OSEA: Using tax dollars to sell Socialist Dogma

The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association has a new joint venture that is hellbent on capturing the hearts and minds (and our hard earned cash) to keep their baby; the Green Energy and Economy Act (Act) rolling down the mountain side. The new entity; Ontario Sustainability Services (OSS) followed the revision of the Ontario Power Authority's 2.0 feed-in-tariff rules that rewards co-operatives with more points than those awarded if the local municipality supported it.  Even if the local municipality passed a by-law that they “were not willing hosts” or a similar bylaw (100 municipalities already have) it wouldn't matter. Lining up 50 people to participate in a co-op usurps the local voters wishes even though those voters may outnumber the co-op group by a factor of 50 or 1000.

The new joint venture is reported as a “merger of OSEA's Community Power Services Group and Koenig & Consultants' KCI New Energy.  The latter have an office in Germany and their Toronto office appears to be a small house in Etobicoke.

According to their website this new venture will do the following;

“For renewable energy projects, we provide community-based solutions with a full service portfolio ranging from idea generation through governance and development, business planning and finance, permits and engineering, to overall project management and back office functions for co-operative organizations once the project is operational.” 

Financially how OSEA can undertake this is baffling. If one looks at their most recently released financial statements (March 31, 2010) they have a net worth of $48,865 (about the price of a Chevy Volt). Since then they have spent $200K or so on TV ads during the 2011 Provincial election campaign telling people who “not to vote for” and along the way needed to pay their “green” staff. So where do they get their money?
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