<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi folks<br><br>Just got this via email. <br><br>Lulu<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/17/11, Tim Hudak, MPP <i><timhudak@niagara.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Tim Hudak, MPP <timhudak@niagara.net><br>Subject: RE: Louisette Lanteigne has sent a message from website<br>To: butterflybluelu@rogers.com<br>Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 9:31 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"> <br>Dear Ms. Lanteigne, <br><br>On behalf of Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak, I want to thank you for your email<br>regarding green energy. Tim appreciates you taking the time to share your<br>views on this issue.<br><br>The people of Ontario need a change from Dalton McGuinty's Liberals who have<br>forced massive, industrial wind turbines on communities where they are not<br>welcome. In April
2010, the Ontario PC Caucus put forward a motion in the<br>Ontario Legislature that called on Dalton McGuinty to place a moratorium on<br>industrial wind farms until an independent, comprehensive study of the<br>health and environment impacts of these projects is completed. We also<br>called on the McGuinty government to restore planning authority over these<br>industrial wind farms to municipalities - a right he stripped away with his<br>so-called Green Energy Act.<br><br><br>Regrettably, the McGuinty Liberals voted against our motion and, for the<br>last year, have continued to let Toronto bureaucrats force wind farms into<br>communities where they are not wanted. Local councils have been robbed of a<br>say over what happens in their communities. This has allowed industrial wind<br>farms to be place in communities without consultation with local councils or<br>residents. We will restore the local decision making powers that were taken<br>away by the
McGuinty Liberals. We will end the constant provincial tinkering<br>and delays in local official plans.<br><br><br>As outlined in Changebook, a Tim Hudak government will end the Liberal<br>government's schemes that have families subsidize hydro prices. We will end<br>the feed-in-tariff program that, in some cases, pays up to 15 times the<br>usual cost of hydro. We will end the king of all secret, sweetheart deals -<br>the $7 billion dollar Samsung deal - that happened without a competitive<br>process or a guarantee of job creation targets. We will do this in a fair<br>and legal way. Those who already have contracts under the current FIT rules<br>can count on our government to honour those agreements.<br><br>Changebook also puts forward a plan for investing in affordable clean energy<br>supply mix. An Ontario PC government will focus on technologies that are<br>proven to be effective, efficient and clean - like natural gas,<br>hydroelectric and nuclear.
Any investments in nuclear technology will, of<br>course, be subjected to the most rigorous safety standards in the world. We<br>will have an open and fair process for alternate energy sources like solar,<br>wind and biomass that demands affordable prices and respects local<br>decisions. <br><br>I encourage you to visit www.changebook.ca to read more on how Tim plans to<br>bring real change and relief for Ontario families.<br><br><br><br>Susanna Campbell<br>Office of Tim Hudak, MPP Niagara West - Glanbrook <br>Ontario PC Leader <br>Phone: 905.563.1755 | Fax: 905.563.1317 | www.timhudakmpp.com <br>Follow Tim Hudak on Facebook and Twitter <br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Tim Hudak MPP Website [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:timhudak@niagara.net" href="/mc/compose?to=timhudak@niagara.net">timhudak@niagara.net</a>] <br>Sent: August 16, 2011 9:43 PM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:timhudak@niagara.net"
href="/mc/compose?to=timhudak@niagara.net">timhudak@niagara.net</a><br>Subject: Louisette Lanteigne has sent a message from website<br><br>Name: Louisette Lanteigne<br>Email: <a ymailto="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com" href="/mc/compose?to=butterflybluelu@rogers.com">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a><br><br>Hello Mr. Hudak<br><br>Just a quick note to let you know that my family has completed our EcoEnergy<br>Audit and right now we are in the process of upgrading our hot water heater<br>to a tankess and we are going to upgrade our furnace and air conditioner to<br>the most efficient models available. We\'ll be upgrading our attic and<br>basement insulation as well All in all it will cost about $12,000 to do all<br>this but my family cares about climate change and we want to do our part to<br>reduce our carbon footprint. The EcoEnergy program educated us on what our<br>options were and we are very happy with how things are going. I hope if<br>elected the
Tories will continue to support this program so others home<br>owners can do their part while supporting Canadian jobs. It\'s a win win<br>program.<br><br>I\'ve also attended workshops recently regarding the MicroFit program and<br>right now I\'m thinking of investing in the Life Co-op that wants to install<br>a large 2 mega watt wind turbine in St. Agatha. This single turbine has the<br>capacity to provide all 500 homes in the area with clean energy and I<br>support that. With MicroFit the system pays for itself in just 8 years and<br>the rest is paid to shareholders by way of dividends. It\'s a great program<br>to offset provincial infrastructure costs while fostering local jobs. <br><br>Here in Waterloo we\'ve got church groups joining up to set up solar panels<br>and they\'re using MicroFit to help support them with revenues. I wish<br>Ontario schools could get on board seeing that they have so much roof space<br>to work with. <br><br>I don\'t see
the need for Ontario to keep building coal or nuclear plants at<br>the cost of taxpayers that pollute our environment and open us up to major<br>nuclear risks. Big infrastructure projects like that only benifit those<br>specific corporations when the money could be better spent if spread across<br>a wider demographic via the MicroFit program. I\'m hoping to God the Tories<br>keep this program going because right now, the lack of support is putting a<br>chill on our local investors looking into these systems. If the Tories gave<br>the green light, the money will start flowing again. <br><br>So where do the Tories stand on EcoEnergy and the Green Energy Act? Is<br>MicroFit going to keep going or are taxpayers going to be stuck paying mega<br>corporations for their coal and nuclear power?<br><br>Thanks kindly for you time. <br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>