Lower Hydro Rates a few years off

Lower hydro rates a few years off | Local | News | Sarnia Observer: 

It will be some time before job-starved communities like Sarnia-Lambton can look for lower provincial electricity rates to help them keep industries, and land new ones.
That's according to Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli who said Friday, "We expect that within three or four years, the rate base will start coming down." 

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Municipalities gain power on green energy projects, but will it be enough? | Cornwall Standard Freeholder

The Progressive Conservatives, however, say some of the ideas were taken from their white paper on affordable energy, while the plan as a whole doesn’t do enough to empower local government.
“There are no additional decision-making powers given to municipalities,” said energy critic Vic Fedeli in a news release. “Municipalities will only be consulted and still won’t have a veto on wind turbine projects.”
“They’re going to give them more say, but they won’t have the final say,” added local MPP Jim McDonell. “There’s really no change there.” 

...McDonell said there’s no escaping the fiscal reality: that the province can no longer afford to subsidize solar panels and wind turbines.
“(Energy) rates have tripled from the time (the Liberals) came into power,” he said. “Companies are leaving — they just can’t afford it.”

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