Green-energy contracts are usually long-term, so the $3.8 billion would have been paid out over many years. The planning report offered up four scenarios, without taking a position on which is the most likely to come true. “Meeting this scale of electricity demand growth would require the coordinated deployment of multiple low-carbon options,” the agency’s report says. Exactly the problems the Liberals are proud of having solved, and reasonably so in spite of how expensive it’s been. Richer people spend only 1.7 per cent of their incomes on energy, but in raw dollars that’s almost $3,700 a year.

Source: National Post September 27, 2016 17:37 UTC