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	Environmental Studies at York
		Windshare and Toronto Hydro expect the wind turbine to begin producing energy in October 2002 providing clean, renewable electricity for homes and businesses in Toronto.
		Windshare members members receive an annual financial dividend proportional to the number of shares of the turbine they own and their share in the sale of the electricity generated by the turbine.
		Windshare members will elect a Board of Directors and participate in the management of the wind turbine on a one member, one vote basis regardless of the number of shares they purchase.
	www.yorku.ca /fes/envedu/gr10civics.asp (1438 words)

	Toronto's WindShare Coop
		In early 2006 WindShare's experiment in cooperative ownership now awaits a contract from the province as part of a campaign for Advanced Renewable Tariffs launched by the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association.
		Despite the problems posed by the change in government policy, the WindShare turbine is both highly visible and highly popular.
		WindShare and those pioneers who made it possible can serve as a model for the other great cities bordering the Great Lakes.
	www.wind-works.org /articles/TorontosWindShareCoop.html (824 words)

	Toronto Hydro Corporation -- Wind Turbine
		WindShare is the first wind power co-op in North America and it owns 50% of this wind turbine.
		WindShare is a community initiative born out of the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative, whose mission is to provide clean, renewable energy at cost to members.
		WindShare drew its inspiration from Denmark where 26% of the country's total wind power is owned by co-operatives.
	www.torontohydro.com /corporate/initiatives/green_power/wind_turbine/index.cfm (553 words)

	TRCA - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While Windshare shareholders are getting a payment, the turbine at the CNE is 50 per cent owned by Toronto Hydro Energy Services, a Toronto Hydro subsidiary, in an arrangement where Hydro gets half the revenue from power sold to the grid but doesn't get dividends.
		Meanwhile Windshare, which weathered a storm of uncertainty when its turbine manufacturer went brankrupt at startup, still faces challenges before annual dividend payouts are guaranteed.
		Windshare — named organization of the year by the Canadian Wind Energy Association — is also waiting for the city of Toronto to patch up its rocky relationship with the Toronto Port Authority so it can proceed with a second turbine planned for Ashbridge's Bay in the east end.
	www.trca.on.ca /latestnews/?articleID=633 (1064 words)

	WindShare - about the co-op (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		WindShare, in a 50/50 partnership with Toronto Hydro, owns the ExPlace turbine on the Toronto Waterfront and the power it generates.
		The WindShare project is intended to profile wind power as a solution to smog and global climate change in a highly visible setting in Canada's largest city.
		Interest in the project from the public was strong, and in 1999, TREC formed WindShare, which formed a joint venture with Toronto Hydro Energy Services to develop the first urban-based wind turbine in North America.
	www.trec.on.ca /windshare/about.html (1236 words)

	WindShare - newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The purchase agreements were unveiled during a gathering of WindShare members who have committed to purchasing shares in the two wind turbines, the first Canadian wind turbines to be constructed in an urban setting.
		WindShare is a project developed by the Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative (TREC), as part of a joint venture with Toronto Hydro Energy Services.
		WindShare was conceived as a unique opportunity for Toronto residents to generate power in Ontario?s new deregulated energy marketplace while also beginning to address in a practical way climate change and smog.
	www.windshare.ca /press/press_apr2302.html (343 words)

	What You Can Do -
		TREC's first project, the WindShare Co-operative, was established to own and operate two wind turbines on the Toronto waterfront.
		WindShare is a membership cooperative, and shareholders are entitled to vote in the governance of the organization.
		Becoming a member of WindShare requires the purchase of a $1 membership, and a minimum of five $100 turbine shares, or $500.
	www.acer-acre.org /ClimateChangeCD/sec7/7444.htm (1184 words)

	Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc. -- In the Community
		Four hundred and twenty-one original WindShare members each purchased a minimum of $500 in shares to fund half of the capital costs of the turbine.
		WindShare sells its share of the electricity produced and members receive a dividend based on net proceeds.
		On February 1st, 2005, WindShare was able to disperse its first dividend to its co-op members.
	www.thenergyservices.com /of_interest/community/index.cfm (338 words)

	WindShare - our projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Exhibition Place turbine is is a joint venture between WindShare and Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc. The turbine was erected in December 2002 and started generating power in January 2003.
		WindShare and our partner, the Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc. received all environmental approvals for the wind turbine project in December 2000.
		Toronto Hydro Corporation and WindShare's wind turbine, located on the CNE grounds, has had no significant impact on local or migrating bird populations.
	www.trec.on.ca /windshare/projects.html (1010 words)

