Comments on: Ontario: The new frontier for alternative energy

Government programs help make Ontario a hot spot for companies in the alternative energy industry.

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Promises promises

one must realize that there is an election coming on, and that with all of the hot air arising from the incumbent Liberal Premier, climate will certainly change for the worse. This is the same moron that promised to shut down all of the coal fired power plants in his last election promises, and symbolically only shut down one that had been mainly idle anyway. This is the guy who flies to a press conference only an hour's drive away. This is the guy who is against thermal energy from waste, yet allows his capital city to truck garbage to 200 miles Michigan. This is the guy whose power czar was booted out of office with a multi million dollar payoff for using government helicopters to fly to his cottage. Search YouTube for Dalton McGuinty Promise before you believe any of this steaming load.

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EXACTLY!!

Yep and the funny thing is, Is that all the sheep who voted for them the last time will do the exact same thing and vote them in again. Which leads me to believe that they don't mind their MPPs lying to them! Remember the "flick off" campaign? they're all telling you to F*ck off! and you're all blind to it!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!! or expect more of your tax dollars to be wasted on broken promises and "health premiums!!"

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Taxpayers Beware!

"Ontario wants to reduce greenhouse gas levels to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2014, 15 percent below those levels by 2020, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050..."

Sounds darn impressive, but from a planetary standpoint, it's like throwing stones into a pond. All of Canada is currently responsible for less than 2% of the planet's total emissions output. Also, when any Canadian Liberal government starts chest-thumping about their spending plans, taxpayers had better be vigilant and fasten down their pocket books. I suspect the largest part of any success this politically motivated scheme *may* have is going to be that many Ontario drivers will simply no longer be able to afford the "luxury" of using a car. That alone should pull the ol' emission tally down a notch or two!

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Better Late than Never

Ever wonder why most of the large-scale wind generation turbines come from Denmark? Because Denmark invested in alternative energy 30 years and now have the high-end wind turbine market almost to themselves. These are the huge turbines that have a blade diameter of a football field - almost 100 metres. Fifty of them spinning and you have power for 10,000 homes. Ontario is joining this game a little late.

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crock

If you know Ontario, you will know they put up a demo windmill on the waterfront in Toronto. The thing sends out the most negative message about this much ballyhooed technology. - its not turning half the time, especially on those cold days when you need the heat, and the hottest days when you need the AC.

They would have been better off investing in nuclear. Or, as in today's news, finding a way to stop electricity from leaking from the high voltage towers through farmers cows. Seems cows in fields with transmission lines are afraid to drink their water because they get shocks. How many megawatts does that waste?

Where are PETA and Al Gore when you need them?