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Tag Archives: Green Energy Act
Achtung, Ontario! Renewables are a money pit
Germany’s $412-billion lesson for Ontario. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables
Tagged Alternative Energy, Brady Yauch, Germany, Green Energy Act, Ontario
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Green sell-out
(April 21, 2014) Before proceeding with a project to install solar cells on town buildings in Deep River, Renfrew County, Ontario, under the provincial Feed In Tariff (FIT) program, council and taxpayers alike would do well to read what Lawrence Solomon wrote in “North America slow to reverse renewables projects, but its turn will come.” Continue reading
Governments rip up renewable contracts
(March 19, 2014) Companies ‘do not have a right [to expect the compensation] not to be changed’.
Parker Gallant: Street Lighting and other Liberal “Revenue Tools”
(October 30, 2013) How “conservation” drives up your realty taxes. Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged Electrical, Green Energy Act, Light-emitting diode, Ontario Energy Board, Parker Gallant, Street light
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Ontario’s Green Energy Backlash: Politicians Exploit Growing Opposition To Wind Turbines, Solar
(May 27, 2011) Ian Harvey of the Huffington Post takes a look at how newbie premier Hubak’s proposed policy changes will affect renewable energy in the province of Ontario. The entry notes Energy Probe’s conclusions that the FIT scheme is a “disaster” as it breeds reliance on nuclear energy on days when the weather is not conducive to renewable energy generation. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables
Tagged Canada Business News, green energy, Green Energy Act, Hudak Green Energy, Hudak Turbines, McGuinty Green Energy, McGuinty Hudak Green Energy, McGuinty Turbines, Ontario Green Energy, Ontario Green Energy Act, Ontario Turbines, Ontario Wind Power, Wind Concerns Ontario, wind turbines
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Hydro One: Time to break it up
(May 23, 2011) In November 2003 the C. D. Howe Institute released a report entitled “What will Keep the Lights on in Ontario: Responses to a Policy Short-Circuit”. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: What Hudak failed to say
(May 11, 2011) In a much ballyhooed speech yesterday, would-be Ontario Premier Tim Hudak promised to kill the financing method that Premier Dalton McGuinty uses to build wind turbines. But Hudak doesn’t promise to kill wind turbines. He merely proposes some alternative financing method, not yet described, to bring Ontarians more wind turbines. Hudak’s wind turbines will also be uneconomic, just less so than McGuinty’s. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables
Tagged 2009, Dalton McGuinty, electricity, GEA, green energy, Green Energy Act, Green Energy and Green Economy Act, hydro, industrial wind turbines, IWT, Lawrence Solomon, Ontario, Ontario energy, power prices, rate payers, renewables, subsidies, Tim Hudak, wind, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines, windmills
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