Give municipalities the power to decide on wind farms, urges MacLeod

[guest]

OTTAWA — The provincial government should scrap a section of the Green Energy Act that lets the provincial government approve wind farms without cities’ and townships’ approval, Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod said in a small press conference outside Ottawa City Hall Friday morning. MacLeod brought fellow Tory MPP Vic Fedeli, the opposition party’s energy critic, to reinforce the point. From the beginning the Tories have opposed the Green Energy Act, an effort by the Ontario Liberals to begin rebuilding the provincial economy by encouraging the manufacture of equipment for wind and solar power. It provides big subsidies for green-energy projects in an effort to jump-start the industry and cuts out municipal authority over where they go.

更多...