The Weather: Why Wind Power Will Always Be Hopelessly Intermittent & Unreliable

Here’s the news: wind power critically depends upon the wind, without which there ain’t no wind power. Simples. Beyond seven days meteorologists are little more than glorified soothsayers when it comes to predicting the weather. How many times do we see revised forecasts given the day before, when only a week before that, the maximum … Continue reading The Weather: Why Wind Power Will Always Be Hopelessly Intermittent & Unreliable

Canadian Club: Wind Industry Furious: Ontario Rips Up 750 Wind Power Contracts

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 … Continue reading Canadian Club: Wind Industry Furious: Ontario Rips Up 750 Wind Power Contracts

Sudden Wind Change: Wind Industry Wilts as Ontario Scraps ‘Green’ Energy Act

Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne simultaneously destroyed her political fortunes, as she set about destroying one of Canada’s most productive provinces. A raft of policies drawn up by Wynne and her fellow eco-zealots, all safely ensconced in Toronto, resulted in thousands of these things being speared right across Ontario. Furious communities and rocketing power prices are the … Continue reading Sudden Wind Change: Wind Industry Wilts as Ontario Scraps ‘Green’ Energy Act

Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Punishing Thousands: 390,000 Families Struggling to Pay Power Bills & 58,000 Disconnected

  To the poorest and most vulnerable, power prices really do matter. Wherever governments have determined to throw billions of dollars in subsidies at intermittent wind and solar power, power prices have rocketed and the poor suffer. In renewables obsessed Australia, 42,000 families now suffer from the modern phenomenon of ‘energy poverty’ (see our post … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Punishing Thousands: 390,000 Families Struggling to Pay Power Bills & 58,000 Disconnected

Ontario’s Eco-Fascists’ ‘Kill Coal’ Agenda Kills Ontario Instead: Now ‘Everything Costs More’

Ontario’s energy policy is in tatters; power prices have crushed business and the roll out of thousands of these things has wrecked the lives and livelihoods of thousands, in what were once peaceful and prosperous farming communities. In short, Kathleen Wynne & Co have dug an enormous hole from which there may be no escape. … Continue reading Ontario’s Eco-Fascists’ ‘Kill Coal’ Agenda Kills Ontario Instead: Now ‘Everything Costs More’

Wind Power: Why Ontario Suffers the Highest Power Costs in North America

  The video above and the pieces from the Financial Post below give a pretty fair rundown on why Ontario suffers the highest power costs in North America and what its Liberal government's obsession with wind power has done to destroy not only its once competitive industry, but also its once peaceful and prosperous rural … Continue reading Wind Power: Why Ontario Suffers the Highest Power Costs in North America

Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy

As it goes in South Australia, so goes Ontario. STT has been fairly well occupied over the last few weeks in detailing the debacle Downunder, but it appears that, for all the same reasons, power consumers (read voters) in Ontario are just as furious as those unfortunates who hang their hats in South Australia: both … Continue reading Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy

Power Price Punishment Forces Ontario to Hit Reverse on Wind Power Push

Terence Corcoran: Ontario Liberals’ huge green energy about-face shows renewables aren’t so doable after all Financial Post Terence Corcoran 28 September 2016 One should never underestimate the ability of politicians to convert massive policy failure into a dazzling display of green concern for the welfare of voters. That’s the trick now being attempted by the … Continue reading Power Price Punishment Forces Ontario to Hit Reverse on Wind Power Push

Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill

Ontario has been destroyed by a band of lunatics, headed up by Kathleen Wynne. Rocketing power prices - killing its manufacturers - and tens of thousands of these things killing rural communities, as to their peace, prosperity and cohesion are just some of the consequences of being over-run by wind-cultists. But, behind every political puppet, … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill

Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: Crippling Power Prices & Rising CO2 Emissions

Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers. Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, with … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: Crippling Power Prices & Rising CO2 Emissions