There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the political credibility of climate alarmism.

Identifying and enumerating a resource or asset, is a more tricky business. It may be something as concrete as a pile of money or something as intangible as an idea. At certain points in a campaign, a resource may have little utility but go on to be very important, or the reverse. Some resources you may have control of, some you may not. The most subtle type of resource, neither side has control of, but it can act at different points, to the advantage or detriment of either side. Some resources nominally belong to the opposition, but even…

A recent court decision appears to have the mayor of Melancthon wondering if the Green Energy Act overrides all other laws of the land.

In a personal letter to Premier Kathleen Wynn, Mayor Bill Hill describes as “another blow to democracy and local municipal governance as a result of your Government’s Draconian and repressive Green Energy and Economy Act” (GEA) a Superior Court ruling that effectively overruled the township’s zoning bylaw.

“Dufferin Wind Power Inc. (Longyuan Canada Renewables Ltd.) was successful in its Court Application regarding the storage of turbines on a property that was not zoned for that activity within the Township of Melancthon.

“Our position, based on solid planning advice, was that the exception did not allow for the off-site storage of turbine components on a property that was not zoned for that type of use.

“However, (Superior Court) Justice Morawetz ruled ln favour of Dufferin Wind Power…

The earth isn’t dying; it is being killed. And “clean energy” will only make things worse.

I should probably begin by introducing myself; my name is Alex, and I’m a recovering renewable energy advocate. For years, I was a victim of desperation and hope; I petitioned and parlayed, chanted and canvassed; I brimmed with excitement at the prospect of “green jobs” and a “renewable energy economy.” I still see much of myself in many of you.

I know what it’s like. I know exactly how it feels to look around and see a world not just dying but being suffocated, being tortured and maimed, sacrificed on the twin altars of profit and production. As a young person today, I know what it’s like to fear the future, to fear for my future. I—like many of you—have read all the studies and reports I need to see to know what’s coming…

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Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill is urging Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to step up and address what he labels the “seriously flawed” powers of the Green Energy Act (GEA). It’s no secret Melancthon council and Dufferin Wind Power Inc., which received approval to operate a 99 MW wind farm in the township and construct a 230 kV transmission line to Amaranth, have a less than amicable relationship.

With Dufferin Wind filing for expropriation, taking the township to court over the storage of wind turbines, and recently applying to have the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) institute a road use agreement, the township has reached a breaking point, Hill said. “People are incensed by the bullying tactics employed by Dufferin Wind Power Inc.,” Hill wrote in his letter sent to Wynne on Tuesday (Aug. 13). “The reason they can act that way is because of the flawed Green Energy Act that…

To:
The Honourable Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Energy
Victor Fedeli, PC Energy Critic
Peter Tabuns, NDP Energy Critic
Steve Dyck, GPO Energy Critic

Gentlemen:

As our political representatives in charge of making decisions about Energy, I beseech you to pay attention to what is happening in the real world and not to what comes out of the marketing machine of the wind energy lobby at Queen’s Park.

Although originally in favour of wind energy, I am now opposed to large scale wind projects that are sited too close to homes and in environmentally sensitive areas.  I believed the claims of the wind industry – that it would deliver us from the effects of carbon pollution, that it was free – there for the taking, and that it was “green”. In 2005 when I first heard there were “wind farms” planned near our home in the County and that there was…

Excerpts from a letter by Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill to Premier K. Wynne, dated August 13, 2013.

Speaking about Dufferin Wind Power and wind power development.

“The reason they can do this, is again because of flawed Legislation passed by your Government.”

“It does appear that your government has chosen to favour foreign owned wind power developers, over the interests and livelihood of Ontario farmers.”

Read letter: Melancthon Letter

I get a bit worried when I find myself agreeing with Cameron, Osborne and Davey (Ed Davey, that is, the Lib-Dem “Energy Secretary”).  It doesn’t happen very often.  But it they seem to be right on shale gas.

The Tory Party, like other parties, has been somewhat taken aback by the concerns, indeed outright opposition of Middle England, as represented by the good people of Balcombe in Sussex, to a rather small scale drilling project adjacent to their village.  Taken aback, too, by the way that the “usual suspects” of opposition to almost any infrastructure development, the Swampies of this world, have descended on Balcombe, and have been welcomed (albeit with some understandable trepidation) by local residents.  This is doubly bizarre, since the particular well in Balcombe is for conventional oil, not fracking, and is no different from a number of similar wells that are operating in the county without…

The adage that you can’t keep a good man down applies in spades to Angus “The Enforcer” Taylor.

The wind weasels have been running a campaign to undermine Angus – including laughable claims made in the Fin Review last week that he’d been privately “slapped down” by energy policy lightweights, Greg Hunt and Ian “Enron” Macfarlane. Nice try – boys.

The wind industry is also trying to slam Angus as “anti-renewable” – like it’s a “crime against humanity”.  No – Angus isn’t “anti-renewable” just “anti-intermittent, unreliable, heavily subsidised WIND POWER”.  On the contrary, here he is at the National Rally setting out how REAL base-load renewable generation runs through his veins :

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And a greentard named Ferrara also tried taking a few pot shots at Angus, but clean missed his mark.  Oops….

Unfazed  – The Enforcer calmly drew his .44 Magnum and returned fire . *. *. *…