Mississauga MetroNews
Metrolinx has packed up its 31-metre-tall wind turbine at the Lisgar GO Station after it produced 91 per cent less electricity than projected.
The provincial transportation agency has officially dumped a pilot project aimed at creating renewable energy using a $620,000 wind turbine. Unveiled in 2009, the turbine was slated to produce enough energy to power 80 per cent of the Lisgar GO station’s electricity per year – 98,550 kilowatt hours (kWh). It fell far short of its targets, producing less than ten per cent of that.
“These things are sometimes difficult to predict. It was based on educated estimates and, as it turns out, they were lower than anticipated,” said Metrolinx media relations manager Anne Marie Aikins.
Metrolinx staff began taking down the structure in July, finishing sometime in August. Aikins said it has since been sold. Read article
Note based on “educated estimates” and “wind patterns can change”. Oh really!
Ella in Michigan:
From the right sidebar an article on Algonquin Power & Utilities in Huron County, MI.
Same company is doing the Amherst Island, ON wind project.
I live on Amherst Island and am interested in any reference to Algonquin Power and the wind project. I don’t know which article you are referring to when you say sidebar. Can you be more specific? Thanks.
Canadian Manufacturing, Oct.19, 2015
‘Algonquin Power to build US $303 M Michigan wind project’
JV with RES Americas. Inc.
http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/sustainability/algonquin-power-to-build-us303m-michigan-wind-project-156114
Note the use of: sustainability.
It’s becoming so bad here, Barb. Utterly devastated here. OMGosh, people are so blindly stupid.
I read the article and I just don’t even know what to think anymore.
Circulating and sharing information might help.
Reuters: Algonquin Power & Utilities, Oakville, ON
Company officers:
http://www.reuters.com/finances/stocks/companyOfficers?symbol=AQN.TO
Try:
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AQN.TO
Use: People tab at the page top.
Ella:
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC, Feb.9, 2015
‘States Leading the Charge: Toward A New Energy Economy’
Michigan is one of the states and Bill Ritter is associated with Tom Steyer.
http://blog.firstaffirmative.com/states-leading-the-charge-toward-a-new-energy-economy
Advanced Energy Economy/Colorado State University/CNEE
CNEE is a partner with Advanced Energy Economy Institute which was co-founded by Tom Steyer and Bill Ritter is on the Board.
CNEE has a project involving Michigan but don’t know what this project is about.
http://www.cnee.coloradostate.edu/p/advanced-energy-economy
Try: http://www.cnee.colostate.edu/p/advanced-energy-economy
AEEI was created and then CNEE was established.
Check out the funding trail on creating the CNEE at their website.
Here is very recent commentary on Tom Steyer at wattsupwiththat .
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=Tom+Steyer
CNEE initial funding:
Energy Foundation
Bohemian Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Argosy Foundation
Advanced Energy Foundation
http://www.cnee.colostate.edu/p/funding
CNEE People includes:
Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project
http://www.cnee.colostate.edu/p/people
Alberta Oil, July 2, 2014
‘The funding campaign behind ClimateWorks and the Energy Foundation’
“the twin engines of the campaign against fuels: the Energy Foundation and ClimateWorks.”
http://www.albertaoilmagazine.com/2014/07/funding-climateworks-energy-foundation
The Energy Foundation ( San Francisco ,CA) Board includes:
Bill Ritter, Jr. and also with CNEE, Colorado State University.
CNEE
Patrick Cummins, Sr. Policy Advisor was Executive Director of WCI/Western Climate Initiative which is involved with the Quebec-California Cap and Trade deal.
http://www.cnee.colostate.edu/p/people
The Denver Post, Jan.5, 2011
‘Ritter takes job at CSU’
Center for a New Energy Economy/CNEE had an initial funding of $550,000 in association with the Energy Foundation and the Bohemian Foundation.
Bill Ritter, Director at $300,000/yr.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17015999
Alliance To Save Energy, Washington,D.C.
Bill Becker, CNEE:
Member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s international Climate Change Task Force.
http://www.ase.org/biography/bill-becker
The Leadership Page has who the other members are of Alliance To Save Energy organization. Some big names around Washington!
The Climate Change Task Force
Task Force members include:
William Becker, CNEE
Mary Robinson, European Climate Foundation
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir David King
Juels Kortenhorst, CEO European Climate Foundation
http://www.climatechangetaskforce.org/task-force
See the home page for a photo of Kim Campbell with Gorbachev.
Earth Charter Initiative
Commissioners include:
Mikhail Gorbachev, Co-Chair, Russia
Maurice F. Strong, Canada
Elizabeth May, Canada
Steven Rockefeller, U.S.. Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Severn Cullis Suzuki, Canada
http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Commissioners.html
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Biography: Steven Rockefeller
http://www.rbf.org/people/steven-rockefeller
CNW, Dec.15, 2009
President Gorbachev, Former PM Campbell Call on Canada to Dispel ‘Defeatism,’ Act on Climate
Letter Signatories include:
Bill Becker,now with CNEE
Tzeporah Berman
http://archive.newswire.ca/en/story/394527/president-gorbachev-former-pm-campbell-call-on-canada-to-dispel-defeatism-act-on-climate
It’s the “Deerfield project # MI” which is Huron County, Mich.
So , do I read this right?
The provincial government has admitted that turbines are useless?
