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BLOG Dec 13, 2017

Made-in-Alberta procurement process harnessed competitive market forces gettin... Recent Alberta Renewable Energy Program produces bids that are lowest ever seen from wind energy in Canada The results of Alberta’s first competitive renewab (more...)

BLOG Dec 7, 2017

Why a new system of industrial emissions management and standards makes sense ... The Alberta government recently announced a new step towards its Climate Leadership Plan goals in transitioning from the Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER (more...)

BLOG Dec 6, 2017

Canadians visualize clean energy future... CanWEA unveils the winners of its 2017 Power of Wind contest For the past seven years, I’ve had the enviable task of managing the Canadian Wind Energy Asso (more...)

BLOG Nov 29, 2017

Debunking myths about wind energy in Alberta... Politics are on the minds of many people these days.  With municipal elections and the leadership race for the United Conservative Party just behind us, and an (more...)

BLOG Nov 17, 2017

Updated LTEP needs wind to achieve its goals... The Ontario government released its latest Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP), Delivering Fairness and Choice, on October 26, 2017. While the updated LTEP is agnostic (more...)

BLOG Nov 9, 2017

CanWEA’s Best Practices for Indigenous and Public Engagement... Updated to include new material on Indigenous Peoples, digital and social media and new links and resources It’s no secret to anyone in the wind energy indus (more...)

BLOG Nov 9, 2017

CanWEA’s Energy Transition conference wrapped up with a promise of new marke... 1,400 attendees and 120 exhibitors gathered in Montreal for CanWEA’s annual wind energy conference and exhibition In October, I had the opportunity to atte (more...)

BLOG Nov 8, 2017

Wind energy industry working to protect birds and bats... There have been recent exchanges in the media about different perceptions around the science of impacts to birds and bats from increased wind energy development (more...)

BLOG Nov 2, 2017

Wind energy to bring local, economic benefits in Saskatchewan... The following editorial was originally published in the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities' publication the Rural Councillor and is being reposte (more...)

BLOG Oct 26, 2017

Wind energy’s economic benefits are beyond politics... There’s a common myth that wind energy is a darling of the left wing and rejected by the right. The reality, however, is much different. At a time when peo (more...)