Failed rink wind turbine investments to be returned

CBC News
The four P.E.I. communities that put wind turbines up at their rinks have been given their initial investment back by the province. The province will also cover the cost of taking down the turbines in Alberton, Kensington, Crapaud and Murray River.

Kensington CAO Geoff Baker told CBC News the town is happy it’s getting its $70,000 investment back and that the turbine is coming down. “We’re disappointed that the project didn’t work, really from the very beginning,” said Baker. “I would say we’re very pleased that the Wind Energy Institute and the provincial government came through and really looked after us as far as the investment we made into the project.”

Kensington’s rink was one of four that hoped to reduce electricity bills through wind energy, a project that received joint funding of almost $1.3 million from the communities, and provincial and federal governments. The Wind Energy Institute of Canada was the project manager. It chose a turbine made by Seaforth and decided which P.E.I. rinks were the best sites.

But Kensington’s turbine only produced a third of the power the wind institute projected. Read article

7 thoughts on “Failed rink wind turbine investments to be returned”

The Windes’ Lie didn’t you know that? The projected energy does not come from wind…it comes from subsidises! Glad to hear that the turbine will come down. (1)? so far? Wish it was that easy here in Ontario, the province that is looking like the Pin Cushing Wind Capitol in Canada!

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The Wind Energy Institute Of Canada

Board includes:
Yves Gagnon
Tom Levy, CanWEA

http://www.weican.ca/about/people.php

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Science Advice, Wind Turbine Noise Expert Panel included:

Yves Gagnon ,also associate editor of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journal of Solar Energy which also includes wind energy.

http://www.scienceadvice.ca/assesments/completed/wind-turbine-noise/expert-panel/gagnon.aspx

Connections to events and people should be noted.

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Barbara on 04/21/2015 at 18:13 said:

Atlantic Business, June 30, 2010

“The Wind Man”

Yves Gagnon

http://www.atlanticbusinessmagazine.net/article/the-wind-man

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- 2013Tom on 04/21/2015 at 23:03 said:
  
  should be “The Con Man”
- Barbara on 04/22/2015 at 13:05 said:
  
  At the time the above article was written, this guy had no windmills and no solar panels on his property.
  
  Just how close are windmills to any of the dwellings that these Health Studies panel members live in?
  
  And the study review panel members as well?