18 Replies to “We Don’t Need No…”

  1. Obviously it’s good news that these governments are finally waking up to the scam but one has to question how supposedly intelligent leaders could have been so stupid as to get suckered in in the first place. The best news would be that they are totally abandoning green and reopening coal plants and building new nuclear facilities.

  2. The provincial government is left with nothing but lies.
    “For its part, Kathleen Wynne’s government points to a pair of recently introduced programs aimed at providing price relief to manufacturers – one allowing the biggest users to save by shifting production to off-peak times…”
    For Bob Chiarelli to claim this is ludicrous. Ontario has had discounted off-peak discounted rates for more than 30 years. This isn’t new. And Ontario’s future rate increases apply to ALL rates across the board.

  5. “Wynne’s government points to a pair of recently introduced programs aimed at providing price relief to manufacturers …”
    We’ve seen her “programs” here in Glengarry-Prescott in the last week or so: $9-10 million handed out to help millionaires pay their hydro bills…courtesy of the little people who can barely pay their own.

  6. What you save in energy costs for manufacturing in off peak times you spend on shift premiums because your workers come in to work in the middle of the night and on weekends.

  7. Yup and voters to darn stupid to eventually realize someone has to pay the piper.
    They are building windmills at a fevered pitch around here Parkhill Ont, they have been all winter. I’m betting the deadline they are trying to beat is when someone with some ethics and wisdom says enough for a start, figuring out what to do with all the frigging useless “infrastructure” created from the boondoggle will be another thing.
    Such a disgusting mess and the guilty should get their noses rubbed in it.

  8. “one has to question how supposedly intelligent leaders could have been so stupid as to get suckered in in the first place”
    We taxpayers are the ones who got suckered, the politicians are corrupt not stupid. When these politicians ‘retire’ and go to the private sector they peddle the influence they bought with our tax dollars. That’s when the payoff comes for them, if they don’t get it up front in their stock portfolios when they buy before the companies get the tax larded contracts. And they no when to get out before the bust they cause when they pull the subsidy carpet out from under those stocks too.
    Stupid they are not.

  10. Thanks,OZ, I was going to say essentially the same thing, you saved me the trouble.
    Corrupt, NOT stupid. Don’t ever give these thieving bastards the benefit of the doubt. They knew exactly what they were doing but simply didn’t give a damn.

  11. Have to think that SDA is offside on this one. Dissing the NP for providing the very medium in which the opinion is conveyed is a bit rich. Anyone who reads the NP regularly (yes, some still read broadsheets on a regular basis) knows that it’s squarely against the subsidies offered to renewables. Its solid editorials, op-eds, ‘issues and ideas’ pages as well as its annual ‘Junk Science ‘ week often point out glaring weaknesses in the Green’s argument. As a matter of fact, not many days pass without SDA linking to just such a piece.

  13. It is great that the snake oil fraud is collapsing.
    Canadian federal and provincial governments will take 10 years to wake up.
    A lot of people should go to jail for perpetrating this massive many trillion dollar fraud.

  14. What you complaining about?
    These alternate energy schemes combined with state control of the electricity supply, has turned out to be a gift to the Kleptocrats.
    Best scheme ever for stealing from the many, to reward the well connected few.
    Evidence is in, politicians cannot be trusted with service monopolies.
    Pensions to politicians and high priced civil servants should only be paid when govt is debt free.
    Any debt or deficit, no pension payments.

  16. For the past few years, scientific studies have found links between increasing carbon emissions and increased foliage and plant growth — called the CO2 fertilization. The idea is that since plants thrive on CO2 absorbed through photosynthesis, increasing atmospheric CO2 levels will actually green the planet and expand foliage. Scientists have been hard pressed to find evidence of such a phenomenon until recently.
    “Well documented evidence shows that concurrently with the increased CO2 levels, extensive, large, and continuing increase in biomass is taking place globally — reducing deserts, turning grasslands to savannas, savannas to forests, and expanding existing forests,” according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute from earlier this year.
    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/14/studies-increased-co2-emissions-are-greening-the-planet/#ixzz2wSoTqkYk

  17. Here are a few excerpts regarding Mr. Crawley from the Ontario Legislature:
    Mr. Runciman: Once again the Premier clearly avoided the questions dealing with adherence to bid requirements. We’re talking about a contract that provided a company headed by a prominent Liberal with a guaranteed 20-year, $66,000-a-day contract. This is a very lucrative deal, and the hard-working taxpayers of Ontario have a right to know if this contract was awarded appropriately.
    Today I received information indicating that Mr. Mike Crawley, the president of AIM PowerGen, sent an e-mail in the midst of the bid process to various parties encouraging their attendance at the energy minister’s fundraiser at $5,000 a pop. Premier, I’m sending copies of this material over to you and asking that you have an independent third party review the contract award process to ensure that it was absolutely above-board.
    Found here (2004): http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardeissue/38-1/l093.htm
    Mr. Hampton: The McGuinty government has tried to make a big thing out of a little bit of wind energy, but what do we discover when we look at who is getting the contracts for the 300 or so megawatts of wind turbines? One Mike Crawley’s name comes to mind. Who is Mike Crawley? Mike Crawley has done just about every job that a Liberal hack could do. If you read his resumé — all you have to do is go to the federal Liberal Party’s Web site and it’s right there — he’s counted paperclips and he’s sharpened pencils, he’s answered the phone and he’s been the gofer for this and the gofer for that. He’s made his living being a Liberal hack.
    What is he going to get for his dedicated work as a Liberal hack? He’s getting a $475-million guaranteed hydro contract at 8 cents a kilowatt hour, wholesale price. People wonder why their hydro bill is going to go up. Let me tell you, your hydro bill is going to go up because the McGuinty government is going to be busy shovelling money into the back pocket of this Liberal hack.
    If you go and look even at his own CV, it says that his other experience in life besides counting paperclips for the Liberal Party is some sales at the Bank of Commerce. Has this guy ever worked for an electricity company? No. Does he know how to put the plug-in in the wall? I doubt it. Has he got any experience working for an electricity company? No. He is a Liberal hack and he’s going to get a $475-million contract, guaranteed at 8 cents a kilowatt hour. That’s why the hydro bill is going to go through the roof.

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