The province’s Green Energy Act will soon be a thing of the past.
That’s the word from local MPP Monte McNaughton, Minister of Infrastructure, and Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy. They made a joint announcement of the introduction of legislation at Queen’s Park that would spike the act.
According to Ford government officials, the original Green Energy Act led to the feed-in-tariff program and skyrocketing electricity rates for Ontario families, and took away powers from municipalities to stop the energy projects in their communities.
“Well-connected energy insiders made fortunes putting up wind-farms and solar panels that gouge hydro consumers in order to generate electricity that Ontario doesn’t need,” McNaughton, MPP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, said in a media release.
The ministers announced that the government has introduced legislation that, if passed, will strike the Green Energy Act from the province’s books. This will include repealing provisions that stripped away the power of local municipalities to block unwanted wind and solar farms.
“The Green Energy Act allowed the previous government to trample over the rights of families, businesses and municipalities across rural Ontario,” McNaughton said. “But we believe the people of Ontario should have the final say about what gets built in their communities.”
