Layton tilts to windmills (NDP vows to build 10,000 wind turbines)

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Layton tilts to windmills
Vows to build 10,000 wind turbines

Toronto Star, June 3

CALGARY—Canada would be dotted with windmills under an NDP plan to reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, party leader Jack Layton has promised.

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Layton, 53, has set even more ambitious goals this week, vowing to build 10,000 wind turbines and promising to retrofit "all the buildings in Canada" with new windows and furnaces to make them more energy efficient.

"We should become leaders," Layton said during a campaign stop here yesterday.

The NDP, he said, would phase out subsidies for polluting energy and "transform ourselves into a country that actually invests in renewable and energy efficiency."

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And for the curious, NDP's environment policy:
http://www.ndp.ca/uploaded/20040522190144_NDPEnviroPolicy2004_eng.pdf