Wolfe Erlichman | Jan 27, 2016
Although Mr. McAlear's Jan 21 letter to the editor (Re: Wind Turbines) has some factual errors, mainly because he is trying to describe a very complicated system, he is right in asserting that local communities should participate in profits derived from renewable energy and they should have more control over other issues such as siting. Community ownership, such as Kingston has, could achieve Mr. McAlear's goals. Since renewable energy is becoming the cheapest form of electricity, it will soon be an important, if not the primary source of our electricity. As such we should convince the provincial government that the production of electricity should be community owned. The rapidly developing electricity storage solutions such as batteries, flywheels, pumped storage and other storage solutions will make local community-owned electricity grids possible and will free us from the clutches of Hydro One and the expensive nuclear lobby.
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