I know that asking inconvenient questions will raise the left leaning "sunny ways" crowd's ire but I've often wondered how many birds are killed by the windmills?  There is also no mention of the maintenance costs of windmills as it relates the cost of useable electricity generated.  If they are going to analyze alternative energy at least be thorough in the analysis and look at all the pros and cons instead of just the utopian fairly tale like this article.   

This carbon tax is nothing but a way to disadvantage Canadians while re-directing money from those who have earned it to governments who are experts in wasting it.  The UN's pronouncements of global warming do not include an analysis of the Sun's activity on the causes nor does it consider the fact that Antartica has a stable ice cap and temperature.   In any legitimate scientific investigation all factors are considered and constantly re-examined but there is a concerted effort to silence those who legitimate questions.