Tag Archives: Green Energy Act
Return of CAO enhanced by promotion of city clerk
After seven years of doing without, St. Thomas will re-establish the position of chief administrative officer at city hall with the appointment of clerk Wendell Graves to the post, effective April 4. Read full announcement here. It’s a move this … Continue reading
Filed under City of St. Thomas, City Scope, Parks and recreation
Why the wind power industry could be the greatest scam of our age
The most glaring dishonesty peddled by the wind industry — and echoed by gullible politicians — is vastly to exaggerate the output of turbines by deliberately talking about them only in terms of their ‘capacity’, as if this was what … Continue reading
Filed under Wind power
McGuinty has led us all down the green energy garden path
Guest editorial from Ross McKitrick that appeared in the Stratford Beacon Herald. Original piece can be read here. Anyone remember the Sprung Greenhouse fiasco? In 1987, Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford attempted to boost local employment by subsidizing the building of … Continue reading
Filed under Green Energy, Solar power, Wind power
You can thank Dalton McGuinty for feeling warm and fuzzy about your St. Thomas Energy bill
From the Toronto Star, original article can be found here Ontario’s Liberal government is forcing utilities to tout the 10 per cent electricity discount on hydro bills every month for the next five years, the Star has learned. Over the … Continue reading
Filed under Green Energy, Provincial politics, Solar power, Wind power
Opposed to wind farms … the OPP could come knocking at your door
The following is via Wind Concerns Ontario … “Excuse me, Mrs. X, we are from the Ontario Provincial Police. It is our duty to ask you whether you’re planning on attending and somehow opposing the grand opening of the International … Continue reading
Filed under Wind power
A mistake to link emissions reduction and job creation to the province’s electricity system
Ontario has so far approved thousands of green energy contracts, ranging in size from a few solar panels on the roof of a family home to industrial-scale projects, in which they agree to pay several times the going electricity rate … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental sustainability, Wind power
Tim Hudak Calls For Municipalities to Have a Say on Industrial Wind Farms
Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Caucus will introduce a motion in the Ontario Legislature today calling on the McGuinty Government to restore planning authority to Ontario municipalities so that no industrial wind farm can be imposed on a community … Continue reading
Filed under Wind power
Despite bubbles, governments keep pumping air into alternative energy
While investment analysts are telling their clients to get out of solar power firms and warning about the continuing risks in wind and bioenergy schemes, Ottawa and the provinces are on a mad populist stampede to throw billions of dollars … Continue reading
Wind power is unreliable, expensive and doesn’t result in lower C02 emmissions. Why is Ontario still rushing ahead with it?
In October 2007, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) — the government’s own agency, tasked with planning Ontario’s power system and now entering into long-term contracts with renewable energy producers — published its Integrated Power System Plan, where it analyzed a … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental sustainability, Wind power
