Brockville Climate Action Group

Renewable Energy World / Marion Fraser / 24 June 2008

Alberta may be Canada's oil patch, but Eastern Ontario may be Ontario's only "green energy" patch for the next few years. The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) recently announced changes to Ontario's standard offer program for renewable energy that will limit new projects in almost all parts of Ontario except Eastern Ontario. A new map of available transmission capacity in Ontario was released on June 2.

IPS News / Stephen Leahy / 25 June 2008

North America's abject failure to meet the challenge of climate change has been "un-American", environmentalist and scientist David Suzuki told delegates Tuesday at the World Wind Energy Conference, the first ever in the region.

"We're facing an ecological crisis, a crisis far, far worse than Pearl Harbour," Suzuki said.

The Whig-Standard / Jennifer Pritchett / 26 June 2008

Ontario is looking to Germany for direction on how to meet its provincial climate-change targets.

Environment Minister John Gerretsen told an international wind energy conference in Kingston yesterday that Ontario is getting into renewables "somewhat late in the game," but is committed to learning from countries such as Germany, the world leader in wind energy.

Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc / John Keating / 04 June 2008

Earlier today, we received a letter from the Ontario Minister of Tourism (the “Minister”), on behalf of the Ontario Minister of the Environment. The Minister has confirmed the Decision by the Director of the Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch of the Ministry of Environment (the “Director”) that an Individual Environmental Assessment and mediation are not required for the Wolfe Island Wind Project.

Globe and Mail / Mark D Dunn / 29 May 2008

Hardhats and safety harnesses are the latest in spring fashion wear at Elliot Lake Secondary School. Students don the gear while climbing the school roof, where 12 solar panels and a vertical wind turbine are being installed.

Globe and Mail / Patrick White / 16 May 2008

In the early 1990s, Joe Johnson and his wife, Carolyn, bought a cottage near Port Severn, Ont., as a sanctuary far removed from the stresses of their working lives in Toronto.

But Mr. Johnson found the quarterly hydro bills for the small lakeside dwelling anything but relaxing.

While their actual usage charges amounted to little more than $4, the bills regularly topped $100, the bulk of which came from "surcharges, monthly fees, paying down Ontario Hydro's debt and all these other charges they load on," said Mr. Johnson.