/ With no changes to regulations for setbacks or noise limits for wind turbines, and new bids possible, dozens of Ontario communities have taken the only step possible [Shutterstock image] APRIL 30, 2024,…
“Inhumane and unethical”: environmental group says massive industrial wind power-hydrogen site will have unprecedented environmental impacts. Legal action is being considered. A environmental group headquartered in Newfoundland-Labrador claims the approval by the provincial…
It’s all in the numbers: what is the real cost of wind and solar? [Shutterstock image] The ways wind and solar are costed ignores the real costs of their unreliability…and of getting rid…
Figures presented show actual loss of $25 billion in property value for U.S. houses near wind turbines In March, 2024, the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS, published…
With new power proposals coming in 2025, Ontario’s rural communities are looking at whether they want to be power plantations for cities. Guess what the answer is? March 18, 2024 The Unwilling Host…
There is a lot of money at stake, as Ontario opens up to contracts for Battery Energy Storage Systems Small Battery Storage facility operated by Shell November 14, 2023 As of today, there…
A story in the Wall Street Journal details how the once easy wind power cash grab just got difficult, as community after community resists May 8, 2023 Concerns about losing valuable farmland, wind…
January 31, 2023 The Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO released a document a few weeks ago titled Pathways to Decarbonization. The document was in response to a request from the Ontario Minister…
“Unbounded science and engineering fiction” says author who is a Top 100 Global Thinker In his 2016 book Power Density, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Vaclav Smil (Professor Emeritus, University…
December 23, 2022 Late this afternoon (just a day and a half before Christmas, and in the middle of Chanuka), the Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO announced that changes have been made…
Some Ontario landowners may be approached to sign lease agreements to host wind turbines on their property. The cash is attractive but there are plenty of risks too. May 9, 2022 With the…