Homes bought by wind company at Ripley wind farm

Editor:

Mitch Twolan, Huron-Kinloss mayor,  forced several owners to vacate their cottages built-in the late fifties – early sixties, without cause (Agenda 21/Wildlands Project)

When I confronted Carmen Krogh of Wind Vigilance and Dave Colling of WCO and the Inter-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group, at a wind meeting in the same area and asked, “when are you going to start telling people the truth?” They hung their heads in silence and offered no response.

Now Colling is telling everyone who has property in a proposed wind farm to   Sell!

That should make it easier for the wind companies.

These people ain’t working for who they say they are working for.

WCO = controlled opposition!

David Colling, a Ripley-area resident and citizen member on the Inter-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group, said he will be interested to see at what price the homes are listed at when they go back on the market. He said he has received a number of phone calls from residents living in areas where wind projects are slated to be developed.

“People call me and ask, ‘What should I do?’” he said. “I say sell and leave now before you lose the value of your home.”

His statement just destroyed your property value!

Kincardine Independent

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Note – (You may get your health study once the thousands of wind turbines are erected. It is quite possible that once all the turbines are erected, the govt. will say that there is a danger to health .. Everyone must move off the affected lands into towns and cities, because the govt. cares deeply about your health. One of the core goals of Agenda 21 is to move people into “human settlements” and “re-wild” the rural areas. Sustainability!
So keep on asking for the health study – it will make a future govt. look good………..of course you won’t live in the country any longer. On the bight side – you got your health study and never had to expose the scam………good work!.)

Wind Farm Scam Exposed at the Woodford Conference

Wind Farm Scam Exposed at the Woodford Conference part 2

Wind Farm Scam Exposed at the Woodford Conference part 3

Wind Farm Scam Exposed at the Woodford Conference

Ron Stephens exposes the wind farm scam as part of the plan to run people off the land and into human settlements.

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Sylvia Jones Introduces Bill to Ensure Local Say in Wind Energy Projects

Editor:

I received this via email today.

(Queen’s Park) –“Today I introduced a bill at the Legislature to give Ontario municipalities and local residents a voice in the planning of wind energy projects,” said Sylvia Jones, MPP (Dufferin-Caledon).

Under the Liberal’s Green Energy Act, 2009, new wind projects will be built with no municipal planning control and limited public input. Jones wants to restore the traditional municipal planning oversight role with her Planning Amendment Act (Renewable Energy Undertakings), 2010.

“The Progressive Conservative Party and I raised concerns about the Green Energy Act from the very beginning,” said Jones. “My private members bill will return the power for planning renewable energy projects to municipalities who can be responsive to the needs of the community.”

“Municipalities know what works best for them,” said Jones. “The planning process is not new. Municipal planning has worked well in the past, and if given the opportunity can work well in the future. The voices of our communities and concerned Ontarians should not be shut down.”

Jones’ bill amends the Planning Act to reverse the effect of the amendments made to the Planning Act by Schedule K to the Green Energy Act, 2009. Those amendments exempted renewable energy undertakings from the normal application of the Planning Act, including policy statements, provincial plans, official plans, demolition control by-laws, zoning by-laws and development permit regulations and by-laws.

“The Green Energy Act shows little respect to municipalities and Ontario families,” said Jones. “I want to give residents across Ontario the power to refine renewable energy projects for their community.”

For more information:
Ashley Hammill   (416) 325-1898
ashley.hammill@pc.ola.org

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Having run as an Independent in the 2007  Ont. Provincial election and  knowing the contents of the Conservative election platform, understanding this email is easy.  It’s called “controlled opposition”.

The Politicians understand that the average voter is………well, dumber than a box of rocks.

Especially when you consider – the Conservatives promised to  install more wind than the Liberals, if elected

So, why would any Conservative member come out against a piece of legislation they would have more than likely implemented themselves?

Hope!

It’s a false Hope – but, to the dumbed down masses, a false hope is better than nothing. It’s not of course, but they don’t understand that.

The Harris Conservatives worked hard to destroy Ont. for eight years. (Harris is a Bilderberger)

The people were angry, rightfully so, and they threw out Harris and his band of Agenda21/NWO criminals.

