Will biomass and/or natural gas save OPG Nanticoke

By MPP Toby Barrett

Speaker, Haldimand-Norfolk is home to the largest coal-fired generating station in North America, the same station that Premier McGuinty has promised – many times over – to close as he shuts down coal-fired generation at Nanticoke. [Read More]

 

OPG comments on gas/grass reassuring, OPG CEO eyes at least 15 years of life for coal closure plants: report

February 4, 2011

Simcoe – Reports of Ontario Power Generation CEO Tom Mitchell's comments regarding plans and research to extend the lifeline of Nanticoke – and Lambton – coal plants are welcome news to Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett. [Read More]

 

Beware new enviro-taxes in McGuinty budget, pre-budget silence belies new taxes on the way - Barrett

January 25, 2011

Windsor – Opposition Environment Critic Toby Barrett is taking time during Finance Committee pre-budget hearings to warn Ontario residents to brace for a slew of possible new environmental taxes in the upcoming McGuinty budget. [Read More]

 

Scrap the eco tax on electronics

December 21, 2010

Simcoe – "It's time to put the province's electronics tax out of its misery," that from Opposition Critic Toby Barrett who in the past has advocated a management shakeup of the Ontario Electronics Stewardship program. [Read More]

 

Auditors report highlights more failures for waste diversion in Ontario, only things being wasted are taxpayer dollars

December 6, 2010

Queens Park – The Auditor General's report underlines the continued failure of the Ontario government when it comes to diverting waste in Ontario. [Read More]

 

Waste Diversion

November 15, 2010

Mr. Toby Barrett: To the Minister of the Environment: Ontario Electronic Stewardship has delayed the release of its report by seven months. Once they did release the report, Ontario families learned the bad news; they paid $45 million in eco taxes for televisions and computers that were neither diverted nor recycled. The target for collecting electronics was missed by 59%. You only had 2% of the target for recycling electronics—only 2%, Minister. Why was your response to this abysmal performance merely to send a sternly-worded memo? [Read More]

 

Ontario Hansard

April 28, 2010

Mr. Toby Barrett: Good afternoon, everyone. I want to say at the outset that I support the motion to provide some answers not only with respect to health impacts, but I also support the direction to lift the green energy gag order on municipal councils, councils that aren't able to be part of what's going on in their own backyards. [Read More]

 

Earth Day

April 19, 2010

Mr. Toby Barrett: As the minister and this government fill our calendar with the new designated green days—Climate Change Awareness Day, ??Waste Diversion Day—and celebrate the latest week-long designation of Earth Week, I'm old school; I prefer to go back to the roots, if you will. Call me a purist, but I prefer to stand by the message that was first launched. It did launch a coordinated effort, across the board, of environmental awareness. I'm speaking, of course, of Earth Day, which we will all recognize this Thursday, 40 years after the first such event helped spawn the environmental movement. [Read More]