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 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.
With potential new wind turbine proposals coming in the New Year, Ontario will make the same mistakes all over again without changes to important regulations for noise limits and setbacks December 18, 2024…
Keep city citizens thinking wind turbines are cute (and effective) and it’s OK to force them on rural residents The strategy is clear: pushing the image of wind turbines as benign hides the…
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…
March 8, 2020 New York State governor Cuomo’s move to pass legislation that essentially removes democracy for wind power approvals and rubber stamp the power projects is hardly surprising: community opposition is strong…
Cruel joke: Ontario’s 550 metre setback and government/industry notion that it is impossible to hear turbines past 1500 metres March 3, 2020 New research from Australia has been published in the Journal of…
February 27, 2020 Recent news from New York State and Arizona indicate a disturbing trend in the United States. With the awareness of negative impacts on the environment and human health from industrial-scale…
More wind turbines going up in Chatham-Kent; millions more to be added to Ontario electricity bills October 7, 2019 Chatham-Kent residents living near Wheatley Ontario were surprised to see construction work last week,…
No cause for hilarity this April Fool’s Day. Noise complaints unanswered, wells contaminated, a huge job ahead to unwind the damage April 1, 2019 It’s now almost a decade since Ontario passed the…
Family suffers through night after night of noise while government, wind power operator do endless rounds of testing that go nowhere Government lacks courage to order shutdown, says Wind Concerns Ontario March 21,…