BigCityLib Strikes Back: The Beginning Of Something?
OPP in Haldimand County believe the vandals struck the Summerhaven Wind farm project overnight Friday, painting a disassembled tower, setting a fire and causing about $60,000 damage. As the article...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Kathleen Wynne Reaffirms Support For Green Energy Act
Wind turbines for the willing could be part of Ontario’s new premier’s approach to green energy. Premier Kathleen Wynne told reporters Thursday her government would not step back from green energy. But...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Love Letters To Dalton McGuinty
These two pieces overlap a bit, but together they are probably the best account’s I’ve read of Ontario’s long journey away from coal under Dalton McGuinty, something he doesn’t get much credit for up...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Ontario must defy unreasonable WTO ruling against...
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: TORONTO, May 6, 2013 – The Council of Canadians is extremely disappointed by reports that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has upheld a previous ruling that...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Saved By The Shell! Ostrander Point Wind Project...
The Ostander Point Wind Project has been revoked because: … the roads systems and construction [necessary for the project] would cause serious and irreversible harm to the Blanding’s Turtle and that...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Elections Ontario VS. WCO
From Parker Gallant; the last couple of sentences (which I have bolded) are the coolest bit: A letter dated August 8, 2013, which Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO) received from Elections Ontario, finally...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hot Air on Wind Power
From The Star: [PPPO MPP Vic] Fedeli blamed wind power as a major culprit in driving up costs. Wind power is sometimes plentiful when demand is low, producing a gush of power when it’s least needed....
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Anti-Wind Forces Claimed Turbines Caused...
Stumbled across this is an article entitled “Wind turbine syndrome: farm hosts tell very different story“: In a 2012 Ontario legal case, complainants were asked to provide their medical records going...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: On The Gasplant Thing
Ouch. Dumbest thing the OLP ever did, was cancel those plants. Cost a fortune, as everyone can plainly see, and really gave the anti-Green Energy Act opponents their only half-decent argument: money...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Birds And Turbines, Part Bazillion
A new study, “Canadian Estimate of Bird Mortality Due to Collisions and Direct Habitat Loss Associated with Wind Turbine Developments” came out earlier this month. Its conclusion should be entirely...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tom Adams In Sun: Mostly Sane
There are bits of it I don’t agree with. For instance, any fair reading of Ontario history would show that the province’s dalliance with gas power predates the Green Energy Act, and wasn’t a...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak’s Energy Policy, Such As It Is
Tom Adams, who occasionally achieves sanity when writing about energy issues, gets about half-way there in his piece yesterday, in particular when he touches on the pumped-storage project up in...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Energy In Ontario: The State Of Play
The controversy around Ontario’s Green Energy Act has faded since the OLP won their majority. Konrad Yakabuski can whine as much (and as inaccurately) as he wants, but Ontario anti-wind activists are...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Few Developments Re Wind Energy In Ontario
Now that's an exciting lede. But a couple of interesting things have happened lately. First up is the fact that the Settlers Landing Wind Park project has been curtailed by an appeal to the Ontario...
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