Ontario's energy policy must…

Ontario's energy policy must take the high road of ethical responsibility, and creativity - and embrace renewable and safe energy. Not focus on political expediency or profit for corporate interests - of the nuclear or oil or fracking industries. These are destroying our health and our environment. Fossil fuels are contributing to global warming, nor can we continue to generate deadly nuclear waste - which has no solution. Burying toxic radioactive waste beside Lake Huron or anywhere - is short-sighted and will irreversibly contaminate our earth and water. Nuclear power plants are an accident waiting to happen, which threaten life beyond our imagining. They are too dangerous for humanity - witness the ongoing devastation from Chernobyl and Fukishima.

Make renewables mandatory and affordable. I live in a nuclear town, use nuclear electricity and heat my house with oil and drive a gasoline powered car. I would love to change - but cannot afford to. Yet government subsidizes nuclear and oil to the billions of dollars.

Invest in new energy - wind trees (in France), wave power, solar voltaic panels, insulation for old houses, new housing codes, solar powered cars (there has been a solo airplane flight around the world, and a wind and solar powered ship cross the oceans.)

We, the people, are demanding change. From Standing Rock, to the Kinder Morgan pipeline,  and everywhere - people have a new vision for the present and future - of safe and renewable energy, so that we can live in harmony with our planet and leave a future for our children. Yet government is the dinosaur that refuses to change, and refuses to take responsibility for the damage we are doing.

Be courageous and bold in vision. Embrace the truth, rather than the lies presented by the energy industries. Lead us forward into the future that must be.

I think of how, in my parents' generation, the whole economy shifted and focused overnight on the war effort. So too, we can change, and with all our efforts together, create a sustainable energy life-style. All things are possible. Embrace renewable energy for us all - now.

[Original Comment ID: 207046]