McGuinty and the Liberals promised to make things right if elected. Instead they continued to carry out Agenda 21/NWO.

Today, nearing the end of the Liberals second term, the people of Ont. are angry once again and can’t wait to throw out McGuinty and his band of Agenda 21/NWO criminals.

Now we have the Conservatives offering hope to those who’ve been treated with disrespect by the Liberals.

The people of Ontario will elect the Conservatives in 2011, likely with a majority.

And guess what – the Conservatives will continue  moving Agenda 21/NWO forward.

Just how stupid is the average Ontarian?

George Carlin put it this way “the politicians are there to give you the idea you have a choice – you don’t”.

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Comments from the Wind Concerns Ontario website,  a 42 group coalition  fighting wind farms in Ont. They actually put the above  Conservative bunk on their website.

Here are some comments- This is mind-blowing stuff. Are these people really fighting wind farms, is WCO part of the controlled opposition, or are they just plain stupid.

The jury is out……….anyway here’s some comments-

-Thank you for doing this. I will be following the outcome of the bill you introduced to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

-yes, finally someone with a bit of common sense.

-I appreciate this effort, but this does not ensure that municipalities will site turbines at distances that can safeguard people. Just have a look at the Town or Essex who allowed 450 metres prior to the GEA. Nor does it ensure that a proper cost benefit analysis is done before such projects are undertaken within a municipality or that the proponent are reputable businesses upon which residents can trust to follow through with their promises. Many are nothing short of snake oil salesmen

-I have to echo ruralgrubby here. Our township is very pro wind, for several stupid reasons. They were supportive of moratoriums eleswhere…just not in their township! Yeah, try try reasoning with that. Although restoring some local decision making is positive, industrial wind turbines do not belong anywhere…I want to see a bill introduced that says that.

-A very GOOD step in the RIGHT direction.
Keeping fingers crossed.

-This is a start at least. Thank you for this and I will follow with support.
Perhaps those at Queens Park will start listening to the people.

Wind Concerns Ontario – Making it way too easy for the politicians to shove Agenda 21/NWO down our collective throats.

If  Sylvia Jones was so concerned about the GEA, why has it taken her so long to introduce a private members Bill?

The 2011 election campaign is now underway!

Vote Conservative!

Fools!

Agenda 21/NWO is almost complete

Read Cloak of Green and Green Agenda- top of blog

Watch Freedom 21/Agenda 21- last video on side bar

Canada to Become a Green Fascist State

Distinguished Fellows
Jacques Gérin
Art Hanson
Jim MacNeill, Chair Emeritus
Maurice Strong
Founding Chair
Lloyd McGinnis
Friends of the Institute
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gary Filmon
José Goldemberg
Jim MacNeill
Brian Mulroney
Sir Shridath Ramphal
Maurice Strong

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Editor:

Ever wonder what your tax dollars are being used for?

Call it communism or fascism – no matter, it does signal the end of Canada as you thought you knew it.

More important than the green drivel contained in the document, are the institutions and people funding it. Keep an eye on the side margin as you go through the document. Take note of  how many institutions are against you in your fight.

Who would have though that a place like Winnipeg would be host to such a hot bed of traitors. Not surprising really, when you understand that government bodies from the Municipal level to the Federal level are working with the UN to reach their “common goal”.
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Then again, Winnipeg is the end of the NAFTA hwy.
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One of the major and arguably most obvious breakthroughs in IISD’s history

humanitarians08_vol3_c14 was its involvement in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Rio was a significant event, attracting heads of state and NGOs from around the world. Not only was it a globally significant event, it was in many ways IISD’s debut on the international stage.
The institute could not help but become involved when one of its own board
members, Maurice Strong, an individual who also played a significant role in the Brundtland Commission, was named the conference’s secretary general. In addition to the role that Strong played in the summit, IISD “made commitments of both human and financial resources to certain projects contributing to the UNCED preparatory process,”51 and used the event as an opportunity to widely release its first major report: Business Strategy for Sustainable Development: Leadership and Accountability for the ‘90s. Following the summit, Lloyd McGinnis, chair of IISD’s board of directors noted:

The UN flag is already flying proudly in my community. While it’s not the actual UN flag, it is of their creation.

