Sixteen years of the expensive disaster of non-performing, out of phase with demand wind power don't seem to matter.

Ontario has 155 municipalities that have officially declared themselves as “Unwilling Hosts” to new industrial wind power sites, says Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO). The municipalities either passed a ...

Wind power: get past the hype. Citizens are aware that they need their municipal elected officials to be informed, and aware of community wishes as regards industrial power projects.

Promises, promises for wind power from developers and ideological governments. Here’s why it can’t work. Wind turbine construction on Amherst Island, Ontario. Massive environmental impact for very ...

Municipalities were forced to “host” wind power projects without any say or proper public engagement. That can’t happen again says WCO [Photo: Wind Concerns Ontario] August 11, 2022 The mistakes made ...

A consulting economist has written a damning report on the costs and benefits of Ontario’s wind power fleet. There are plenty of costs and very few benefits, says Edgardo Sepulveda in his report ...

Two more Ontario municipalities have passed resolutions to declare themselves Unwilling Hosts to new industrial wind power sites, bringing the total to date to 157. Grimsby and North Huron both saw ...

Keep city citizens thinking wind turbines are cute (and effective) and it’s OK to force them on rural residents The strategy is clear: pushing the image of wind turbines as benign hides the fact they ...

The Unwilling Host resolutions passed by more than 100 Ontario municipal councils in 2013 is the legacy of the McGuinty-Wynne governments in Ontario. In 2009, then Premier Dalton McGuinty passed the ...

In June, Malahide Township Council voted to declare itself an Unwilling Host to new wind power proposals, and on June 17th, South West Oxford followed suit.

It’s all in the numbers: what is the real cost of wind and solar? [Shutterstock image] The ways wind and solar are costed ignores the real costs of their unreliability…and of getting rid of the parts ...

A letter sent in 2011 to then environment minister by the mayor of Amaranth requested action on negative impacts of wind turbines and a transformer, specifically greater setbacks. Nothing has been ...