Ontario sees the light of day
Hey enviros -- the free ride is over. We are sick of paying for your shit.
From Canada's
Financial Post:
Ontario backing away from climate change commitments
Ontario�s Liberal government is backing away from its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and will miss its own targets, Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller said Tuesday.
The government is scaling back plans to fight greenhouse gas emissions, cutting funding for programs to buy electric vehicles and develop charging stations, and delaying construction of 31 kilometres of HOV lanes because of shrinking revenues.
The need to cut spending to help eliminate a $14.4-billion deficit is no reason to cut good programs that help reduce the impact of climate change, said Miller.
Waaaaaaaaaaaa... More:
Environment Minister Jim Bradley said the government cut $101 million from the $164 million promised for electric vehicles and charging stations because so few people took advantage of the program.
More:
Miller gave the government high marks for phasing out coal-fired electricity generation, but said that has meant natural gas has surpassed coal as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector.
�While the coal phase-out is a worthy accomplishment, it is now past performance and no new initiatives to garner such measurable benefits or reductions are being advanced,� he said.
Effin' clueless -- you shut down an industry that provides cheap energy and spend the money to bring a new technology online, building a brand new infrastructure. You then have the temerity to complain that no "
measurable benefits or reductions are being advanced".
More:
�If we can shift some of our transportation to electricity drive, which means heavy rail, certainly light rail to move people, and plug-in electric vehicles, then we�ll save large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions,� he said.
And this electricity comes from where?
Are you really this stupid or was this just a bad interview...
Be sure to read the 50+ comments -- people are starting to wake up.
Posted by DaveH at December 5, 2012 1:59 PM