The Samsung consortium's investment in renewable energy production in Ontario and promise to support local manufacturing demonstrates how the province's commitment to clean energy can attract clean energy companies and create new job opportunities.

Media Contact: Marlo Raynolds

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Stephen Harper will be the only G-7 leader to arrive in Copenhagen without a major national program to support renewable power.  New data from Natural Resources Canada reveal that the federal government's support for renewables will effectively end as of January 2010.

Media Contact: Tim Weis

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Tim Weis, Director of the Pembina Institute’s renewable energy and efficiency program, reacted to Michael Ignatieff’s speech today in Vancouver, saying the Liberal leader's committments to make significant investments in clean energy jobs and set a hard cap on carbon emissions are encouraging, but more details about targets and mechanisms are needed to make the plan workable.

Media Contact: Tim Weis

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Cherise Burda, Ontario Policy Director for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Ontario government's decision today to suspend the procurement of two new nuclear plants at Darlington:

"Today's delay which was made on the basis of pricing, should not be resolved through more federal subsidies"...

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Conditions have changed and the McGuinty government should support its own Green Energy Act by deciding against buying new nuclear reactors this summer, say thirteen prominent environmental organizations in an open letter to the Premier.  

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

The federal nuclear regulator should not allow the Pickering B nuclear station to be rebuilt because the agency's badly flawed review does not assess the significant hazards the plant poses to the environment and the public, environmental groups told the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission today at its public hearing in Ajax.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Energy Minister George Smitherman's goal of increasing the amount of green energy in the province's electricity plan can only be met by replacing ageing nuclear stations with new green sources says a new report released by a coalition of environmental groups today.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Investment analysts say the cost of building Dalton McGuinty's nuclear reactors has more than doubled in the last three years but the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) refuses to re-evaluate its original estimates amidst a global financial crisis.

Media Contact: Greenpeace

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

A cheaper, cleaner, and less risky option than the current nuclear-reliant Ontario electricity plan is doable according to a state-of-the-art modelling analysis commissioned by WWF-Canada and the Pembina Institute and released today.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign