Ontario municipality conducts a resident survey before deciding whether to accept wind power developer proposal. The answer was clear: NO. In the fall of 2024, the Council of the Municipality of Mapleton, Ontario,…
Corporate wind power or the environment? Guess which side they’re on March 18, 2025 Last week, Environmental Defence published a statement on renewable energy development in Ontario, complaining about the government’s policies that…
A short documentary filmed in upstate New York follows the massive deforestation and destruction by one power project, and brings the facts of the wind power “charade” January 3, 2025 It’s one thing…
With potential new wind turbine proposals coming in the New Year, Ontario will make the same mistakes all over again without changes to important regulations for noise limits and setbacks December 18, 2024…
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…
Keep city citizens thinking wind turbines are cute (and effective) and it’s OK to force them on rural residents The strategy is clear: pushing the image of wind turbines as benign hides the…
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…
The cost of wind ‘far exceeds’ societal and climate benefits, economist says A consulting economist has written a damning report on the costs and benefits of Ontario’s wind power fleet. There are plenty…
News story today claims Ontario wants mostly (unreliable, intermittent) wind power in new procurement. In a story published today, CBC News claims that the Ontario government has done a “U-turn” on its policy…
Promises, promises for wind power from developers and ideological governments. Here’s why it can’t work. We like this opinion by Canadian Armed Forces veteran and former mining technician John Lee Pettimore, posted on…