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"If we continue with the current
energy system, there won't be any
jobs left in the area," he says.
*While Robertson says he supports
teen energy, he says the Green
Energy Act has pitted community
against community and neighbour
against neighbour and adds the
NDP wants to sit down and talk with
municipalities about how to create
some community input into the
positioning of industrial wind
turbines in their regions.
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"1 like to say it takes an incredible
amount of incompetence and
arrogance to mess up something as
positive as green energy," he says,
adding that the NI)P supports a
more diverse, smaller scale green
energy system that would provide
funding for home retrofits for the
installation of rooftop solar panels
or smaller wind turbines on locally •
owned cooperatives.
Ile says it's important that local
municipalities have some say in
how green energy operates in their
communities.
"We want to talk to communities
rather than impose something from
'Ibro nto. In rural Ontario, we've had
mum than enough things imposed
by the provincial government. It's
incumbent on government to start
listening to local communities,' he
says.
Robertson adds that the
provincial government needs to
start protecting the people who are
susceptible to harts frons the noise
from nearby industrial wind
turbines.
"Not everyone is affected but
there is lots of worldwide, high
quality research to suggest there are
problems. And, it's incumbent on
government to say that if anyone is
being harmed In any way. It's up to
us to do something," he says.
Robertson a(1(15 that the current
funding being offered to green
energy providers is troublesome.
"1 worry about the people who
have invested into micro Ill's
heclelse we're probably going to
start seeing dramatic decreases in
the prices paid for energy because
the current prices are not
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
sustainable. You can't buy energy at
50 cents a kilowatt hour and sell it at
10 cents forever - eventually
something's got to give," says
Robertson.
"I take offence to the notion that
if you're questioning the Green
Energy Act, you're anti -green and
against clean air - that's political
nonsense," he says, adding that
having five bureaucracies running
the Ontario energy system is just
adding to the price of energy.
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