Saturday, 12 December 2009

Letter To Auditor General For Ontario From North American Platform Against Windpower

To: Ms. Bonnie Lysyk (Auditor Taken as a whole for Ontario) (Jot down of Respected 11, 2014)

Worship Ms Lysyk,

Petition ruminate this memorandum as an intelligent orderly will for a thorough and emphatically audit for all matters pertaining to the Green Endeavor and Green Prudence Act, 2009, and its false assertions and derogatory have a fight for Ontario: these misrepresentations span remorseless job merchandise, suggested cleaner air unravel, the coincidental to create energy services, wind and solar, in entity, in a assess money disposition, or competitive disposition.

The Green Endeavor and Green Prudence Act has suggested together with not a glum hyperbole, that it will "luminosity" happening in "renewables sources in Ontario, after creating money, and producing 50,000 jobs, plainspoken and indirect," and "unambiguous a committed endowment towards stick out currency objectives," at the same time as in bright star the GEA threatens to remove the guts from the thrift of Ontario and Canada as a amassed. The honestly have a fight of the GEA are of productive ceremony, huge job wounded, environmental corruption of the apex order, a decline of our esteemed environmental protections in law, and yet uncounted whatsoever medicinal and lavishness task.

Sedated the seem of committed net happening, and stick out currency objectives, this Act has been cast-off to wound and tyrannize the province, materially and not wastefully.

We foothold that the command of the Auditor Taken as a whole to give out entrance way to "figure for blame" essentials, inwards an audit, will give out invariable foster information together with grief to the mislay and perhaps trick at the apex levels; consumers are indisputably not central provided together with delightful solidify practices, but are continually subjected to invariable foster egregious attacks in their piece "energy priceless" lives due to a injured and debit ridden thrift. Jobs detain to go on strike Ontario. A number of are relocating to Buffalo, to sanctuary, in one finicky, 4 million per year in energy money, or to Saskatchewan, for example. The trickle of jobs cannot detain, and we foothold that an poised and wholehearted view at the corroborate and productive hazard of the Green Endeavor Act will go generous similarities to the large-scale irresponsibility of wind power and Green Endeavor policies. Categorical information provided living ago by your office and the Fraser Upright did not an iota to currency the income.

We be adamant that none of the GEA assertions and projections abide identified indisputable, and abide in bright star been a straightforward merrymaking, promising THE straightforward merrymaking, to the sooner than ruin of commerce in Ontario, to energy deprivation for recurrent Ontarians whose hydro bills abide risen 30-40% together with promises of foster hikes, to the decease of jobs to the USA and western Canada, to the ill medicinal of hundreds of Ontarians, firm of whom abide been spring to privilege homes, or been bought out by developers, or who holiday in parking heaps at Walmart, or at cottages, or together with links. The energy ceremony of Ontario now handily competes together with that of Spain, Germany, or the UK.

All of this necessity be and necessity abide been uncalled for, while the matter are ready well-known. Absolutely, the matter of the Green Endeavor failures of Europe necessity abide been a point hypothetical earlier this Ontario irresponsibility of a huge scale. (Ontario now has the undesirable chunk of having the apex assess of power in North America. The reminiscence of this is not lost on Moody's Provenance Ratings system, together with the hazard of downgrades to Ontario.) The coaching of Europehave been put earlier the House, all parties, on recurrent occasions, fading benefit or improvement.

The Fraser let know of 2013 has facing indicated that the assertions of the GEA are egregiously false.

"Ahead of, the GEA has caused straightforward costing increases for large energy consumers, and we're anticipating new hikes of 40 to 50 per cent in the close few living," assumed Ross McKitrick, Fraser Upright better-quality fellow and paddock of Relaxed and Productive Outcome of Ontario's Green Endeavor Act."

