The White Pines Wind Project…

The White Pines Wind Project is effectively complete.

Paying money to dismantle something working isn't the sunk cost fallacy, it's some other fallacy.

While terrestrial wind isn't the <i>best</i> choice of green energy, it's certainly a form of green energy, it's sensibly located, and it's doing a useful thing.

And, you know, it's there. Dismantling it isn't ecologically responsible, socially responsible, fiscally responsible, or even defensible on some sort of "clearing the way for better options" grounds. It looks a lot like someone doesn't like visible windmills and has convinced the Ford government to spend lots and lots of public money to remove the windmills. This is the sort of thing that used to be called "misuse of public funds" and "a scandal".

If the government of Ontario wanted to convince me on the "better options" front, it would take something on the order of implementing -- for all new construction or significant renovations taking place in 2019 and all subsequent years! -- a local version of the French law requiring buildings to have grass or solar panel roofing.

What they're convincing me of right now is that their core brand -- fiscal prudence -- is complete nonsense.

We need more renewable energy. Dismantling already built and operating renewable energy sources is the precise opposite of sound policy.