Today NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) submitted a new Private Members Bill – Bottled Water Spending Act, 2009 – to restrict government spending on bottled water. If passed, the Bill would make Ontario the first province in Canada to restrict bottled water.

In his annual report released earlier today, Ontario’s Environment Commissioner Gord Miller called for government legislation to stop big developers from threatening citizens with so-called SLAPPs - lawsuits requiring that citizen groups pay developer legal expenses or other damages for hearings.

NDP Energy and Environment Critic Peter Tabuns is condemning today’s decision by the McGuinty government to go ahead with a $1.2-billion gas plant in Oakville as economically irresponsible and environmentally reckless.

NDP Energy Critic Peter Tabuns welcomes the McGuinty government’s announcement of a new Feed-in-Tariff for renewable energy, but says that the success of the program depends on significantly raising targets for wind energy in Ontario - and that means canceling plans to build new nuclear plants once and for all.

Peter Tabuns, NDP energy critic says the McGuinty Liberals’ decision to suspend the bidding process for new nuclear reactors at Darlington is more evidence that their energy plans are in disarray.

NDP Energy Critic Peter Tabuns says the activation of 10,000 so-called “smart meters” by Toronto Hydro over the coming weeks will enable a pricing scheme in which rates will spike during afternoon hours, hurting many modest income hydro users who have far less flexibility than others to shift their electricity use to low-cost, low-demand times.