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Health Impact Assessment of Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act: The Roles of Environmental Informatics in Sustainability
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2013
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Shaker Verlag
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Renewable energy received a boost in Ontario, Canada with the Green Energy and Green
Economy Act (GEGEA), ushering in a new Feed-in-Tarriff (FIT) program modelled on programs
from Germany, Spain, Denmark and other jurisdictions. Information about lessons learned
elsewhere has clearly benefited the Ontario experience. Part of the Ontario program included
streamlining the impact assessment process to facilitate the swift development of provincial
renewable energy capacities. In this context, the GEGEA has been remarkably successful,
generating renewable energy sector capacities, resources, projects and their spinoff benefits in
Ontario, along with more sustainable electricity system. Environmentalists along with industry
continue to laud the benefits of renewable energy and the GEGEA, and with good reason.
Renewable energy generation in Ontario has grown from to 2 per cent in 2012 and is expected to
reach 10 per cent in 2013.