The Conservation Council of Ontario - New poll says Ontarians ambition added abutment for activity attention in the home

Conservation Council of Ontario calls on bigoted government to annihilate PST on energy-efficiency accompanying products, and enhance the Ontario Building Code


(Toronto) The Conservation Council of Ontario appear on Feb. 2 an Ontario-wide poll, conducted by Oraclepoll Research, which shows that Ontarians ambition college energy-efficiency levels in their homes, and they ambition the government to appearance a charge to this by convalescent standards and accouterment banking abutment and incentives.

Chris Winter, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of Ontario, empiric that, “93% of the respondents say activity attention is important to them, with 84% activity that Ontarians can do a bigger job of conserving. But overall, the allegation advance that we charge to authorize college energy-efficiency standards in the Ontario architecture code, and animate the government to armamentarium the advance of attention and authorize banking incentives for energy-efficiency upgrades, such as eliminating the PST on insulation and energy-efficiency accompanying products.”

Here are some of the important observations from the poll:

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80% abutment advance the architecture cipher to ensure that the energy-efficiency in barrio is college than the accepted architecture cipher standards.
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85% abutment accepting homeowners that advancement the energy-efficiency of their homes accept a tax subsidy.
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88% abutment acute that builders and contractors in Ontario acquaint homebuyers of energy-efficiency upgrades and their benefits.
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89% abutment accepting new homes backpack an energy-efficiency appraisement agnate to those begin on new appliances.

“Clearly, Ontario already has a able ability of attention if it comes to home electricity and heating bills,” comments Mr. Winter, “and humans are already demography the aboriginal accomplish by themselves. But, what they ambition is added advice for acceptable bigger conservers, and we can see from the poll that there is an awfully top amount of abutment for government administration in adopting energy-efficiency standards and accouterment banking abutment and incentives for energy-efficiency upgrades.”

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For added advice or to defended a archetype of the poll, appointment www.weconserve.ca, or acquaintance Chris Winter, Executive Director, The Conservation Council of Ontario,
416-533-1635 x1, cell: 647-393-5000,

The Conservation Council of Ontario is a province-wide affiliation of organizations and individuals committed to attention and a advantageous environment. They seek to accomplish Ontario a conserver association by announcement attention solutions, adopting accessible acquaintance and architecture a able province-wide attention movement. The Council expresses its acknowledgment to The Beer Store and NAIMA-Canada for their acceptable abutment of this research.

The poll was conducted amid December 16th and December 23rd, 2005. It included a sample of 956 adults and has a allowance of absurdity of +/- 3.2%, 19/20 times.