Our premier, in an interview with Belleville's Intelligencer, is vehemently against full horses.
I can't comment, politely, on many statements in this article.
Hold your horses: Ontario premier - Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA:
Ontario's premier is introducing a points system to identify rural communities who welcome renewable energy installations like wind turbines. He adds that he will not sacrifice health care or full-day kindergarten for horse racing.
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With health care costs soaring to about $3 billion annually partly because of respiratory illnesses linked to pollution, McGuinty remains committed to investing in renewable energy as a measure to curb those expenditures.
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“I've got all kinds of communities that want them,” he said. “I don't need the headaches that are associated with them going into communities that don't want them.”
The full article can be read at the Intelligencer site - maybe self-medicate first
"I don't want the headaches associated with them going into communities that don't want them"?
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean the Premier will be answering the Mayor of Amaranth's letters sometime soon? Heeding the resolutions passed by dozens of municipalities?
Thanks for the heads up ‘barf alert’. The warning was sure necessary.....>>>>With health care costs soaring to about $3 billion annually partly because of respiratory illnesses linked to pollution, McGuinty remains committed to investing in renewable energy as a measure to curb those expenditures.<<< Sheeeesh....Are we supposed to believe that this ‘$3 billion annually partly because of respiratory illnesses linked to pollution’ came out of a statement that McGuinty made and the ‘Intelligencer’ didn’t challenge it? Or did the ‘Intelligencer' add that little gem of their own volition to help McGuinty make his point? Wouldn’t you think that someone at the ‘Intelligencer’ would have caught that and realized how stunningly stupid it was before they put it out there? That is unbelievable awful.
ReplyDelete>>>>“I've got all kinds of communities that want them,” he said. “I don't need the headaches that are associated with them going into communities that don't want them.”<<<< Sure McGuinty, name one..... just one.
V. Martin, that $3 billion figure jumped out at me too. The man's been deliberately deceptive for so long he's confusing his lies - or the reporter confused his lies.
ReplyDelete$3 billion was the figure, in a frequently cited DSS report, for health saving from getting rid of 2004's levels of coal-fired generation, which was about 27.6 TWh.
In 2011 it was 4.1 TWh ... if health care costs are soaring now, does that indicate coal-fired generation was reducing respiratory illness?
Good catch, Scott.... I really wasn’t paying that much to the actual value since we all know that every one of these numbers that get used were dreamed up and pulled out of you-know-where. I had forgotten about the DSS report and when I went to look for it just now, I see that it has disappeared from the Ministry of Energy website. However, I found a copy of it here.... http://www.localpower.org/documents/reporto_ome_costofcoal.pdf Regardless, your logic is impeccable and I think the headline should read “McGuinty Bemoans Loss of Coal-fired Generation – Says Health Care Costs now Skyrocketing as Result”.
ReplyDeleteThe RWDI report can still be found on the MEI website here: http://www.mei.gov.on.ca/en/pdf/electricity/Cost%20Benefit%20Analysis%20DSS%20Report%20-%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe DSS report is just one of a few "Zombie" reports being widely abused by the government and NGOs. Somebody just lent me some Walking Dead DVDs -- I'll have to start watching them to get tips on how to finish these things off once and for all.
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