Liberals and Green Energy Initiative

Wind Farms are the norm in all of Europe.  Why not here?

Dalton McGuinty ran on a platform of renewable energy, among many other initiatives.  But it cost him a majority by some very strident opposition towards the end of his campaign.  I'm looking again at the issue, because of all the options to power we might have in our neighborhoods, fracking, gas power plants, oil pipelines, I for one, am back the clean and renewables.  So let's have a second look at the issue.  Just today, there is a challenge to Wind Concerns Ontario for improper spending on negative attack ads that impacted negatively on the McGuinty campaign.

Green Energy Act Introduction Testimonials - February 2009 Read what's being said about the tabling of the Green Energy Act by the Government of Ontario.

Hermann Scheer "The Green Energy Act proposed by the Ontario Green Energy Act Alliance will put Ontario in a leadership position on par with Germany. The proposed tariff system will no doubt result in 25,000 MW of renewable energy installed in Ontario by 2025. Ontario, indeed Canada as a whole, has huge potential for renewables and conservation, equal to or better than Germany's; all you need is a Green Energy Act like we have in Germany to make Ontario the leading jurisdiction in North America."

A prominent anti-wind-power group is under fire amid accusations it broke election financing by running a negative advertising campaign against Liberal candidates last fall.
Toronto resident Jude MacDonald and her lawyer Clayton Ruby have made a formal complaint to Elections Ontario, the non-partisan agency that runs and polices provincial elections.
They say Wind Concerns Ontario failed to comply with the Election Finance Act by allegedly spending over the $500 threshold on political advertising during the provincial campaign without registering as a third party.

Why would people oppose wind power?  Well, there was an outcry over the amount of money paid to have a Samsung contract.