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18 April 2011 - Acute danger of resource wars says Canadian military
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News
The planet is running out of oil and heading toward a future that could trap Canada in a violent spiral of decline in the economy and the environment, a special research unit within the Canadian military is predicting. "It all depends on what kind of steps are taken today that could lead to various futures," Peter Gizewski, a strategic analyst on the team, told Postmedia News.
The team has noted that the world is now consuming oil faster than it's being discovered. "Globally, we find more (oil) all the time, but we haven't actually found as much as we've used in a given year since 1985," said Maj. John Sheahan, another member of the team.(more...)
7 December 2010 - Canada couldn't handle big oil spill: watchdog
By David Ljunggren, Reuters
Canada's government is not ready to handle a major oil spill from a tanker, in part because its emergency response plan is out of date, Parliament's environmental watchdog said in a damning report on Tuesday. "I am troubled that the government is not ready to respond to a major spill," Vaughan said in the report. "We note several areas of concern ... these must be addressed."
Vaughan, noting that his office had complained for decades about the record of various governments, criticized Ottawa for "common and long-standing weaknesses" in the way it managed green issues.(more...)
28 November 2010 - Canada won't follow new U.S. plan to slash industrial greenhouse gases: Baird
By Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press
The Harper government has no plans to follow a U.S. initiative to slash the greenhouse gas emissions of big polluters — even though Ottawa has pledged to harmonize its climate policies with the Americans.
Canadian climate experts say this country could contain the pollution growth from its own industries, notably the oilsands, by introducing similar standards north of the border. But Environment Minister John Baird downplayed the plans from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [which are set to go into effect Jan. 2nd] as "patchwork." (more...)
Just last summer then Environment Minister Jim Prentice said clearly that "alignment is a core element in Canada's environmental policy-specifically as it relates to our relationship with the United States. And rather than an abstract expression of goodwill and warm intentions, it's an overwhelmingly practical, hard-edged consideration. Aligning the approach of Canada and the United States to climate change and its multiple challenges is the most effective and realistic way for us to make the progress to which we have firmly committed.(more...)"
22 September 2010 - Obama’s fiscal stimulus no substitute for cheap oil
by Jeff Rubin, the Globe and Mail
...What’s being overlooked [by the Obama administration] is that last cycle’s rate of growth was fueled for the most part with cheap oil — oil was below $30 a barrel for the first half of the period. Even today’s oil prices weren’t encountered until the last year of growth. That’s not incidental to the performance of the U.S. economy, which relies on imports for over half of its 19-million-barrel-a-day requirement.
Feed the U.S. economy cheap oil, and you’ll see robust growth rates and a drop in the jobless rate to four-decade lows—no matter who’s in the White House. But throw in $147-per-barrel oil, and the U.S. economy stops dead in its tracks...
Trying to substitute fiscal stimulus for cheap oil won’t make the American economy grow any faster. It will just make an already record-sized deficit that much bigger.(more...)
12 September 2010 - An abundance of oil
by Chris Sorensen, Macleans
Fears over dwindling supplies of energy, ‘peak oil’ and future spikes in fuel prices may be overblown.
People are basing their view on the price of oil on expectations of demand. That’s why prices, now around US$75 a barrel, are once again on the rise in anticipation of a global economic recovery, even though oil supplies are at their highest level in more than a generation, with some 50 million more barrels of crude on hand than two years ago — the result of oil companies rushing to increase production during the last boom.
The current abundance of crude also suggests concerns about “peak oil”—the idea that global production is about to hit its zenith, sending prices skyrocketing and causing economies to crash—could be overblown. Part of the problem is that the “peak” itself is a moving target. As existing supplies dwindle, prices go up and oil companies are coaxed into spending more money on new exploration and new technologies to recover oil that was otherwise believed to be uneconomical. (more...)
