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"Ontario ratepayers have given at least $1.7 billion in subsidies to wind developers since 2006, when the province first started subsidizing industrial wind farms. The study found that nearly 60% of all wind subsidies have gone to six companies with more than $10 billion in annual revenue and 82% to nine companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. In total, 90% of wind subsidies have gone to just 11 companies, including Suncor, Enbridge and Samsung, among others. The study also finds that the amount of subsidies could grow to as much as $8 billion over the next decade and $13 billion over the next 20 years."

Just when the fools' Quebec as a solution to nuclear energy in Ontario meme seemed to be disappearing, the chief Liberal propagandist wades in with an article devoid of reporting . Martin Regg Cohn wants your perception of reality to include some interesting things. Writing for the paper that finds Toronto's lowest common denominator most successfully, Metro Martin drop some bon mots from a spritzer bistro After months of negotiations kicked off by Wynne and Couillard, the two provinces are set to sign a historic power-sharing agreement — electrical, not political. The goal is to backstop each other’s base load electricity during peak periods Base load refers to load that is always there (the base), and baseload supply refers to supply that is always there. Backstopping baseload is a stupid combination  of words This new approach will lead to ongoing power swaps without any money changing hands It's a pity Regg Cohn didn't ask for confirmation this wasn't already ...

Jennifer A. Dlouhy produced a column which supports my instinct that the U.S. will suffer along with, if not more than, Canada if Keystone XL isn't completed. German CEO: The world is watching US moves on Keystone XL WASHINGTON — Business leaders around the world are watching to see what the United States does with the Keystone XL pipeline, the CEO of engineering giant Siemens said Friday. ...Siemens AG CEO Joe Kaeser said that if the U.S. government ultimately rejects the project, it would be like “stopping halfway” — harvesting North American energy resources but failing to transport them to market. “It doesn’t do any good to have the greatest opportunity in the world to produce cheap, (reliable and sustainable) energy if you stop halfway through and don’t transport that blessing you folks have in this great country,” he said in an interview Friday. “If the project was held up, the signal would be they have all the opportunities, which everyone dies to have, and they didn’t take ...

I am writing on the very poor paper CanWEA paid for to debunk the Fraser study. My Cold Air study will support the criticisms made by McKitrick and Adams in "Hot air from the wind power lobby"

Following is a post written by Parker Gallant. I have not researched the topic personally and can't be certain the green "belt" is referencing a geographic location and not the other "belt" possibilities, including; a mental location, a serving of an intoxicant, or a clothing accessory utilized as a disciplinary tool Greenwashing 1 benefits Environmental Defence When the Ontario Liberal Government create “not-for-profits” strange things happen! One example is an entity called “ Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation ” (FGF) created in 2005. Their website states their purpose as: “to coordinate and fund activities that bolster the richness of life in the Greenbelt.” FGF was launched with $25 million in funding by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and went about handing out grants when the opportunity presented itself. By 2012 FGF managed to get rid of most of their start-up cash so the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing gave them another $20 mill...

I need to test embedding a google docs graph, which is on hourly forecast of wind generation along with my estimates of curtailed generators - so 744 record making a fairly detailed chart The winning graphic for this level of detail is a screen capture from Microsoft's Excel. I have many google spreadsheet graphs embedded in pages on my data site (also using google's sites), but for blogging it's images that I still find easiest to work into a posts.