-- TORONTO -- There are 40 new wind, solar and water electricity projects on the way across Ontario.For the record, here at "the halls" we compost and recycle religiously. We heat with wood we cut ourselves. I do have an SUV... but it's older than our teenage son. I'm guessing the three or four new cars (and the energy & carbon generated in the manufacturing process) that most suburban commuters have run through in the same time period have injured Mother Earth more substantially than my old beater.
Energy Minister Brad Duguid said Thursday new contracts have been signed with 35 solar projects, four wind projects and one water projects.
The point is... I'm not some old luddite who says "screw the environment."
And I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to ask... exactly how many of my tax dollars are being thrown down Dalton's "Green-a-licious P.R. rabbit-hole"... and what the return on this, er... investment... might be.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Meanwhile... in other "Sure you wanna die on this particular hill?" news...
"Plastic shopping bags have become one of those bones the eat-your-peas crowd has got clenched in its teeth."And please, please, please... don't get me started on ethanol plants.
"The sacks have become important (and evil) symbols for environmentalists, who because of their symbolic worth have expended more effort to have them banned than the bans could ever possibly save in environmental damage."
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RELATED: I'm from the government...
...I'm here to save you...
"The Ontario Energy Board says utilities can raise rates to cover 18 million dollars in fines and court costs they had to pay after the courts ruled they were charging too high an interest rate on late payments."**********
LAST WORD: Those "property rights"...
...you thought you had? Think again.