15 April 2010 - Bill C311 inches forward in Canadian Parliament
Bill C311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, passed another hurdle in Canada’s Parliament yesterday, with the support of the NDP, Liberals, and Bloc Québécois. The Act will face another vote in the House of Commons in mid-May and the three opposition parties have all said they will vote for it. Among other things, the Act will set a national greenhouse gas target for Canada based on the science; require the government to publish a plan and implement regulations to meet that target; and mandate transparency and accountability measures to make sure that the government is on track to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
Not only that, but the Liberal Party also decided to introduce its own strong motion, calling on the government to implement a number of measures to step up its efforts in the fight against climate change. This motion calls on the government of Canada to implement a domestic legally binding long-term emissions-reduction target; implement a national climate change plan with economy-wide regulations; put strategic investments into renewable and clean technology; reverse its decision to cancel the ecoENERGY program that supported Canadians in making their homes more energy efficient; and convene a First Ministers’ Meeting within 90 days of the motion’s passage to start moving Canada forward on a plan. This motion also passed with support from the three opposition parties.
8 April 2010 - Ontario's landmark investment in wind energy will create new jobs and attract additional investment to the province
by the CANADIAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) applauds the Ontario government for recognizing the significant contribution wind energy can make to Ontario's green energy supply as well as its economy and job base. With 48 new wind energy projects awarded today - representing more than 1,500 MW of new generating capacity - this represents one of the largest single investments in wind energy in Canada's history.
"This is a very significant step for the government of Ontario and the Ontario Power Authority in realizing the huge potential for wind energy under Ontario's Green Energy Act," said CanWEA president Robert Hornung. "Ontario has established itself as a clear leader in North America in moving towards a Green Economy. Going forward, the long-term success of the GEA will ultimately depend on a continued commitment to open and fair access to the Feed in Tariff, as well as accelerated investment in new transmission infrastructure." (more...)
21 January 2010 - Ontario's green deal raises ire of energy developers
by Karen Howlett, the Globe and Mail
The Government of Ontario signed a $7-billion deal yesterday with a consortium led by South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group that will cost every electricity customer in the province an extra $1.60 a year on their bill for 25 years.
The centrepiece of the project is an investment in enough wind and solar electricity to light up more than 580,000 homes in the province...But the Samsung deal could make it difficult for other companies to enter the market, because the province has limited capacity to transmit electricity to consumers' homes. Transmission power will be held in reserve to support Samsung's projects. (more...)
7 October 2009 - Real ways to save the world. A special report on sustainability
You can’t argue with the logic of sustainability. It makes perfect sense—if we want humanity to last, we need to start saving the planet now.
So why has progress been so slow? Why are people still driving SUVs instead of hybrids? Why aren’t homeowners lining up to install solar panels on their rooftops? Why don’t they ?
The truth is, when we implore people to adopt sustainable practices, what we’re really suggesting is that they voluntarily lower their standard of living now for the sake of future generations they will likely never know. It’s a lot to ask.
If we want consumer behaviour to change quickly, we need to offer some short-term rewards, and consequences. In this special report, Macleans magazine examines ways to do that. For starters, we should stop government subsidies that actively encourage people to waste resources. If something is cheap, we waste it—so why do governments insist on policies that keep prices low for water, electricity and food? (more...)
26 September 2009 - Canada, the Laggard
Editorial, The Ottawa Citizen
This country risks becoming an international pariah with an obsolete economy.
Reducing emissions is difficult, but not impossible. Other industrialized countries have managed to maintain or reduce their emissions levels, while Canada's have steadily risen despite our Kyoto commitments.
In a meeting this week with the Citizen's editorial board, former Indian environment minister Suresh P. Prabhu expressed polite dismay at Canada's performance. How is it possible, he asked, that a wealthy country, a technologically advanced country, has so spectacularly failed to innovate? Yes, Canada's vast distances and cold climate make transportation and heating a challenge. But our natural resources, and even our sheer size, make energy diversity possible. We've got plenty of room for geothermal, biomass, wind, solar, low-impact hydro, nuclear -- you name it, Canada can do it. Canada just chooses not to. (more...)
25 September 2009 - Proponents see red over green plan
by Lee Greenberg, The Ottawa Citizen
The tricky business of going green in Ontario just got more complex on Thursday as the McGuinty government introduced a mandatory 'Buy Ontario' component for new solar and wind projects. The changes were part of a bundle of key policies designed to spark home-grown green manufacturing, as well as the wide deployment of its products -- everything from small, rooftop solar panels to industrial-sized wind farms.
