Too little, too late

Too little, too late | The Times: 

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is scrapping the Ontario government’s third renewable energy purchasing scheme in a decade—specifically those for large projects such as wind turbines proposed in South Marysburgh and multi-hectare solar projects like the pair stretching across about 200 acres on Burr Road near Highway 62.
In its place, Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli announced last week a new power purchase process that, he says, will give municipalities a greater say in where these projects are located in the future as well as a larger cut of the taxes these projects pay. But the changes likely come too late for Ostrander Point or those living near the proposed White Pines project in South Marysburgh.
While wrapped in soothing phrases and likely intended as an olive branch to rural Ontario, Chiarelli’s words have left many in rural Ontario cold. The minister’s announcement, though surely designed to give comfort to constituencies that have turned against his government, offered few details.
Most worrying was that while promising to give municipalities more say over where turbines are constructed, that power won’t be bestowed until hundreds, perhaps thousands, more industrial wind turbines are erected on Ontario’s skyline.
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