Category: Canada

Ontario’s Power Consumers Being Fleeced by Wind Industry Subsidies

How green energy is fleecing Ontario electricity consumers Financial Post Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams 29 October 2014 Adding renewable generating capacity triggers changes throughout the system that multiply costs for consumers  Ontario’s green energy transformation – initiated a decade ago under then-Premier Dalton McGuinty – is now hitting consumers. The Nov 1 increase for … Continue reading Ontario’s Power Consumers Being Fleeced by Wind Industry Subsidies

Wave of Destruction: Ontario Wind Farm Neighbours in Open Revolt

**** There’s an old Chinese proverb that: “Even a rabbit will bite when it is cornered”. Ontario is at flashpoint as impacted and threatened wind farm neighbours take on lying, cheating wind power outfits head-on. In response to the malign indifference of the hard-green-left lunatics in charge of the Province (see our post here), the … Continue reading Wave of Destruction: Ontario Wind Farm Neighbours in Open Revolt

Parker Gallant Uncovers the Hidden Costs of Ontario’s Insane Wind Power Policy

**** Ever tried to imagine hell on earth? Ever imagined a nightmare turned to reality? Then you've probably landed in Ontario. Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of giant fans speared into the backyards of homes - in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. … Continue reading Parker Gallant Uncovers the Hidden Costs of Ontario’s Insane Wind Power Policy

World First: Ontario Council Includes Infrasound in Wind Farm Noise Law

The most common source of complaint from those unfortunates forced to live next to wind farms is the incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound generated by giant industrial wind turbines: turning a quiet night in into an occasion of acoustic torture (see our post here); and destroying many a good night's sleep (see our post here). … Continue reading World First: Ontario Council Includes Infrasound in Wind Farm Noise Law

A Lesson in Journalism: Rebecca Thompson Exposes the Great Wind Power Fraud

Rebecca Thompson is the brilliant young journo behind the recent Sun News documentary, Down Wind - that tipped a bucket on the great wind power fraud in Canada (see our post here). Down Wind, which runs for 96 minutes, can be purchased as a file and downloaded or as a DVD for those in the … Continue reading A Lesson in Journalism: Rebecca Thompson Exposes the Great Wind Power Fraud

Professor Ross McKitrick: Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies.

As STT followers are acutely aware, wind power is an economic and environmental fraud. Because wind power can only ever be delivered at crazy, random intervals - and, therefore, never "on-demand" - it will never be a substitute for those generation sources which are - ie hydro, nuclear, gas and coal (see our posts here … Continue reading Professor Ross McKitrick: Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies.

Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare

Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare

Ontario’s Great Wind Rush sees Power Prices Triple

Wherever giant fans have been slung up in the world, power prices have risen at rates much faster than fan-free jurisdictions (see our post here). The punishment wrought on the poorest and most vulnerable, as a result, is a political crime against the people (see our posts here and here). The ONLY purported justification is … Continue reading Ontario’s Great Wind Rush sees Power Prices Triple

Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone

Hard to think it's only been a Year since we took the fight to Canberra. On 18 June 2013, 364 pro-farming and pro-rural community representatives - from Tolga in Far North Queensland, Coopers Gap in Southern QLD; from all over the Tablelands of NSW; a big contingent of Victorians and South Australians; and a contingent … Continue reading Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone

Sun New’s “Down Wind” sends Wind Industry Into Tail Spin

Full movie now available online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-jBCjtJ88 Canada’s Sun News was among the first news outfits worldwide to grasp the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud; and the associated harm inflicted on hard-working rural people. Exposing the wind industry for what it is, Sun has produced a truly ground-breaking documentary on how wind … Continue reading Sun New’s “Down Wind” sends Wind Industry Into Tail Spin