But in trying to strike a balance between competing interests, the Liberals appear to have rattled all sides in the debate. "The back and forth here is remarkable," said York University professor Mark Winfield, who teaches environmental studies. "It's almost erratic." (more...)
Some quick facts on Ontario's Green Energy Act :
- The Green Energy and Green Economy Act was introduced into the Ontario Legislature on Feb. 23, 2009.
- Over 50,000 jobs in the next three years are expected to result from implementation of the Green Energy Act.
- Canada’s two largest wind farms are located in Ontario and by the end of 2009, nearly 1,200 megawatts of wind capacity will be on-line, enough to power almost 325,000 homes.
- Investments in new renewable energy projects already in place or under construction in Ontario total about $4 billion.
- The Green Energy Act is designed to build on the government’s earlier initiatives on the province’s power supply, including a plan to eliminate coal-fired power by 2014, the single largest climate change initiative in Canada.
For more information Ontario's Green Energy Act
25 July 2009 - Apocalypse Soon
By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service
Flooding. Drought. Wildfires. Mass migrations of desperate people. Mike Blanchfield explains why security experts fear climate change will lead to war on a scale we have yet to see on this planet ... Climate change has been linked to predictions of massive flooding, droughts, population explosions and massive migrations of uprooted and desperate people facing life-threatening food and water shortages."Climate security" is a phrase that is now being heard well beyond the war rooms of the West.The trepidation is that these threats will fuel a drive for war on a scale we have yet to see on this planet, bringing tension to stable parts of the world, making the tense places worse...
Here in Canada, the connection between climate change and global instability is not discussed publicly. No one seems to know why. (more...)
3 July 2009 - The time to deal with climate change is now
By Ed Miliband, special to The Ottawa Citizen
A make-or-break moment for our planet is now only six months away. In Copenhagen this December, the world will try to find a deal on climate change -- and we have to succeed. Whether we do so cannot be left until the winter, and cannot be left to politicians alone. As part of our contribution and to open up debate, the British government is publishing our position for what the deal should include. Ed Miliband is the British secretary of state for energy and climate change. (more...)
1 June 2009 - Energy shock and oil myths
Macleans, by Colin Campbell
Jeff Rubin was, for years, a lonely voice among economists when it came to predicting the price of oil. In 2007—when crude began the year at a relatively modest $50 a barrel—Rubin, then the chief economist at CIBC, all but staked his reputation on a prediction that oil was about to hit triple-digit prices and never look back. In his reports, speeches and even addresses to skeptical oil executives, he preached the end of the era of cheap fossil fuels. “The bottom line is, we’re in the bottom of the ninth inning of the hydrocarbon age,” he declared... (more...)
30 April 2009 - Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions soaring
Canada represents one of the fastest rates of growth in greenhouse gas emissions in the developed world. In 2007, emissions were 26 percent above the 1990 levels. Now Canada aims to end traditional coal power in the future. (more...)
3 April 2008 - Peak oil
By Eve Savory, CBC News
The authors of , Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl, tell CBC news correspondent Eve Savory they foresee radical social and political changes as the world's oil supply dwindles.
If one accepts that climate change could be catastrophic for many ecosystems, including the multiple ones humans inhabit, what could possibly be considered more critical, more demanding of our full attention, ? The mother of all asteroids intersecting with our planet's orbit? All-out nuclear war? Aliens?
Well, try peak oil (put simply, the point at which the rate of global oil production begins to decline). Peak oil has "the imperative of urgency," according to Richard Gilbert, an urban-issues consultant based in Toronto. "The likely outcome of not dealing with this issue is not an environmental catastrophe. It's an economic and social catastrophe that may leave us unable to deal with the environmental catastrophe," he said in an interview. (more...)
