Sir: I noted in recent news reports our provincial government plans to replace gas with hydro and other alternative energy sources, according to a document leaked to the press in this province.
Though I think it’s a crazy idea, we only have to look at the fact that our Canadian governments in some sense have tried to be trendsetters in the world of environmental politics, trying to lead the way in saving our earth from doom as a result of world wide pollution poisoning our planet.
Canadian leaders seem to think we are expected to take the lead and show the world how we are supposed to save ourselves from extinction. I suppose the environmentalists would probably say that is the truth of the matter.
All the same, I think forcing people and businesses in this province that already rely on natural gas to change over to other energy sources is not very wise, to say the least. I understand that the provincial government wants to overhaul buildings to get rid of our gas units in apartment buildings, for instance. This is an inconvenient idea as far as I’m concerned.
If the government wants to sink money into new environmentally wise buildings and businesses that have not already been developed, perhaps that is good. To expect the rest of us, though, in existing businesses, homes, and apartments to change over to new energy, to me anyway, makes no sense to me, dollars and cents or otherwise.
Frank Doyle
Chatham-Kent