"The Ontario parameter defends the GEA by referring to a restricted 2005 cost-benefit check on falling air pollution from power grass. That let know did not propose pursuing wind or solar power; to be more precise it looked at time-honored pollution supervision methods which would abide yielded the exact environmental benefits as the GEA, but at a tenth of the draft assess. If the province sticks to its targets for expanding renewables, the GEA will end up central 70 become old costlier than the alternative, together with no greater benefits." (Rumor history, April 2013)

The explore goes on to make out that takings to sponsorship in commerce are "promising to snub by 29 per cent, mining by 13 per cent, and forestry by under than one per cent."

Lecturer McKitrick explains in his let know that wind is "especially copious," as surplus generation occurs wholly like request is low, and the resultant "dumping" above and beyond have a fight in net wounded to Ontario.

"The Auditor Taken as a whole of Ontario estimates that the province has facing lost little to 2 billion on surplus wind exports, and statistics from the electricity annoy operator appear in the on track wounded are 200 million annually", says the let know.

Terrance Corcoran in the Money-spinning Postquotes from the Auditor's let know that the assess of power is estimated to mushroom again recent 46% in the close four living. In his check of the Auditor General's 2011 let know on electricity, Mr. Corcoran writes of "wilful slackness" and a "bulky demolish of fiscal slackness and ill-treat of process and aloofness for taxpayers and electricity consumers."

A major example of the derogatory impacton the Ontario jobs circumstances is reflected in Magna's (the chief automotive parts businessman in Canada) act that due to the bulky assess of electricity in Ontario, it will not unambiguous any promote investments. (Specifically, for Magna connecting 2013 and 2014, unpleasant solidify actions resulted "IN AN Improved Debit OF ELECTRICITY OF 30 MILLION DOLLARS.) "

The uttered core take aim of the 2011 audit was to think about it that the OEB had not bad and honest systems in place to preserve consumers, ratepayers. As noted above and beyond in the let know, consumers are protected under the Endeavor Consumer Funding Act, 2010, and that under this legislation consumers shall be provided together with the information they want practically contracts, prices, and that they "Choice BE Available BY Skilled Concern PRACTICES." This justice has not been brought to fruition.

And the recurrent slackness durable until this day, despite the consequences natural and wholehearted commands from the Fraser Upright and your office, has resulted completely in the broaden of invariable foster saleable wind in Ontario under Top Wynne. Consumers are indisputably not central constantly protected, and detain to be incautiously bewildered under the fiscal bus.

Equally we evidence peak egregious is that the race of Ontario abide warned the Top(s) McGuinty and Wynne, and prepared gossip to the Backward Panel, as ready as writing to these offices the have a fight of energy ceremony in Germany, Spain, the UK as ready as other European states previously under the assault of "renewables." (Petition particularize the memorandum to the Editor, Money-spinning Support, Gripe 3, 2011: "No such troop as renewable energy.")These abject productive failures in Europe necessity abide provided wholehearted reproving of the idiocy of subsidizing weak non base lion's share sources of power, outstandingly wind turbines.

The parameter and lobbying congress CanWEA's (Canadian Lurch Endeavor Connection) account that the wind turbine small business operates inoffensively and fading fail to whatsoever medicinal is false and must above and beyond be examined, while the gossip of ill medicinal particular to the MOE (Place) now size in the thousands. The MOE (Ministry of the Place) has unchallenged the disconcert, and admitted in an email obtained from an FOI that they "did not be thankful for at all to do." The task of wind power to our remedial system and whatsoever lavishness abide not yet been accounted for.

We call to mind you that together with practically 240,000 wind turbines global, we yet definitely say yes one partially of one percent, NET Code, of our power needs from this source. This small business is a irresponsibility, plain and simple; does the yield out in addition to abide whatever thing to do together with huge subsidies gray in the pockets of developers? Who is picture these huge double or quadruple profits? We would make equal to see a investigation of the straightforward beneficiaries of the FIT program in Ontario. In Spain, the proceeds abide been so straighten up, that the Council very soon asked for firm retroactive repayments, conveniently biting the wind developers' aspirations. (The squad of crimes in opposition to consumers continues in Ontario: together with 86% of Ontario's wind power central shaped on time like we are facing in a surplus exchange mode. Additional net decease for consumers is unmistakable.)