9 February 2006 - When the oil runs out
Macleans, by Jonathon Gatehouse
Are we heading for the end of civilization -- or are the warnings of a coming apocalypse just another case of Chicken Little? The Four Horsemen have upgraded to SUVs. Not the hybrid ones either, but those gas-guzzling, bunny-crushing behemoths that Arnold Schwarzenegger favours. In oil-rich Babylon, whores are so thick on the ground that it's a little hard to pick just one. Although everyone can agree on what the Antichrist is up to -- running a multinational petroleum company. Yes, the End is nigh, if you believe the consensus that has been brewing in the halls of academe and the non-fiction aisle at the local bookstore. Starting in 2010, no later than 2020 or 2030, according to the latest vision of secular apocalypse, global oil supplies will peak, and the world will begin to unravel at the seams… (more…)
Ottawa News
13 April 2011 - Ottawa's new abnormal
By Ken Gray, The Ottawa Citizen
Gas prices have certainly been plummeting recently. Why just the other day they dropped all the way from $1.31 a litre to $1.24. So what's prompting prices well above the $1.20-a-litre mark? Demand. Emerging economies are using more oil as their standards of living rise. In other words, high gas prices are not an aberration, but the new normal.
Why it's enough to drive you to take public transit. And that, among other factors, is one of the reasons Ottawa is uniquely unprepared to deal with high-priced fuel. While the oil capitals of North America, Houston and Calgary, have environmentally friendly electric light rail running on the surface through their downtowns, Canada's national capital has a labour-intensive bus Transitway powered by petroleum and running on petroleumbased wheels. Thus the high cost. (more...)
27 March 2010 - Press the rail reset button
By Ken Gray, The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen City editor Ken Gray suggests an alternative to the City's light rail plan. He begins by saying the planning paradigm needs to be turned upside down: if the idea is to get people onto trains and out of cars why should planners be upset if the train gets in the way of cars. Therefore a costly tunnel is unnecessary. Further he suggests doing the north-south line first since the environmental assessment is already done and then adding additional easy-west lines as money is available using existing right of ways along bus and train routes and where people are. (more...)
By Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen
Here's a few of their visions of the future:
- at least three new bridges spanning the Ottawa River, one exclusively for trucks
- King Edward Avenue expanded to be a six-lane, tree-lined boulevard in Lowertown;
- Grand new buildings replacing the old worn out buildings along Wellington St. which is reconstructed into the Canadian version of Pennsylvania Avenue, with signature national buildings lining it;
- Light rail criss-crosses the city, with a bustling new underground city downtown extending from its stations;
- The Portrait Gallery of Canada rivals Parliament as one of the most popular destinations in the city.
- The cost of energy and transportation goes critical ... You are going to see a concentration of people living in hubs that don’t require significant transportation.
(more...)
21 November 2009 - Free the Falls ... and nine other projects to transform Ottawa into one of the world's great capitals
By By Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen
David Gordon, a widely respected urban planner, has been researching Canada's capital for more than 10 years for a book due in 18 months. He says building a great capital doesn't just happen, and it will take another 40 years for Ottawa to become one. He has put together the top 10 things the city must do to get over the hump.
- Build a magnificent First Nation's Centre on Victoria Island as a monument to Canada's first people, and tell the true history of the country, which is not just French and English, but Aboriginal.
- Construct at least three new bridges across the Ottawa River, one for truck traffic to get the 18-wheelers off King Edward Avenue and out of downtown. A great capital shouldn't have massive trucks barreling down its centre and causing mayhem, only a few blocks from Parliament, Gordon says.
- Above all, Gordon says, the Chaudière Falls must be "freed" to wow people. "People have no idea how beautiful those falls are. A hundred years ago, there was a plume of spray from those falls you could see from 10 kilometres upstream," he says.
"The Fathers of Confederation when they came to visit their new capital in 1864, were astonished by the Chaudière. It was a huge boiling kettle of falls, a mini-Niagara with a suspension bridge over it. We have to get the Chaudière back." (more...)
22 October 2009 - Ottawa: She ain't pretty, she just looks that way
By Ken Gray, The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa exists in a "picturesque setting [that] hides disregard for the water, earth, and air that sustain us." But "...from our 21st-century environmental perspective, sadly, this is a dirty city in ways that matter."
"As of late this summer, this city had poured 964 million litres of sewage and untreated storm water into the Ottawa River, more than double the year previous because of heavy rainfall, something we should expect more of as global warming continues."
"The urban area of this city has about the same development density as suburban Toronto. We're just too spread out. Why? Well, because our municipal governments of the 1970s and '80s decided to jump the Greenbelt to create communities such as Barrhaven, Kanata and Orléans. The suburban model is, by definition, not particularly dense, but add the Greenbelt to the mix, plus vast open spaces and parking lots and you get an urban area that has suburban density. That's very wasteful and environmentally degrading."
