Renewable Energy Contract Cancellations
Cancelled 758 renewable energy contracts immediately upon taking office, costing taxpayers $231M in penalties with zero electricity produced.
🌲 An in effect Environment policy from July 2018 · Implemented · Bill 2 · Well sourced
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"Saving Ratepayers Money"
Cancelling 758 renewable energy contracts to reduce electricity costs for Ontario families and businesses.
"I'm proud that we actually saved the taxpayers $790-million when we cancelled those terrible, terrible, terrible wind turbines."
— Doug Ford, November 2019
"$231M Penalty, Sovereign Risk Warning"
Ontario paid $231M in cancellation penalties. The government's own documents acknowledged this created "sovereign risk" — making future investors wary of Ontario contracts. The cancelled projects would have generated clean energy for decades.
- $231M in taxpayer-funded contract cancellation penaltiessource
- Government acknowledged "sovereign risk" to future investmentsource
- Cancelled projects included community-owned wind and solarsource
- No replacement plan for clean energy generationsource
This section represents editorial interpretation of documented evidence.
Figures are approximate, using publicly available Ontario cost data.
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