Wind Power News: Canada
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Wind farm plans upset county dwellers
GUELPH — Laura Humphrey and her family moved to the countryside in an effort to escape the proverbial concrete jungle and all its man-made noise and monolithic monstrosities.
Her rural home is situated among the spruce groves, undulating hills and myriad wildlife of Wellington County. Snowmobile trails run parallel to gravel county roads. The Grand River winds its way through the quiet, sparsely populated farmland about 50 kilometres northeast of Guelph.
“This is a precious place. The whole reason we’re here is . . .
Wind farm opponents’ signs disappear
Residents of Guildwood Village along the Scarborough Bluffs have no idea who is stealing their signs.
The residents have been using 12×24 inch lawn signs reading “Save our Shoreline” to voice their opposition to the planned windmill farm two kilometres off the Bluffs.
According to John Laforet who lives in the Guildwood neighbourhood, at least 40 signs have been taken down in the middle of the night. Mr. Laforet said that the Toronto Wind Action group has not had . . .
Final OK for wind farm project
A $60-million wind farm project in southeastern Saskatchewan is expected to soon get underway after receiving the final OK from an area rural municipality, despite concerns from some landowners.
“We’re very pleased,” Algonquin Power’s April Meyer said in an interview Thursday. Construction on the Red Lily Wind Farm Project is expected to begin this summer, with the turbines in place by the fall.
Red Lily Wind Power Limited Partnership, owned by Algonguin Power Inc. and Gaia Power, plans to construct a 25-megawatt . . .
Hall overflowed with citizens angry over Invenergy’s wind farm plans
BELWOOD — Citizens from the area appeared to be furious while attending a wind turbine meeting here on March 9, but in the end they let their manners stifle their anger – just a little.
Over 500 people packed the Belwood Hall over the course of three hours, and many of them were furious with Invenergy Wind Canada’s proposal for a wind farm with between 25 to 35 turbines. They carried signs with slogans like “Farmers Feed Cities Not Power Them.”
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Local residents have council’s sympathy over wind turbine proposal
ELORA — Centre Wellington council’s committee of the whole heard on Monday afternoon that several farmers who signed lease agreements for wind farms near Belwood are willing to back out of them.
A delegation led by Dave Hurlburt, Laura Humphrey, Gerry Ellen and Darryl Burnet came to council to ask for its help in opposing the wind farm planned by Invenergy that surrounds much of Belwood and reaches into Dufferin County. They represented a group that is opposing the proposal for . . .
Town wants regional effort to combat offshore wind turbines
After hearing a report from Town Planner, Danielle Truax regarding the limited and potentially costly remedies available to municipalities with regard to wind power, Kingsville Council has decided to make a concerted, cohesive, and collected effort to deal with matters concerning the potential impact of offshore wind turbines.
Kingsville has already partnered with the Town of Leamington in hiring the Jones Consulting Group. A report from Jones completed in September 2009, which coordinated technical peer reviews found “significant . . .
Warring over wind
With well over 1,000 people in attendance – and most of them in an unpleasant frame of mind – a public information session about the proposed Belwood Wind Farm project was held at the Lions Hall in Belwood on Tuesday, Mar 9.
At issue is the proposed wind farm project that would build 25-35 wind turbines on approximately 4,000 acres of land northwest of Belwood. Invenergy Canada, a branch of Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, is backing the proposal that would have the . . .
McGuinty’s ill wind blows across Canada
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently did something so stupid when it comes to … uh … fighting global warming, it should warn all Canadians to keep an eye on their politicians, lest they do something equally dumb.
McGuinty struck a deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels in Ontario, plus pay inflated prices for 2,500 megawatts of so-called green energy for the next quarter century.
Samsung will invest $7 billion in return for untold . . .
What works in the city does not work in the country
This week Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch showed yet again why every politician who tests him at the ballot box becomes cannon fodder. Simply put, he listens to people. He’s very good at it, in fact.
How else to explain the veteran politician’s extraordinary rant this week, in which he urged Toronto be hived off from the rest of the province?
Crazy, some will say. Sure. Crazy like a fox. Is he serious? Will Toronto ever be a province? Is there anything . . .
City powerless, and not happy about it
City politicians complained Monday about new environmental legislation which takes away from municipalities a say in where renewable energy projects are permitted.
I’m genuinely incensed,” said Mayor Vic Fedeli, referring to the loss of authority over planning approvals for renewable energy projects under the Green Energy Act.
Council was presented a report published in a national municipal magazine in January outlining the implications of the legislation, adopted by Queens Park in May, 2009.
The report says municipalities have lost all powers to block, . . .
