Government gold

Government gold:

Green energy, a clarion call to investment in Ontario's future, eventually may prove to have spawned more ostensibly job-related deals - all on taxpayers' backs - than even Bernie Madoff conjured.

Almost panic-like, the provincial government signalled its proactive-like policy decision in Ontario's infamous Green Energy Act by removing municipal control over zoning when it came to siting everything from massive wind turbines to solar panels.

Respectable investment brokerage firms advertised services to prospective green energy investors in terms reminiscent of newspaper ads about the 1890s Yukon gold rush.

Read the entire article at the Windsor Star Site: