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Originally Posted by accord1999

Installing Chinese solar panels and American wind-turbines isn't much of an energy industry.

Does the general public still remember when Ontario killed its renewable energy industry? It even had factories building wind turbines and solar panels, but without subsidies it was not competitive. And it wasn't even killed by Doug Ford, Katherine Wynne was still premier then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...sing-1.4210184

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...uiet-1.5058216

https://www.guelphmercury.com/busine...567a1a98d.html

Where do you think most of the components are made for the oil sands? It’s not like that stuff isn’t coming from overseas, so not sure that should be your measuring stick.

As for Ontario, different time, different place, Renewables projects are pretty competitive in Alberta for a host of reasons, they are also increasingly viable in a lot of different jurisdictions that they weren’t 5 years ago.

As said just above, the pause is a failure of government, there was lots and lots of time for these issues to have been dealt with in advance and not cause this. I also don’t fully buy the pause is needed myself, the issues need to be addressed but not sure they warrant.a full scale shut down. I’m in the energy sector, have been for 25 years, we’ve had bigger problems that this and not once would the government even considered Ed a full shutdown. So ask yourself why treat renewables this way?