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The destruction of wind in Ontario by the Ford gov't was a pretty clear moment for me: when I prodded nuclear advocates about this, not a single one could bring themselves to decry or criticise the move.

I think that showed many of them really do hate wind/solar more than they hate fossil fuels
Ontario’s future Energy Minister, Todd Smith – a former radio presenter who has since left politics and now serves as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at the Canadian nuclear technology firm, Candu Energy, a subsidiary of AtkinsRealis – had opposed White Pines from its inception. If Smith wanted it gone, he would get his way. The Ford government passed legislation, the White Pines Wind Project Termination Act, to kill the project. Its provisions stopped the developers from suing the government but outlined a formula for compensation. Ross and members of the County Sustainability Group tried to protest the decision. They pulled together a 19,360 signature petition to save the wind farm and presented it to the provincial parliament in Toronto. As Ross recalls, the new administration wasn’t interested in what they had to say and the turbines came down. “None of us thought that would happen,” Ross says. “None of us actually thought for a second they would tear down a windfarm that was so close to being done.” “Even the people who don’t really care one way or another couldn’t believe it happened. Why would they do that? They spent all this energy, all this money, to put these things in the ground, spent more money and more fossil energy to take it out of the ground. For what? Nothing.”
February 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM