New ideas for energy are needed in Ontario

To: Premier Wynne

Re: The cost and source of energy for the province of Ontario

No reasonable person can deny that the issue is complex.

But there are component parts, some of which are more amenable to obvious solutions than others.

While we are being potentially crippled by aging and increasingly obsolete nuclear reactors situated along the Great Lakes here in Ontario, low-cost, renewable energy from Quebec is available.

Try as I might I can find no logic in the hesitation to strike a deal. And the greater the difficulty of finding a logical explanation, the greater the likelihood that the electorate will be suspicious that processes in the works are not in the public interest. It’s axiomatic.

What kind of thinking could possibly be at play, whether in the public interest or not? An additional factor, which certainly should be considered, is the shadow of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and countless other near-misses with nuclear reactors.

As Greenpeace has pointed out, we don’t even have a viable evacuation plan in place in case one of our behemoths bites the dust.

Step away and see things in another light. Maybe an original - or at least a more obvious - solution will emerge.

Thanks to Green Party leader Mike Shreiner for already speaking out!