Tag Archives: 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
Plans announced for Lake Erie wind farm
General Electric Co. announced Monday that it plans to harness the power of winds blowing across Lake Erie by developing the world’s first freshwater wind farm several miles offshore from downtown Cleveland. GE and the nonprofit Lake Erie Energy Development … Continue reading
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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
Will Canada’s wind turbines invade lakes?
A proposal to put 700 wind turbines along the shores of Lakes St. Clair and Erie, each about as tall as a 40-story building, is provoking controversy in Canada and the U.S. The turbines, planted on the lake bottom and … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental sustainability, Wind power
Wind Energy’s Ghosts – a warning about the perils of wind power.
Wiwo…wiwo…wiwo. The sound floats on the winds of Ka Le, this southernmost tip of Hawaii’s Big Island, where Polynesian colonists first landed some 1,500 years ago. Some say that Ka Le is haunted — and it is. But it’s haunted … Continue reading
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What happens when politics displaces market forces in green energy initiatives?
When driving through Don Quixote country in Spain’s Castille-La Mancha region, you are dazzled by the spectacle of wind farms proudly churning out the energy that will save Iberia and the planet, followed, once you cross into Andalusia, by solar … Continue reading
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Samsung’s turbine deal with Ontario in jeopardy
The Ontario government’s multi-billion-dollar wind turbine deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group is in jeopardy after a power play in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet, the Toronto Star has learned. Sources say rival ministers opposed to Deputy Premier George … Continue reading
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Tory MPP to ask Ont. legislature for provincewide moratorium on wind farms
OWEN SOUND, Ont. — A Progressive Conservative will be asking the Ontario legislature for a provincewide moratorium on wind farms. Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound member Bill Murdoch wants the province’s chief medical officer of health to look into whether wind turbines cause health … Continue reading
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