Industrialization of rural communities by wind turbines, battery storage rejected by multiple communities As wind power developers prepared to submit proposals to the Independent Electricity Sysem Operator or IESO for contracts for new…
Wind turbines are not popular. They are expensive, noisy, use up valuable productive farmland, and don’t work for climate change. Why say Yes to more? The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Request for…
Deadline for submissions to IESO for new projects is next week, but the majority of proposals failed to win support Adelaide-Metcalfe put the final nail into a project proposed that would have involved…
Formerly supportive council slams poor procurement process, lack of regulatory response to existing wind turbine problems October 7, 2025 Citizen speaks against more wind turbines at October 6 C-K Council: no one should…
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…
Wind power: get past the hype.
Citizens are aware that they need their municipal elected officials to be informed, and aware of community wishes as regards industrial power projects.
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,…
Energy economist Robert Lyman lays out the facts and analysis, and explains why Net Zero goals need a rethink We occasionally publish comment or reviews with regard to the role of wind power…