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Sure renewable energy is not everything, but spending 200 millions to tear down wind farms is also not how you get there https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-green-energ...


As far as I understood it, they weren't torn down as much as the contract was cancelled and more weren't built.

I live in Windsor-Essex and still see new windmill projects going up all the time.


That links says that (a) they were torn down, complete or incomplete, and (b) the company was paid a (huge!) contract break fee for this, as you would expect.


Yes, apparently they tore down 4 turbines, which is a waste of money.

But if you've ever been to Chatham-Kent you'd notice that there are places where you can do a 360 degree turn and never see fewer than 10 windmills in your field of vision. Ontario has 2,600 wind turbines.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/10/23/news/wind-turbin....


Of course the turbines will not have been scrapped, but will be sold on. Probably the blades, too.

So, only the towers, really.


Huge as in the price of Twitter 44 billion or the 1 billion breakup fee?




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