The Effort to Restore Prop C Continues - MCE March Digest

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Missouri Coalition for the Environment <moenviron@moenviron.org> wrote:

Donate Now Follow us on:   Upcoming Events   4/10 - MCE Annual Meeting   MCE Monthly Digest   Once a month, MCE sends a brief update on the work of each of our program areas. If you'd like to receive a program's more frequent updates, click the "update profile" link at the bottom of this email.   Clean Energy Program Renew Missouri works to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency in Missouri.    The Effort to Restore Prop C Continues . After many hours of hard work by the Renew Missouri team, there is nearly consensus on HB 613 that will ensure that renewable electricity withinfor Prop C - the MO RES should be "sold to Missouri" and not come solely from renewable energy credits.    Unfortunately, the fight isn't over. We continue to provide input and seek consensus to move the bill forward.  Right now, we're working to prevent rollbacks on the amount of renewable energy required under Prop C.  We anticipate that HB 613 will be voted out of committee next week.  Stay tuned - we'll need your help when the bill moves to the House floor.     Thank you to Conservation Lobby Day participants who provided expert information to more than 100 state legislators on green building, renewable energy, state parks, and clean water. For pictures of this successful event, click here.   PACE Webinars Available.  In March, Renew Missouri held two PACE webinars on a newly developed Missouri PACE Best Practices to help cities and counties learn how they can pursue PACE in Missouri. View the webinar.    Clean Water Program  The MCE Water Program works to promote Missouri's water quality, preserve and restore floodplains and wetlands, and advocate for sustainable stormwater management. Effort to Improve Clean Water Permit Fees. At the 2011 Conservation Lobby Day, the MCE Clean Water Team led the efforts to persuade state legislators to support an increase in Water Permit Fees. Learn more.   Unconstitutional Surety Bond Proposed by Senator Brad Lager. Senate Bill 423, which is one of three bills in the State Legislature designed to reinstate permit fees at stagnant 2000 levels, also includes a very troubling provision known as a surety bond requirement for permit appeals. The bill would require anyone challenging permits for projects that threaten their land, air, or water - like a casino in the floodplain near a conservation area or a coal ash landfill - to first post a bond for any theoretical lost business revenue or legal costs of the project's promoter. This could add up to millions and be an insurmountable hurdle for people with legitimate environmental concerns.  Contact the following Senators in the to tell them this is entirely unacceptable.      Brad Lager, 12th, Chairman     John Lamping, 24th, Vice-Chairman  Mike Kehoe, 6th  Jim Lembke, 1st  Mike Parson, 28th  Kurt Schaefer, 19th  Bill Stouffer, 21st  Tim Green, 13th  Jolie Justus, 10th

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Green Energy Rules Make Ontario, Canada a N. A. Leader

QUICK FACTS

• Ontario is Canada's leading province in wind power, producing enough electricity to power more than 300,000 homes.
• The Green Energy Act will aid Ontario's commitment to eliminate coal-fired power by 2014 -- the single largest climate change initiative in Canada.
• Ontario has gone from 10 turbines in 2003, to more than 670 spinning today and will have 975 by 2012.

It seems to me they seem to have a Well Defined Energy Plan. Maybe some of there Green Energy Solutions would rub off on the Neighbor to the South. Scotty

September 24, 2009

New regulations introduced in Ontario, Canada, will create thousands of jobs in the new green economy under Ontario's Green Energy Act. Ontario's new regulations provide a stable investment environment where companies know what the rules are -- giving them the confidence to invest in Ontario, hire workers, and produce and sell renewable energy. The major components of Ontario's Green Energy Act include:

• A Feed-In-Tariff program, which allows individuals and companies to sell renewable energy -- like solar, wind, water, biomass, biogas and landfill gas -- into the grid at set rates.
• Domestic content requirements, which would ensure at least 25 per cent of wind projects and 50 per cent of solar projects be produced in Ontario -- requirements for solar will increase by January 1, 2011 and wind will increase by January 1, 2012.
• A streamlined approvals process and a service guarantee to bring developers greater certainty.
• Regulations for setting wind turbines certain distances from houses, roadways and property lines.
• A new Ontario Renewable Energy Facilitation Office -- a one-stop shop to help renewable energy projects get off the ground faster.

More than 50,000 direct and indirect jobs will be created under the Act. Investments in new renewable energy projects already in place or under construction in Ontario since 2003 exceed $4 billion. "Ontario has taken the lead in Canada and set the ground rules for doing green business. Now investors, renewable energy companies and skilled workers can really move our green economy forward," said Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario. "Ontario wants green energy business. These regulations will help ensure industry and municipalities that jobs will be created, investment is committed and that the renewable energy industry grows across the province," said George Smitherman, Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. QUICK FACTS

• Ontario is Canada's leading province in wind power, producing enough electricity to power more than 300,000 homes.
• The Green Energy Act will aid Ontario's commitment to eliminate coal-fired power by 2014 -- the single largest climate change initiative in Canada.
• Ontario has gone from 10 turbines in 2003, to more than 670 spinning today and will have 975 by 2012.

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