by Chris Vander Doelen, Windsor Star
Premier Dalton McGuinty “opened” a Windsor wind turbine supplier for the third time this week, claiming that his Liberal government’s form of heavily subsidized green energy remains the way of the future. We’ll see. Cynics said the premier was in town only to avoid having to answer the Toronto media’s questions about the terrible review his government got this week from the province’s Auditor-General, who singled out McGuinty’s green spending for special criticism. Read article
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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News- Ingen vindmøller hos de rige — No wind turbines near the rich
- Feds give wind farm a pass if turbine blades kill endangered condors
- Neighbors react to town’s vote to not dismantle wind turbines
- Hydro ‘funds for votes’ accusation
- Broken windmill in Saco takes turn for better
- Sa nei til vindmøller — No to wind turbines
- Turbines fail sound tests: Residents express outrage when DEP won’t shut them down
- Judge: Antrim officials violated Right-to-Know law
- Industrial Wind Action: News Watch
- £1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm
- Payback gone with the wind: Turbine not producing as much energy as expected
- Feds give wind farm a pass if turbine blades kill endangered condors
- Neighbors react to town's vote to not dismantle wind turbines
- U.S. Average Annual Capacity factors by project and State
- Business groups take on Cape Wind in ads
- Broken windmill in Saco takes turn for better
- Anti-wind group accuses Clayton town board of canceling meetings because of video cameras
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When the financial information on CS Wind & Vestas Wind is included in the Windsor story on the planr opening a different version of this story comes out. Did Vestas Wind buy 99 towers from CS Wind or did CS Wind only agree to make 99 towers for Vestas?
Vestas Wind is not in great financial shape with its stock only worth ~ 10% of what it was worth in 2008. Did the province provide incentives to CS Wind as well?