Lorrie Goldstein has some good advice for the ROC – When it comes to environmental policy, do the opposite of Dalton McGuinty:
Indeed, a good rule of (green) thumb for Canadians is if Ontario is doing something to “help the environment,” you should run screaming from the idea as if Frankenstein had suddenly been unleashed on your community.
Should you one day catch any of your politicians starting to babble like our premier does about all things green, the appropriate response would be to hunt them down with pitch forks and burning torches, before they do something really stupid.
In Ontario, alas, it’s too late. Stupid already rules.
Yes but maybe not so much stupid as cunning.
Dalton knows how to fleece us and still stay popular.
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Update
Stupid also seems to rule south of the border – Kerry Lynch: Green dream – meet reality - Orange County Register (via The Record)
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Walkom: The painful stupidity of Dalton McGuinty’s eco fees – Yikes! He said it too!! And from the Star!!!
Eco tax likely to be back in some form – Walter Robinson, Sun
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Thursday Update
Green energy problems continue to plague Ontario’s Liberal government – Keith Leslie (Record)
MUST READ:
Those solar-power pay scales never did make much sense - Peter Shawn Taylor (Record):
...Selling to the government at 80.2¢ or 58.8¢ what the government then turns around and sells to the public for 6.5¢ is clearly too good to be true. This huge gap must ultimately be borne by consumers and taxpayers. And it is clearly unsustainable over the long run.
No solar investor can therefore defend this business model on its own merits. Rather, it’s about taking advantage of temporary government stupidity. The new rates simply limit this stupidity somewhat.
There was also plenty of international evidence that the rich tariffs couldn’t last, if anyone had bothered to look. Spain, in many ways the inspiration for Ontario’s solar regime, cut its feed-in tariffs sharply in 2008 because they were too rich, and is now discussing a 30 per cent retroactive reduction in contracts already signed. Germany and Italy are also cutting their rates. In the interests of sanity, Ontario should cut its solar rates even further…
Temporary government stupidity? That’s being generous.

