Manufacturing in Ontario

Manufacturing jobs in Ontario, the prophesy goes, are disappearing and will soon be extinct. I think this is unnecessarily dire. I recently read a report that Multibrid was weighing manufacturing the turbines for a large wind project in Lake Ontario.

Read the attached brochure from REpower, another Germany company making 5 MW turbines, and note the thirty-two endorsements from presidents of subcontractors and associated companies. Some of those companies do work exclusively in support of wind power manufacturing, which—if the world's third-largest GDP were not enough—should convince you that Germany knows what it is doing in terms of both sustainability and economic growth. If the provincial government could connect its left and right hands, I suspect the Ontario Power Authority would be quickly convinced to drop its weak claim that offshore wind projects are too expensive for the Ontario grid.