It’s the “Blue Flag” signifying a clean beach. In other words, the UN has already come ashore

The Maple Leaf should be the only Flag flying in this Country – including the beach.

Read Cloak of Green ( many of the names in the IISD doc are found there) read Green Agenda, it will give you a real eye-opening education – both on top bar.  Freedom 21 Santa Cruz – a great explanation of Agenda 21 – last video on sidebar.

Giant statue of Lenin and Mao the talk of Richmond BC

Dalton McGuinty Announces $8 Billion Investment in Green Energy

Editor:

Is this great news or what?

The Race is on!

Ontario Premier Dalton  McGuinty and BC Premier Gordon Campbell of BC are racing to see who can bankrupt their Province first.

Turn this race into a CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corp.) reality show.

David Suzuki, Al  Gore and Maurice Strong could be the judges.

I smell a hit series in the making – Go for it CBC.

As creator of the series idea – I expect payment for the idea and a percentage of any dollars generated from the series and syndication.

R J Stephens

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Karen Howlett, Richard Blackwell and Shawn McCarthy

Toronto and Ottawa — From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

The Ontario government will announce today that it is awarding just over $8-billion in renewable energy projects to dozens of companies, making it the biggest investment of its kind in Canadian history.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is locked in a heated race with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell for leadership in the burgeoning market for green-energy investments. And Mr. Campbell is manoeuvring to recapture the lead by rolling out legislation as early as next month.

The total value of the renewable energy projects to be announced today eclipses the $7-billion deal the McGuinty government signed in January with a consortium led by South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group. This time around, the government is awarding contracts to entities ranging from first nations communities to major corporations from overseas, the United States and across Canada to develop wind, solar and run-of-river hydro projects, sources familiar with the deal said.

Energy Minister Brad Duguid was to be at Durham College in Whitby, Ont., this morning to announce that the province is awarding its first major contracts under the so-called feed-in-tariff program – FIT for short – which pays premium prices for renewable power.

The companies will receive a fixed price over 20 years for the electricity they produce – 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for on-shore wind farms and up to 80.2 cents for solar power. These contracts with green power producers are well above the market price of 3.44 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity in Ontario and are leading to higher hydro bills for consumers.

The Ontario Power Authority, the government agency that runs the program, has received more than 1,000 applications from companies, the sources said. The projects will create thousands of jobs, they said.

Brookfield Renewable Power, is among those hoping for good news today.

Brookfield has several projects under development in Ontario, including two totalling 213 megawatts of capacity in Essex County on the shores of Lake Erie, and a 100-megawatt plant near the Northern Ontario town of Marathon.

NextEra Energy Resources, the renewable energy arm of FPL Group that also owns Florida Power & Light, also applied for several projects under FIT and had high hopes for substantial growth in the province. The company applied for about 600 megawatts of wind projects.

Mike O’Sullivan, senior vice-president of development at NextEra, said FIT was such a well-designed program that it “will bring in all shades and colours of money from all parts of the world.”

He said if Ontario executes the FIT program properly, it could end up as one of the top five or 10 markets for renewable power in North America, among the 60 states and provinces.

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Ontario Federation of Agriculture Sells Out Rural Ontario

Editor

At the beginning of this video you will see logos of the founders of the Green Energy Act.

Besides the Eco-Nazis you will also see the logo for the OFA (Ontario Federation of Agriculture)

So, we know the OFA is in bed with the Eco-Nazis. The aim of the Eco-Nazis is to run people out of rural areas – see Freedom 21 Santa Cruz (last video on side bar)

While I have tried to educate people on the realities facing rural Ont. WCO (Wind Concerns Ontario) and several other groups have done the opposite. The only subject they wish to discuss is health issues- not the driving forces behind these projects.

WHY? Are they stupid, not being honest, or controlled opposition – come to your own conclusions.

These wind groups keep asking councils to enact moratorium on wind development. Both they and council know they have no power to do so, since the GEA was enacted.

Not one council or rural MPP stood up and fought the  GEA before it was enacted – so why do these wind groups think they will stand up now.

The councils give the impression they want a moratorium, but one must question their past actions.

Besides, a great number of council members are members of the OFA.

Think long and think hard!

