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 In a move echoing one made by Australia’s Prime Minister less than two weeks ago, CBC News reports that Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty has announced that Ontario will also be phasing out standard incandescent light bulbs in an effort to curb global warming. The ban will go into effect by 2012, by which point, the price of LED lighting, which offers even greater environmental benefits than CF bulbs, may have dropped enough to make them an even better alternative. Though the announcement was most likely politically motivated, and isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as it would have been only three weeks ago, it is still a welcome step in the right direction.  The latest to act: The Ontario government announced yesterday it will ban the sale of the old incandescent bulbs by 2012 in a bid to help curb global warming. The province said that replacing all the roughly 87 million incandescent bulbs in Ontario homes with compact fluorescents or other efficient lighting could cut electricity demand by six million megawatt hours over the course of a year, enough to power 600,000 households.
In making the move, Ontario is following the lead of Australia, which earlier this year became the first country to ban the venerable incandescent bulb. It intends to phase them out by 2010.
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