Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently did something so stupid when it comes to … uh … fighting global warming, it should warn all Canadians to keep an eye on their politicians, lest they do something equally dumb.
McGuinty struck a deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels in Ontario, plus pay inflated prices for 2,500 megawatts of so-called green energy for the next quarter century.
Samsung will invest $7 billion in return for untold billions more to be sucked out of the hides of Ontario electricity consumers and, McGuinty hopes, other, as-yet-unsuspecting, consumers across North America.
How stupid is this deal?
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The Sun says:
“McGuinty claims it will create 16,000 jobs….. But the public has no way to verify these numbers, which the premier, who will be long gone before his deal is, might as well have pulled out of his derriere.”
How on earth can sending $7 billion to the South Korean Samsung consortium help Ontario with jobs? Also what is the cost per kilowatt of doing this versus building a nuclear plant with Canadian technology and keeping the $7 billion here? Or why not use the $7 billion as a down payment in the building the Lower Churchill Falls and keep the money in Canada?
There is no comparative information and benchmarking on this massive drain on our already bankrupt treasury, McGuinty is our Nancy Pelosi … Nancy McGuinty!
Apart from the apoplectic faces Ontario consumers will wear (“green” with joy, no doubt) once they see their electrical bills spiraling upward (at a guess, some 30%); once bird-lovers and environmentalists rally in places like Point Peelee to protest against massive bird culls by wind-farms in the path of the migration routes – there will come Ontario’s own “Silent Spring” as manufacturers – already reeling from a fragile economic recovery, a high Loonie – will see their costs rise with their electrical bills. How many will pack it in and look for “greener” pastures?
Thank you, Mr. McGuinty, thank you Mr. Smitherman (remember he’s the idiot who wrote the Green Energy Act – not to mention setting up eHealth). Your bovine obsession to buy voters with their own money – and disguise it as environmental policy – plus your complete lack of understanding of elementary school level physics – has guaranteed that Ontario will remain a “have not” province for many years to come.
“…has guaranteed that Ontario will remain a “have not” province for many years to come.”
Well, didn’t you know? That IS the end result of the “green plan”, ask Elizabeth May and Cullis-Suzuki as well as Maurice Strong. They were Canada’s representatives at the 1992 Rio Un conference that dealt with this – the eventual collapse of the western economies and depopulation of the planet. They are quite open about that idea.
Your Mr. McGuinty will do fine, probably get a raise in pay for his efforts and his gold-plated pension, long after the damage is done to Ontario and eventually the rest of the country by the likes of his confreres in “politicia”, as they fall all over themselves prostrating themselves (and your lives and futures) to the God Gaia.
The government and their employees everywhere are not looking out for you, nor “serving” you any more. They serve themselves at your expense. They are actively killing off your job/economic prospects and in the end, you will be lining up just for bread, starving or dead. To them, preferably dead. It’s to “save the planet”, not the human race. We are “vermin”, a “cancer” that needs to be cut out of the equation.
Think on it: wind and solar will NEVER replace coal-fired base-load power. If you build a pile of windmills at whatever expense, what happens to your population when coal-fired base-load power disappears or shrinks? Your population shrinks because there is only so much power available from wind and solar to support a certain size of population, especially in a province where winter is 6-7 months. restrict the power available, how much industry are you going to be able to support? How many people will be “viable” for that kind of system to support?
Wake up and deal with it. I don’t think I have to tell you how to do that.
“Mr. Smitherman , remember he’s the idiot who wrote the Green Energy Act – not to mention setting up eHealth”
All of which gave SlitherMan the prerequisites to qualify to run for Mayor of Toronto. It seems that the more these guys prove themselves to have Teflon resistance to their incompetences, the more they are able to allure the “progressives” to join them in The Long March toward a green utopia while tilting at windmills and fighting imaginary enemies like global warming.
Stupid is as stupid does……
It always strikes me funny that when I discuss things like crime and wax nostalgic about the relative crime free era of 40 years ago some ‘progressive’ will chide me with well you can’t go back. Then I read about ‘progressives’ like McGuinty and realize they are far more backward looking than I. McGuinty and his ilk would take us back to the stone age. Maybe somebody should tell him that the Flintstones were not real history.
The waste will be in again, untold billions, if McGuinty proceeds any further. After July 1st (Canada Day) the eight percent HST hits hard. Projections are that utility bills will rise to 30 percent and Ontarions ‘freezing in the dark’ come winter — with northern Ontario communities particularly vulnerable, will kick start a tax protest only seen to date by the ‘tea partiers.’
The subsidies to industry are off the chart, while they have the moral duty to get bank loans. The proposed and now in-place McGuinty gov’t deals will in effect crucify/cripple particularly the working families, not to mention seniors on fixed incomes.
Meanwhile, the amoral pols have given themselves 26 percent raises TWICE, wasted billions on the e-health fiasco, ripped out the fruit industry in southern Ontario and targets foreign students with tuition dollars, while neglecting our own student citizens. It’s obviously a disaster scenario and people have noted McGuintyu and cabal will have gotten away with the ‘Ontario store’ as they exit.
They need to be stopped NOW. Banking/real estate/business and industry as Mark Carney wisely recommended recently have to pull their weight because increasing jobless/welfare bums can’t support the tax initiatives. So, they’re selling us out to foreigners without public consultation. Hudak should be onto this and in the stiffest terms possible.
If Ontarions don’t get it by now that it’s all about Liberals’ jobs/paycheques and bonuses, and nothing more, then it’ll be too late. If it isn’t already.
Cancel the unworkable deal with Samsung, plain and simple. Queen Elizabeth should remain in Britain cancelling her trip in Jully because it coiincides with the backbreaking taxation upwards of EIGHT PERCENT AND UPWARDS which in a shrinking economy is not doable.
Starvation’s on the way in more ways than one and we as citizens can ‘refuse the honour.’ It’s our duty, non?
Here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/chris_christies_new_jersey_rev.html
You need to kick that so-called CINO hopeful Hudak in the butt and get him to work defeding YOUR interests as the taxpayer in Ontario, not the interests of government employees, including himself. If he won’t adapt, fire him too and then start your Tea Party, without him. The man in the above article has it RIGHT in more ways than one.
Incompetent politicians throwing away the money taken from our paycheques will at least lead to more development in off-the-grid technology. People will need to save money on electricity at home because there won’t be many jobs if industry can’t pay their electric bills.
Another corrupt Liberal has managed to slow down the economy of Ontario for years to come. Crooked Liberals have already made Ontario a ‘have-not’ province, keeping it that way ensures more left-wingers get elected, that must be the strategy in the absence of any other.
Agree with all comments and we can thank the provincial Tories because of their past poor choices of weak leaders like John Tory and his unpopular platform of funding religious schools (even though we do it for the Catholics here in Ontario.).
Mind you, Dalton McTaxeverything has some right leaning policies like not uploading Mikey’s downloading, continues to cut or close some Ontario Hospitals under the disguise of the Hospital Restructuring Commission and the ‘Harper Sales tax’ which he will implement this July 1st.
But our glorious Premier can find funds for his favorite cultural/social groups like opening the new Cornwall medical walk in clinic for Francophones ONLY.
Buildings are not very cheap and not every person is able to buy it. But, mortgage loans are invented to support different people in such kind of hard situations.