Ontario Incandescents Out By 2012
Interesting news on CBC.ca last week (just came across it today).
Apparently Ontario will be completely phasing out the sale of inefficient incandescent bulbs by 2012. I’m definitely very pleased to hear this. Of course it would have been great if it could have been sooner (Australia has us beat with their 2010 ban), but I’m certainly not complaining.
Here is a blurb:
Ontario will ban the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012, a move that follows in the footsteps of Australia, the province said Wednesday.
The government estimates that replacing the 87 million incandescent bulbs in use across Ontario with more efficient bulbs would save six million megawatt hours every year — enough to power 600,000 homes.
Changing to more efficient bulbs is also the equivalent — in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions — of taking 250,000 cars off the road, said Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten, who announced the move along with Energy Minister Dwight Duncan on Wednesday morning.
Full article: Ontario turns out the lights on inefficient bulbs
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Written by Bentley on April 23rd, 2007 with
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Bentley
#1. April 23rd, 2007, at 8:35 PM.
The important part about this legislation (from what I’ve read) is that it addresses an efficiency standard, so that if high efficiency incandescents do appear in a few years, they won’t be outlawed (unlike the Australian bill).