approvals given by McGuinty and Wynne governments with no input from host communities: “mistakes were made” January 19, 2022 The special interest task force created by a group on Ontario…
January 8, 2022 Former premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne is not seeking re-election this coming June, after 18 years as an MPP, and five years as premier (2013-2018). She recently gave an interview…
September 2, 2021 The failure of a wind turbine at the Bow Lake wind power facility near Sault Ste. Marie is raising questions about safety around the giant industrial structures and current Ontario…
As long as old regulations for wind turbine noise and setbacks remain unchanged in Ontario, anger is not going anywhere September 1, 2021 Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is reported to have said…
The 2010 report by the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario is old, irrelevant, and just plain wrong—time to say goodbye February 4, 2021 In 2010, after media reports of citizen complaints…
Cruel joke: Ontario’s 550 metre setback and government/industry notion that it is impossible to hear turbines past 1500 metres March 3, 2020 New research from Australia has been published in the Journal of…
Some fights against industrial wind projects are over, but there is more work to be done The turbine built near historic Milford in Prince Edward County; citizens celebrated in the Milford hall yesterday. …
June 13, 2018 Now that Ontario’s election is over, and there is a majority government in place, plenty of political watchers are commenting on what happened to create such a dramatic change in…