Conservation is the key: Greens speak truth on energy in Manitoba
GREENS SUPPORT:
- A new mandate for Manitoba Hydro to seek:
- to reduce energy consumption through various programs of incentives and disincentives;
- to explore and implement renewable forms of energy beyond hydroelectric power.
- Provisions to pay home-owners and/or businesses for unused power produced from solar-panels, small-scale wind-turbines, or other alternative energy sources, which is therefore returned to the electricity grid (as is already done in Ontario).
- Manitoba Hydro's name to be changed to "Manitoba Energy"; and the newly mandated and renamed Manitoba Energy to be, and remain, owned by the people of Manitoba.
GREENS DO NOT SUPPORT:
- The construction of any new hydroelectric dams in Manitoba until a full assessment on the potential for energy conservation has taken place.
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