And here’s a headline he garnered as a result of a town hall he held on Thursday: “Hudak’s plans to kill FIT panned.” He promised to do away with the feed-in-tariff program and called it a “scam,” in fact. A scam. Hudak’s position on green energy and doing away with
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Impolitical: Despite feds, Canada 7th in creating green-tech firms
A surprise given the Harper government’s not so green credentials: Canada ranks high because of an entrepreneurial culture, relatively high patent activity and existing corporate activity in the green-tech sector. But the federal government’s reluctance to support the industry is a drawback, the report says. Indeed, Canada’s rank is a
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario’s Auditor General slams McGuinty for ‘hasty’ green energy investments
Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter. Ontario’s Auditor General, Jim McCarter, released his Annual Report to the legislature earlier this morning, and the 460-page document has some troubling findings about the hasty way in which Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty approved green energy investments in his second term. “While this helped these
Continue readingImpolitical: Green energy costs in the news again
I don’t have much time at the moment to pursue the study referenced here re Ontario’s electricity costs as related to the province’s green energy emphasis: “Cost of green energy 40 per cent higher than government estimates: study.” However, one of the …
Continue reading350 or bust: Mike Holmes On Ontario’s Green Energy Act: A Brave New Path
A great article by Mike “Make It Right” Holmes, host of the television series Holmes on Homes & Holmes Inspection, on The David Suzuki Foundation’s blog today: Over the past few weeks, Ontario politicians have engaged in heated de…
Continue readingImpolitical: The secret anti-green energy online campaign of the Power Workers’ Union
What the Power Workers’ Union has been up to during the Ontario election campaign to undermine the Liberal government’s green energy policies: “Ontario marketing campaign seeded Internet with ‘conversations’ promoting coal, nuclear.” A bold labour unio…
Continue reading350 or bust: Mercer And Holmes On Solar Panels
Just in time for the Ontario election, where Tory leader Tim Hudak is promising to kill the innovative Green Energy Act if elected, here’s Rick Mercer and Mike Holmes, two Canadian icons,in a great clip from last week’s Mercer Report: For…
Continue readingImpolitical: Mercer and Holmes install solar panels
They hit a rooftop in Oshawa where it appears a bunch of the neighbourhood homes have solar panels as well. A solar installer is on hand to explain this particular arrangement, where the homeowner could see $1,200 a year in revenue from their solar ins…
Continue readingImpolitical: Green energy and the last week of the campaign
As we get closer to the election, the uncertainty that is being caused by Tim Hudak’s opposition to both Ontario’s Green Energy Act and the Samsung deal that brings renewable energy investment to the province is getting some renewed attention. Nothing …
Continue reading350 or bust: Future Schmucher
This shocking attack ad on 8 year old Penelope was released yesterday, as the Ontario election debate continues. More links: Penelope4Ontario.ca
Continue readingImpolitical: A fair take on the green energy issue in the Ontario election
Hey! A reasonable newspaper column on green energy I can get behind! For the first time this campaign: ” Energy flashpoints and the politics of power.” The right wing insists we can’t afford to subsidize power in this province. Funny, but this countr…
Continue readingImpolitical: The fun with green energy columns continues
So John Ivison had another column today criticizing the Ontario Liberal government’s green energy plan: here. The column focuses on a solar energy company that Dalton McGuinty visited this week, Eclipsall Energy Corp. The upshot of the column is to sug…
Continue readingImpolitical: Another flawed attack on green energy in Ontario
This John Ivison column from yesterday is the latest from a Canadian pundit to attack the Ontario government’s green energy efforts: “McGuinty’s green bubble ready to pop.” It, like the Wente column (response), relies on some questionable material that…
Continue reading350 or bust: Next Election, Vote For Penelope
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Continue readingImpolitical: Pennsylvania a lesson for Ontario on renewable energy
Pennsylvania’s Republican Governor has gutted the renewable energy programs of his predecessor: In Pennsylvania, where a major shale gas boom is underway, Governor Tom Corbett is doing exactly what renewable energy supporters feared, according to a rec…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak Gets The Wedge
Ontario Libs always seem to fight a little harder than their Federal counterparts.
Continue readingthe reeves report: The Politics of Wind Power: Liberals look to ‘John Tory’ Tim Hudak
The Ontario Liberals sent a message to the future this week: it warned Conservative Premier Tim Hudak that if he wants to keep his absurd, long-standing promise to put a moratorium on all wind turbine farms in Ontario, that he would have to do it at the expense of taxpayer dollars and well-paying jobs in … Continue reading »
Continue readingImpolitical: Green energy contrasts
There are the federal Conservatives, speaking yesterday: “Canadians gave our Government a strong mandate to complete our economic recovery and focus on continued job growth,” said Minister Oliver, speaking in Toronto. “Support for clean energy te…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Long-term thinking needed in the fight for Ontario’s Green Energy future
While in Vancouver last week as part of a First Ministers meeting, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty made a direct link between subsidies paid out to the oil and gas industry in Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan, and the need for greater subsidies from Ottawa for Ontario’s green energy sector. According to the Vancouver Sun, McGuinty claimed … Continue reading »
Continue reading350 or bust: Go Big Or Go Small: Mapping A Sustainable Future For Ontario
Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCCO) is committed to caring for creation. As part of that commitment, they have produced a youtube video that they’ve entered in the Watts Next contest, which is inviting video submissions from across the p…
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