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say it isn’t so… according a to a report on CBC, our illustrious Mayor is shooting his yap off about a study on wind power. Please don’t bring the same level of expertise to this project as you did to the harbour solutions or it’s Tsunamai time in HRM
—Basil Fawlty
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
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I’ll have a blog post about this later today. The short story: it’s not a big deal, and the city is taking the right approach to regulating wind turbines.
is putting a bid turbine in the way going to alter the jetstreams that we rely on to predict our weather?
doesn’t the whole “butterfly flaps his wings in Peking and in Central Park we get rain instead of sunshine” effect indicate that yes, it’s greener but what will the effects still be?
remind me what the problem is here. Are we worried about stopping the wind or something with too many turbines?
Come on how can we take the joy of studies away from Pete? That would be cruel and unusual punishmant for the poor man, especially between concerts.
The HRM should add “working to inspire the common citizen to go green”. It turns out, unless you have a wind FARM and can maintain generation of a certain level of power you may not sell your energy back to the power company. Sure, your excess is going on the grid and redistributed with-charge by NS Power but you’ll not receive credit for it unless you fall into the “producer” category. I think NS Power and Canada in general has a long way to go to spur green energy development from the citizen-up but a start is just that.
Right Kay, in spite of the push to go green NS power (unlike a lot of other power companies in NA) seems to have a problem with paying for power from private “Home Power” producers – which kind of flies in the face of this green initiative. I guess it’s not green if NS power can’t profit from it.
I really don’t understand what Tsunamis have to do with wind power either.
beacuse our doofus Mayor will probably be persuaded that Holiis and Robie are great places for turbines.