Category Archives: Alternative Energy

(November 16, 2006) The purpose of this study is to review the performance of wind power in Ontario, with particular attention to the period since the beginning of wind farm operations greater than 20 MW in the spring of 2006. Continue reading →

(October 25, 2006) A study released yesterday by Ontario’s electricity authorities says wind power could represent nearly 20 per cent of the province’s power-generation capacity with little compromise to system reliability. Continue reading →

(September 5, 2006) Sarnia, Ontario: It smells like a brewery, looks like a smal petrochemical plant, and what comes out the back end is at the centre of a debate over Canada’s energy future. Continue reading →

(June 9, 2006) A Guelph-based company is building a $200-million grain processing plant in Saskatchewan that will also make ethanol out of production wastes. Continue reading →

(May 13, 2006) Darlene Leader sits on a deck at her family farm near Shelburne, north of Orangeville in Dufferin County. She watches as the huge blades of four giant wind turbines slowly turn. Critics say they are noisy, but on this day, the sound, if there’s anym, is negligible. Continue reading →

(May 6, 2006) As Muppet philospher Kermit the Frog so aptly observed, it’s not easy being green. It’s not cheap, either, as it turns out. But that’s not stopping Margaret Atwood or David Crombie. Tragically Hip front man Gord Downie and chef Jamie Kennedy have gone green too. Continue reading →

(March 21, 2006) Ontario is offering to subsidize homeowners and businesses that switch to renewable power sources like solar panels or wind turbines. Continue reading →

(March 21, 2006) Up in our rural neck of the woods, where very little happens, everyone is in a tizzy. The wind companies have arrived. Suddenly, there are giant wind farms sprouting 30-storey turbines on our horizon. Continue reading →