“Regional energy planning” a plan of inaction, says MPP Pettapiece | Randy Pettapiece | MPP for Perth-Wellington

“Regional energy planning” a plan of inaction, says MPP Pettapiece | Randy Pettapiece | MPP for Perth-Wellington: 

(Queen’s Park) – The Liberal government is promising to improve “how the province plans and builds large energy infrastructure projects going forward” by introducing what it calls regional energy planning. But their plan is nothing more than a plan of inaction, says Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece.
“Area residents and municipalities should not be fooled,” Pettapiece said, pointing to the Liberals’ long-established practice of forcing projects into communities where they are not wanted.
Instead of taking direct responsibility, the Liberal government is asking two provincial energy agencies – the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) – to come up with a new process to site energy projects.
“By calling for a new process, the Liberals have, in effect, finally admitted that their current process is broken,” Pettapiece said. “Yet they still refuse to stop projects already in the pipeline from moving through what they know is a flawed process.”
One of those projects is the Conestogo Wind Energy Project planned for North Perth.

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