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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 wind power, green energy, wind farms Ontario
Tagged Parker Gallant, Dirty business book, 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
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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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
Joe Oliver: don’t be misled on wind power
Once you’ve read Dirty Business–and in particular, the chapters by Dan Scharf and Tom Adams–you’ll realize the extent to which the wind power business has marketed the clean energy dream throughout the world. Wind power is free and clean and … Continue reading
Posted in green energy, wind farms Ontario, wind power
Tagged Books & Company Picton, cost-benefit wind power, Dan Scharf, Dirty business book, Dirty Business-the book, green mega trend, health effects wind farms, Joe Oliver, Manotick Office Pro, Mike De Souza, Minister of Natural Resources, Neat Little Book Shop Cayuga, Postmedia, Reflections Books Fergus, Tom Adams
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SALE! Celebrate the Health Canada wind turbine noise study
To celebrate the announcement of the Health Canada research study on wind turbine noise, Dirty Business: the reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power is offering FREE SHIPPING in Ontario for a limited time. Special offer : $9.99 plus free … Continue reading
Health Canada health study on wind turbines much needed
Several of the authors in Dirty Business: the reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power commented on the lack of real science behind Ontario’s policy decisions. In fact, when science was offered, Ontario looked the other way! The Ontario government … Continue reading
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Tagged Books & Company Picton, Dan Scharf, Dirty business book, Dr Carl V Phillips, Health Canada study on health effects wind turbine noise, Health Canada wind farm study, health Canada wind power study, health effects wind farms, Leona Agluqqak wind study announcement, Manotick Office Pro, Ontario Liberal government, William Palmer, wind farms Ontario
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The hypocrisy of wind power in Ontario
Here is a delightfully satirical article on the idea of placing industrial-scale* wind turbines right in downtown Toronto. People may think the scale is cartoonish but they would be WRONG. The newest generation of large-scale wind power generators are as … Continue reading
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Tagged Dirty Business, Dirty business book, Green Energy Act, health effects wind farms, hydro bills Ontario, noise wind farms, noise wind turbines, Ontario Liberal government, wind farms, wind power and the environment, wind power ONtario, wind turbines, wind turbines in Toronto
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Book review:”a conversation with a wide range of people”
BOOK REVIEW Dirty Business: The Reality of Ontario’s Rush to Wind Power. In this collection of short essays, the editor is very specific in the introduction, referring to the “wind power generation industry” and how it measures up from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dirty business book, Grace Howell, health effects wind farms, Huron University College, Michael Trebilcock, Ontario electricity sector, Ontario FIT program, Ontario Long Term Energy Plan, Ontario's renewable energy plan, Parker Gallant, price increases Ontario electricity, wind power ONtario
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