Canada Free Press
NORTH BAY – Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli says it’s time Ontario started paying attention to a growing global trend in green energy. “While Dalton McGuinty continues to drag us down his ideological green garden path – siphoning more and more money out of your wallet with each monthly hydro bill in the process—the rest of the world is doing a complete rethink on green energy,” Fedeli said. This week, it was reported Spain is halting subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit. (BusinessWeek, Jan 30, 2012) There, state-backed energy system borrowings reached $31 billion US at the end of 2011. That country’s Industry Minister said “what is today an energy problem could become a financial problem.” Read article
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National Wind Watch: News Watch- Quincy Mayor Koch withdraws support for Moon Island wind turbine
- Quincy mayor pulls plug on Moon Island wind turbine
- Lawmakers seek to limit local moratoriums
- Bourne turbine ‘reg’ revised to meet DEP oversight requirements
- Osage Nation drops appeal in prevention of wind farm
- Two Maui wind farm projects surface before land board
- Port Campbell wind farm scrapped
- Prince council wants to knock wind out of Green Energy Act
- Industrial Wind Action: News Watch
- Another setback for wind power; Turbines, trimmed from 8 to 2, shot down
- Merritt Township supervisor looks to heal community wounds following wind turbine decision
- Down with wind: Group outlines problems with proposed wind farm
- Outdated wind turbine setbacks need lengthening
- Wind farm would pose a serious health risk, claim
- Bourne turbine ‘reg' revised to meet DEP oversight requirements
- Committee advances wind farm moratorium bill
- Crisfield delays wind project over $35,000 to fund study
- Wind Wise Radio
- An Alternative Vision for Vermont with Luke Snelling, Geoff Goll, and Steve Wright – Sun, Feb 26, 2012 07:00PMPlease join us as we talk with leaders in the struggle for smart alternative energy solutions in Vermont. Lukas B. Snelling, Executive Director, Energize Vermont Geoff Goll, Hydrologist, Princeton Hydro Steve Wright, Former Commissioner of Fish & Wildlife Department We will discuss the current situation in Lowell Mountain, Sheffield, Searsburg, the currr […]
- The Struggle in Canada with Dr. Robert McMurtry – Sun, Mar 11, 2012 07:00PMDr. Robert McMurtry is currently an advisor for the Society Wind Vigiliance, an international federation of physicians, engineers and other professionals promoting the development of authoritative international wind turbine guidelines to protect the health and safety of communities. The mission of The Society for Wind Vigilance is to mitigate the risk of bot […]
- An Alternative Vision for Vermont with Luke Snelling, Geoff Goll, and Steve Wright – Sun, Feb 26, 2012 07:00PM
EXPOSED! TIME Magazine reveals fossil fuel backing for Sierra Club:
“TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy—one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking—to help fund the Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Though the group ended its relationship with Chesapeake in 2010—and the Club says it turned its back on an additional $30 million in promised donations—the news raises concerns about influence industry may have had on the Sierra Club’s independence and its support of natural gas in the past.”
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/