Ottawa Wind Concerns

Storage is "affordable"? And wind is not lowest cost.

I can't decide which is dumber: "$50 million for refurbishment work at Bruce Power’s Darlington nuclear complex"; or "The Ontario Clean Air Alliance, a think tank" 😂

Nova Scotia’s proposed Wind West offshore energy project promises to transform the province into a major electricity exporter, yet its enormous scale, uncertain buyers, and rising costs raise serious questions about its economic viability “Atlantic Canada has seen this pattern before: large wind-powered visions, public money up front, and a pivot when buyers fail to materialize. Wind West deserves scrutiny in that light. It is a first-of-its-kind offshore wind project in Canada, built with other people’s money, with no guaranteed buyer, producing electricity for export at more than $200/MWh, plus about $70/MWh for new transmission to reach buyers. Each of those features is a risk, and federal taxpayers are being asked to carry it ….” In “Wind West: Nova Scotia’s offshore wind gamble with Ottawa’s money,” economist Edgardo Sepulveda (@E_R_Sepulveda) examines the project’s underlying assumptions, arguing that its projected costs are too optimistic, its export market too uncertain, and the electricity it generates will struggle to compete with cheaper, more reliable alternatives. Read full commentary here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/wind-wes…

Neither political party in New York State is looking out for our environment. The animals are the first to pay the price. That’s how Boralex, now Brookfield Asset Management, received a final permit from ORES to build an over 1,000-acre solar complex on one of the last grasslands of its kind. Corporations (mostly foreign with solar and wind) own our legislature. And they pay off the environmental nonprofits to look the other way while they pillage our towns and habitats. That’s why the Grassland Bird Trust took a payment from Boralex to step out of the way for Fort Edward Solar. If we don’t rise up and start looking after our land, soil, water, and wildlife, we’ll have none left to pass on to the generations after us. Here are some photos I captured of a female northern harrier at the Fort Edward Grasslands this month. The northern harrier is a state-endangered bird and can only hunt/breed with continuous grassland habitat. Our own state’s @NYSDEC admits the northern harrier is a species of critical concern. Lots of corporate money has paid for the silence from our DEC.

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imo this is some quality reporting by Matthew McClearn, and exemplary tanking of actual thought from the ignorant yet pious Pembina [subscription: theglobeandmail.com/business… ]

Tamil Nadu once supplied up to 35 percent of its electricity from wind on strong days. Now it pays six to seven times the normal rate for gas to cover evening shortages. Wind output dropped to 14 percent of what contracts promised. The state is spending about $527,000 a day on 1,500 megawatts from gas plants for six peak hours. Solar output is zero after sunset, which is when the shortage hits. When will planners treat wind capacity as something other than guaranteed supply? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

IPCC HUMAN CO₂ ATTRIBUTION PROVEN MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Fossil carbon contributes ≈ZERO to the observed rise in atmospheric CO₂. The Keeling intercept has remained locked at δ¹³C_I ≈ −13‰ for five full centuries, while fossil emissions rose from essentially nothing to ~10 GtC yr⁻¹. A large fossil fraction would have dragged the intercept toward −28‰. It didn't budge. The only value consistent with a fixed intercept is fossil fraction f ≈ 0. IPCC’s own methods, own isotopic standards, and own data force the conclusion: Human fossil emissions are not the cause of the rise in atmospheric CO₂. PERIOD. The claim is mathematically dead. Full mathematical proof: bit.ly/NoHumanCO2

ORES solar complexes in Upstate NY are resource extraction pits. Why? The state doesn’t oversee or monitor the foreign solar developers. It’s a free-for-all. Commodities like topsoil and lumber are co-mingled and sold off. That’s why they created ORES. Our local laws, zoning regulations, and environmental policies were too “cumbersome.” And @GovKathyHochul turns a blind eye while communities across the state call out what a failure ORES has been. It’s time for ORES to be dissolved.