When Doug Ford and his PCs were elected to power in Ontario back in 2018, one of the first things they did was to lay waste to Ontario's burgeoning green energy sector, summarily cancelling literally hundreds of wind and solar energy contracts. This set Ontario back many years in the process, necessitating an increased reliance on polluting gas power stations and expensive nuclear plants (oh, and it cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars in contract cancellation fees).
Fast forward to 2023, and Doug Ford and his PCs, inexplicably still in power in Ontario, have announced a return to renewable energy projects in the province, part of a policy detailed in the OPG report Powering Ontario, released this week.
I imagine that Ford will probably claim this as an important step forward and a prime example of conservative environmental vision. In fact, it's too little too late, and a belated attempt to rectify past mistakes. It also comes on the heels of other announcements of an expanded nuclear power program, against the advice of most experts.
So, this is not Ford suddenly seeing the error of his ways and getting green religion. This us just the same old bumbling, over-confident, error-prone Ford. He needs to be gone, while we still have the remnants if a funtioning province.
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