More than 150 hectares of Lambton County grasslands will be impacted by...
Sarnia Observer, Barbara Simpson A pair of ‘threatened’ bird species who help ensure crop survival could be in harm’s way with a proposed Suncor wind farm set for Lambton County, says a local anti-wind...
View ArticleMOE asks Dufferin Wind to guard against ‘potential’ water threat
Orangeville Banner, Chris Halliday The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) is asking Dufferin Wind Power to seal the foundations of more than 300 utility poles to guard against possible groundwater...
View ArticleWhat happens to a “Willing Host” of wind turbines
Three weeks ago OWR blew the whistle on how wind giant NextEra Energy was trying to weasel out of paying for the damage it had caused to roads in Adelaide-Metcalfe township (pop. 3000). On the Sept...
View Article“Stuff happens” making a NextEra wind project
… again and again for this corporation of incompetents. You won’t be surprised to hear of another ‘accident’ in NextEra’s Jericho project located in Lambton Shores . This time it was an excavator in...
View ArticleHuge crane collapses at K2 Wind Project
[... or should I have titled it "More stuff happens" after yesterday?] Scott Miller CTV News Crane collapses at site of K2 wind farm near Lucknow. No injuries reported as crane toppled over as it moved...
View ArticleBig Wind (TVO Preview)
TVO Exploring the conflict over the controversial development of industrial wind turbines that threaten to irreversibly transform the landscape of Ontario.
View ArticleWind turbines blowing Ontario taxpayers’ money: Report
Toronto Sun, Antonella Artuso TORONTO — Wind turbines are sucking money out of Ontarians’ wallets, a new report says. What Goes Up, a Fraser Institute report by Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams to be...
View ArticleWind company leaves Dawn-Euphemia township
Sarnia Observer, Paul Morden One of the first wind turbine project proposals in Lambton County appears to have pulled up stakes and left. Michael Schnare, administrator-clerk of Dawn-Euphemia Township,...
View ArticleMan Hurt At CS Wind
Blackburn News Details are scarce following an early morning industrial accident at CS Wind. Windsor Police say a 54-year-old man was rushed to hospital from the Anchor Dr. plant around 2am. He...
View ArticleMclean’s Mountain wind project operates half a year and GE is already doing...
Manitoulin Expositor MCLEAN’S MOUNTAIN—During the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, Dr. Joe Shorthouse and his wife Marilyn spotted two orange specks high above the landscape, dangling precariously from...
View ArticleRise in utility disconnections ‘unacceptable': MPP
By Denis Langlois, Sun Times, Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker says he is deeply concerned about the skyrocketing number of people who are appealing to the local United Way for help after having their...
View ArticleChurchill wind project still on the books for Enniskillen Twp.
Sarnia Observer, Paul Morden While one company recently signaled it has abandoned plans for a wind farm in Lambton County, another continues to pursue a provincial contract to build a large wind energy...
View ArticleHot air from the wind power lobby
Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick, Financial Post Wind and solar power are key drivers behind Ontario’s surging electricity prices On Oct. 30 we published a Fraser Institute study entitled “What Goes Up…...
View ArticleSuncor threatens Plympton-Wyoming with $18,000/day fine if wind project delayed
The Independent “Basically, we couldn’t stop them.” That from Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper after Suncor Energy received its permits to start building the Cedar Point Wind Energy Centre. It’s a...
View ArticleBird Studies Canada’s (and CanWEA, MNR) July 2014 Bird/Bat Fatality from Wind...
Bird Studies Canada – why bother doing the summary if you know more than half the birds are not being collected? Why is the specific data on each projects ‘kill’ confidential? Do the wind companies...
View ArticleNextEra’s stray voltage affecting gas and telephone lines …. what about people?
Over the last year, our communities have been overwhelmed by the installation of Industrial Wind Development. In the municipalities of North Middlesex, Lambton Shores and Adelaide-Metcalf NextEra’s...
View ArticleSuncor wants much of Plympton-Wyoming’s noise bylaw axed
The Independant A Suncor Energy representative calls Plympton-Wyoming’s noise bylaw “a novel approach” but wants much of the bylaw changed. Suncor Energy is planning a 43-industrial turbine project...
