A new Renewable Electricity Program from the province is leaving a lot of questions.

New legislation aims to add five-thousand megawatts of new renewable power capacity by 2030 through a competitive process.

Livingstone MacLeod MLA Pat Stier is concerned about the unknowns.

"I'm extremely concerned about the south country in that regard because we don't know where these renewable energy sites may be created, we don't know if it's going to be turbines or solar, we don't know if land owners will be compensated," he says. "The government has not disclosed any cost based analysis on this new change and how it's going to work and what it's going to cost us in the end."

Stier calls it one of the biggest threats he's seen to how the southern half of his riding will be affected in the near future.

He says he gets lots of complaints from the southern area of the riding about the unsightly towers and power lines and the damage done to the view.

"It seems to be a huge contradiction that they would be pushing this stuff at this time and charging people extra tax dollars to pay for it in the form of a carbon tax, to put up unsightly power lines, sub-stations and all these extra turbines while at the same time they open up a new park," Stier says. "It doesn't really add up to enhance tourism and the types of quality of lives that we're trying to strive for down here.

He says Wildrose will be carrying on the battle as they follow the program through the process.

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