{"id":14048,"date":"2018-07-13T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2018-07-13T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T00:09:23","slug":"ripping-up-contracts-will-cost-ontarians-money-jobs-and-their-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/13\/ripping-up-contracts-will-cost-ontarians-money-jobs-and-their-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripping up contracts will cost Ontarians money, jobs and their environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-p3\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\">NDP Energy critic Peter Tabuns says Doug Ford\u2019s latest attack on the environment \u2013 ripping up 758 renewable energy contracts \u2013 could cost thousands of jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars, and damage the quality of the air and water in Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p3\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p3\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\">\u201cIt\u2019s Kathleen Wynne\u2019s gas plants scandal all over again,\u201d said Tabuns. \u201cPeople don\u2019t want to see our beautiful lakes get dirtier and our air get smoggier, and they absolutely do not want to pay extra to watch that happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p4\">\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">\u201cWe\u2019re calling on Mr. Ford to put a pause on cancelling these contracts until we know just how much it\u2019ll hurt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">The Ford Conservative government claimed\u00a0Friday\u00a0that it would pass a law to prevent the huge penalties and costs associated with ripping up 758 contracts from being added to hydro bills \u2013 which means that those costs would be covered by all Ontarians, either through higher taxes or cut services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">\u201cMr. Ford\u2019s war on science and the environment may be pleasing his friends in back rooms, and fulfilling promises he made to social conservatives that supported his election bid,\u201d said Tabuns. \u201cBut for the rest of us, it\u2019s going to means lost jobs, billions of dollars wasted, and tangible environmental damage.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-s2\">NDP Energy critic Peter Tabuns<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Energy critic Peter Tabuns says Doug Ford\u2019s latest attack on the environment \u2013 ripping up 758 renewable energy contracts \u2013 could cost thousands of jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars, and damage the quality of the air and water in Ontario. \u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s Kathleen Wynne\u2019s gas plants scandal all over again,\u201d said Tabuns. \u201cPeople &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1575],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-energy-contracts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 10:36:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14049,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}