Canada Investing in Green

Ontario goes on green job spree

Workers accept delivery of wind turbine towers at the Pointe-Aux-Roches Wind Project in Essex County on Friday. Toronto-based International Power Canada, Inc. (IPC), a renewable energy company, is celebrating the arrival and installation of the first domestic content-compliant turbines in Ontario. (Nov. 30, 2010) Dave Chidley/THE CANADIAN PRESS Images

Dec 01 2010 - As many as 1,700 green energy jobs in southwestern Ontario are to be announced this week, according to Queen’s Park sources.

The announcements are part of an energy policy blitz as the provincial Liberal government tries to take the offensive on the energy file.

The new jobs are coming as a result of three projects:

• On Thursday, the government will announce that a new Siemens Canada facility to manufacture wind turbine blades will be built in Tillsonburg.

The new plant will employ 300 full-time workers, and will result in another 600 construction and indirect jobs. {read rest}