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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News- Hundreds attend public hearing on turbines
- Lambton Shores ‘not a willing host’ to turbines
- IEA warns Germany on soaring green dream costs
- 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
- Industrial Wind Action: News Watch
- Urgent call to tear down school-based turbines
- Hundreds attend public hearing on turbines
- £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
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Tag Archives: Energy cost
Turbines white elephants in the making
Picton Gazette More food for thought… Last week T. Boone Pickens, the Texas billionaire, ditched the “Pickens Plan”, a scheme to build 4,000 MW of wind capacity in Texas. The same week “Deep” Dalton McGuinty announced plans for Ontario, with … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, government subsidies
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It’s YOUR Money, Ontario
Posted in Subsidies / Costs
Tagged Energy cost, government subsidies, Ontario government, samsung
Samsung Buries Ontario Deep into Third-World Abyss
Gerson Lehrman Group Summary Economies of the Third-World are usually defined by “sweat shops” or “branch-plants” operations. The definition has recently been enforced onto the province of Ontario by Samsung’s “Green Deal” as a reminder to all, that the auto-industry … Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Winds of change
Premier McGuinty has committed Ontario to a generous deal for a soon-to-be forgotten energy source By Lawrence Solomon National Post In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton … Continue reading
Subsidies, distortion, fake job creation and back-room political deals
Ontario puts $10B in the wind By Terence Corcoran, National Post When government and industry talk about green energy, what they mean by green is the green stuff that will be going into the pockets of special corporate and government … Continue reading
Untendered, Secret Deal Gives Away $437,500 per Green Job
www.torontosun.com Premier Dalton McGuinty says his $7-billion deal with South Korea’s Samsung Group to create 16,000 new jobs over six years and generate 2,500 megawatts of renewable energy will “make Ontario the place for green energy manufacturing in North America.” … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Jobs, Ontario government, Subsidies / Costs
Tagged corporate welfare, corruption, dishonesty, Energy cost, government subsidies, Ontario government
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McGuinty’s Electricity Pricing Policies: Insane and Misleading
Why power pricing is off the grid By Lorrie Goldstein, Sr. Associate Editor Toronto Sun I’ve been struggling to come up with two words to describe electricity pricing policies under Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. I think I’ve found them: Insane … Continue reading
Posted in Green Energy Act, Ontario government, Subsidies / Costs
Tagged Energy cost, McGuinty
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Oil still fuels the green state of Denmark
Globe and Mail Eric Reguly Something is rotten: Despite wind power, fossil fuels still dominate electricity production Denmark oozes green. Its capital, Copenhagen, won the moral right to host next month’s climate change summit in good part because Denmark seems … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, Europe, Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged corporate welfare, Energy cost, Energy viability, environment, government subsidies, greenwashing
Another Backroom Deal?
Toronto Sun The government needs to explain why it would agree to pay a private company nearly three times what it pays publicly owned Ontario Power Generation for hydro electricity, the official opposition demanded yesterday. “Why would your government be … Continue reading
A few questions to put your energy literacy to the test
Globe and Mail by Gwyn Morgan, retired founding CEO of EnCana Corp. Access to affordable energy is essential to our way of life, making the upcoming gathering of world leaders in Copenhagen profoundly important. Yet few Canadians possess the level … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability
Premier’s green energy plan is faulty
Northumberland News By Al Matthews This is in regard to the ‘Green Energy Bandwagon’ and the media’s comments that go something like, “It’s not as if wind power is controversial.” Wrong, wrong, wrong. More than 4,000 (some say as high … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government
Tagged corporate welfare, Energy cost, Energy viability, government subsidies
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Samsung Sweetheart deal that could end up costing taxpayers Billion$ of dollar$ in subsidies
Toronto Star - A controversial deal between the province and Samsung Group will not die just because its main champion, George Smitherman, is leaving Queen’s Park, insists Premier Dalton McGuinty. As first disclosed by the Star, McGuinty’s cabinet is split over … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government, Subsidies / Costs
Tagged corporate welfare, corruption, Energy cost, Energy viability, Ontario government
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The winds of change stall
Tevy Pilc, Toronto Observer When Toronto Hydro announced on Oct. 23 it had approved building a wind research platform on Lake Ontario, it was supposed to be a vital step toward the development of sustainable energy in the province. But … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario government
Tagged due diligence, Energy cost, Energy viability, McGuinty
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Dirty Wind-power War
Terence Corcoran National Post In the PR war over subsidies, the wind industry appears to be waging a dirty war. When industries look for government subsidies for money-losing propositions, a common business model these days, one of the most important … Continue reading
