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Closing out sale!
We’re down to our last few copies of Dirty Business: the reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power. Get your copy today! Dirty Business is a collection of original articles and papers, letters and other documents on the “wind rush” … Continue reading
Posted in green energy, wind farms Ontario, wind power
Tagged Dirty business book, Parker Gallant, wind power ONtario
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It’s F.I.T. week in Toronto
This is the week the huge corporate wind power development industry gathers at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto to find ways to liberate more dollars from Ontario ratepayers and taxpayers to “grow” their business via the Ontario Feed In … Continue reading
CanWEA doesn’t like “Wind Rush” documentary
The wind power developer industry lobby group, the Canadian Wind Energy Association or CanWEA, has put out a news release to defend what it calls errors of fact in the recently shown CBC documentary “Wind Rush”. The film is now … Continue reading
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Dirty Business available in Sault Ste Marie
Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario’s rush to wind power is available at Cole’s Books in the Cambrian mall, in Sault Ste Marie. Get your copy soon!
Posted in green energy, wind farms Ontario, wind power
Tagged Algoma, bookstore Sault Ste Marie, Cambrian Mall, Coles Books
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Dirty Business available in Bayfield
With the Bluewater area of Ontario–and indeed, the entire Huron Coast–facing the threat of hundreds of industrial-scale wind turbines, more and more residents are learning what they can about wind power projects. We are pleased to announce that Dirty Business: … Continue reading
Ontario’s smokey nonsense continues
Yesterday in Newmarket, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that his government will close down two more coal power-generating plants, way ahead of schedule he says. And in a letter to the Whig-Standard, Ontario’s Minister of the Environment Jim Bradley (whose ministry … Continue reading
Ostrander Point approval” “reprehensible”
(Retired) physics professor John Harrison’s rebuttal to CanWEA and Environmental Defence claims that wind power projects are good for the environment is one chapter of Dirty Business. Amid the facts about the cost and reliability of wind power generation, Harrison … Continue reading
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Tagged Belleville Intelligencer, Dalton McGuinty, Dirty business book, important bird areas Ontario, Nature Canada, Ontario Envrionmental review Tribunal, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Ontario Nature, Ostrander Point, Point to Point park, Prince Edward County, Wind Concerns Ontario, wind power project appeals
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More Dirty Business in Toronto–who pays? You do!
The Ontario Liberal government tried to get around the Legislature by releasing pages and pages of blank documents, claiming they were connected to the closure of two Ontario gas power plants, but that the details needed to remain secret while … Continue reading
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Tagged cancelled gas plants Ontario, contempt charges MPP Bentley, contempt Minister of Energy Ontario, cost-benefit wind power, Dirty business book, Green Energy Act, health effects wind farms, hydro bills Ontario, McGuinty government Ontario, Ontario energy policy, wind power ONtario
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Ontario’s power system: what a mess!
The last few weeks have been difficult for the Ontario Liberal government, particularly with the furore about the political decisions to move two gas power plants from Toronto to–guess where?–rural communities, far from Toronto which is where the power is … Continue reading
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Tagged Dirty Business: the reality of Ontario's rush to wind power, Environmental Review Ontario, Jane Wilson, John Harrison, Ontario Liberal government, Ontario Nature, renewable energy Ontario, Steve Paikin, TVO The Agenda, TVOntario
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The dirty business: it’s come to this
While comments are pouring in to Health Canada, as we understand it, on the proposed design of its study on industrial wind turbine noise and health effects, which will actually involve clinical studies, another development has occurred: Independent health researcher … Continue reading
