Friday, October 29, 2010

2010 MunicipalElection Results



Who won-Lambton Shores, Bluewater, South Huron





Lambton Shores- 51% voter turnout (this number is not official and could be higher).

Mayor-Bill Weber-2196 (John Dehondt 2027, Mark Simpson 1351, Syd Fletcher 604, Marvin Wallace 79)
Deputy-Elizabeth Davis-Dagg-3215 (Carolyn Jamieson-2906)
One-Dave Maguire-446 (Cam Taylor-391)
Two-Doug Bonesteel-773 (Steve Clemens-35)
Three-Lorie Scott-601 (Gerry Rupke-501)

Four-Ruth Illman-acclaimed
Five-Martin Underwood-454 (Jim Hansen-358)
Six-Doug Cook-353 (Sushil Nakhwal-242)
Seven John Russell-312 (Allan Martelle-287, Jeff Wilcox- 259)




South Huron -Voter turnout for South Huron was 56.45%


George Robertson-mayor-2473 (Ken Oke 1698)
Jim Dietrich-Deputy-Acclaimed
Bill Francis-ward 1-836/Tom Tomes- ward 1-721 (Dianne Faubert 622, Agnes Lempriere-374)
Wayne Deluca-ward 2-798/Dennis Hockey- ward 2-950 (Cathy Seip-767, Bud Heaman-771, Jim Bearss-526)
Dave Frayne-ward 3-Acclaimed




Bluewater
Bill Dowson-mayor- 2588 (Jim Fergusson-2242)
Paul Klopp-deputy-2781 (Doug Johnston-2030)
Tyler Hessel-councilor at large-2442 (M. Taylor-2270)
Geordie Palmer-Bayfield-527 (Janet Snider-357)
John Gillespie-Hay West-582 (Jillian Clarke350)
Kay Wise-Hensall-318 (M. Dickert-151)
Dave Roy-Stanley East-370 (Wayne Keller-201)
Janisse Zimmerman-Zurich-264- (Marg Deichert-215







Friday, October 22, 2010

What good is hydro if the majority of people will not be able to afford it



FYI : What is going on here.....This letter to the editor was submitted by ROSS AYOTTE 6 CORNELIA ST E SMITHS FALLS ONT K7A1L2


Duguid who is the energy minister for Ontario insists the 784,000 households in the province that are already on time-of-use billing, “ do not see a dramatic shifts” in hydro costs. Wait a minute Mcguinty and Duguild promoted this as cost saving for Ontario. As more people
get there hydro bills they are seeing they have almost doubled in price some people have actually cried when they open there bill.
Duguid said, “I think we got it just right in terms paying producers of solar, wind and other forms of green energy, who can earn as much as 80 cents per kilowatt hour in 20-year contracts this will attract new investment that’s required to build a green energy economic hub here in Ontario.”then Duguid says “we would not have got through this summer without serious problems, disruptions and brownouts.
These are critical investments but Tax payers paid Bruce power last year 57.7 million not to produce hydro, then Mcguinty cancels a contract for a Natural Gas power plant in Oakville at a further cost to tax payers and the government has no idea how much it will cost in penalties to cancel the $1.2 billion Oakville gas power plant, Then McGuinty suggested TransCanada will give the province a break yes that's you the tax payer but one has to wonder how much did Liberal friendly lobbyist and consultants make from Mcguinty to sign this deal in the first place as Mcguinty said the 900 megawatts of power it was to generate is not needed so why did he sign the deal or was it cancelled to save a Liberal members seat.
But one thing we do know is our hydro bill will go up over this blunder. Opposition parties warned the penalties could be as high as the value of the contract .So if were paying Bruce Power not to produce Power and the Oakville plant is not needed as there is no need for it why are we paying 80 cents a Kilowatt for Green Power if it is not needed at a cost 20x more than gas or nucular power and I also would like to note in Ontario, the cost of residential power by 2015 is seen at 21 cents/kWh, nearly triple the price in 2015


Under Ontario's Green Energy Act, a feed-in tariff (FIT) will siphon $3.8 billion from consumers' pockets by 2015 to subsidize wind and solar power producers.



Ross Ayotte