Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government is cancelling 758 renewable energy contracts, in what it says is an effort to reduce electricity bills in the province. […]
“For 15 years, Ontario families and businesses have been forced to pay inflated hydro prices so the government could spend on unnecessary and expensive energy schemes,” Rickford said. “Those days are over.”
They don’t need no flaming sparky cars, either.
(h/t raid)
Glorious, but he’s still moving too slow. There is so much more that needs to be cut.
So renewable energy isn’t quite so renewable after all.
Heh.
Not unless the government subsidies are … renewable
Hey, the subsidies are no longer renewable. Good work guys!
President of the Global Automakers of Canada industry association, said Friday that “experience elsewhere shows that sales of electric vehicles take a hit when subsidies are removed,”
No shit Sherlock. A sound sensible move along with most others by Ford.
The people buying these electric vehicles are the very same urban consumers that demand government supply free charging stations and no doubt free towing when they run out of juice on 401 in Jan. These people can easily afford the sticker price if they want to display climate sensitivity.
Next he should cancel the proposed charging stations that Wynne contracted for. So far a good start after 2 days.
Tesla subsidies on the way out …
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-tax-credit-subsidy-20180703-story.html
Good luck with that, Elon.
Don’t worry he’ll make more useless subs or something
At the cost of unknown billions, lost manufacturing jobs, tax revenue and higher hydro rates Ontario has reduced its emissions by 18.6 mega tonnes below 1990 levels.
What impact has this on temperature? Answer: One degree C / 22,401 years. Was this an appropriate high priority by any sane measure? Why don’t people know the facts?
According to peer reviewed mainstream science Eastern North America temperature increases 0.000000000024°C per tonne of CO₂. Ontario’s reduction of 18.6 Mt defers this warming by:
18,600,000 t x 0.000000000024°C / t / yr. = 0.000045°C / yr. = 1 °C / 22,401 yrs.
https://phys.org/news/2016-01-temperature-co2-emissions.html#jCp
If even ONE life is saved in the year 3202 … it will all have been ‘worth it’. And besides … it’s really intoxicating to tell everyone else how to behave, what to drive, what to eat, how to stay warm, …
Sorry Kenji but the planet will be moving into ice age territory by that time, billions will die.
Bottom line is that we NEED more CO2…not less.
Climate SCAM…as its been since Maurice Strong first started this ball rolling in 1992.
Fire up the COAL plants..!!!
Did Wynne implode Nanticoke..??
I wonder…
#FordNation
Nanticoke is -gone-, baby. Fastest de-commision and demolition in history. They worked 3 shifts taking that place apart. Never seen unionized public employees move so fast in my life.
Any politician who advocates a policy to Make Canada Colder Again (MCCA) should be taken out and shot.
Please subscribe to “Canadians for a Warmer Canada” CfaWC.
“What company wants to invest in a province that just rips up contracts without any notice, without any due process?”
A company not established for the sole purpose of scamming Ontario taxpayers and lining the pockets of the Chinese Communist Party and their Bay Street collaborators.
If you realize someone is cheating you, you don’t keep giving him money for fear you’ll be thought untrustworthy. You tell him to go suck the blood of someone else, and to sue you if he can’t take a joke.
If only it was a joke. Cancel all green nonsense and to hell with the criers and moaners.
An investigation should be started to determine how these contracts were approved in the first place, since for the last many years, we in Ontario, have a electrically surplus, resulting in the sale of electricity to other locales at a loss.
Doug Ford’s actions will devastate the “small nest egg investments” of our kindly rent seeker mom and pop neighbours.
Oh, lordy, lordy.
An easy deal for the big fish rent seekers should be something simple. Eat your losses or face criminal investigation for corruption.
Ripping up contracts may be the best antidote. The next Liberal government find find people less willing to sign…
What next Liberal government?
If Ford plays his cards right, there won’t be a next Liberal government. The Libranos are going to prison, and Doug Ford will be premier until the federal Tories are ready to make him the next Prime Minister of Canada.
Let the Third World cesspits of Toronto keep their NDP MPP’s for now. Good to have someone for SDA to laugh at. The Libranos? Lock them up and keep them locked up.
Swamp creatures have a bad habit of clogging the drain and voters don’t take long to forget. There will be a next Liberal or Swamp creature government.
Now this is winning.
Two million years ago there were trees and beavers living on Ellesmere Island; the most northerly island in Canada. So the earth was a lot warmer then. And funnily enough, the planet is still here.
Global warming is nothing but a wealth distribution scheme. Now there is nothing wrong with people wanting to redistribute wealth, provided they redistribute their own wealth first. Are you listening:
a) Justin trust fund Turdeau
b) Al 300 million Gore
c) David 5 house Suzuki
etc.
Since the Trump victory over the fat pant-suit in 2016 , I have had a smile on my face that gets wider with each passing win. Ford, Brexit, the two Supreme court picks, the cancelling of the money sucking green monster …. but mostly … I have been observing the pain on the left … the outrage … the childish screaming, futile ranting and violent acting out as a dull, juvenile mind would …. AND I HAVE BEEN ENJOYING IT TO THE FULLEST..
“Liberalism: A Ponzi scheme of the weak-minded and worthless!”