Ontario's Green Energy Initiative - The straw that will break the ratepayers back?

The following two videos have been on You Tube for a few weeks.  They are animated videos that explain some of the issues surrounding Ontario's Green Energy Initiative.  Many people who are not educated in the electricity sector would not typically know much of this information.  The Ontario government hides bitter truths behind this initiative.  The videos below help explain some of these truths.  Provincial government continues to use propaganda to set their agendas and gain the approval of the Ontario people. 

As a ratepayer, I would be concerned as to where my hydro bill is headed and whether I will have electricity on an ongoing basis. Most middle class people are having a hard time as it is paying their way in this society. The Ontario government talks about thirty per cent "conservation" as being part of their long term plan. What exactly does conservation mean in this case? Does conservation mean that we will resort to rolling brownouts that happen in places like California?  The Ontario Energy Long Term Plan proposes that Ontarians submit to energy poverty.  Energy poverty is when access to hydro, heat and other forms of power is not attainable because people cannot afford to pay for it.   


We have endured tax increases that the liberals promised would not happen.  First the health care tax, then HST, not to mention the eHealth scandal where this government squandered over $1 billion of taxpayers money.  Next came the OLG scandal where billions more was wasted.  It gets better yet, the Ontario government has been involved in sole source contracts.  Imagine that? A government that mandates all government agencies and corporations ensure a competitive bid process is adhered to, didn't even follow their own rules.  The liberals very own former Energy and Infastructure Minister, George Smitherman sole sourced a multi billion dollar contract to Samsung for wind turbines. Prior to being Energy Minister, he was Health Minister and then he went on to municipal government to run for the mayoral race in Toronto.  He lost to Rob Ford.
 
The liberals are shutting down coal-fired electricity plants in Ontario by the end of 2014, will be buying coal-fired power from the United States and ratepayers will be paying four times more for power. Those plants are in Michigan and are ready to provide Ontario the power that it will need when their Green Energy initiatives fail.  Communities in Ontario where these plants have operated in a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible way for many years are going to lose some great community citizens, volunteers, donors, and taxpayers when these plants shut down in 2014. 

As of 2014, Ontario will be entering their off coal initiative.  Steel companies and oil refineries, who both burn coal to process their products, will be exempt from this initiative. In addition to this, it's okay to buy coal fired power from our neighbours. Shutting down these plants in Ontario will at the very most save 2 percent of the C02 problem for the province and only slightly more for the country.  You can read a letter to the editor at The Hamilton Spectator here.

None of this makes any sense to me. I guess that's why they call this politics.  How do these politicians sleep at night?  How do Ontarians and supporters of this game sleep at night?  I know why I can't sleep at night and it's not because I am knowingly duping and stealing from honest working men and women in this province.  It's because I am so worried about my future, your future, Ontario's future.  This is not Ontario's problem alone, it is a global problem and we are not going to solve it alone.

Where is the green in this plan? I can make a guess where; right in the pockets of policy makers and big green energy organizations.

We are barely recovering from the recent recession and now we are going to spend billions to make a system that cannot sustain itself and needs another system to provide back up.  Residents and municipal government in rural areas have no say in what happens in their communities. 

There will come a day when the people of  Ontario will rise up and say enough is enough.  I find it sad that this plan will pull a lot of people under first. The writing is on the wall and only the affluent will stay afloat in the coming economic times.

I encourage you to view the following videos and learn more details about Ontario's Green Energy Initiative.