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PICTON, ONTARIO, JUNE 20TH, 2013-- On June 17th the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy (CCSAGE) wrote to all Ontario MPPs advising that the McGuinty/Smitherman wind power fantasy will cost citizens $40 billion in increased electricity and tax bills over 20 years. CCSAGE believes this money is better spent on transit and hospitals.
$40 billion is 145 times the mere $275 million recently reported by the Auditor-General as the cost for relocating the Mississauga gas plant. Garth Manning, Chair of CCSAGE, noted that: “Our electricity bills are increasing dramatically. That $40 billion could be much better spent,” he said. “Let’s put a hold on wind power generation—an inefficient and unreliable technology—and reallocate those huge wind power subsidies to areas of much greater need.”
Manning urged MPPs to consider how half of that amount could upgrade an eco-friendly Metrolinx transit system for the GTHA. “MPPs should also know how the other half could save threatened community hospitals,” he said.Read more »
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