Sixteen years of the expensive disaster of non-performing, out of phase with demand wind power don’t seem to matter. July 11, 2025 After months of back and forth on approval process and contract…
June 23, 2025 With the addition of two more municipalities in Ontario to the list of those that have declared themselves Unwilling Hosts to new wind power developments, we needed to update the…
Malahide, SW Oxford make 159 municipalities saying NO to wind turbines No doubt where the crowd stood on the issue of wind turbines in South West Oxford at a packed Council meeting June…
May 19, 2025 Citizens of South-West Oxford and Malahide have grouped together to stop a huge, 200-megawattwind power project proposed by German power developer wpd. They have a new website, Stop Cedar Flats…
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…
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…
One Ontario municipality refreshes its Unwilling Host commitment while another takes issue with the entire proposal process October 21, 2024 Several interesting developments occurred last week as we get nearer to the Independent…
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…
Minister confirms municipal support mandatory for new power projects to proceed Stephe Lecce, Ontario Minister of Energy and Electrification, announced today that the newest Request For Proposals from the Independent Electricity System Operator…