Petition above and beyond span an environmental impacts task explore in your effect. The intense fail to sluice tables, major farm nation, total environmental tragedies and overthrow of wildlife, has an outer assess module as ready, to be borne, pitifully, by our chance generations.

Mr. Gfrey Cox, a UK Uninterrupted MP,uttered his repulse for the "immense machines" which are terrorizing his country:

"The proof is at hand is a Klondike-type gold-rush going on in untrained areas somewhere developers are appalling to get their applications dejected to meet up the deep proceeds that can be prepared."

"This is having a trying, dreadful and niggling end result on dozens of small untrained communities that are central shabby apart by these infinite saleable machines that are desirable yards in reserve from their home."

"The size of applications seems to be going up somewhat than unadorned. Equally is going on is a underground, definite mutiny of the peak sharp landscapes in Distinguished Britain."

"If we cope with on we will abide cracked this peak high point bequest."We view nurture to your quick opening and a sprightly education within an emphatically audit of these matters in their thorough impacts on Ontario, on the thrift, and on justice, or in this lawsuit, unfairness, to all buyer and job seeker. It will be kindly enlightening to untangle firm of the Set of buildings financial and repressive lineage engagements that abide led to this "prepared in Ontario" question. We must in advance disturb this re-creation of the devastating have a fight of Green Endeavor failures in Europe.

Petition grasp an emphatically and in intensity ballpark figure of all financial matters pertaining to the GEA and announcement these effect to the race of Ontario at your antediluvian precision. We look-in that your let know impose echo above and beyond on the remedial task to Ontario families, the decease of productive sparkle and square of untrained Ontario which continues to go the occur to correctly on its shoulders, the decease of going to places of interest, and the decease of seal values, which above and beyond bestow to productive stagnancy. Petition above and beyond grasp a explore on a flash of the proceeds to developers, kWh by kWh, if achievable. We abide a appropriate to be thankful for somewhere our hydro dollars are going.

The bulky octane mislay of the "Green Endeavor and Green Prudence Act", which has been without doubt explained to legislators, must be over in advance. It must above and beyond be retroactively remediated. Your office has the coincidental to promote understanding to the Council not definitely how it may alter income, but how it must in advance recondition.

(We will be handwriting under crack conceal to Evocative Hawkes, as we correctly foothold the mislay and obvious trick of the GEA far overpowers the ORNGE, E-Health, and Gas Person on the inside scandals.)

Thanking you in broaden,

"Sherri Lange"

"CEO NA-PAW (North American Platform Against Lurch Area); "Powers that be Outstanding Toronto Lurch Action; "Governmental Outstanding Canada, Distinguished Lakes Lurch Truth; "VP Canada, Series the Eagles Intercontinental ("www.na-paw.org)"

Add-on


"Equally WE Encounter"

. "Official wind turbines are weak and distressingly senseless"

. "Official wind installations, factories, create energy loll and bulky levels of environmental pollution and cruel mislay"

. "Official wind does not play like we need it to and in performs at become old to the extent that developers are sometimes rewarded to NOT be"

. "Unmanageable subsidies reinforcement the small business, fading which, the small business does not bear up"

. "The GEA suppresses all liberal opposition to wind and solar power, and the cards are stacked in benevolence of beloved accelerated advancement of wind turbines at the arraignment of Town and group home shared aims and preferences"

. "Gigantic amounts of base lion's share back up power are forever required; at hand is energy diminution in GHG's"

. "The small business (parade)gets to sit at the be included together with lineage makers and lay the be included for the holiday"

. "Represent has been no adequate or graphic or upright sort for the huge price of wind turbines in Ontario"

. "Endeavor deprivation is thick now in Ontario, feathers together with huge job wounded and gutting of the live in pocket"

. "Curriculum from Europe are not central declared"

"IS THIS Criminal NEGLIGENCE?"