See “Absolute power? Why Ontario’s rush to pour billions into green energy is fraught with risk and could leave consumers on the hook” by Chris Sorensen, Maclean’s Magazine, Saturday, June 5, 2010 here.
See “Absolute power? Why Ontario’s rush to pour billions into green energy is fraught with risk and could leave consumers on the hook” by Chris Sorensen, Maclean’s Magazine, Saturday, June 5, 2010 here.
Nice to see some balanced coverage in the MSM. It will be interesting to see how many of those ‘free’ barns actually get built. Call me a cynic, but if it sounds too good to be true…..
Your determination to get to the bottom of this ‘green’ energy agenda is paying off, Tom. The renewable energy sector has been wining and dining on the taxpayer dime, regaling us all with great stories, but the bill has arrived at the table, and it is sobering. It is time we faced reality and traded political spin for technical and economic feasibility.
Lynne,
The renewable sector in Ontario is gouging the public but the pockets they are picking is not our taxpayer pockets, but our ratepayer pockets. Of course, most of us are both taxpayers and ratepayers but I argue that the distinction is significant. We have different interests as taxpayers and as ratepayers. The controls we have to protect ourselves as taxpayers are very different than the means we have to respond to these predations as ratepayers.
Tom