View ArticleSuncor and NextEra now bedfellows for Cedar Point wind project
The Independant Suncor Energy is teaming up with wind energy giant NextEra to build its Cedar Point project in Plympton-Wyoming and Lambton Shores. Jason Vaillant says the companies have formed a...
View ArticleCan wind companies fake community engagement?
by Harvey Wrightman The buzz-words nowadays are “Community Engagement” or “Social license” – when you hear those words from the policy mandarins of the provincial government, the people who know what...
View ArticleTrillium accuses Liberals of destroying wind project lawsuit documents
Globe and Mail, Richard Blackwell An offshore wind farm developer that is in the midst of a lawsuit against the province of Ontario is now accusing the Liberal government of destroying documents...
View ArticleNexTerror strikes again – wind company threatens elderly leaseholders
February 13, 2014 we received registered mail from McCarthy Tetrault LLP stating… “our client [NextEra Energy] demands that you promptly execute and return two fully executed copies of such lease by no...
View ArticleTerrors and errors with wind turbines
by Harvey Wrightman The wind battles are over in the areas of Adelaide, Bornish, Bosanquet and the wind company landmen have moved on to “greener” pastures for their prospecting and duping. In their...
View ArticleOntario’s Liberals have completely broken the electricity system
Finally – the Globe and Mail gets it! The Globe and Mail, Editorial In politics, as we wrote Wednesday, people get upset about the little things. Remember Bev Oda’s $16 glass of orange juice? In the...
View ArticleToday, remember NextEra, and their Nest Terror
There is this thing that Facebook does: reposts a picture or comment from any number of years ago that was on your timeline, sporadically, and calls it a Memory. I believe you are supposed to cherish...
View ArticleChatham-Kent Wind company pleads guilty to two offences. Fined $11,000
Daily Commercial News CHATHAM-KENT, ONT.—A company that develops renewable energy projects has been fined $11,000 for two environmental offences, including failing to comply with the Renewable Energy...
View ArticleDear Mike Crawley (Liberal Wind Pusher for AIM PowerGen, IPC, GDF Suez, and...
From: Mike Crawley Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 10:18 AM Subject: Mike Crawley – Contact information As some of you may know, I joined Northland Power this past July. Belatedly, attached and...
View ArticleNextEra’s wind turbines kill at least 16 raptors per year in SW Ontario
Has anyone mentioned recently how many birds or bats are found dead around the bases of operating wind turbines in Ontario? Like say… the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, or how about Bird...
View ArticleOntario wind turbine developers killing endangered birds and bats, with impunity
Bird Studies Canada quietly released a summary of bird and bat kills a few days ago. It doesn’t include last year’s toll on the avian population, but it gives you a good idea of where it’s headed – for...
View ArticleAnother Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues
Stop These Things Thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, South Australia has just experienced yet another Statewide blackout. SA’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and what passes...
View ArticleHelp Fund FOI Request: Release Wind Turbine Bird & Bat Mortality Data!
UPDATE: Wow! Rural Ontario pitched in the whole $625 and more in less than a day!! Thank you so much! ~ Esther The bill came in. I haven’t decided if this is good or bad news yet, but at least …...
View ArticleFatal collision: van strikes wind turbine’s galvanized hydro pole on Kerwood Rd.
The provincial government, Middlesex County and the wind developers NextEra and Suncor knew the likelihood of a tragic accident would increase because of this massive infrastructure placed too close to...
View ArticleFormer Liberal Pres. Crawley built worst ‘bat killing wind farm’ in Canada:...
Yesterday the CD arrived with loads of Bird and Bat Mortality Reports that I had filed an FOI from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry for last year, and you good people had funded. I’m...
View ArticleConstruction starts on wind energy project on Amherst Island despite...
National Post, Elliot Ferguson The opening stages of construction of the Amherst Island wind energy project are underway, much to the dismay of the residents who opposed the development. Workers are...
View ArticleSay NO to Double Standard on Species at Risk Penalties!
In the last few days these three stories came out. Please read them, and then respond to those who are failing to protect these Species at Risk below. 1. Penalty for Canaport songbird deaths …The...