"...the superhighways 417, 416 and 174, plus the major arterial roads leading from the suburbs, are extended by the Greenbelt, which was created in part to protect an environmentally sensitive area. But by building suburban development across that green space, we lengthened commutes from the suburbs, which resulted in the Greenbelt causing the production of extra tonnes of greenhouse gases. Oddly, the Greenbelt's interaction with the automobile is environmentally degrading."
"...an ancient Athenian quote [was] brought to my attention by a reader in a letter to "The Ottawa you want." "We will leave this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was left with us." To accomplish that, we have much to do. (more...)
4 October 2009 - Children's garden wins special design award
By Maria Cook, The Ottawa Citizen
Beyond an arched cedar gate in Old Ottawa East lies a luxuriant new public garden, planted with sunflowers, lavender, parsley, pumpkins, tomatoes and more. This is Ottawa’s first Children’s Garden, located at 321 Main St. at the corner of Clegg street in Robert Legget Park.The organic garden, created by community volunteers and children, has won a special jury award in the City of Ottawa’s 2009 Ottawa Urban Design Awards, presented Monday evening.
“The garden is imaginative and uses delight and whimsy in defining a community space,” wrote the jurors.
“This project breaks-down the barriers and professionalism in planning,” they wrote.
“It involves a community taking ownership of its open space through successful engagement — a sentiment we need more of.
“This project demonstrates that a park can capture the imagination of children through proper dialogue, inclusiveness and clever educational programs, without building a traditional play structure.”
The awards celebrate projects built in Ottawa between September 2007 and September 2009 that exhibit urban design excellence. (more...)
27 September 2009 - City must fix 'cracks in its armour'
By Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa has "cracks in its economic armour" that must be fixed before mapping a vision for a new "sustainable" nation's capital into the next century, warned Rob Abbott, one of Canada's leading sustainability experts, at the region's Choosing Our Future conference.
But Abbott said the time is also ripe to question whether existing institutions are up to the challenge and whether they should be reformed to deliver that vision.
He worries that after all the resources put into planning, "we won't spend enough time on whether it can be done with our existing bureaucracies and governments." He said planners and politicians too often think the vision is so "captivating" that people will make the necessary changes themselves to get there.
"I think we need less planning and more organizational and institutional reforms, so plans have the potential to take root," he said. "Too often we get a plan, but don't deliver. Why? I think we need to contemplate a refreshed view of what these organizations need to look like. We are in a new century, we're facing new issues, new opportunities and new risks. I think we are deluding ourselves if we think the same basic approach will allow us to prosper." (more...)
26 August 2009 - Ottawa is big on green talk, but small on results: Doucet
By Patrick Dare, The Ottawa Citizen
The City of Ottawa talks a big strategy about being a green city and saving the environment, but little progress has been made in the last decade, says Councillor Clive Doucet.
He was reacting Tuesday to a report at city council's planning and environment committee titled Refresh the City's Environmental Strategy. That document uses inspiring phrases to describe the city's environmental vision. Goals are "a green city," "development in harmony with the environment," "a focus on walking, cycling and transit" and "clean air, water and earth."
But Doucet says the strategy was created in 2003 and "nothing significant" has been done for the environment since then. (more...)
17 July 2009 - Rebates are out of style
Editorial, The Ottawa Citizen
The most clumsy way for governments to encourage green behaviour is to send out cheques to people who buy approved products. It's an approach that smacks of the haphazard, feel-good tactics of the 1990s. We ought to be able to come up with something better in 2009.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty does deserve credit for taking action, even if that action is inefficient and outmoded. His announcement of rebates ranging from $4,000 to $10,000 for electric cars will probably get at least a few more of these cars on the road, sooner. Those are substantial rebates that might make a serious difference, especially to someone already considering an electric car. (more...)
13 July 2009 - Ottawa on track to break trail on green power
By Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen. West Carleton farm poised to become massive solar hub.
As controversies over green power projects erupt across Ontario, Ottawa is quietly leading a revolution in solar farming that will soon make the nation's capital home to one of the largest solar-energy plants of its kind in North America.
