“First he ripped down the White Pines
wind farm project at a cost of at least $141 million, and now he’s
scrapping the Nation Rise wind farm. It’s bigger, it was further along
in its construction, and it’s likely to be even more expensive to rip it
down,” he told media, adding that electricity from Nation Rise would
come in at 7¢ per kilowatt-hour, below the minimum price for gas at 8¢.

“Renewable energy is booming all over the world, except in Ontario
now,” added NDP environment critic Ian Arthur. “This is massive amounts
of investment that we’re missing out on.”

“For the premier to rip up a contract for a low-cost source of
renewable energy at a cost that could be in the hundreds of millions of
dollars is so fiscally irresponsible,” agreed Ontario Greens leader Mike
Schreiner. “It’s appalling.”