How clear can a message get before even the most stubborn and ignorant have to admit they have made a mistake? We would expect a very young child who does something wrong and tries to hide their actions so they won’t get punished, but when this happens chronically by an adult and specially one who is in possession of unlimited $$$ without any consequences of his mistakes then we are witnessing what a parent would call “incorrigible“!
Dalton McGuinty fits this pattern to a “T”. He cannot see the follies of his past and continues to pursue a failed and destructive Green Agenda even as other countries are going bankrupt, cancelling subsidies and failing on all fronts to make their Green Agendas work!
What will it take for this man to be forced to open his eyes to the damage he has caused? Maybe the wake up call will be when Municipal Councils turn their backs on him and walk out of the same room he is in on Feb 25/2012!
National Post editorial board: European energy lessons for Dalton McGuinty
National Post Editorial Board Feb 22, 2012 – 6:04 PM ET
Steam billows from the cooling towers of Vattenfall’s Jaenschwalde brown coal power station behind wind turbines near Cottbus, Germany.
The failure of green-energy policies throughout Europe provides an important lesson for Canadian politicians — especially Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and his fellow Liberals, who have rushed headlong into green alternatives such as wind, solar and biofuel with as much enthusiasm (and taxpayer money) as any government in North America.
In less than a decade, Germany has given power companies and consumers $130-billion in subsidies, mostly to develop a market for solar energy. Despite all that cash, solar electricity still accounts for only 0.3% of Germany’s power supply. Because only some of that total has been covered by taxpayers, and the rest has been passed on to all electricity consumers, the cost of German green-power subsidies will add nearly $300 to the average German family’s power bill this year alone. For industrial power consumers, the added costs can run into hundreds of thousands of euros per year. Philipp Rosler, the federal minister of economics and technology, warned earlier this month that the cost of green power was a “threat to the economy.” As a result, the federal German government is looking to get out of the subsidy business, and the German solar industry is gasping for air……………………………………………..
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If the Ontario government were to stop now, the province’s consumers would still likely have to pay power costs 20% to 30% higher than in 2008 — the year before the Green Energy Act — for the rest of this decade, just to pay for the failed initiatives to date. Ontarians should tell their government to take a lesson from Europe: It’s time to awaken from Dalton McGuinty’s misguided green dream.
National Post
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Note my letter to National Post re this article and their reply:
Karen:
Thanks for the letter. It will be considered for upcoming editions.
P.
Paul Russell
NP letters editor
On 2/23/12 9:03 AM, “NP Contact Form” wrote:
From: “Karen Breitbach”
Location: KINCARDINE
URL: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/22/national-post-editorial-board-european-energy-lessons-for-dalton-mcguinty/
Your editorial comment on European Energy was sorely needed to point out the fallacy of McGuinty’s green agenda. However, the statement, ” Over the past 18 months, it has announced it wont stick the provincial landscape full of giant wind tower turbines,. is incorrect. It is still full steam ahead with another 110 turbine wind farm proposed in SW Ontario. The link here shows operating and proposed turbine installations: http://ontariowindresistance.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/c-k-projects-12022111.jpg