	Eye Weekly - Answers are in the wind - 06.26.03
		A faction of radical birders initially opposed the project with horror stories of a holocaust of "bird-strikes." Still smarting from the controversy, WindShare has a posting on the FAQ page of its website arguing that an average windmill will kill only two birds per year while office towers kill thousands.
		WindShare's success is touted by everyone from Tory energy minister John Baird to federal NDP leader Jack Layton as a symbol of great things to come.
		WindShare is chugging ahead on building a second windmill.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.26.03/city/enviro.html (719 words)

	We Saw a Chicken … » Blog Archive » Rum Do At WindShare
		Moved that the Board of WindShare recommends to the WindShare I membership at their general meeting of June 7, 2006, the merger of WindShare I and WindShare II for the purpose of entering into the activities necessary for the development of the proposed Lakewind Proposal.
		I was informed by the WindShare administrator that this wasn’t possible; the Cooperative Corporations Act does not allow proxy voting.
		WindShare made their political point with the ExPlace turbine, and now we must show that community wind is economically viable.
	scruss.com /blog/2006/06/07/rum-do-at-windshare (417 words)

	SpeedGuide.net Broadband Community - View Single Post - Toronto, First Urban Wind Turbine in North America
		WindShare president Ed Hale said yesterday it was important to build the windmill in the city in spite of an extensive approval process.
		To start, the windmill's output will flow into the general electricity grid and WindShare's 450 shareholders will receive a dividend as power generators.
		WindShare's own plans for another turbine in Ashbridge's Bay have been put in doubt by the province's recent hydro rate freeze.
	forums.speedguide.net /showpost.php?p=886653&postcount=1 (351 words)

	Windshare Turbine and Hydrogen Generation at the CNE - The Toronto Wi-Fi Meetup Group (Toronto, ON) - Meetup.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Windshare Turbine and Hydrogen Generation at the CNE - The Toronto Wi-Fi Meetup Group (Toronto, ON) - Meetup.com
		Windshare Turbine and Hydrogen Generation at the CNE
		I'm also a member of Windshare (www.windshare.ca ; www.trec.on.ca), the co-op managing the Toronto Ex Place wind turbine, along with Toronto Hydro.
	wifi.meetup.com /36/boards/view/viewthread?thread=1495512 (377 words)

	Windshare Exhibition Place Turbine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		JDR constructed the base structure for the landmark Windshare turbine at Exhibition Place.
		The turbine stands 94m tall with blades measuring 29m in length.
		JDR is proud of its involvement in green energy initiatives such as the Windshare turbine.
	www.jdrconstruction.ca /Windshare.htm (62 words)

	Wind Turbines » Toronto’s WindShare Wins Award from CanWEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) annual conference, Toronto’s WindShare was named as the Organisation of the Year for 2004.
		WindShare is a project developed by the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative (TREC) in partnership with Toronto Hydro.
		Currently the co-op has one wind turbine operating on the grounds of Exhibition Place, and has plans to install a second wind turbine in the near future at Ashbridge’s Bay.
	www.stratobox.com /wind-turbines/?p=17 (131 words)

	12/18 - Silently harnessing the wind
		The wind turbine afforded her that chance in the late 1990s, when the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-op set up WindShare to raise half the money for the $1.7-million turbine project through sales of shares to city residents.
		McLean moved from WindShare to Toronto Hydro to develop green-energy plans, Mr.
		It's not such an unlikely place when he looks back on his youth in Galt (now Cambridge, Ont.), where the engineer's son rigged parachutes to kites and watched them float on the air.
	www.greatlakesdirectory.org /on/121803_great_lakes.htm (838 words)

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		Shares in WindShare are available to the public.
		WindShare commissioned its first wind turbine at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto in late fall, 2002.
		As a WindShare member, you can earn an annual financial dividend from the sale of the electricity generated by the wind turbines.
	www.cleanairpartnership.org /cleanairguide/green_power (696 words)

	Events - Ontario Chapter of Sierra Club of Canada
		The Sierra Club is very pleased to have Dave Timm of WindShare and General Manager of the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative (TREC) conduct a session about Wind Energy.
		David was a principal in the development of the WindShare Co-op, Canada’s first green power co-operative, which brought North America’s first urban-based wind turbine to the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada.
		Currently, David is responsible for overseeing the ongoing operations and maintenance of the the turbine, and also serves as General Manager of the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative (TREC) and is part of the development team of a 15 MW wind farm in Ontario.
	ontario.sierraclub.ca /events/index.php?id=309 (315 words)

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		WindShare is a community-based initiative for the development of renewable energy.
		In a 50/50 partnership with Toronto Hydro, Windshare owns the Exhibition Place turbine on the Toronto Waterfront and the power it generates.
		Windshare, in Toronto, offers the GTA the option to purchase shares for their second turbine project.
	www.ontario-sea.org /FAQfinal.html (2283 words)

