"Ontario will pay wind generators for energy that it isn’t even using, produced by turbines in communities that didn’t want them, and were installed under a set of rules that it has since admitted was a mistake."
Ontario Green Energy Act changes don’t blow away rural communities | Full Comment | National Post:
If the idea behind Thursday’s changes to the Feed-in-Tariff program, the lynchpin of Ontario’s Green Energy Act, was to mollify the rural communities that rebelled against the Liberals in the last election, well then let’s look at now the news was received in the hinterlands.Read more »
“I just don’t know if it’s going to be very good for us,” a Middlesex county warden told the London Free Press.
“There’s not a lot of credibility here,” one activist told the Sarnia Observer. “Truly, did they change direction, or did they just put a new spin on it?”
Then there’s the mayor of Wainfleet, telling the St. Catharines Standard: “We knew it wasn’t going to be ideal, but I thought we were going to be able to take away something from this,” she said. “From what I’m hearing, we’ll get nothing.”
The skepticism is easy to understand...
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The government can’t just go and rip up the contracts with various developers that the Ontario Power Authotrity has already handed out, Mr. Chiarelli said.
Of course, that’s exactly what happened with the gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga, at a cost of almost $600-million and counting. The double-standard is not lost on rural voters
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