WCO | Wind Concerns Ontario

/ With no changes to regulations for setbacks or noise limits for wind turbines, and new bids possible, dozens of Ontario communities have taken the only step possible APRIL 30, 2024,…

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/05/01/no-155-ontario-communities-are-unwilling-hosts-for-new-industrial-wind-power-sites/

“Inhumane and unethical”: environmental group says massive industrial wind power-hydrogen site will have unprecedented environmental impacts. Legal action is being considered. A environmental...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/04/18/grave-threat-to-environment-from-mega-wind-power-site-ignored-says-newfoundland-environmental-group/

It’s all in the numbers: what is the real cost of wind and solar? The ways wind and solar are costed ignores the real costs of their unreliability…and of getting rid…

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/04/17/youve-been-lied-to-wind-and-solar-not-cheap/

Figures presented show actual loss of $25 billion in property value for U.S. houses near wind turbines In March, 2024, the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS,...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/04/07/researchers-try-to-hide-the-truth-about-property-value-loss-and-wind-turbines/

With new power proposals coming in 2025, Ontario’s rural communities are looking at whether they want to be power plantations for cities. Guess what the answer is? March 18, 2024 The Unwilling ...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/03/18/the-return-of-the-unwilling-host/

“Pulling no punches”: citizens oppose use of prime agricultural land for wind turbines, and are concerned about inadequate setbacks for health and safety Photo: East Zorra-Tavistock February ...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/02/09/new-community-group-opposes-wind-turbines-in-oxford-county/

A letter sent in 2011 to then environment minister by the mayor of Amaranth requested action on negative impacts of wind turbines and a transformer, specifically greater setbacks. Nothing has bee...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/02/01/thirteen-years-after-ontario-mayor-pleads-for-action-on-wind-turbines-no-change/

With the IESO looking for new power generation, wind power developers are on the lookout for willing landowners. January 25, 2024 Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO will ...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/01/25/wind-turbine-leases-what-landowners-really-need-to-know/

January 18, 2024 Protect agricultural land, don’t reward non-compliant operators with new contracts, and insist on enforcement of noise regulations Wind Concerns Ontario tells IESO Protection o...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2024/01/18/protect-prime-farmland-no-contracts-for-non-compliant-wind-farm-operators-wco-tells-ieso/

New procurement announced, but difference from Green Energy Act is that municipalities now have final say in approvals of siting for projects, and can create bylaws for siting Turbines and transf...

https://www.windconcernsontario.ca/2023/12/12/ieso-announces-plans-for-new-wind-power-in-ontario/