	Electricity Choices -- Green Power Suppliers
		To participate, you must become a member of Windshare.
		Joining the Co-op will allow you to contribute to increasing the supply of green power in Ontario but will not directly increase demand for such power unless you also sign up as a customer with one of the co-op's power purchasers.
		Check with Windshare to find out which companies are buying its emissions-free power.
	www.electricitychoices.org /trec.html (277 words)

	Windworks Sailing Club: Windshare Application (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Windshare: Sign In Welcome to Windshare, exclusively available to Windworks Sailing Club members.
		Windshare allows club members to find and contact other members who share their sailing interests, in order to arrange sailing trips and share expenses.
		If you are not yet a Windworks Sailing Club Member, or if you do not have a valid email address on file with us, give us a call or email us, and we'll be happy to set it up.
	www.windworkssailing.com /wwsc/default.asp?Login=1&New=1 (124 words)

	WAPA Renewable Resources Program
		WindShare, a project developed by the Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative (TREC), has raised approximately $680,000 from more than 350 Toronto residents.
		Under the WindShare program, Toronto residents are invited to purchase a minimum of five shares for $100 each, up to a maximum of $5,000 for individual investors.
		The WindShare turbine will be owned in a 50/50 partnership with Toronto Hydro, which has signed a contract for all of its power output.
	www.wapa.gov /es/greennews/2002/dec2'02.htm (5721 words)

	New wind farms and bird kill debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The bird study on the WindShare [windshare.ca] turbine in Toronto found two dead birds [trec.on.ca].
		I live next to a wind farm and I always see the gulls flying around the blades but have never seen a dead one.
		I know that with Bertrams Law you can only get so much power from the wind- so the next turbine has to be spaced a certain distance away.
	www.talkenergy.com /comments.pl?sid=243&cid=519 (914 words)

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		Representatives from TORONTO HYDRO CORPORATION and WINDSHARE will be available to answer questions at the construction site where assembly of the blades, generator and tower for the first wind turbine in the City of Toronto will occur.
		WHEN: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 11 A.M. WHY: The wind turbine -- a joint venture of Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc. and Windshare — is the first such device to be erected in a downtown urban setting in North America.
		The turbine heralds a commitment to the renewable energy industry in Canada and to cleaner air for the citizens of the City of Toronto.
	www.explace.on.ca /windmedianov28.doc (213 words)

	Environment and Social Justice News, Advocacy and Solutions—The Safe Water Group
		Bird flocks were seen arriving daily to forage on lawns and landed in parking lots soon after dawn, and always took a flight path that clearly avoided coming close to the turbine.”
		Toronto Hydro and WindShare installed the $1.3 million Lagerwey 750 kW turbine to supply green power to the city.
		WindShare is Canada's first green power community co-operative that was started by the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative.
	www.safewatergroup.org /whats_new/downtown_to_wind_turbine.htm (404 words)

	Welcome to WindShare
		Since 1999, the WindShare Co-operative in Toronto, Ontario has a been working to provide an opportunity for the local community to own and direct its energy future.
		Understanding the simplicity of working in harmony with nature...recognizing the value in using a 'free fuel'...WindShare members do not wait, they lead.
		The Board of Directors has set the date for the 2005 WindShare Co-op's Annual General Meeting
	www.windshare.ca (111 words)

	Environmental Studies at York graduates to speak at Green Power Trade Show in Toronto
		Young and Doncaster will be speaking at the Green Power Trade Show between 4:30pm and 5:30pm on Tuesday October 29 about their experience and how communities can invest in the development of renewable resources.
		The Windshare model is being promoted as an environmentally friendly energy source which can provide energy directly to the consumer, with all benefits returning to the community.
		Bryan Young is currently on the staff of Windshare.
	www.yorku.ca /fes/fesnews/greenpower.asp (340 words)

	redToronto.com - Toronto Arts Information - Local Information on Arts in Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Launched in 1998, Toronto’s first car-sharing network, offers a cheaper alternative to owning a car, as well as a way to reduce emissions by only using a vehicle when you absolutely must.
		Named "Organisation of the Year" in 2004 by the Canadian Wind Industry, Windshare is Canada's first green power cooperative.
		Windshare operates a wind turbine on the Toronto waterfront, with a second slated to be built in the east end of the city.
	information.redtoronto.com /information/greenguide/greenguide.html (2971 words)

	Treehugger: The TH Interview: Windshare's Ed Hale
		Upon his return to Toronto, he found a friend involved in a neighbourhood start up program aimed to providing the city with community-based renewable energy.
		Toronto Renewable Energy Co-Operative (TREC) was born in 1998; a year later Ed created and was selected founding President of WindShare, with goals to develop the first urban wind turbine in North America.
		It is set to offer shares to a 10 MW development near Kincardine in Ontario with hopes to start operations late 2007.
	www.treehugger.com /files/2006/09/windshares_ed_h.php (1281 words)

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