They finally closed the books on Horizon’s project in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was a long drawn out fight, but it’s finally over.
http://www.tbnewswatch.com/News/376804/Province_officially_closes_Big_Thunder_Wind_Park_file
Ella,
Wikipedia: Pat Stryker, Bohemian Foundation, Colorado
In 2006 Stryker gave $500,000 to the Coalition for Progress that donated heavily in the Michigan elections.
See: References Section
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stryker
Wikipedia: Argosy Foundation, Milwaukee, WI, founded 1997
Scroll down to: Grantees
2013, 70,000 to Energy Foundation, San Francisco
Also see the References section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_Foundation
Forbes, June 18, 2014
‘Boston Scientific Cofounder John Abele Has Big Ambitions In Retirement’
Scroll down to:
“the farm, a condo in Havard Square, his conference center outside Toronto and …”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2014/06/18/john-abeles-big-second-act-ambitions
John Abele lives in Vermont.
Energy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Board includes:
Bill Ritter, Jr., CNEE, Colorado State University
http://www.ef.org
Wikipedia: The Kingbridge Centre, King City, ON
In 2001, the site was sold to John Abele, co-founder of Boston Scientific.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingbridge_Centre
Context Consulting, Founded 2004
Team includes:
Mary Stacey, founder and managing director. Also advisor Kingbridge Institute founded by John Abele.
Mary Stacy designed the 2013 European Climate Gathering.
Partners include:
Kingbridge Colaboration Institute.
http://www.contextconsulting.com/about-2/team
Context Consulting has a Toronto contact site.
Institute Trusted Advisors include:
Mary Stacey, Context Consulting
Tom Dixon
http://www.kingbridgecentre.com/institute-trusted-advisors
John Abele Website
Affiliations Page
Affiliations include:
Argosy Foundation
Kingbridge
Rocky Mountain Institute
http://www.john-abele.com
Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado
Board of Trustees includes:
John Abele
Jules Kortenhorst, CEO and member of The Climate Change Task Force, founding CEO of European Climate Foundation.
Jigar Shah, the old SunEdison company that had ground mounted solar project/s in Ontario. He later sold the company. Also into the Carbon War Room.
http://www.rmi.org
Greenpeace, 2011 Board of Directors
Jigar Shah (2011-2013)
Founder of SunEdison 2003
For more information:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Global/usa/planet3/PDFs/2009-2010-boards-of-directors.pdf
She sure sold the people on green jobs.
There were some who committed suicide when they lost their jobs. Even a few jumped off from overpasses onto the freeways.
Was your area as badly affected by last week’s wind storm with the IWTs roaring?
Now, that makes perfect sense to me, at this point.
(lets be real, a good percentage of people just do not care until it’s to late and the baby has disappeared down the bathtub drain)
Gov. Snyder sold Michigan out.
Thanks Barb.
For the 2014 election he was only slightly better but this has now changed to negative.
Either way Michigan lost.
CSIS | Center For sSrategic & International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Background
“In the fall of 2007, the CSIS and National Security Program and the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate and Energy Program launched a partnership on energy security and climate change.”
Supported by:
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Tides Foundation, Connect US Energy Fund
The Energy Foundation
http://www.csis.org/programs/energy-and-national-security/-roadmap-secure-low-carbon-energy-economy/background
Follow the money!
I have great reservation of information published by centers for studies of this and that, think tanks, institutes, foundations and even many so called and too often self-promoted political energy afvisors. What i trust most are those who work in applied science such as the engineers. No new scientific concept makes it all the way through to reliable, fit-for-purpose and field proven status without their intense involvement! So why is the media not consulting them?
“Either way Michigan lost.”
I know, I look at it (IWT’s) everyday.
We can also thank Granholm, prior.
” She sure sold the people on green jobs. ”
yes Barb, see a couple links from Michigan Cap below.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/21829
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/13964
Last week when we had high winds, I noticed one night all the lights on every turbine was out. Now this is unusual. Sometimes half of them are on, sometimes not. And of course, they sure don’t work when it’s calm out. Although, they do like to spin them around during the calm days here and there periodically. I think it’s just for show.
We have had a lot of power outages in the last two years, and every time, the lights are still working on the turbines, but the communities sit powerless.
I don’t “hear” them at my distance, but I do “feel” them. I can tell you when they blow my way. I try to stay away from the area as much as possible. Of course, I can’t just leave my home when they bother me.
And, unfortunately for me, I have developed tinnitus in the last two years.
Another organization to keep in mind for Michigan is the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado. http://www.rmi.org
Carbon War Room merged with them in December 2014.
Their combined Board of Trustees has some very influential people on it and one with a family connection (brother) to the UNFCCC Christina Figueres.
All this activity taking place right in Colorado.
Canadian Engineers working in most of Canada’s energy industries from hydro, to nuclear to O&G etc. repeatedly stated years ago…. “Why are GreenPeace, Sierra Club”, David Suzuki Foundation and Naomi Klein promoting such weak energy solutions such as wind and solar?”…….. Now we know the real reason….. They don’t want real solutions! That want to grow their green agenda, green empires and their degree of power and control…… and we have all been suckered!!!
Then factor in the uber rich who are supplying the money for this!
Here’s a paper that everyone needs to take a look at and send to our new Prime Minister before he heads off to Paris.
http://www.scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_RC_2015_08_24_EN.pdf
Also send to the MPs.
The public may be growing tired of the “trash” science that’s being thrown at them?