RBC: Wind Power – It’s Dust in the Wind
Download Royal Bank of Canada Analysis on Wind Power Excerpts: If, as some believe, wind replaces baseload then economics of wind should be compared to baseload, which makes wind very expensive. Typical average capacity factor for wind is ~20%-25%, while … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, government subsidies
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In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario, all I expect is a bigger hydro bill
By CONNIE WOODCOCK Toronto Sun There’s a farmer in Northumberland County, east of Oshawa, who wants to build a house for his daughter on his farm, but he can’t because he’s on the heavily protected Oak Ridges Moraine. But it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, greenwashing, McGuinty, Ontario government, smitherman
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Environmental Scientist Exposes Wind Farm Scam
Buy it Today from Amazon.ca “Eventually the obsession of our politicians with tower blocks was seen to be one of the greatest follies of the age. In time to come – it may be sooner than we think – the … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, Subsidies / Costs, Viability, Wind Industry
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, environment, junk science
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ATTENTION ONTARIO: New Danish study proves Wind energy is a waste of $$$
Read entire article here: Enviralment: Taking a closer look at the issues surrounding our environment Higher taxes and increased subsidies. Won’t benefit overall economy and job creation. Benefits turbine owners, shareholders and employed in the sector. Number of Danish coal … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, environment, government subsidies
Windmills: Bigger Waste than eHealth
Posted: September 30, 2009, National Post Wind reduces CO2 emissions at a subsidy cost of about $124 per tonne — one of the most expensive plans in the world By Michael Trebilcock Ontarians take note. A detailed new Danish study shatters … Continue reading
Everyone is Protected and Subsidized Except the Consumer
Ontario’s iron-fisted energy model Posted: September 30, 2009, NP Editor By Terence Corcoran At the G20 Pittsburgh summit, Canada endorsed a commitment to end subsidies to fossil fuel industries and step up subsidies to renewable energy sources. “We commit to…stimulate … Continue reading
Full Disclosure Needed on McGuinty Wind Contracts
By Antonella Artuso, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Toronto Sun Ontarians need to know exactly how provincial government contracts for wind-generated electricity will impact their hydro bills, Tory energy critic John Yakabuski says. “I think we need full disclosure on these … Continue reading
Green policies offer fascinating case study in the difference between real PR and fake PR
Canadian Energy Issues by Steve Aplin All of which means that when the greens call for wind, they are really calling for natural gas. When Ontarians read newspaper headlines in 2015 saying that provincial GHGs are as bad as they … Continue reading
24.3% Increase: McGuinty and Smitherman Have Clearly Pulled a Fast One
To voice your opinion email boardsec@oeb.gov.on.ca Reference: EB-2009-0096 Deadline: September 16th 2009 (Ottawa, ON) – Energy Critic John Yakabuski (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP) said today that Dalton McGuinty and George Smitherman have clearly pulled a fast one on Ontario electricity customers. Yakabuski … Continue reading
Sanity still blowing in the wind
Terry McCrann Herald Sun Simply and damningly: If you don’t ask the question, if you don’t do the analysis, you won’t come up with the ‘wrong’ answer. If you do, you find that not only does wind fail as a … Continue reading
Posted in Subsidies / Costs, Viability, Wind Industry
Tagged Energy cost, Energy viability, environment, greenwashing
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Ontario is on the same hypocritical path as Germany
Ottawa Valley Daily Observer * They deliberately omit the destructive consequences of wind turbine construction sites, needed service roads and power corridors, especially in wooded environments. * They deliberately omit the permanent destruction of aquatic habitats and fish migration routes, … Continue reading
Jim Vanden Hoek and the Wind Indu$try
“How are we going to bury this [$900 restaurant tab]?” Vanden Hoek asked the hapless official. To the mayor’s great relief, the OPG executive reached for the bill. “Let me take care of that,” said the OPG suit. “I’ll just … Continue reading
Uneasy coexistence of nuclear and wind on the Ontario electricity grid
(A shorter version of this article appeared in the Canadian Nuclear Society’s BULLETIN magazine, 2009 June edition) This article is intended to show how Ontario’s nuclear power plants interact with the grid and how they will be affected by … Continue reading
Posted in Safety, Subsidies / Costs, Viability
Tagged CO2 emissions, Energy cost, Energy viability, greenwashing
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All the key decisions were made behind closed doors, long before the so-called “public consultations” began
Climate hysterics need to stop focusing on foolish criticism, beware of hot air pushers By Lorrie Goldstein Often, when climate hysterics and global warming alarmists don’t like what I write — but don’t know what they’re talking about and thus … Continue reading
National Post: Dalton McGuinty, Rubber Duck Award, Junk Science Week
Posted: June 20, 2009, 2:18 AM by NP Editor When readers were asked to submit nominations for these Rubber Duck Awards, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty scored high. He deserves it. The list of nanny-state initiatives foisted upon Ontarians based on … Continue reading
