The second and final public meetings that Algonquin is required to have occurred earlier this week. I didn’t bother attending – there’s nothing to learn there, and nothing of importance will be discussed. Algonquin knows that the Province will use its powers to roll over the locals, so there’s no reason to waste any more [...]
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In the December edition of Framers Forum magazine there was a short article about Amherst Island. Bruce Caughey, Dave Willard, Peter Large and Duncan Ashley were all quoted. As it happened, I was in Bruce’s office when the call came in from the reporter, and so I can first-hand verify the his quotes appear to [...]
Talk about being prophetic. Back in July I posted a letter from APAI to Algonquin warning them about the difficulty of fighting a fire on the Island, and how it isn’t that uncommon for a wind turbine to start a fire. Well, it wasn’t a wind turbine. It was an ATV whose hot muffler got [...]
Last July the Kingston Whig published an article about the announcement of the Federal health study of wind turbines. As part of that article they printed a response from John Garrison, who was Kingston’s MPP when the Wolfe Island project went into service. He supported that project to the extent that he cited a conflict [...]
The Kingston Whig-Standard had a recent article the featured Brian Little and Amherst Island. He lives sort of in the middle of the Island, as opposed to most of us who live on the shoreline. From there he is able to observe more of Algonquin’s activities than many of us are, plus he works on [...]
It seems that the delays to this project reported a couple of weeks ago didn’t set well with NY’s Public Service Commission. Their staff is now suggesting that the entire project be scrapped. Original report, from WYNF Backup Link
The Watertown paper had a short article about the Galloo Island project being delayed due to low electricity prices along with the prospect of the ITC not being renewed. Links Watertown Daily News article, July 7, 2012 Backup Copy
Today the Kingston Whig-Standard published a short article about the latest maneuvering of Ian Baines. He is the president of Windstream, the company proposing the Wolfe Island Shoals project. Ontario has a moratorium on projects in the Great Lakes pending doing some scientific studies to see what their impacts might be. Baines says they need [...]
The online version of the Daily Commercial news had a brief article about the PC energy critic, Vic Fedeli, writing a letter to the Minister of Energy, Chris Bentley. Fedeli was wondering, given all the orders Windstream has been placing for turbines etc in preparation for the WI Shoals project, if there are plans to [...]
April 16, 2011. The Whig-Standard carried another article [backup copy] on Amherst Island, this time about the lack of money being paid to the township by the project. In the past, local councils approved the projects, which gave them leverage to get some added revenues. With the Green Energy Act the province took over the [...]
March 3, 2011. The local TV station, CWKS, aired this report [backup link] on the project on Amherst Island. In it they mention that construction will start next summer. They don’t say where they got that information.
February 25, 2011. The Kingston Whig wrote an article about the announcement, which included a short interview with John Harrison. [Backup Link.] Algonquin Power released a short statement about the OPA FIT award on Amherst Island. No new news in it. [Backup Link.] February 26, 2011. Here’s a short article about Algonquin’s response to the [...]
