In baseball it’s 3 strikes and you’re out. The same should be for our Liberal government. They are now destroying even the Green Jobs that they have been touting that they will create!According to a Nov. 9 article by John Spears
of the Toronto Star new solar projects have ground to a halt while the Province once again reviews the prices that will be paid for new installations. The little momentum that had been created in this industry is now all gone, along with many projected jobs.
According to Gord Siple of Sourcetec Energy in Mississauga “It puts the entire industry in limbo” and “Our sales have stopped. Zero”. As sales manager with no sales Mr. Siple is looking for work, and several employees have also been laid off. In a similar statement from Todd Wootton, sales manager for Renewable Watts Canada, he agrees and further states “The government pretty well told us: We want you to put everyone on pogey for the next two months.”
To stop the industry while this review is done is plain crazy. This should have been completed months ago so that there would be a seamless transition to the new rates. Companies can’t just sit idly by while the government scratches their heads. These heads should not be scratched, they should roll!
This Liberal government really has no clue about how businesses operate and this is just one current example. Green Jobs just got dumped into the Green Bin.
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@bramptonjerry – Thats what happened with Nuclear, Look at the debt service charges on your monthly hydro bill. Green energy prices are only going to come down
look into what we are paying for green, the contracts are 20 years long, @ $0.75/kw/hr…ouch…split an atom
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-phi…
very refreshing
There are always fits and starts with any new technology. At the turn of the last century there were hundreds of auto companies, and most of them went broke.
We can guarantee that we never lose any money or make a bad political bet by not participating and letting others develop the technology for us. But then we would all wind up working for the Chinese.
I may not be an engineer, but, I hear that you can harness a lot of energy by simply splitting an atom…lots of those around
Green energy in the long term is the answer to the entire world's energy requirements. The problem is who will pay for it's development in the short term? Who will mortgage their future and that of their kids?
The solution to future energy supply is very simple, our sun. There is enough sunlight hitting the earth's surface every day to provide more power than we can possibly use. The challenge is in how to harvest this resource? Again the solution is simple.
The sun hits the earth's surface on a 24 hour basis. Somewhere on this planet the sky is blue and the sun is intense. Therefore all we need is a collection and distribution network that connects the entire world, just like the internet. Therefore, if we can build this type of network then our problems are solved. It's just this simple.
So, who wants to open their wallet and help the engineers build this network?
Saudi Arabia has already started http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/f…
Fascinating. So here is one of the big wallets.
The Saudis are investing their oil wealth to help secure their energy future. A by-product could be cost effective energy domination sometime in the future.
The Saudis, as well as the Chinese, are pumping massive amounts of money into the development of unconventional energy sources to secure their energy future. Brilliant, Gutsy. Scary.
Here in Canada we prefer to protest against corporations in the oil development sectors, even when those companies invest massive amounts of money into cleaner production technologies. We have become excellent complainers because it's much easier to protest than to actually go and do something meaningful.
Canadians have become very short term thinkers. Screw the next generation, and the one after that as well. What's in it for me, today?
Before we know it we'll be left in the clean enery dust.
You can't have it both ways. You rail against the Ontario Grits for trying a green energy experiment but at the same time criticize Canadians for doing nothing. Spoken like a true politician.
My problem with the "green energy experimient" is that at this point in time it should no longer be an experiment. Green initiatives are having an extremely difficult time all over the world and it appears that we do not wish to learn from their mistakes.
How is it that the FIT program is in its third stage of review here in Ontario? This reflects incompetence at the highest levels.
We have a 100 kw solar plant on our roof and the poor guy who sunk in over $600k so far doesn't even know when he will be connected to the grid. He has been told that "they are still learning" about how to integrate these systems into the network. Apparently there are not more than about a dozen installations in operation under this program to date. This does not include the Micro FIT program for homes but is still a spectacularly low number. It would be great to know how much money has been spent by the various organizations involved with this "experiment". Now that would turn most of us green.
A real political boondoggle, but anyone who believes green energy is a money-losing sinkhole long term is just not informed. Read Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/opinion/krugman…
I wish someone would let the tax payers know how much they will be paying for this free green energy for the next 2 decades…I think their faces would turn green…why isn't this public knowledge? Because no party would speak out lest they be accused of being anti-environment. Kids, your grandkids will be paying for this debacle