I’d like everyone to look into the Vote for Clean Energy campaign. The energy issue is strangely missing from most of the dialogue in this election. Actually, it feels surreal when I see that Dalton McGuinty has somehow managed to take the moral high ground by arguing that only Catholics deserve special treatment in school funding.
Whereas the Province intends to spend over $100 billion dollars rebuilding our nuclear fleet, expensive natural gas plants and associated transmission lines and nobody says a word. I believe this is the single most expensive plan the Province has ever tabled. If implemented it will have profound influences on the way we live for decades to come. There is no Environmental Assessment, no meaningful public consultation and the plan doesn’t even attempt to meet any emissions targets. It certainly won’t meet Kyoto levels in the foreseeable future. We’re about to be hammered with this, and we seem to be in a daze, staring off in the opposite direction. Read more »