NEWS RELEASE Municipalities call on Ontario government to make municipal support mandatory for wind power bids Plevna, June 15, 2016— Seventy-five municipalities have now endorsed resolutions that call on Ontario’s Independent Electrical…
The IESO asked for comments on its Large Renewable Procurement process. Looks like nobody is happy, least of all Ontario citizens and the municipalities that would be forced to have the power projects.…
If province had a 1-km setback for wind power generators, almost none of the North Stormont project would be allowable, says community group. “They say wind power is ‘green’ ” says leader Margaret…
…because the government clearly doesn’t get that No means NO. Lucknow-Sentinel, April 28, 2016 IESO’s designation of Huron-Kinloss as potential host for green energy projects forces township to reaffirm its no wind turbine…
“They have more say than they did five years ago,” Premier says. She also says people “get used to” living near the power projects. Kingston Whig-Standard, March 31, 2016 By Elliot Ferguson Senior…
North Frontenac missed the wind farm bullet this time but the community is taking no chances–it wants the unwilling host status to mean something to the Wynne government Press Release – Renewable Energy…
Communities are Unwilling Hosts, and had asked the province not to issue new wind power contracts IESO March 10, 2016 LRP I Contracts Offered – March 10, 2016 The IESO has completed its…
“Top-down” policy ignored community concerns, health impacts, research team says 3-MW turbine south of Ottawa at Brinston: Ontario. Communities had no choice. [Photo by Ray Pilon, Ottawa] Ottawa Citizen February 3, 2016 By…
January 29, 2016 In the paper published this past week in the journal, Nature Energy, authors Fast et al. reviewed the policy behind the Ontario government’s push toward industrial-scale or utility-scale wind power,…
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…
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…