Clean energy is the critical issue of our times.  With the fuel crisis, global climate change and skyrocketing cost of power we need to start looking to alternative sources of energy.  More and more people are turning to wind power as the solution.  Europe is taking the lead in the adoption of wind power, but there are already extensive wind farms in Canada and the United States. Canada's wind generation capacity has increased 38% between 2000 & 2006.

Both Toronto and Halifax have demonstration wind generation facilities.  These are a reminder to the citizens of these cities that we all need to begin to think about energy differently.   In Ontario
with the feed-in tariff it makes wind generation that much more affordable.  The City of Ottawa is a major consumer of electricity, by adding wind power the city will be reducing it's risk to fluctuations in the price per kilowatt.  

Background: In 1989, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade rallied thousands to Lansdowne Park to protest ARMX, Canada's largest arms bazaar. That year, Ottawa City Council passed a Motion declaring that "city facilities not be leased to ARMX or other such arms exhibitions." As a result, the City of Ottawa has not hosted any such manifestations of the international arms trade for almost 20 years.