The Auditor General for Ontario noted in her recent report that the government has hidden costs of electricity, and not created a fair cost reduction plan. Cancelling wind power contracts would be a…
Tuesday Jul 4, 2017 By John Miner The writer farms in Huron County Ontario’s plan to double its wind energy capacity will make a bad situation worse, according to a report published by…
The Ontario government’s energy policy, which pays high prices for renewables contracts, is actually wasting clean, efficient and reliable power from other sources, says the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, in its blog…
“Wind wastes other clean supply and devalues exports.” In a stunning commentary published yesterday by the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy, energy policy consultant Marc Brouilette says that Ontario’s wind power program…
Parker Gallant compares power output from wind and the cost to consumers between 2010 and 2016: we’re paying more for intermittent wind power, produced out-of-phase with demand In 2010, industrial wind turbines (IWT)…
OPINION: Ontario’s renewable energy ‘disaster’ is what drives up the cost of your hydro Wind and solar energy can’t be delivered on demand so we pay twice to back it up with gas…
The Premier of Ontario put out a news release on March 2, claiming the government was going to reduce Ontario’s electricity or “hydro” bills substantially. “I’ve heard from you loud and clear,” Kathleen…
Eulogy for the wind power industry is premature … unfortunately. December 15, 2016 Parker Gallant in today’s Financial Post The Day Ontario’s wind tyranny ends, there will be dancing in the streets The…
December 6, 2016 Most electricity ratepayers in Ontario are aware that contracts awarded to wind power developers following the Green Energy Act gave them 13.5 cents per kilowatt (kWh) for power generation, no…
The Mayor of North Frontenac has written to Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault on behalf of all the 115 municipalities demanding change to the Large Renewable Procurement process. While relieved the next round of…
If 30 children were sick with measles, it would be a public health crisis, says United Way executive director Francesca Dobbyn. So why isn’t it a crisis when more than 60,000 Ontario families…