{"id":13594,"date":"2016-03-09T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2016-03-09T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T22:53:13","slug":"who-is-kidding-who-asks-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/who-is-kidding-who-asks-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is kidding who? asks reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was with a great deal of concern one read MPP Chris Ballard\u2019s item \u201cOntario investing $100 million to help owners save energy.\u201d
\nWill this be another in the long string of failed initiatives on the energy file? The energy file which has been so egregiously mismanaged by our Government for the last many years? Remember the Smart Meter program started to \u201chelp citizens manage their hydro usage and save money\u201d started by McGuinty? How is that working for everyone? Hundreds of millions spent for zero benefits and ever increasing hydro costs.
\nThis was followed by the cancelled gas plants costing another nearly $1 billion.
\nTo add insult to injury, while these failed projects were going on we had the exclusive contract given to Samsung costing more billions.
\nThis is the contract that forces wind installations on rural communities whereby the land owners have no recourse to protect their property values. With, and despite these initiatives, we have the highest hydro rates in the country.
\nRates that are squeezing homeowners\u2019 budgets and driving industry and jobs out of the province.
\nWouldn\u2019t it be great if our Government got to work on lowering hydro costs versus painting wonderful, cheery horizons that never come to pass?
\nWe have a serious credibility issue here. <\/p>\n

John Greenhough
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It was with a great deal of concern one read MPP Chris Ballard\u2019s item \u201cOntario investing $100 million to help owners save energy.\u201d Will this be another in the long string of failed initiatives on the energy file? The energy file which has been so egregiously mismanaged by our Government for the last many years? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3xg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 20:30:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}