As a farmer working in…

As a farmer working in Ontario I support the continued development of renewable and sustainable energy sources.  I believe that for the long term prosperity of citizens our provincial government should remain committed to supporting, through our tax dollars, a significant renewable energy business sector in Ontario.  It is an industry that can support jobs, contribute financially to the communities in which it operates and most importantly provide we the current people of Ontario with a positive contribution to the future environment in which our children and grandchildren will work and live.

If we as taxpayers contribute our tax dollars to supporting a nuclear industry we will continue to struggle with a technology that is not renewable or sustainable. I speak as one of many in a generation of adults living in Ontario who have a higher standard living than their parents ever dreamed of.   I do not want to be responsible for the disposal of nuclear waste in this province that will become both a financial burden and a health hazard for our children and our grandchildren.  We do not have the right to do that to them.

I am the sixth generation of farmers to have farmed the land at Curries, Ontario.  I truly believe that government supported renewable energy development has the ability to protect and sustain this land that my family lives and works for six more generations of farmers.

Please continue to support renewables as a major energy source.  The people at the Ontario Plowing Match do not represent the real farmers of Ontario.  Thank You.

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