“Anyone with eyes” can see wind turbines impair property values… why does an Ontario government agency insist the opposite is true? The Wellington Times, April 22, 2016 Misled By Rick Conroy One does…
Revenues no more than “Chump Change” for municipalities Wind power developers bringing projects to Ontario’s municipalities offer various inducements to persuade politicians they will benefit from millions of dollars. Like the landowners signing…
Low tax assessments just another wind power subsidy May 13, PostMedia Network by Peter Epp Among the incongruities found within the Green Energy Plan is the way in which wind turbines are assessed…
Jennifer Paterson, Canadian Real Estate Wealth, December 18, 2014 A recent study by the University of Guelph, which found wind turbines do not have an impact on nearby property values, might have earned…
From today’s National Post Blowing in the wind Re: Turbines’ Impact On Realty Limited, Dec. 8. This study’s authors were able to use less than 1% of the sales collected for them by…
Letter to the Editors of Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics: The paper by Vyn and McCullough (2014) should not have been published in its current form as the results are being misinterpreted and…
When the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, (an Ontario Crown corporation reporting to the Minister of Finance) released its report on the effect of wind turbines on property assessments (again, we caution readers that…
One of the fictions maintained by the Ontario government and the corporate wind power development industry and its lobby organization is that property values for properties near wind power projects are not affected…
WIND CONCERNS ONTARIO STATEMENT ON MPAC 2012 ASSESSMENT BASE YEAR STUDY: “IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY ASSESSMENT IN ONTARIO” April 25, 2014 The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation or MPAC, the…
More than a year past its scheduled release, the report from Ontario’s Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) on the effect wind turbines may have on property values has just been released. You may…