March 2, 2020 The wind power lobby in Canada is busy crowing about “low-cost” and “free fuel” but the truth is something else. Entirely. Sure, it’s fast and easy the whack up wind…
November 13, 2018 Independent energy commentator Parker Gallant took a tour of the Lennox power plant in Bath, Ontario, last week, and was amazed at the capacity of the facility and its ease…
September 19, 2018 Parker Gallant’s latest posting is in response to a new document from Canada’s wind power lobbyist, the Canadian Wind Energy Association or CanWEA. CanWEA is carrying out an energetic campaign…
“Friend against friend”: Of the 420 people on Amherst Island, 350 opposed the “Windlectric” wind power project, Farmers’ Forum reports. The result is a community ripped apart, that may never come together again…
Re-posted with permission from Parker Gallant Energy Perspectives. If I were the new Minister of Energy … On June 8, after the Ontario election, Ontario’s new premier – whoever that is – will…
March 5, 2018 Being asked to do a presentation at Wind Concerns Ontario’s annual conference this past Saturday, to describe the costs associated with industrial wind turbines was something I relished! The presentation…
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)…
How badly were ratepayers hit? Millions upon millions for power produced out of phase with demand… While the Canadian Wind Energy Association, the trade association for the wind power industry and vested interests,…
“Assertions are complete nonsense … only wilful blindness would suggest that wind and solar are low cost” Recently, energy analyst and occasional columnist for The Financial Post Parker Gallant wrote that the Canadian…
Parker Gallant looks at recent promises made by the Energy Minister and Premier and still has a question: where did the money actually go? Last September 13, Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault…
From Parker Gallant’s Energy Perspectives, a view of how much wind power is costing Ontario. Almost a week after Premier Wynne announced her plan to reduce our electricity bills by 25%, the wind…