Wind power a significant portion of punishing electricity bills, community coalition says. Cancel contracts wherever possible, immediately. The Ontario Ministry of Energy asked for input to its new Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP)…
Further proof that Ontario’s Green Energy Act was not based on any real scientific evidence, or that its setbacks and other regulations were really created for public safety. Former Energy Minister George Smitherman’s…
Wind farms will disappear, says the wind power lobby Map of six wind power sites run by one company in Poland, CERAC Reuters, May 23, 2016 Poland has adopted a new law banning…
No one is forced to have wind turbines on their land; communities shouldn’t be, either. Ontario Farmer, May 17, 2016 By Jane Wilson and Warren Howard Recently, a Mitchell, Ont. resident wrote to…
The more wind power we add, the more expensive Ontario’s electricity becomes, say Tom Adams and Scott Luft Financial Post, March 17, 2016 The costs may be high and the need questionable, but…
Money poured into unreliable green energy projects like wind turbines to blame March 15, 2016 Energy is the basis of our modern lives. It fuels our economy, generating the economic production that…
OPG spills hydro and $150 million goes “down the drain” OPG released their 2015 annual report Friday March 4, 2016; it confirms that 3.2 terawatts (TWh) of water that could have been used…
Province not likely to adopt utility-scale wind power in the next decade; commitment to “firm, cost-effective energy” from hydro Alaska Highway News, February 13, 2016 The country’s largest wind energy organization has…
“No place for subsidizing wind–a failed medieval technology” — Tory MP Owen Paterson The Telegraph, February 13, 2016 Ministers have been accused of planning a U-turn that would see consumers fund new…
“Increasingly hostile planning environment” The Independent, December 25, 2015 Councils across the country are now rejecting over a third of all onshore renewable wind projects – often refusing planning permission even when they…
The Ontario government subsidized companies to produce power, and it subsidized consumers to conserve it. And when it found itself, not surprisingly, with a huge and growing power surplus, it sold it…