A 200-acre farm in West Carleton is about to undergo a $100-million investment that will see 300,000 silvery solar panels installed there. Once this solar farm becomes operational at the end of the year, it's expected to generate about 20 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 7,000 homes during peak hours. It will be Canada's largest photovoltaic plant, one that converts sunlight directly into electricity. (more...)
4 July 2009 - Councillor offers parks for wind turbine tests
By Brendan Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen
Graham Findlay may have been denied the chance to operate a small wind turbine in his backyard, but his efforts have inspired his local councillor, Kitchissippi Councillor Christine Leadman, to suggest that the city should try out small-scale wind projects in its urban parks.
“I think it would really be a great opportunity if we could look at piloting something in an area where the (bylaw) variances are not going to be an issue and people can see how these things operate,” Councillor Leadman said, adding that she would like to see infrastructure money for two parks in her ward — McKellar Park and Parkdale Park — go toward renewable energy initiatives, such as wind turbines and solar panels.
“Why not be innovative and start with our own facilities?” she said. (more...)
3 July 2009 - Ill-prepared for the post-oil economy
By Susan Riley, The Ottawa Citizen
There was a time when politicians claimed Canada would become a world leader in clean, green technologies -- that our educated workforce, abundant resources and entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with inspired government policy, would revitalize our economy and help save the planet.
No one talks that way anymore. How could they, with straight faces? We have ceded leadership on climate change to U.S. President Barack Obama, and, to a lesser extent, the Europeans. It will be other countries that profit from the inevitable revolution in manufacturing, energy production and lifestyle choices that a green economy will bring. Not Canada. (more...)
3 July 2009 - Province says no to backyard wind turbine
By Brendan Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen
The city’s first application to put up a small wind turbine in a residential area has been denied by the Ontario Municipal Board, and the Ottawa man behind the proposal says he is giving up the fight for his backyard power generator. “It’s an opportunity lost to try something new,” said Graham Findlay. “I guess people ran away from that opportunity out of fear — fear of the unknown.” ... Ontario’s Green Energy Act, passed May 14,2009 makes no mention of residential wind turbines such as Findlay’s. But it does say that Planning Act instruments, including zoning bylaws, will no longer apply to renewable-energy installations. (more...)
13 May 2009 - Bigger Isn't Better
By Peter Victor, Special to the Ottawa Citizen ... It is time to rethink the old idea that the solution to all our problems lies in the incessant expansion of the economy. Rich countries like should explore alternatives, especially if poorer countries are to benefit from economic growth for a while in a world increasingly constrained by biophysical limits.
Some deny or simply ignore these limits and argue that economic growth in rich countries is necessary to stimulate growth in poorer ones. Others say that with "green" growth we can expand economic output as we reduce the demands we place on nature through more efficient production, better designed products, fewer goods and more services, compact urban forms, and organic agriculture.
While these measures may well help in a transition they are an unlikely prescription for the long term. What is required is a radical rethinking of our economies and their relation to the natural world.(more...)
16 January 2009 - Ontario's electric car infrastructure will use "cell phone" business plan
By: Brian Jackson, ITBusiness.ca
The Province of Ontario has partnered with a California-based company that will develop a plan to provide an infrastructure for electric cars. Instead of filling up at the pumps, drivers will be topping up batteries at "charge spots" or swapping out depleted batteries at battery replacement centres.
Ontarians could soon be paying a monthly bill to power their cars with clean electricity instead of paying at the pumps to fill up on gasoline, the government revealed in an announcement yesterday.
Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the Province is partnering with Palo Alto, Calif.-based Better Place LLC to create a province-wide grid that could conveniently power electric cars. Drivers will pay to charge up their car batteries in the same way they pay for their mobile phone bills – through a combination subscription-based system, and pay-per-use model. "Commuters will be able to buy miles for their car like they buy music for their iPods or minutes for their cell phones," McGuinty said at a press conference in Toronto. "That's an idea with the power to re-shape our province." (more...)
Better Place is partnering with Bullfrog Power, Canada's only retailer of 100 percent green electricity, to provide all of the renewable energy needed to power the Better Place network.
Watch press conference announcing the partnership by Premier McGuinty.