25,000 Ontarians can't be wrong

Feb
08
2011
It is with great excitement that we announce:  over 25,000 applications have been made to Ontario’s MicroFIT program!
solar panels - MicroFIT (photo by Adam Scott)
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It is with great excitement that we announce:  over 25,000 applications have been made to Ontario’s MicroFIT program!

 

Clearly, Ontario residents love the idea of generating their own clean electricity.

 

The MicroFIT program allows Ontario residents to install their own small-scale solar, wind, water or bioenergy system, and sell the electricity to the grid.

 

The remarkable thing about Ontario’s Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) program is it allows individuals to become energy producers.  No longer do we have to buy our electricity from distant, centralized power plants, sending money out of our communities.  

 

Families, farmers, small businesses, churches, schools, hospitals, community centers – they can now install a solar system and earn that revenue, keeping the money in the local community.

 

These tech-savvy trendsetters aren’t huge developers; they are your neighbors, your friends, maybe even your grandparents.

 

Just as it becomes obvious that the FIT program is a huge success, there are dark clouds building on the horizon. The question we all need be asking in the coming months:

 

Will this important program continue?  

 

 

 

Adam Scott

Project Coordinator – Green Energy

 

 

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Feb
08
2011

It seems to me it's less


Joe says:

It seems to me it's less expensive to encourage this type of power generation than giant nuclear power plants and natural gas plants. Ensuring a diversity of decentralized green options will lessen our reliance on dirty energy! some sort of green power generation on every roof in Ontario should be the goal!

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Feb
15
2011

Ezra Levant claims that


Dosibe says:

Ezra Levant claims that Environmental Defence receives substantial donations from US sources.
Would Environmental Defence disclose a complete list of donors so that potential new donors can better grasp the players interested in financing this lobby organization?

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Feb
16
2011

Dosibe, thanks for your


echarter says:

Dosibe, thanks for your comment. We invite you to have a look at this blog post in response to this issue:
http://environmentaldefence.ca/blog/no-ethics-here

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Feb
16
2011

Thanks, but I believe you


Dosibe says:

Thanks, but I believe you dodged the question.
Where exactly do you get your funding from? Can you publich a list of donors, and a financial statement please? Mr. Levants accusations were quite specific, and warrant a specific response.
The creation of a marketplace for carbon credits represents enormous economic potential for those with the expertise, foresight and start-up capital to control the establishment of the business. I wonder if your donors and followers would be interested in judging for themselves that Environmental Defence is free from influence of those who may be hunting for larger prey.
Thanks again.

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Feb
17
2011

Environmental Defence can and


echarter says:

Environmental Defence can and does publish a list of donors every year. Here is a link to the 2009-2010 Annual Report:
http://environmentaldefence.ca/annual-report
And, if you have a browse around this site, you'll find lots of information about our campaigns and our supporters.

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Feb
17
2011

Thanks, that helps a lot.


Dosibe says:

Thanks, that helps a lot. The big unknown is the amount of money received from foundations, as foundations can cover for all sorts of questionable operators. Could you please provide the same sort of donantion brackets for the foundations listed below that you provide for non-foundation donors? It may help to undo the types of uneasy allegations Mr. Levant has made about foreign operatives meddling in Canadian political life.

Angel Gabriel Foundation
Blue Green Alliance Foundation
Bullitt Foundation
Calgary Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation
Community Power Fund
Draimin-Haddon Fund at Tides
Canada Foundation
EJLB Foundation
Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation
George Cedric Metcalf Charitable
Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Global Greengrants Fund/
Marisla Fund
Holistic Health Research
Foundation of Canada
Ivey Foundation
Jenifer Altman Foundation
John Hackney Foundation for the
Noosphere
John Merck Fund
Kiessling/Isaak Family Fund at the
Toronto Community Foundation
Laidlaw Foundation
Mariano Elia Foundation
McLean Foundation
Ontario Trillium Foundation
RBC Foundation
Schad Foundation
Steelworkers Humanity Fund
Taylor Irwin Family Fund at the
Toronto Community Foundation
Tides Canada Foundation
Tides Foundation
United Steelworkers -
Revolving Fund
Walter & Duncan Gordon
Foundation

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