The OFA and rural councils have handed rural Ont. over to the Eco-Nazis.

I have a very workable solution, but the wind groups don’t want to go there.

WHY?

If you are going to be impacted by a wind farm in Ont. you better start asking those you think are working for you some hard questions.

(Feel free to contact me.)

If you plan to live in rural Ontario you better get involved and soon. They’re coming for your water next!

OFA and ECO-NAZIS – working hand in hand!

ARB ruling on wind power noise sets precedent

Editor:

I’ve added a couple of videos I shot. Until all councils stand against the fraud that is wind energy, nothing will change. If your local council refuses to fight this scourge then they must be replaced. The Municipal elections will be held this Oct.  Want change? Run in the election for a Council seat or Mayor – or, quit bitching about the inaction of your local council.

Aaron: ARB ruling on wind power noise sets precedent

January 9, 2010 Bob Aaron

In a precedent setting move, a recently discovered decision of the provincial Assessment Review Board (ARB) has cut a homeowner’s assessment in half because the house is located near a noisy hydro substation. The hydro plant serves a nearby wind farm producing “clean” electricity.

The decision of ARB member Ana Cristina Marques was issued following an appeal by Paul Thompson of the assessment on his house.

Thompson’s one-storey home is located on the 10th Line in Amaranth Township. It was built in 1989 and sits on a lot with a frontage of 183 feet (55.7 metres) and a depth of 240 feet (73.15 metres).

In 2008, the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. assessed the 1,320-square-foot house at $255,000. Thompson agreed with the assessment except for one thing: The house sits across the road from a Canadian Hydro Developers transformer station. The station converts the output of the nearby Melancthon I wind plant into electricity for the Ontario power grid.

Thompson told me last month that the station emits a “wicked buzz” all day, every day, and that’s what prompted him to appeal his assessment.

Evidence presented to the board at Thompson’s appeal revealed that in April 2005, the township of Amaranth rezoned a 6.07 hectare (15-acre) parcel across the road from Thompson’s home for the purpose of construction of a transformer station.

The station was built 360 metres (1,181 feet) away from Thompson’s house. According to the Ontario Power Authority website, it serves the Melancthon I Wind Plant, a 67.5 MW facility in the southern portion of the Melancthon Township, Dufferin County, near the Town of Shelburne.

The first phase of the project utilizes 45 wind turbines. It became operational in March 2006, and the second and much larger phase (88 turbines) began producing electricity in March 2008.

The Ontario Power Authority website says that “manufacturers of modern wind turbines have … reduced noise levels to that of a quiet whisper.”

That may be so, but evidence at the ARB hearing showed that the power station associated with Melancthon I produced a constant hum measured at more than 40 decibels in Thompson’s home. (According to a 1999 World Health Organization report, sleep disturbance occurs when there is a continuous noise exceeding its indoor guideline value of 30 decibels.)

Thompson introduced evidence at the hearing showing that the transformer station noise was audible within the house with the windows closed. He described the noise as a “nightmare” and a constant nuisance that not only affects his day-to-day activity, but also impacts the sales value and marketability of his property.

In reaching its decision to cut his assessment in half, board member Marques wrote, “The Board finds that the constant hum alleged by Mr. Thompson does exist and significantly reduces the current value of the subject property. The best evidence is the audio portion of the CD (Exhibit No. 1) and the testimony of both parties.

“Having heard this nuisance, apparently sanctioned by the Municipality, the Board accepts Mr. Thompson’s testimony that the stigma of noise contamination has a negative impact on the value and marketability of the property, and that after learning of the hum, prospective purchasers will quickly lose interest in purchasing the property. The Board is satisfied that a very substantial reduction is warranted.”

As I see it, Thompson’s successful appeal of his assessment is only the first of many similar cases that are certain to follow. The result, of course, will be a significant reduction in the tax base of municipalities like Amaranth, which play host to wind turbine farms.

And now that the ARB, an arm of the Ontario government, has upheld a claim for loss of property value due to the proximity of a hydro substation and a wind farm, can a host of court cases and class action lawsuits for noise contamination and property devaluation be far behind?

Bob Aaron is a Toronto real estate lawyer and board member of the Tarion Warranty Corp. bob@aaron.ca.

