If You Are Leaning Toward McGinty

...the following might give you some insight into McGinty's Green Energy Act. which promotes the manufacture and installation of wind turbines and the like. ("The single best green energy program on the North American continent," according to no less an authority than Al Gore.)

Solar Energy School Propaganda 101
By Michelle Malkin • September 30, 2011 12:01 AM
 

We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

Via Walter Russell Mead;

Solar-power equipment manufacturer Stirling Energy Systems Inc. has filed for bankruptcy, adding to a wave of troubles in the solar industry amid soft demand, falling prices and difficulty raising money. [… ] Both [of the company’s plants] were sited on public land in California and obtained fast-track construction pemits from the Obama administration.
Mead notes ...

But there’s another factor behind the failure of so many Obama administration initiatives in this field. Because alternative energy generation is expensive and inefficient, it requires some combination of subsidies, high energy prices and forced purchases to make these investments pay off.

I remember the days when SDA was a lonely incandescent bulb of green energy truth, lighting a path through the blogosphere wilderness. Nowadays, it seems everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. Still, when you read the word "investments" in a sentence like that above, one realizes there's still work to be done. (h/t Instapundit)

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On my way home from CO, I drove past a shut down windmill farm in NM, AND a shut ... Dalton McGinty [Ontario's premier] signed ludicrous contracts with some big name "green ...
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David Frum: Who’s won and who’s lost in Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario

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Politics is about who gets what, when, and how.
Let’s apply that famous definition to Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario: Who has been getting what?

Thanks to the Ottawa Citizen, we know that Liberal-held provincial ridings have been getting almost 80% of provincial job-creation funds. “The Eastern Ontario Development Fund — a program designed to attract new business investment — has granted Liberal ridings on average $4 million since it was created in 2008, more than twice the $1.7 million averaged by Conservative-held ridings,” the Citizen reports. “In total, the fund has dispensed $40.5 million, according to figures released by the province. Nearly four-fifths of that money, or 78.4 per cent, has gone to Liberal ridings. The two highest-granted ridings belong to Liberal cabinet ministers. Consumer Services Minister John Gerretsen’s riding of Kingston and the Islands received the most, $7.7 million in provincial handouts, or 19.1 per cent of the total. The next highest-funded riding was Prince Edward-Hastings, which belongs to Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky. Her riding received $6 million, or 14.8 per cent of the program funding.” Read More »

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