Green energy leaves Windsor with broken promises;
The green energy sector has not delivered to Windsor the number of jobs several firms collectively promised during the last three years.Through media releases, public announcements and media coverage of grand openings, CBC News has learned that eight companies promised they would fill up to 1,480 jobs in the alternative energy sector by the end of 2012.
To date, three of those companies are operating in Windsor and employ approximately 262 people.
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"It is hard for an industry to survive a drought of six months, without new contracts and with uncertainty about the existing ones," Siliken spokesperson Paco Caudet said in a written statement Friday, the day the company closed."The market for product is too small to sustain so many producers."
Is there any one thing more delusional than the premise of "green energy profits"?
As it turns out, there is.
That hasn't deterred [Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis] from still trying to attract green energy jobs. He claimed Friday that Windsor is still "a green energy hub."
He went so far as to travel to Germany with Algatec officials in an attempt to lure the company to Windsor. It never came.
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Francis has also spent thousands of dollars travelling to China, where he has been trying hard to convince manufacturer BYD to build all-electric buses in Windsor for the North American market. The city has agreed to buy two BYD buses to ensure an exclusivity agreement, which states the company will stop looking for a North American municipality in which to manufacture the buses while Transit Windsor runs pilot tests with the buses.
h/t Maz2
File that under "No sh!t Sherlock"...........
Losers all!!
"Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis said the problem isn't with the green energy manufacturing industry. The problem is the inability for energy producers to hook up with the grid. Francis said he has met with Hydro One to discuss the problem.
"They said to me, well we've got infrastructure that is best described as a rural road, and we've got the amount of 401 truck traffic that we're trying to put on a rural road that's not set up for that," Francis said."
The engineering ignorance of Francis & Ontario Hydro One can’t be exaggerated... and the CBC is unethical to print that nonsense without questioning the need for Grid Updates.
The existing Grid "is" handling the existing LOAD, regardless of the Energy Source and if maintained will continue to function well into the future.
The Total Energy of the Sources MUST match the total LOAD... E=L
The only reason to reconfigure the Grid is to provide a redundancy for the Mickey Mouse energy Sources such that they don't destroy themselves all at the same time......It is the Green Energy Sources that require a special Grid
"The engineering ignorance of Francis & Ontario Hydro One can’t be exaggerated..."
Don't be stupid, slapshot. OH1 has never had the slightest interest in making life convenient for green energy. Green energy means underloaded transmission systems, and OH1 only gets compensated for the amount of kWh they move. You also forget that OH1 does what the government tells it to do, regardless of how stupid they know a government scheme to be. Focus your attention and blame where it belongs with Brad Do-No-Good and his boss the Premier and the gormless idiots in the Ministry of Energy.
Only dimwit libs stuck sucking down the monotone agitprop drivel at the socialist propaganda networks would be surprised.
The rest of us, not so much!
Thank you Kate and friends! You have indeed helped us move the mean in the right direction.
Green Energy only makes sense if you're a tree.
There is another cbc story that augments this article.
It contains this from Duncan,the energy minister,
" Duncan compared the solar panel industry to the arrival of the auto industry, when there were several auto manufacturers fighting to enter the market in the early 1900s."
Yeah,sure Bud.
And this from a business prof at the UofW.
" "There's no way to get the yield out of a solar panel to the level that makes it competitive with hydro or nuclear."
The gov't guy Duncan is lying. The auto workers moved to another assembly line. The 'green' workers are going to be moving to the welfare line.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/05/11/wdr-siliken-closes.html
The unfortunate thing about wind or solar is there there has to be a backup generator with a full head of steam ready to start up when the wind stops. The whole premise is based on stupidity. There is no possibility of any efficiency of any sort.
When the nice row of wind turbines at Pincher Creek quit spinning there is no emergency because a coal fired plant has burnt a $hitload of coal keeping up steam pressure so there isn't a 2 hour delay bringing electricity on line. Why do they always put the idiots in charge?
In fairness...and I am choking here.... the fact that the CBC actually ran a story highlighting the non delivery of green energy jobs is amazing.
If they would have thrown in McGuinty's election campaign promises of 50,000 jobs being created and shown the contrasting reality, I would have been stunned. But alas change comes in small steps.
