7/23/2011

(July 20*) Greenpeace takes aim at Hudak

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada,spoke with The Star's editorial board Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada,spoke with The Star's editorial board Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

Photograph by: NICK BRANCACCIO, The Windsor Star

By Kristie Pearce, The Windsor Star July 20, 2011

With a provincial election looming, Greenpeace is questioning Tory Leader Tim Hudak's commitment to renewable energy.

"Hudak has said he's pro green energy," Keith Stewart, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace, told a meeting of The Star's editorial board Tuesday. "We would like to see how he would actually get green energy built."

Greenpeace supports the Liberal government's feedin-tariff program introduced in 2009, but Stewart said some of the projected costs of their renewable energy programs are too high.

"NDP and Conservatives say they like green energy, they just don't like the way we're doing it," Stewart said, adding Greenpeace would like to see the opposition strategies in investing in renewable energy.

The Conservatives have made rising electricity bills a major theme this election, blaming the increases on green energy. However, Stewart said the price increases came from long neglect of the province's power infrastructure.

"The primary thing driving the price increase right now is a need to rebuild the system because we went for a decade without investing in it," he said.



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