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Ontario’s love affair with hydrogen was always going to be an expensive fling. But now it’s turning into a full-blown marriage—despite all the warning signs from older, wiser jurisdictions that have already filed for divorce. The province is doubling the Hydrogen Innovation Fund to $30 million, a tidy sum that could otherwise buy a fleet of electric buses, upgrade grid infrastructure, or—heaven forbid—actually reduce emissions in the next five years. Instead, Ontario’s taxpayers, via the Doug Ford Conservative government, are throwing money at a hydrogen dream that’s already wheezing its last breath in places like Norway and Australia, both of which were miles ahead into the hydrogen for energy dead end and are now backing slowly out, with wallets lighter and eyebrows permanently raised.
Let’s rewind the tape. Ontario’s…
