Major Announcements From MEI

Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Brad Duguid, will be making some big announcements tomorrow.

Following Ontario’s big water-related announcement this week, Duguid will announce a major new project that affects Hamilton’s harbour. Duguid said, having started Ontario on the right energy path with the Green Energy Act, now it’s time to get water and wastewater moving in that same direction. The Feed-in-Tariff program has just resulted in more than 500 new green energy projects, most of them solar power installations, being approved.

Minister Brad Duguid sat down with ReNew Canada editor, Mira Shenker, this morning for a casual chat.

Duguid will also unveil a new joint federal/provincial program tomorrow—rumours have it building on the $32 billion Ontario has invested as stimulus funding. “Once [that program] is done, where do we go from here?” said Duguid. While it would be “unrealistic” to think funding could continue at this rate, Duguid said the ministry is returning to its Renew Ontario roots and focusing on long-term programs—possibly a 10-year infrastructure program.

In even more announcements teasers, Duguid said he would be joining Federal Minister of Infrastructure, John Baird, tomorrow to announce joint funding for some new provincial assets.