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Promises blowin' in the wind: "Re: Wind drives investment, Dec. 23 guest column by Robert HornungWe wish that Robert Hornung and his lobby group the Canadian Wind Energy Association were right about what industrial-scale wind power development could do for Ontario: Jobs, innovation, money for rural landowners and delivering reliable and economic electricity.
Unfortunately for the people of this province, none of those promises are true. First, the promise of bountiful power from wind is not quite accurate: As noted in the recent Auditor General's report, wind power output is out of phase with electricity demand. Like CanWEA's poster child Denmark, Ontario ends up selling the surplus power produced by wind at a loss. This is hardly a recipe for economic success.
As for the promise of plentiful jobs, again, we note the Auditor General's report which stated that the vast majority of jobs created by wind energy development would be temporary and related to construction. Worse - and international experience has already proved this - a significant number of jobs will be lost in Ontario due to the implementation of wind power development.Wind power development is actually costing us a solid financial future in several ways.
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