In the meantime Dalton's McF..kup's Green Energy Act which will be increasing the cost of power another 25 - 40% in the very near future thanks mostly to the stupidly generous rates being paid to windmills and solar power, will cause the closing of a long existing manufacturing plant of some 250 people in North Bay.
Those jobs will never come back just like the ones in Windsor when they finish building all the solar panels for Ontario. At least our product was being exported and creating true wealth.
The green energy debacle as seen in Europe is coming your way.
Germany is having major second thoughts about green energy and global warming in general. Perhaps MvGuinty should read this:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/#more-56069
He can read, can't he ?
Germany is having major second thoughts about green energy and global warming in general. Perhaps McGuinty should read this:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/#more-56069
He can read, can't he ?
Not sure why it got hung up in the spam filter. Is McGuinty a bad word now ?
Why would anyone build a plant in Windsor instead of a right-to-work state? Windsor is Auto Workers territory and there will be a union from day 1. Smart money would head south, deep south.
@ Scar at May 15, 2012 12:28 AM
" Smart money would head south, deep south".
N.Dakota is right on our border. These are all right to work states.
•Alabama
•Arizona
•Arkansas
•Florida
•Georgia
•Idaho
•Iowa
•Kansas
•Louisiana
•Mississippi
•Nebraska
•Nevada
•North Carolina
•North Dakota
•Oklahoma
•South Carolina
•South Dakota
•Tennessee
•Texas
•Utah
•Virginia
•Wyoming
This is terrible news.
No front window phony CEO jobs for newly retiring lefty politicians
who did so much heavy lifting to get these scams under way?
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How tragic that Ontario has swallowed the green snot bullet so hard!
Poor, stupid Windsor, ON. By the way, I grew up there so I can opine about my home town. They're looking for the next "Big Three" with respect to industry. What they seem to not realize is that the Big Three are still around...it's the unions they have to get rid of. For the Big Three to have contributed vast sums of money to improve the infrastructure of many Third World countries back in the late 70s and 80s in order to build factories and operate there just goes to show how expensive the unions made US/Canadian workers. Can't blame Windsor's mayor for trying to bring industry, albeit "green" industry, to his city--at least he's trying to better the lot of his city's populace...very different from the mayor and city council of Ottawa.
"Don't be stupid, slapshot. OH1 has never had the slightest interest in making life convenient for green energy." cgh
If you read my post in the manner I intended.. You would have agreed or disagreed that the stupid analogy made by OH1 was/does misrepresent the issue of Grid status. The average person reading that quote would conclude that a revised (smart) Grid would be a better & more reliable System.. That is False, you can't increase the redundancy of mission critical systems by adding a greater multitude of little turds....If OH1 wants to protect consumers they need to Hi-light the down side
The hidden/unknown issue of damage to consumer equipment by Source (Hi-E) switching transients. This may result in trillions of dollars of damaged equipment..
JMHO
But you have obviously missed the simple solution to solving the energy AND economic crises in ONE FELL SWOOP!!!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/14/energy-and-economic-crises-solved/
On Feb. 1, 2012, Indiana became the 23rd right to work State. It is the first of the "Rust Belt States" to do so.
"Moore's company has diversified into manufacturing solar powered golf carts and pool pumps."
Kind of hypocritical,isn't it? Golf and swimming pools can't be considered "green" by any stretch.
True "greeners" abhor golf courses and swimming pools.
Which makes me have to ask, do any of the "green" mouthpieces ever golf?
Shades of Solyndra.......
But wait didn't uncle Dalton tell us that paying 80 cents a Kw for green energy would kickstart the new green economy? Dalton wouldn't have lied again would he?
All I see is yet another variation of the Enron energy manipulation scheme. This time it's the residents of Ontario that will be fleeced but good. Along with a hefty bill we'll be left with worn out dangerous windmills and depleted and possibly toxic solar panels.
Maybe if Dolton didn't buy his green tech from Korea - jus' sayin'
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yup... it's all about the green...
-- Oct. 31, 2009 -- Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending an untendered, $81-million contract
for an energy centre built to power a casino in Windsor.
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