Judith Curry writes in the Australian:

The Australian reports:

The cause of the Ontario Liberal government’s industrial wind turbine madness

Why, against all that is rational, ethical, and in the best interests of the people, is the Ontario Liberal government continuing to impose thousands more of the useless, destructive, dangerous, costly, un-green, landscape-blighting industrial wind turbines on large swaths of rural Ontario? The premiers McGunity/Wynne apparently did not do their homework on the efficacy of their green ambitions, which have proven to be economically, environmentally and socially ruinous.  And yet Premier Wynne, successor to resigned-in-disgrace McGuinty, is undeterred, charging full blast into further unmitigated disaster, all the while making platitudinous, clichéd promises: ‘My responsibility is to make sure that going forward, we have a better process in place, and that’s what we’re doing.’ It’s a heartless, bullying process of the cruelest sort when you consider the absolute uselessness of it all. All industrial wind…

Letter to the Editor — Lethbridge Herald — September 20, 2013

Re: Alberta lagging in wind power generation, Sept. 14.

The CanWEA and Dave Mabell try hard to perpetuate the myth that wind electricity is good for Albertans and good for the environment. Wind is expensive and inefficient; it does little to reduce carbon dioxide emissions; and wind turbines kill thousands of bats and birds in Alberta annually.

In Alberta, electrical output from wind turbines is just 32 per cent of design capacity, rendering actual production facilities and new transmissions lines inefficient – lines that we pay for with every electricity bill. We have spent billions on wind generation in Alberta and yet wind produces only three per cent of our electrical needs.

But have carbon dioxide emissions been reduced by three per cent? Almost certainly not, because when the wind blows, gas and coal plants still operate. Wind is…

Robert Bryce writes for Bloomberg News:

Ian Macfarlane is now the Minister for Industry, which includes the Energy portfolio.

STT receives quite a lot of mail about Macca running way too close to wind weasel outlaws, Infigen (aka Babcock and Brown).

Some might call it an “unhealthy” relationship.  Tune in to Alan Jones this week to hear what AJ calls it.

We’ve called him a “policy pygmy” – which apparently upset him.  But, being fair-minded individuals, we’re prepared to “give the lad a go”, as they say.

But be warned – any misstep from here will be punished mercilessly by Australian power consumers – who all vote.

STT Champion, Paul Miskelly hit the STT headlines with his brilliant study into the economic and environmental lunacy that is wind power in this post: Where will you be when the lights go out for good?

We thought that Paul couldn’t possibly top that thoroughly researched…