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Enbridge wind farm Kincardine Ontario

Police Assault Woman at Wind Meeting in Durham Ont.

Editor:

On Dec 7th, at a ‘wind farm’ information meeting in Durham Ont., the unthinkable happened. In the Province of Ontario a 52 year old woman was assaulted for having in her possession several small signs – ” ‘Health Studies BEFORE Wind Turbines’.

What makes this story even more chilling is the fact  govt. is paying both the police and the wind industry via your tax dollars.  While the industry runs roughshod over the rights of those who call Rural Ont. home, it appears they have the complete backing of the Government of Ontario

This is  Fascism/Corporatism and it must not be tolerated by anyone in this Province – regardless of your feeling about wind energy.

“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of state and corporate power” – Benito Mussolini

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This is her story -

In an extremely surreal moment, there I was, 5′1″, 52 years old, a mom who home-schooled one child, ran another to piano and flute lessons weekly, dedicated county nursing home employee for over a decade, advocate for health and safety re industrial wind turbines for rural families, being dragged out of the Durham Community Center by two towering ’strongarms’ because I had 4 ‘Health Studies, BEFORE Wind Turbines’, in my hand.  They said I was “disturbing the public peace”.

I walked into the room with 4 cardboard 1 x 3′ yellow ‘Health Studies BEFORE Wind Turbines’ signs stacked together intending to sit at one of the tables near the entrance to wait for friends to finish making their rounds.

The ‘cops for hire wearing West Grey Police Force uniforms’ pounced.  They told me I could not bring those signs into that room.  I was taken aback by this and said ” You are kidding, right?”

“NO”, they said, “YOU MAY NOT HAVE THOSE HERE.  YOU HAVE TO LEAVE.”  Startled, I backed up, held the signs up and told a friend that ‘they told me I can’t even have these signs here!’ (Another in attendance noted that the signs were not on sticks being waved about; that I was not threatening anyone with them, just in case you are wondering…..)

In a flash the two cops possibly weighing a combined 580 lbs., each had one of my arms so that I couldn’t move at all, were forcibly ripping the signs from my hands and telling me that if I resisted I would be put in jail. They repeated that I would be put in jail if I resisted.

Some advice from the sixties floated into mind….go limp….go limp, so I did!

I don’t have time to be in jail for holding 4 ‘Health Studies BEFORE Wind Turbines’ sign in a Nextera wind company open house! Christmas is coming! I’m not ready yet!

My shoulders still hurt today.

Enbridge wind farm Kincardine Ontario

Nextera wind company had another public open house meeting in Durham on Monday, Dec. 7th so they could consult with us some more. Since they were not willing to write down information they were adamantly giving out verbally at last week’s meeting.   I took my little recorder along to save the trouble of even asking them to write it down.

There was no more talk about a 40 dBA as the noise limit.  One of the very clever West Grey councilors noted that on Nextera’s own handouts there is a chart that shows turbines sitting at the 45 dBA noise level.

People at the meeting were commenting on how they were sent from rep to rep in the vain hope that one of them would have an answer to their questions. I was having the same difficulty, although some of the wind reps did say how nice it was to see me again.

My questions were:

• Why isn’t Daniel D’Entremont able to live in his home situated next to the turbines you own? Oh, I seem to have more information on this situation than you do?
• Are you still saying, as you did last week in Moorefield, that the noise level of the turbines you plan to build will never exceed 40 dBA at point of reception?  You’re asking why I’m recording this and what I’m planning to do with this?  What’s that, maybe we should talk to the environmental people?  We should write down our questions? You’re from Florida and you’re not an expert?
• What studies done by health professionals on human beings do you use to show that the turbines are safe to site within 2km of people?
• Can you tell me what mitigation you offer if there are health issues after turbines start up?
• What are people supposed to do if turbines are over the 40 dBA (or as the chart indicates, 45 dBA) level?  Yes, I’m recording this.  You won’t answer anything when I’m recording your answer? Why?
• If we write our questions down on the survey you’ve provided, will you answer those questions personally?  As long as we provide contact information?  Yes, that’s fine.  (This is the only question I got a direct answer to.  Unfortunately, I was unable to hand in the neatly filled out form I had completed.  I can only hope they found it on the table at cleanup time….)

