September 19, 2018 Parker Gallant’s latest posting is in response to a new document from Canada’s wind power lobbyist, the Canadian Wind Energy Association or CanWEA. CanWEA is carrying out an energetic campaign…
January 31, 2018 There were so many people attending the hearing at the Ontario Superior Court in Belleville Monday that there was a half-hour delay in the proceedings so a larger courtroom…
As reports of contaminated well water in Chatham-Kent rise, the Ministry of the Environment is strangely silent. They can’t dodge this any longer November 3, 2017 It must be getting harder and harder…
The Auditor General for Ontario noted in her recent report that the government has hidden costs of electricity, and not created a fair cost reduction plan. Cancelling wind power contracts would be a…
“The Green Energy Act was the biggest con ever in Ontario” — MPP Todd Smith October 16, 2017 Hundreds of community members in Prince Edward County marched down Picton Main Street yesterday to…
“To despoil the environment. To slaughter endangered species. To make folks sick.” From the independent Wellington Times, a powerful overview of what the McGuinty-Wynne governments have done to Ontario while aiding huge corporations…
Rick Conroy, editor of the independent Wellington Times news paper in Prince Edward County, has had a front-row seat to at least three, probably four, wind power projects in The County. All have…
The Ontario government’s energy policy, which pays high prices for renewables contracts, is actually wasting clean, efficient and reliable power from other sources, says the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, in its blog…
“Wind wastes other clean supply and devalues exports.” In a stunning commentary published yesterday by the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy, energy policy consultant Marc Brouilette says that Ontario’s wind power program…
Parker Gallant looks at recent promises made by the Energy Minister and Premier and still has a question: where did the money actually go? Last September 13, Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault…
Public declaration demands cancellation of wind power procurement, and re-focus of energy policy by the Wynne government January 9, 2017 The Ontario Multi Municipal Group has issued a public declaration stating it wants…