Wynneing!

Wynneing You Might Be A Liberal 15 Comments

Money Quote;

With LED lighting and a natural gas generator Willemsen says the store will be able to go off the Provincial power grid.
“Natural gas is so inexpensive that we will be able to produce our own electricity cheaper than buying it from Hydro One”.

The zoning approvals took seven years. (h/t Paul)

15 Replies to “Wynneing!”

  1. Seven years to get permission to build a grocery store. Pathetic.

  2. Burn nat gas for power generation if you like but you may want to change your mind when Wynne’s carbon tax clicks in.
    London is notorious for being the most bureaucratic in Ontario so seven years sounds about normal.

  3. Would that be the same Ingrid Willemsen who is leading the fight in her locale against the proliferation of wind turbines. Putting their money where their mouth is to say the least.

  4. I am fully immersed in the home-building business in the SF Bay Area … and there is hardly a more restrictive regulatory environment than the small little upper-upper-middle class bedroom communities surrounding the Bay. The residents don’t want ANY new building. They are ALL NIMBY’s and come out in force to ATTACK and DELAY every single project that I propose. Their arguments are specious, and smack of elitism. My clients get shouted-down in hearings … “you’re just trying to PROFIT from our community” … is a typical invective hurled from the agitprop NIMBY neighbors. As IF our goal is to LOSE money on our business ventures !!? (and don’t get me started on the B.S. of “non-profits”). And the government heartily joins the neighbor opposition. Except in times of deep recession, Government sees its own self-interest in making the approval process lengthy, complicated, and onerous. Planners, Building Officials, Fire Dept. Public Works, Engineering, Green Czars, Recycling Czars … all enjoy employment growth as they make the review process ever more difficult. Add to that, punitive Developer Fees, Application Fees, School Fees, Utility hook-ups that run $ 50-100K per project, Recycling Bonds, Affordable Housing FEES, Landscape Bonds, Deed Restrictions … the average American has NO IDEA how much total Bull-shyte is heaped onto the cost of a SINGLE new home. It has gotten completely out of hand. We are fast approaching a day of reckoning when all but the Uber-elites will be able to afford even the most basic of human needs.

  5. I shop periodically at Sunripe. Yes, it’s a bit pricey but the freshness of the produce is second to none. I really don’t know whether or not this move will be good or not, but everything this couple has done has turned out right. I wish them the best of luck in their new endeavor.

  7. “Burn nat gas for power generation if you like but you may want to change your mind when Wynne’s carbon tax clicks in.”
    Well, Ontario electricity bills will increase 10 to 12 percent per year, so even with a carbon tax they’re still ahead.

  8. Thats how it is in Vancouver NOW where the average home cost is $1.2 million. My son has a house appraised at $1.6 million which is comparable to my mother-in-laws house in small town Sask. that we sold when she died for $135,000. Mayor moonbeam and the council all-stars wanted the provincial govt to do something and their reply was the city should look in its own backyard first as the cost of all the afformentioned requirements added about 200000 to the average cost of a home. I just sit back and laugh myself silly as I have my home and acreage and my two kids both have homes also, I’m alright Jack!!
    Vancouver was to be the greenish city in the world, the best this and the best that and now they have it along with the exhorbitant costs associated with it.Left wing fools, all of them.

  9. With the insane Hydro prices in Ontario, it may be a lot more economical and reliable to go off the grid. Ontario hydro is currently 3x the price in Quebec.
    Of course, Ontario would then make it illegal to source hydro from anyone except their monopoly…

  10. The Empire State building was built in 400 days. Impossible today.
    Overheard at the barbershop: A mining company in Northern Ontario couldn’t make it work with recent electricity price increase, they appealed to the overlords, the answer was ‘screw you’. The boss told them to take their electricity and shove it, but he decided to stay in business by buying diesel generators. When that’s the better option, you know Ontario is finished.

  13. Ontario is losing big time with Wynne and her majority government of real losers.Some of her key Ministers are grossly incompetent. When they are finished Ontario will need a new slogan, “Yours to Discover” will be replaced with “Yours to Recover”.

  14. Welcome back to the future, where those who can afford the upfront costs,generate electricity for their own needs at a fraction of the cost from the state monopoly.
    But the real benefit will be in reliability of supply and stability of the private power.
    Meanwhile the poor taxpayers who paid for the state monopoly system, will continue to enjoy fluctuating power,rolling blackouts and ever rising cost.
    Because electricity is the lifeblood of a technical civilization.
    your ruling kleptocracy wishes you to freeze in the dark.

  15. I was in Split,Croatia a world heritage site, it takes from 7 to 10 years to get a permit there even to do repairs. The final approval rests with some committee at the UN. Some houses have fallen down waiting.our hotel which got a permit to renovate their restaurant was two years into an archeological dig after “Roman ruins” we’re discovered unexpectedly.The whole place is a Roman ruin , I can’t see that it was unexpected .so nearly 10 years on a reno and no restaurant for 4 or 5
    This is the world of regulation that the dippers point to

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