Ontario Energy Policy What Should it be?
Does Ontario have a formalized energy policy? If so Ontario's so called energy policy is very much in dispute with many different kinds of interests claiming that elusive policy as their own. Take Nuclear Power in Canada - Appendix 1 for example:http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf49ai_Ontario_Energy_Policy.html Or consider the following:Excerpted from: What Went Wrong with Ontario's Energy Policy? Compiled for Central Bruce-Grey Wind Concerns Ontario By Keith Stelling, MA, (McMaster) MNIMH, Dip. Phyt., MCPP (England), 10 April, 2010 http://windconcernsontario.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/what-went-wrong-with-ontario-energy-policy2.p
"By referring to the economic experience of those European countries that have vigorously promoted wind energy over the last two decades, this report demonstrates that the decisions of the Ontario Government did not take into consideration the actual reality of introducing large scale industrial wind energy onto the grid. In fact, the government's enthusiastic claim to embrace cheap, "clean", environmentally benign electricity at the same time as diminishing CO2 emissions appears to have ignored much of the information that was available to them, leaving an energy policy based on little more than a leap of faith."
Question: Does Ontario have a formalized energy policy and if so how do wind farms and wind turbines and or nuclear power and so on translate into policy? Does anyone know because I don't.
Yes. Its called the Green Energy Act passed last Sept. Forces wind turbines in rural communities with no environmental studies. Strips all power from municipalities and citizens. Billions given away to wind developers. Electricity rates expected to quadruple.
Puts us in the poorhouse while killing local democracy.
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/category/green-energy-act/page/3/
After "M" posted the following on my wordpressblog I went to http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/mcguinty-green-energy-policies-questioned/ and asked a few questions - made a few posts.
Here is what "M" posted on my blog:
"Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of 42 citizen groups from right across Ontario. The website tries to cover all local stories that affect our members. Most of these stories you will never see in the Toronto media. We cover what is wrong because we plenty wrong. The glamour of this green symbol of hope have caused politicians and policy makers to minimize the potential problems. These are giant industrial machines sited just a few hundred meters where children sleep and play. I am wholeheartedly FOR VIABLE green energy. If wind turbine actually DID what they say they do, I'd be all for them. Unfortunately, those who have really delved into the data and science, are forever changed because it becomes very clear the spin does not match the reality.
Ontario's Green Energy Act seems to have substantial corporate support. For example the TD bank is on board. I would think that some forms of "green energy" must be considered to be fiscally profitable within some quarters of the business sector. Please see: http://www.greenenergyact.ca/
Obama's gambit to marry US policies on environment and energy The president has integrated energy security goals with environment policy, focusing on renewable power. But his effort won't succeed, analysts say, unless Congress agrees to put a price on carbon emissions.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0417/Obama-s-gambit-to-marry-...
So what happens when the "military industrial media complex" gets involved in the greening of America or Canada for that matter. Just a question.
Basically Canada's national energy policy is whatever is decided in corporate board rooms in America. Ontario used to have lots of cheap, publicly owned and controlled hydroelectric power generation that was the backbone of cold war era capitalist economic expansion. Those days are gone and with them went the surplus of electrical power. There was much waste and inefficiency in that cold war era expansion. The ONDP says we need to learn to live within our means and to live and work where nature can support us. With the Liberals' plan for "green" power generation, Ontarians are already paying more than we should have to in order to live.
Thanks for this Fidel. See http://www.jameslaxer.com/blog.html
That's outrageous. Harper is just a corporate stooge and a liar. Thanks Protrucio. Laxer's comments are bang on as usual.