Power crazy
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Across Canada, provincial governments are aggressively following the call of green power and energy conservation. No watt of electricity is exempt, from mandated fluorescent light bulbs to subsidies for windmill farms to the campaign to rehabilitate the granddaddy of power boondoggles, nuclear energy, out of long-term care.
The rationale for this massive release of plans and mega-schemes is climate change. (...)