Cross-border activism against renewable energy

There's an interesting piece in Mother Jones today about how and why conservative interests really, really, hate renewable energy � solar and wind � and are campaigning to close it down.  It's partly a matter of self-interest (the Koch brothers and other oil interests, as well as utility companies, are among those most fiercely opposed).

It's also about partisan politics: the Obama administration supports renewable energy, therefore conservatives must be against it.  And of course the fact that solar and wind energy are part of an effective response to climate change (that well-known liberal plot) only makes it more urgent they be resisted.

But it's also interesting to see how readily conservatives in Canada have jumped on the anti-renewable wagon.  Ontario conservative leader Tim Hudak has committed himself to opposing solar and wind energy.  He argues that renewable energy is too expensive (even though nuclear power, which he supports, has much more to do with Ontario's rising electricity prices), and that it kills jobs (although quite a few thousand people in Ontario are now busy building solar panels and wind turbines).

I suppose anti-renewable activism, like climate change itself, has no problem crossing borders.