SUPPORT LOCAL PROJECTS: Bisson Encourages Liberals to Buy Ontario

2010-04-14       Post a Comment

Today in Question Period, Gilles Bisson wanted to know why out-of-province investors are taking priority over local ownership. Bisson says 2 projects in his riding are being ignored.

 

 

 

“Can you tell me why two locally owned projects that are community based were bypassed in favour of an international project?”

 

 

Last Friday, a number of projects were announced under the FIT program. Specifically, there were two particular projects: A biomass project in Hearst, as well as A&T Energy, who are putting forward a project on solar panel construction in the Val Rita-Harty area.

 

 

“In the case of Hearst, you’ve got a locally owned project where they’re going to basically clean up an area that has been polluted for a number of years. We’ve met on this issue before. It’s locally owned, locally operated and locally sourced. In the case of Val Rita, all local ownership—again, sourced all within the province of Ontario.”

 

 

Bisson wants to know what the downside is for the Ontario government to say that we’re not going to favour those very projects that are community-based projects that come from Ontario in favour of projects that come from outside of this province.