View ArticleWind Turbine Bird & Bat Mortality Reports, with Summary – Ontario, Canada
Below is a summary Maureen kindly assembled from all of the reports retrieved through the FOI. Have a good hard look at the numbers per project. Individually, these projects have got off scot free –...
View ArticleFour Bald Eagles Killed by Wind Turbines in Ontario
Bald eagles (yes that’s plural) have been killed in Ontario by wind turbines, and more will continue to meet this fate for the 20 year lifespan of these projects. We knew of only one up until a few...
View ArticleDear NextEra, Destroy the eagle nest, just do it by Sunday. ~ Love, Ministry...
I’m still going through the NextEra eagle nest destruction FOI documents and will post them all as soon as I can. But so far I’d say this e-mail from the MNR to NextEra, on New Years Day (when we know...
View ArticleWhat’s 64 stories tall? 4.2MW wind turbines planned for Wallaceburg!!
David Gough, Chatham Daily News The 12 wind turbines that are proposed for the Otter Creek Wind Farm, will be significantly taller than wind turbines already erected in Chatham-Kent. The wind farm,...
View ArticleNextEra freely handed permit to destroy Bald Eagle nest: FOI records
Have a good look at these recent and disturbing pictures posted on Canadian Raptor Conservancy’s Facebook. Eagle Nest location: Port Ryerse Wind Developer: Boralex Flashback much? Who does one go to...
View ArticleOntario gov’t ignored chance to cut $1.5B in hydro bills: documents
CTV News Newly unearthed documents suggest Ontario’s Liberal government could have saved hydro customers $1.5 billion by terminating an agreement with Samsung, but decided against it. The papers,...
View ArticleThe Green Job “Joke” in Ontario
“Green Jobs” have always been a bit of a joke. Although not a very funny one. Back in 2010 McGuinty signed a deal with South Korean company Samsung, and promised Ontarians that all kinds of employment...
View ArticleWind subsidies gone, Samsung gone
Toronto Sun, Jennifer Bieman and Megan Stacey The loss of 340 jobs at a factory that makes blades for wind turbines could be harbinger of troubles ahead in Ontario’s green-energy industry, a leading...
View ArticleFrustrated Chatham-Kent residents stage blockade at wind turbine site
CBC News Chatham-Kent residents frustrated with wind turbine construction they blame for tainting their drinking water staged another blockade Tuesday morning and have temporarily shut down the North...
View ArticleThirteenth complaint filed against wind turbine project for water well...
Council of Canadians September 27, 2017 Chatham, ON – Thirteen Chatham area well owners have now filed water well interference complaints following the start of construction on a 34 turbine wind power...
View ArticleOntario Gothic
Wellington Times, Rick Conroy Mary Shelley is said to have conceived the story of Frankenstein, a manmade monster let loose upon the countryside, while under the influence of opium in the cold summer...
View ArticleCouple ordered to pay wpd costs in turbine appeal – despite concern for...
CountyLive Two County residents have been ordered to pay wpd Canada $75,000 in costs in the loss of their appeal of a judicial review decision they had hoped would deny industrial wind turbines due to...
View ArticleLargest wind project in Ontario, with tallest turbines, going up beside...
Henvey Inlet Wind will use 87 Vestas 3.45 MW turbines right beside The French River Provincial Park. The Sudbury Star An international energy company has secured $1 billion in financing to build the...
View ArticleBroken Wind Turbine In Chatham-Kent
Blackburn News Terraform Power crews are investigating after a wind turbine that’s part of a wind energy project just south of Chatham broke in half. The turbine is located at the corner of Drake Rd....
View Article‘This could have been avoided’: Wind turbine work sparked blazes before Parry...
Dave Seglins, CBC News The forest was tinder dry. With no rain in weeks, the parched grass in the undergrowth had turned to straw, prompting fire bans across northeastern Ontario. Yet heavy...
View ArticleWind Turbines: Malfeasance and Breach of Contract
Nov 29th; 10:24am Dear Honourable members of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario; I am writing to urge you to cancel all wind turbine contracts in Ontario immediately and I hereby provide you with reasons...
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