Proving, yet again, that without punitive mandates, ludicrous targets and massive subsidies the wind industry would disappear in a heartbeat, the decision to cancel hundreds of government contracts with wind power developers in Ontario has left rent seekers furious, and wondering where their next meal might come from?
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford couldn’t conceal his delight in announcing the demise of hundreds of projects, thereby avoiding thousands of these things being speared across Ontario’s rural heartland. Not to mention saving power consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, over the long haul.
Doug Ford ‘proud’ of decision to tear up hundreds of green energy contracts
The Canadian Press
Shawn Jeffords
21 November 2019
Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he is “proud” of his decision to tear up hundreds of renewable energy deals, a move that his government acknowledges could cost taxpayers more than $230 million.
Ford dismissed criticism that his Progressive Conservatives are wasting public money, telling a news conference that the cancellation of 750 contracts signed by the previous Liberal government will save cash.
“I’m so proud of that,” Ford said of his decision. “I’m proud that we actually saved the taxpayers $790 million when we cancelled those terrible, terrible, terrible wind turbines that really for the last 15 years have destroyed our energy file.”
Later Thursday, Ford went further in defending the cancelled contracts, saying “if we had the chance to get rid of all the wind mills we would.”
The NDP first reported the cost of the cancellations Tuesday, saying the $231 million figure was listed as “other transactions”, buried in government documents detailing spending in the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
The Progressive Conservatives have said the final cost of the cancellations, which include the decommissioning of a wind farm already under construction in Prince Edward County, Ont., has yet to be established.
The government has said it tore up the deals because the province didn’t need the power and it was driving up electricity rates, and the decision will save millions over the life of the contracts. Industry officials have disputed those savings, saying the cancellations will just mean job losses for small business.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has asked Ontario’s auditor general to investigate the contracts and their termination fees. She called Ford’s remarks on Thursday “ridiculous.”
“Every jurisdiction around the world is trying to figure out how to bring more renewables onto their electricity grids,” she said. “This government is taking us backwards and costing us at the very least $231 million in tearing these energy contracts.”
The Canadian Press
Andrea Horwath reckons countries around the globe are falling over themselves to get more wind and solar into their grids. Andrea and her staffers should get out more.
The graph above shows the collapse in the construction of new wind and large-scale solar capacity in Australia over the last 12 months, which has rent-seekers positively suicidal, Downunder.
As STT followers are well aware, the wind and solar industries on the brink of collapse, right across Europe, Germany no exception.
The wind back in subsidies across Europe has all but destroyed the wind industry: in Germany this year a trifling 35 onshore wind turbines have been erected, so far.
Twelve countries in the European Union (EU) failed to install “a single wind turbine” last year.
Danish turbine maker, Vestas is on the brink and was recently forced to axe 600 of its groovy ‘green’ jobs. Its rival Siemens Gamesa, has also been forced to wield the axe, sacking 600 workers in its Danish operations.
Spreading like a contagion, the demise of turbine manufacturers across Europe has taken hold in Germany, with Enercon lining up to sack 3,000 of its workers, in a last ditch effort to stay afloat.
Here’s a couple more pics to help Andrea come to grips with the fact that Doug Ford’s efforts to kill industrial wind power in Ontario are really just catching up with a worldwide trend.
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Kudos to Doug Ford. It sounds like he’s actually using some foresight, planning for the long term, and then showed the leadership necessary to implement policies based on long term planning. I wish we had someone, anyone, like him in Austin’s city government…
It is well past time to turn off Turbines due to known and documented health harm. Please ask anyone who denies health harm of Industrial Wind Turbines to watch this presentation. University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario Canada.
Title: “Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise: Physics & Cells, History & Health”
Speaker: Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira
Location: University of Waterloo
Date: September 12, 2019
Video archive of presentation:
https://livestream.com/itmsstudio/events/8781285
Dr. Alves-Pereira’s research profile is at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariana_Alves-pereira
Note; there is approx 2 mins of dead air at the beginning. The talk is ~50 minutes, followed by a long Q&A
Anyone who views the presentation given by Dr. Mariana Alves-Pereira at the University of Waterloo, on Sept 12th, 2019 will see for themselves why it’s necessary to turn the turbines off that are harming rural residents. People were told that acoustic emissions, both audible and inaudible would not trespass onto their properties and into their houses and barns. Did whoever signed these contracts get duped?
Also, these contracts have not and will not fulfill their intended purpose. Engineers are telling us they’re not ‘fit for purpose’.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/cancelling-contracts-power-of-governments-to-unilaterally-alter-agreements.pdf
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