{"id":17292,"date":"2011-09-18T20:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=17292"},"modified":"2012-02-03T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T13:54:19","slug":"dirty-business-new-book-on-wind-energy-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/dirty-business-new-book-on-wind-energy-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dirty Business”: New book on wind energy (Ontario)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Dirty Business\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Reality of Ontario’s Rush to Wind Power<\/a>
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… a new book, edited by Jane Wilson & Parker Gallant (North Gower, Ontario: \u00a0Wind Concerns Ontario, 2011)<\/p>\n

From the website:<\/span><\/p>\n

With Ontario in debt more than $230 billion as of mid-2011, the provincial government is intent on establishing a \u201cgreen economy\u201d in which there are manufacturing jobs galore and the urban dwelling voters can take pride in renewable sources of power. But this comes at a cost: huge subsidies to often foreign-owned wind power developers using taxpayer and ratepayer dollars, and despoilment of Ontario\u2019s rural countryside to the detriment of rural homeowners and communities. As Ontario gradually industrializes its communities, complaints of health effects from the huge industrial wind power complexes increase while property values decline.<\/p>\n

Will wind power replace coal as a power source? No. Will it create jobs long-term? No. Is it even \u201cgreen\u201d? Most decidedly, not.<\/p>\n

Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario\u2019s rush to wind power features authors such as Margaret Wente, Tom Adams, Parker Gallant, and Ross McKitrick who tell the tale of what is really going on in Ontario.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis combination of irresponsibility and venality has produced a lethal brew of policies.\u201d
\n\u2014Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Econimics, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that all the turbines in all the world can\u2019t run a toaster, let alone a home, on their own. It is a lie that is repeated in virtually every news story on wind development.\u201d
\n\u2014Rick Conroy, Editor, Wellington Times<\/p>\n

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