High Electricity costs are…

High Electricity costs are hurting rural Ontario. Our farms and small business cannot operate on off peak times to reduce electricity costs. Our rural recreation facilities are becoming too expensive to operate. Rural Ontario and Municipalities have been left out of planning and decisions that affect our lives. You will never get support for large  energy projects that are forced on unwilling host communities. The adverse affect on rural communities is devastating.Cancel LRP2 and cancel the projects that were awarded under LRP1 in the spring of 2016. The savings will be in the hundreds of millions to the rate payers in Ontario. The cost to cancel the contracts is minor in comparison. In the future any contracts must be transparent and fair and include local municipal support as well as local aboriginal support. Rural electricity bills are higher than urban bills and yet the Ministry forces Large scale wind projects on unwilling rural communities. How unfair as we must put up with these landscape scarring industrial turbines and pay a higher cost on top of it. Many areas do not have access to the only affordable energy source out there, natural gas. There was a commitment by this Government many months ago with money to connect more of rural Ontario to natural gas . We have seen no action on this issue. This Government and the Minister of Energy ,say they are listening ,BUT DO YOU HEAR RURAL ONTARIO? I hope this exercise is not just a stunt for this Government to use as a political propaganda campaign , but instead a real change in their approach to listening to the people of Ontario. This mess is going to hurt future generations ,but we have to find a way out of it.

[Original Comment ID: 203217]