“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…
Report on Environmental Review Tribunal Hearing on White Pines Wind Project December 3 by Paula Peel, APPEC On Day 16 of the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT), APPEC expert witness Kari Gunson testified…
The Montreal Economics Institute, a non-partisan non-profit organization engaged in education and research, has published a document in advance of the Paris climate change talks, entitled A Practical Guide to the Economics of Climate…
Law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson has published a detailed analysis of last week’s election win as regards the environment and energy policy. With regard to energy and renewables, and climate change in specific, the…
Wind “farms” will kill wildlife and scar the natural environment, but the government teaches children to protect it Wellington Times, July 10, 2015 With school children arrayed at his feet, Ontario’s environment minister,…
Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. Unfortunately in Ontario, our present and past Energy…
A propane stove: the latest in “green” living Home Hardware‘s spring Home At Home catalogue arrived in many mailboxes last week; one of the features was an article titled “The power to…
October 2014: Ontario’s breath-taking, record-breaking month for electricity bills Wind power significant in surplus power sell-off Special report by Parker Gallant and Scott Luft Summary: New figures reveal that in October, the Ontario…
Here a commentary from Ottawa-based energy economist, Robert Lyman: In May 2014, the Fraser Institute, based in British Columbia, published a report authored by Professor Ross McKitrick and PhD candidate Elmira Aliakbari of…