Carbon tax usage. I support…

Carbon tax usage.

I support the carbon tax ,and would like to propose a different direction for its use.

When Ontario went to a green economy we inadvertently sent over 250,000 manufacturing jobs out of our Province due to the high cost of green power to our province . It is my fear that these manufacturing jobs are now being supplied electricity by coal fire energy.

We committed an environmental sin by not eliminating Ontario's need for coal fire power ,but by washing our hands of it and sending it outside our borders.

Ontario Power Generation has some of the most advanced clean stack technology for coal fire power plants (this technology also produced synthetic gypsum as a by product) .

Lets use the carbon tax to clean up foreign coal fire plants while they make the transition to a carbon free future.

It has been said that if Canada stopped the use of hydro carbons it would only lower world carbon emissions by .05%.

It would make more economic sense to go after the low lying carbon fruit of the tree .

If we are to look at the planet as a global community does it matter if we eliminate a ton of harmful emissions here or on the other side of the planet?

Allow Ontario Power Generation to use the carbon tax and their stack technology to go wherever they need to clean up coal fire plants at Ontario's expense.

These are my own personal views and do not in any way  reflect the views of OPG.

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