A decision by the Ontario government to cancel future green energy projects isn’t sitting well with some local politicians. 
The Liberals announced yesterday that $38-billion in new green-energy contracts are being cancelled, a move Lambton-Kent Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton calls a band-aid solution.
“The damage is already done and it’s too little, too late,” McNaughton says. “At some point, years down the road, this is going to save ratepayers about $2.45. Yet in the same breath we know that on November 1st hydro rates are going to go up again.”
McNaughton says the announcement does nothing to stop current local developments, like the Otter Creek project.
“I met privately with the Minister of Energy who confirmed with me after Question Period that Otter Creek will proceed, much to my dismay. I’ve been urging the government to stop this project as well as any other project in the province. People in Ontario simply can’t afford more expensive energy bills.”
Meantime Chatham-Kent-Leamington MPP Rick Nichols has set up an online petition calling on the government to do more to lower hydro rates.
