We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
They Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
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)
Ford Country
“The elites said it couldn’t be done. But the entire Hydro One Board is now on the way out.“
h/t raid
Ford Country
What the Doug Ford Government means for the Energy Sector – the great unwynnding;
“Premier Doug Ford ran and won on a platform labeled For the People: A Plan for Ontario. The platform set out Ford’s energy plan, in its entirety, as follows:
• Clean up the Hydro Mess and fire the board of Hydro One and its $6-million-dollar CEO.
• Our first act will be to end the Liberal practice of making millionaires from your hydro bills!
• Stop sweetheart deals by scrapping the Green Energy Act.
• Cut hydro rates by 12% for families, farmers, and small businesses by:
• Returning Hydro One dividend payments to families.
• Stopping the Liberal practice of burying the price tag for conservation programs in your hydro bills and instead pay for these programs out of general government revenue.
• Cancel energy contracts that are in the pre-construction phase and re-negotiate other energy contracts.
• Declare a moratorium on new energy contracts.
• Eliminate enormous salaries at Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One.
h/t raid
Fewer Pavilions At Fordfest
Blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government for creating “a mess,” Premier Doug Ford’s new Progressive Conservative administration is withdrawing Ontario’s co-operation with Ottawa on resettling asylum seekers, the Star has learned.
Ontario Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod told federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen that Queen’s Park is stepping back from the migration crisis. […]
That could sound the death knell for the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement signed by former premier Kathleen Wynne last November.
You don’t say.
Wynneing!
She may be gone, but the socialism lingers on: Ontario’s Minimum Wage Hike Has Been Disastrous, Especially for Disabled Workers
Wherein a Vancouver group funded from San Francisco decides the Ontario election
If Andrea Horwath wakes up as Premier of Ontario on June 8, she may have a shadowy foreign-funded group out of Vancouver to thank for her win.
What Would We Do Without Pollsters?
The latest Ontario polls show … confusion?
EKOS reports a dead heat.
Innovative Research shows a 5 point PC lead.
Forum alleges a 14 point NDP lead, with the Liberals half of what’s reported in the other two polls.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_general_election,_2018
We need to ask at this point — do these pollsters do their surveys on the same planet? Or do they make them up as they go along?
Wynneing!
Close to three dozen people will be out of work later this year when Chemours Canada Company ceases production at its Maitland site, says the union representing the workers.
“Last month, @chemours announced a new $150M plant in Delaware…”
h/t Maz2
Wynneing!
Meanwhile back in Liberal land, a story likely to be buried by 10 year old he-made-a-pass at me allegations.
Campbell Soup Company says it’s shuttering its 87-year-old Toronto manufacturing facility within the next 18 months, impacting 380 jobs, as the food purveyor gets set to relocate it Canadian headquarters to a new location.
The company says the Toronto closure is necessary to improve its operational efficiency, citing a challenging retail environment that has seen volume declines of canned soup in North America.[…]
The company says soup and broth production at the Toronto facility will be transitioned in phases over the next 18 months to three plants in North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.
And so it begins.
Wynneing!
Electricity prices to soar after four years, says secret Liberal cabinet document…
Happy Friday
Green pigeons coming home to roost.
I know the Ontario election is a year away and any recovery from the Liberal policies will take decades, and the Ontario PC party might as well be called the Ontario Liberal party….
Yeah, you’re right, Ontario is screwed, but at least the Liberals won’t be in charge.
Wynneing!
According to figures obtained by Global…
By the end of next year Hydro One’s urban customers who use the most power will see distribution rates go down as much as 19 per cent, making their bills up to 4 per cent lower. Hydro One is Ontario’s largest energy utility.
But customers living in the lowest density rural areas, who use the least amount of power, will be hit hardest, with distribution soaring by as much as 25 per cent. The increase will mean total hydro bills will be up to 11.5 per cent higher by 2017.
Enjoy those renewables, comrades.
Wynning!
I think it’s just a question of paying teachers more.
Elementary school math results continue to fall.
Half of all Grade 6 students did not meet the provincial math standard in 2016.
Grade 3: 68% (2012) - 5% (2016) = 63%
Grade 6: 58% (2012) - 8% (2016) = 50%
Wynneing!
Life is a charging station, gonna charge it all night long…
The full network of stations will allow electric vehicles to travel from Windsor, Ont., to Ottawa, or from Toronto to North Bay, Ont., as well as in and around major urban centres.
The stations — which will be placed at more than 250 locations including highways, workplaces and public spaces — are all expected to be in service by the end of March next year.
The government says the $20 million investment in the charging stations comes from Ontario’s $325 million Green Investment Fund, which supports projects that fight climate change.
Hey, it’s only money debt.
Wynneing!
This ready-made juxtapose comes courtesy Maz2;
Jan 27, 2016 – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, just before leaving for New Delhi on a 10-day trade mission
Jan. 27, 2016 – Ontario Liberals charged in gas-plant scandal in court today
We Don’t Need No …
Ontarians have paid $37-billion more than market price for electricity over eight years and will pay another $133-billion by 2032, after the provincial government’s process for planning the system “broke down.” Electricity prices have ballooned by 70 per cent.
What’s more, Hydro One is in rough shape, with ever-increasing power outages and aging equipment “at very high risk of failing” that needs $4.472-billion worth of repairs – even as the province is in the process of selling 60 per cent of the company to the private sector.
And from National Post;
The auditor found the Green Energy Act is also driving up rates. Hydro customers will pay a total of $9.2 billion more for wind and solar projects under the Liberals’ 20-year guaranteed-price program for renewable energy than they would have paid under the old program.
Ontario’s guaranteed prices for wind power generators are double the U.S. average, while the province’s solar power rates are three-and-a-half times higher.
…and
Lysyk found 80 per cent of $1.45 billion in funding from the Ministry of Economic Development and Employment went to companies the Liberals invited to apply, but they couldn’t provide criteria they used to select firms or say if they created jobs.
Wynning!
The CO2 reductions just keep on coming;
About 65 employees at Baldor Electric in Stratford have learned that they will lose their jobs as the company phases out manufacturing here over the remainder of this year and early into next.
Exact dates have not been established for the closure of the facility, which began manufacturing motors at 677 Erie St. in the city under the name Reliance Electric in the 1950s.[…]
Stratford and District Chamber of Commerce general manager Garry Lobsinger called the news sad.
“They’re Chamber members and have been for a long time, and it’s just another one of our manufacturing sector people who are gone,” he said. “They’ve been good supporters of ours over the years and we’re sorry to see them go.”
Lobsinger suspected that energy costs in Ontario factored into the decision.
h/t Kevin B