Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford is taking heat for quoting from an online magazine — which denies the scientific consensus on climate change — to justify scrapping more than 750 renewable energy projects at a cost to taxpayers of $231 million. “Everything they’re doing is falling in line with people who would be denying climate change.”The magazine’s main headline Tuesday was “Why apocalyptic claims about climate change are wrong.”Rickford maintained it was “appropriate” to quote from Climate Change Dispatch because the German experience with wind farms is “remarkably similar to the situation that we have.”YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN... Green Leader Mike Schreiner described Rickford’s choice of briefing material as “incredibly reckless and irresponsible.”“If we have a minister of energy who doesn’t believe that humans are responsible for climate change, that’s a pretty serious problem,” added Liberal interim leader John Fraser. “I believe in climate change and I believe in literature that supports a balanced article on any given subject matter that points out both sides of the coin, right?” he told reporters. “That doesn’t account for any of the large companies that are going to take the government to court,” he predicted.

Source: thestar November 26, 2019 23:58 UTC