'Hotbed of green technology'
Recorder and Times / Christine Endicott / 06 February 2010
Finally, rural people of Eastern Ontario have an edge.
Eternally handicapped compared with big-city competitors, rural areas can now claim an advantage: They're much better positioned for the "hot" solar generation industry, Joe Jordan of Upper Canada Solar Generation told about 100 area leaders gathered at the Johnstown Community Centre on Friday.
"Rural economies are generally disadvantaged. We're not now. You can't put a large solar farm in the middle of Toronto," Jordan told an attentive crowd of business leaders, politicians and farmers.
Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown called the local area "a hotbed of green technology."
Due to the 1998 ice storm, "we have an infrastructure that was rebuilt way ahead of schedule," Jordan said. "We have an excellent location here."
Jordan was one of seven presenters on the bio-products/green technology panel, organized by the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville as part of an ongoing economic development series.
