The Doug Ford government is introducing legislation to scrap the controversial and expensive Liberal Green Energy program.
The plan promoted wind and solar energy by offering lucrative 20-year contracts to those who installed the equipment. Many farmers installed solar panels, but many rural residents were angered by construction of wind turbines near their homes.
There was also widespread rural anger over the province’s refusal to allow municipalities a say in where wind farms could be located.
The program attracted so many investors that the cost of Ontario electricity rose sharply.
Ford said “the Green Energy Act represents the largest transfer of money from the poor and middle class to the rich in Ontario’s history.
“Well-connected energy insiders made fortunes putting up wind farms and solar farms that gouge hydro consumers in order to generate electricity that Ontario doesn’t need.
‘Today I am proud to say that the party with the taxpayers’ money is over.”
