Sources said ministers are prepared to block major developments of onshore wind turbines under the new Localism Act that came into force last month.They are also ready to reduce the £400 million per year in funding that goes to wind farms under the Renewable Obligation Certificate subsidy.
The moves would be popular with the dozens Conservative MPs fighting against new wind developments in their constituencies.
In the letter sent to Downing Street in February, more than 101 MPs sais they have become “more and more concerned” about government “support for onshore wind energy production”.
via Quixote's Last Stand
Can think of only 2 reasons for this; they are scared turdless of not getting re-elected;or of getting lynched. Orrrrrrrr.....maybe by cancelling all them wasted pounds,they look like they don't want to kill any more seniors this winter through fuel poverty and really are for the peons,get re-elected by said peons,and then vote themselves a big pay raise with the extra money????? Nah. Leftards don't think that way,do they?
Someday the oil sands industry will construct a few windmills(unconnected to anything)in isolated wilderness areas near Fort McMurray.
The purpose will be provide the Greens, Liberals and NDP something to tilt at.
Steed and lance must be provided by the tiltee.
When they stick a windmill on Dolton and Soozook's front lawn I'll believe they are not damaging to live around. Until that time I think land owners should have the right to refuse to have then on or near their land upheld by the courts. The studies are just starting to come in on long term exposure to low frequency pulse (from the blades) and it isn't a very healthy environment condusive with longevity.
Once this is public knowledge landowners who were forced to make property concessions to accommodate government wind turbines on their land will see massive property value loss (which they will never be compensated for by now common distopian government).
I stand in awe at the human and financial fallout green zealotry has caused our society and nation.
We kick at others and still build more in Sask. How stupid are we?
Now a@c, do you REALLY have to ask that?
There's a corrollary here that goes something like this:
History never fails to point out,if there's a future for an idea, it takes a capitalist to find the shortest route.
ANY other way is the (extremely)long..... and winding road.
Prove me wrong.
What other uses are there for windmills? Grain storage if you get those silly blades off?
At least you folks in Sask. might find a use for yours,ours in B.C. are on hill or mountain tops,not very accessible,at least the ones I saw being built near Tumbler Ridge.
Maybe we can use them as short term housing for the homeless.
http://www.finavera.com/media/tumbler-ridge
Some lovely photos of our folly here.
dmorris: maybe fire towers.
"What other uses are there for windmills? Grain storage if you get those silly blades off?
Posted by: dmorris at April 16, 2012 10:13 PM"
Ummmmmmm....tell ya what,dmorris. You get the blades off,I can supply the CO2 Ally REDfraud wants to sequester,and then we pressurize them tubes up and sell them to the NORKS as eco-friendly ICBMs(nukes not included)!! Damn. Where the heck is my grant application form!
Maybe Toronto should take the lead on this and put a turbine on the CN Tower!
Maybe Toronto should have them. No-one in the country wants them so they build them in the country. If the city folk like them so damn much, why aren't the cities full of them?
Germany is also having second thoughts about wind/solar power. Too bad McGuinty is too dense to learn from other failures. Wall too.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/#more-56069
In similar vein, Nova Scotia Dipper government are pulling an Obambam by putting a "moratorium" on fracking in the province. Gotta get that greenie dipper vote along with the entitled dippers in line for the next election.
Toronto indeed has one turbine. It is located on the lakeshore near downtown. It has been inoperable for years due to a failure to find a needed replacement component. The only company that makes them went out of business some time ago.
Great investment eh!
I'm seeing wind turbines being shot with fish arrows tied to fishing line which is connected to a steel cable all around the world.
Occam "When they stick a windmill on Dolton and Soozook's front lawn I'll believe they are not damaging to live around".
There is absolutely zero chance of that happening, though there is no technical reason to prevent it. Such suggestions are dismissed as turbines being "ill suited to urban areas". In McGuinty's Ottawa South there are ample green industrial spaces such as power corridors where turbines could be placed 550 m from houses.
The abandoned gas plant in Mississauga, cancelled by McGuinty during the election, could obviously be converted to a turbine site.
Such a proposal would draw apoplectic opposition from neighbours, same as it does anywhere else.
No, industrial tubine plants are for the "little people", rural residents without political clout or many legal resources. This is the fundamental hypocrisy of Ont's Green energy fantasy.
Wind Farms are just a symptom. The disease is government involvement in the energy (and every other) business. If there becomes a market for expensive and unreliable power, the private sector can deliver that, unsubsidized.