In case you didn’t already know the Ontario government is in way over its head on the implementation of renewable energy policies, most particularly industrial-scale wind, you’ll want to read this column in today’s Globe by Queen’s Park columnist Adam Radwanski. Apparently, Godfather of the Green Energy and Green Economy Act George Smitherman made a submssion to the FIT review, and allowed as how maybe a rethink is necessary on some aspects. Due to “unsettling circumstances” in some municipalities, he says.
No, really? Like the dozens of communities that have asked for this to stop, and to have local land use planning returned? Like the Mayor of Amaranth who not only wants no more turbine projects but the ones that are there turned off?
Read the column here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/smitherman-plugs-back-in-to-green-energy-debate/article2283999/
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