kelownabomberfan

Has anyone doubted him? Does Flanders have a chance of making this team? I am thinking the possibilities are remote, just because of his passport. With Augustine and LaFrance around, we have good Canadian depth at RB now. Not sure there is room for an import RB. But maybe I'm wrong.

Ontario has the most expensive electricity in North America The result of subsidized, over-priced wind power that Ontario doesn’t need. 2010 to October, 2015: Electricity rates increased 60-88%. November 1, 2015: Rates increase another by 8.7%. January 1, 2016: Rates increase by another 10%. May 1, 2016: Rates increase by another 2.5 cents per kWh because “Ontario didn’t sell enough power over the winter”: January 1, 2017: PST removed, decreasing bills by 8%. January 1, 2017: Rate increases due to hidden Cap & Trade. May, 2017: Hydro bills are reduced by 17%. The reduction will be charged to taxpayers because “everyone benefits from electricity infrastructure, not just rate payers”. May, 2017: Subsidies are offered to those with a low income. Subsidies will be charged to taxpayers. June, 2017: Hydro One announces annual increase of $171 to cover infrastructure upgrades. http://www.windontario.ca/

what about the CO2 emissions from building all of those solar panels? Do those just not count? How long do those solar panels have to sit on your roof before you are net zero on emissions?

this will be true when storage is built that can handle the power from wind farms. The problem in Ontario and elsewhere is that wind power gets generated mostly when no one needs it. And so causes more pain than it is worth. It's not lessening the burden, it's creating an even bigger burden.

define "successful" though. Texas loves wind power, but also spends billions of dollars subsidizing it, with no real end in sight. I don't call that success. I call that welfare.

you also weren't going to develop anybody with that O-Line we had. They were too busy getting killed to develop.

Glutton for punishment.

Obscure reference - I like it!

hear hear comrade!!

Yes we are having a blast here in BC watching Horgan/Weaver steer the BC 747 straight into a mountain.

yeah. It's unfortunate that the PC's let their party get usurped by Doug Ford. That was a major political boner.

where is the accountability? These farms keep getting set up and horribly under-producing, and yet no one ever reports this, or if they do, it's dismissed as "Sun News? WTF?!"

LOL - ok fine, shoot the messenger. I get the feeling that no matter what I link I show you it will be poo-pooed. I wish the mainstream media wasn't so married to the narrative about wind farms being a good thing, without ever talking about the down-side, which is extreme, and well documented. Wind farms are really awful. http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/the-untold-ontario-green-energy-scandal-is-that-its-devastating-our-rural-areas

Thanks Mark. I just get a paywall unfortunately.

have to agree. Very optimistic about our defence this year. Offense, not so much until I see our O-Line giving our QB's the time they need.

Do you have a link to that? I read about how wind power is now very cheap in Alberta, but in reality they are just hiding the subsidies in different ways. There is no way alternating power sources can be cheaper than a constant source of power like Hydro. It just doesn't work that way. And the problem with wind, as Ontario has found out, is that it mostly blows at night, when it's not really needed, leading to having to pay for the excess loading of the system. Wind has been a disastrous investment for the province of Ontario, as it's proven to be everywhere it's been tried. I was in Albany Western Australia a few years ago and everyone was complaining about the cost of the wind farm they had there. It generated no where near the power they were promised, and at all the wrong times when it did. Not to mention the bird kills, which I know wind power advocates try to play down by posting stats of birds killed by buildings and cats, but these are rare birds, migratory raptors and eagles.

Justin Holland 2.0.

so what's the deal with Noeller?

You should have stopped there and let it be somewhat of a mystery, rather than continue and remove all doubt.

I saw somewhere that McKenna was launching some $500 million fund for renewable energy. Maybe Google it, if you are interested.

I honestly believe that May is saying these things knowing full well no refinery is going to be built in Canada. If suddenly there was a move to build one, I would bet that she would flip-flop on this issue in two seconds. But only because the Tides Foundation told her to do so.

I am actually a bigger fan of solar than I am of wind power. I just don't see solar being able to meet demand for power. Alternating power sources like wind, solar and tidal are just never going to be able to compete in terms of price with nuclear, hydro and gas cogen. And you can do an Ontario and blow your brains out at the taxpayers' expense, but that's not a long-term strategy for success.

I honestly don't trust her or the Greens. She's at the mercy of her foreign interests that are funding her.

I hear your point on this. Where would you build it? And would you have Elizabeth May and David Suzuki chaining themselves to fences to block workers from building it? Just curious. It's easy to say "just build it" but you wind up dealing with the same band of lunatics no matter what you do. Me personally, if we're really interested in "green power", should be looking seriously at nuclear technology. We have so much uranium, let's use it rather than just handing it to the Chinese.