One fellow asked if anyone was interested in having a more ‘public’ forum so that all could hear answers to questions people were asking.  Apparently, that was not possible because the wind company wanted to ‘present the information in a way that people could ask questions and get answers’.  (huh?)

After that exchange, one of the WAG group members asked if they could have the ‘Health Studies BEFORE Wind Turbines’ signs they had asked me to bring.  I was very happy to accommodate this request,  I brought the signs into the lobby, counted off 25 for them and had 4 signs left over.

Do you know that, rather than traipse across the parking lot on a cold winter’s night to return those 4 signs to my car,  I had the utter GALL to go into the Nextera public open house in the local community center with the leftover signs?

John Laforet Interviews Peter Tabuns

Editor:

Watch as John Laforet, President of  WCO,  skillfully takes  Peter Tabuns (eco-fascist) to task on wind farms and the green energy movement.  Watch the entire interview or jump in at the 5:30 mark.

Watch how John tears Tabuns apart and unmasks the lies of the Green Movement.

Well done John!

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Hundreds brainstorm on making economy green at Toronto conference

By: Pat Hewitt, THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – How to stimulate Ontario’s economy while protecting the environment at the same time was the focus of the Good Green Jobs for All conference in Toronto on Saturday.

About 550 environmentalists, members of the labour movement and people interested in social justice attended the sold-out conference which featured speeches and workshops.

“There’s a huge opportunity out there to put people back to work and to rebuild Ontario’s industrial base, its manufacturing base,” said Ontario New Democrat environment critic Peter Tabuns, who was one of the speakers at the gathering.

In an interview, Tabuns said 250,000 people in Germany work in renewable power, while in Toledo, Ohio, 6,000 people work in the solar industry – many of whom used to make windshields for cars.

In Pennsylvania, the government signed a $650 million alternative energy bill into force in July, he said, and the state expects renewable energy will employ 10,000 people.

Billions of dollars have been invested in producing electric car batteries in Michigan and $1 billion has been invested into electric car production in Australia, said Tabuns.

“You can just see there is a tremendous opportunity for us to get jobs that are going to make a difference in people’s lives, and clean up the air and deal with climate change at the same time,” he said.

Wind turbines, solar panels, biogas generation plants, or expanding deep-lake water cooling are just some of the green technologies Ontario should be taking more advantage of to create jobs, said Tabuns.

Statistics Canada said Friday Canada’s struggling economy shed 43,200 jobs last month for a national jobless rate of 8.6 per cent, up from 8.4 per cent in September. Ontario’s unemployment rate rose a tenth of a point to 9.3 per cent in October.

Tabuns cited a recent study that said up to one million trades jobs could be created if every home in Canada was retrofitted to make it more energy efficient.

The former executive director of Greenpeace Canada said the conference was not so much a discussion about technology as one about how to get our society moving on a green jobs initiative and how to secure investment and government support – both financial and legislative.

The reality is people are going to need jobs and we have to deal with climate change, said Tabuns, adding the most productive to take on those issues is investing in renewable power.

Tabuns pointed to Denmark’s $6 billion-a-year wind power industry which employs more than 20,000 people.

But he said it’s important a “Made in Ontario” domestic manufacturing regulation keeps any green jobs created in the province instead of them shifting to countries where labour costs are cheaper.

“When governments are buying renewable energy technology or buying renewable electricity they need to specify the technologies that provide that electricity have a significant made in Ontario component,” Tabuns said.

The government Premier Dalton McGuinty has said it hopes its Green Energy Act will create 50,000 jobs and generate billions of dollars of economic growth in communities across Ontario within three years.

John Cartwright, president of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council who also spoke at the meeting, said greening the economy is not without its challenges.

“We’ve got a number of challenges and one is the influence and power of Big Oil,” Cartwright said in an interview.

He said the federal government listens too much to oil companies.

But Cartwright also said people’s attitudes must change.

“We’ve got to connect people and move them away from cynicism to saying we can and must adopt ways of living and ways of making things that are more in tune with the long-term environmental needs of this planet,” he said.

“Some of those old habits die hard.”

THE CANADIAN PRESS