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Ontario’s Green Scheme Subsidize US Power Users in December
Despite years of falling energy demand and growing capacity, Dalton McGuinty remains hellbent on pursuing his failed green energy scheme. Under McGuinty’s plan we buy wind energy for 300% of the commodity’s value whenever developers opt to sell us the power, regardless of what current demand is. The result of this has been energy surpluses in Ontario, which may sound great, but really aren’t. They actually pose a very serious problem for the grid and require Ontario to ‘dump’ that excess power.
In December, Ontario lost $52.8 million dollars selling excess wind energy to the US and Quebec for rates lower than we’re buying it for in the first place.
It’s outrageous what this green energy scheme costs Ontario for power we don’t use, doesn’t actually have an impact on CO2 emissions in Ontario (if we’re selling it, we’re not using it, and therefore our supply mix remains unchanged).
The simple solution would be to not buy energy we don’t need for more than it’s worth and sell it to someone else (who also doesn’t need it) for less than we paid for it. But this isn’t about green energy, saving the world or climate change. Ontario’s so called Green Energy Plan amounts to an orgy of Liberal connected special interests that persist in perpetuating a fraud on Ontario.
They haven’t created the jobs they’ve promised, lied about wind energy’s ability to replace coal, are adamantly opposed to science, whether it’s environmental science or medical science and have proven themselves to be against local democracy as well. When one looks at soaring electricity rates, the kickbacks the Ontario Liberal Party reports receiving from wind energy developers to Elections Ontario, it’s clear the whole thing stinks.
This will will only get worse for Dalton McGuinty and his industry bought and paid for Liberals. I predict 2011 will be the year the wind industry’s bogus spin unravels in Ontario, as residents from all corners of this province continue to educate their neighbours and communities and plan political action against Liberal MPPs who’ve lost the right to represent our communities.
2 Comments »Winds of Protest Blow Through Rural Ontario
Democracy is on the march throughout Ontario and Wind Concerns Ontario members are leading the charge! Join Wind Concerns member organized protests in Blenheim (November 22nd) or Orangeville (November 27th)
I continue to be proud of and amazed by the strength and dedication residents around Ontario are showing in standing up in defiance to the anti democratic nature of the Green Energy Act. Thousands of Ontarians from around our province have come out, stood up and said no at debates, rallies and information meetings in their community. We’re getting ready and gearing up for the next provincial election, a promise we made in April 2010 on the steps of Queen’s Park when I declared on behalf of Wind Concerns Ontario that the Liberals would have ‘a hell of a problem at the ballot box’ in 2011.
Dalton McGuinty – Here we come, we’re bigger, we’re stronger, we’re louder and we’re ready to fire your caucus and restore our rights at Queen’s Park. A stingy ten percent vote buying rebate intended to confuse Ontarians into thinking there is some benefit to building industrial wind turbines won’t stop us. Restoring local planning control, creating setbacks from turbines based on science, ending the multi billion dollar corporate welfare payouts to the wind industry and providing a plan to address the issues existing turbines are causing nearby residents is what we expect from our next government, no matter who is in power.
Wind industry players might kickback tens of thousands of dollars in donations each to the Ontario Liberal Party while receiving contracts from the Province, but we all know unethical donations don’t vote. The people do and we can’t be bought with their money or our own. What’s clear from the “Ontario Clean Energy Benefit” is that even a $5.5 billion dollar attempt to buy votes can’t cap this fury.
This is a fight for the future of rural Ontario and it’s not a fight we’re going to give up. We’re working hard to reclaim our voice and ensure our next batch of representatives stand with us, stand for us and protect us from the insanity of this current government’s half baked Green Energy Act.
I’m proud to be spending much of December and part of January on the road, travelling from community to community across Ontario to spread the word that this government, and MPPs who don’t stand with us, need to be defeated if we are to re-claim our democracy from the vested moneyed interests of the foreign owned wind industry players that are wreaking havoc on our province and our communities. If you’d like to help organize a rally in your town please do contact me and we’ll set it up.
Wind Concerns Ontario has fifty three groups in over thirty counties across this province. I’m looking forward to visiting every region of Ontario over the coming weeks and continuing to work with our supporters on the ground to use democratic tools to dramatically alter the landscape of this debate, and shut out the MPPs who voted to shut us out of the debate.
If you’d like to get involved in standing up for rural Ontario. Please send me a note.
Below is a video I was happy to come across on the WCO website from the Wind Concerns Ontario Queen’s Park rally in April 2010. The second one is beautiful black and white photos from our march down University Avenue to the Ontario Power Authority that same afternoon.
No Comments »Leaked Document Confirms Campaign of Deception By Pro-Wind Special Interests
Sussex Strategy – a Liberal connected PR firm – was quite candid in a leaked document calling for moneyed interests to try to change the channel on the current wind energy debate in Ontario. These guys – a professional public relations firm advised their unnamed clients – basically an orgy of government subsidized energy interests – to ‘confuse’ the issue. That means lie to voters. They made it clear the existing work being done by groups opposed to the government’s plan are creating a real problem on the ground and one Dalton McGuinty can’t win. In fact according to Sussex Strategy – McGuinty has done such a bad job on the energy file he could lose as badly as Ernie Eves did in 2003.
It calls for $300,000 to be spent immediately as seed money trying to fight back for the Liberals, by the same moneyed interests that they’ve rewarded since taking power. It calls for lying to Ontarians about wind energy on a number of fronts, dividing communities and and colluding with government, industry and NGOs.
Perhaps the worst part is the $300,000 is just seed money, and in bold they talk about taking anonymous donations to fund their desperate scramble for more of your hard earned money and defence of the government that shovels it out the door by the billion to these guys.
Read for yourself as the wind industry admits the jobs that were promised never showed up, that bills have spiked and that the environment and health aren’t really the point of this whole exercise. Seriously folks. – This is the wind industry talking.
The reality is, the wind industry is dying world wide. Subsidies are drying up, public opinion is shifting and jurisdictions are now in a race to see who is the last to be conned by this corrupt industry.
Wind Concerns Ontario will continue to fight like hell and stand up to the moneyed interests of the desperate pro-wind forces. We’ll continue to stand with Ontarians facing these projects, fight off the foreign corporations destroying rural Ontario and defeat the politicans that let it happen.
Here is a link to the appalling document (Renewable Energy Matters – Campaign Outline) that outlines how this slimy industry’s ‘hail mary’ pass to your wallet is supposed to work.
As I said to Robert Hornung, President of CanWEA in September 2009 – you can spend all the money you want, we will defeat you, and the political backers you’ve bought because we’ve got the bodies on the ground and money can’t change that.
Over the last month we’ve shown that with rally after rally and it’s going to continue until we’ve reclaimed our rights, can protect our communities and defeat the bought and paid for politicians that let this happen.
If you’re disgusted by this latest ethical fumbling by this disgusting industry – please get in touch with me.
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