At noon today I checked how much power was being produced by the wind farms in Ontario. The govt. has this idea that if they spread the wind farms around the province wind farms will produce power. Their logic is that it has to be windy somewhere. Port Burwell = O MW Kingsbridge l = O MW Amaranth = O MW and last but not least Princefarm = O MW. Lets add that up now. 400 plus MW of wind capacity producing O MW of power at noon today.
Mr. Dwight Duncan our esteemed Energy Minster wants more wind power. Maybe it’s time Duncan and McGuinty had a brain scan. I think most of the wind in Ontario is blowing around between their ears.
Time to wake up people.
Time to raise a little hell………….or you can do nothing, but please don’t bitch and complain when your hydro bills go through the roof. This province doesn’t belong to McGuinty, Duncan or the wind industry, it belongs to you. Please act accordingly.
Remember when Bush said he knew what he was doing in Iraq. McGuinty and Duncan have ignored all the advice from the experts to follow their green dream and if it’s not stopped it is going to cost you and your children dearly.
Send an e-mail, write a letter or make a phone call.
If you own a plane a little sky writing might be a nice touch.
Get active!
There’s nothing on TV anyway
I am your Energy minister and I want more wind
or do I just have Gas
During the last election we were promised that Ontario’s coal plants would be shut down by 2007. Then it was by 2009 and now the plants will be needed until 2015! How could Dwight Duncan get it so wrong? Was he sold a false bill of goods by the Canadian Wind Energy association?
Duncan’s latest plan to “allow us to allow us to get out of coal with more certainty” is to spend $2.5 billion on a 1000 mile power line from northern Manitoba to Sudbury and $5 billion – on a 1,250-megawatt dam on the Nelson River. How did he think we were going to shut down coal in the first place when the Liberals made their election promise?
Duncan must be the poster boy of the Corporate Knights.
http://www.corporateknights.ca/content/page.asp?name=green_power_corridor
Meanwhile American states a lot closer to Manitoba keep running old coal plants and we get their pollution in Southern Ontario. Manitoba can sell them the power. There would be less power wasted as heat along the transmission lines. For $7.5 billion Ontario can build twice the capacity in nuclear generation near the loads that need the power. This latest plan of Dwight Duncan’s might make the robber barons happy but it makes no sense re. the environment and costs to Ontario electricity consumers. Beware of robber barons disguised in “green” camouflage.