by BETTER FARMING STAFF
The Liberal provincial government has announced 25 new, large-scale feed-in tariff (FIT) wind and solar projects that promise to create enough electricity to power 280,000 homes and attract about $3 billion in new private sector investment to the province.
The Liberals are also trumpeting in a news release that “Ontario’s clean energy economy continues to grow, creating 5,000 new jobs.”
The 25 projects will not face capacity problems that have blocked many who want to get into the FIT and smaller microFIT programs. The new wind and solar producers will be brought on line through the Bruce to Milton reinforcement transmission project, the largest in Ontario in 20 years. They are located in Tiverton, Woodstock, Strathroy, Seaforth, Paisley and Zurich. The FIT contract offers include 14 wind projects in the Bruce area that will produce 750 megawatts of power. There are five more wind projects west of London totaling 268.4 megawatts and six solar projects totaling 27.5 megawatts.
The announcement takes place against a backdrop of a fall provincial election and a threat by the Conservatives to axe the FIT program if they are elected. There are also a number of wind project critics who say they are bad for the health of those living in the shadow of the giant turbines. BF
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The Liberals are, of course, ignoring the fact that 10,000 jobs could easily be lost because of the increased taxes necessary to finance the regressive economic structure of both wind, and solar, power.
But then again, when you're a "true believer", faith always triumphs over economics - for at least a while.
Stephen Thompson, Clinton ON
Great that what we need more big lots of crap , Why don,t they put solar panel on top of the buildings or sky scrapers. Good thing I don,t have any beside me think it would be a living hell to here those blades and look at them or all those panels. Its terrible to pollute the country side with all that junk , use the land to help feed the people and let the wildlife have a place to stay.
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