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Bidding opens for Ontario electricity
(April 30, 2002) Toronto — Ontario’s electricity market opens for trading tommorow morning, but the drama begins today for Dave Goulding, who heads the Independent Electricity Marketing Organization (IMO). Continue reading
Electricity Metering Part II
(April 12, 2002) Paralleling the approach adopted in the Distribution System Code, a public interest group in Australia called the Public Interest Advocacy Centre argued in a report issued in May 2000 that customers without interval meters should not have to make any contribution to the cost of metering improvements. Continue reading
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Electricity Metering Options for Ordinary Consumers in Competitive Electricity Markets
(April 12, 2002) In Canada, the United States and many other jurisdictions around the world electricity markets are changing. Liberalization, including commodity price deregulation and customer choice, already exists in one Canadian jurisdiction, is imminent in another and under active consideration in several more. Continue reading
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Correspondence: Radiation increased the longevity of British radiologists
(April 10, 2002) Radiation increased the longevity of British radiologists. The 100-year study of British radiologists is perhaps the most important article about the health effects of radiation on humans published. Continue reading
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Correspondence: Radiation increased the longevity of British radiologists
(Apr. 10, 2002) The 100-year study of British radiologists is perhaps the most important article about the health effects of radiation on humans ever published. The continuity of follow-up in the study is the longest for any study of exposure to chronic radiation. Continue reading
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Direct Energy, NDP leader clash over quotes
(April 5, 2002) Sales agents from Direct Energy Marketing Ltd., one of many firms aiming to capitalize on electricity deregulation in Ontario, are using quotes from Howard Hampton – one of deregulation’s fiercest opponents — to lure new customers. Continue reading
Hidden hydro tax skewers $137 million ‘windfall’
(April 2, 2002) Hamilton electricity customers will pay what amounts to a hidden hydro tax for years to come to give city council $137 million to play with now. Continue reading
Toronto’s out-of-sight hydro kitty
(March 30, 2002) What’s a billion? Toronto City Council doesn’t seem to care. Just before they launded into an acrimonious budget debate earlier this month, Toronto city councillors had close to $1 billion dumped in their laps. With one exception, they ignored it. Continue reading
Nuclear reactions
(March 29, 2002) I read with dissapointment and concern Tom Adams’ lopsided attack on Canada’s nuclear industry (Last Call for AECL Subsidies, March 20). Disappointment because of the lack of balance in the article. Concern because these sentiments had misguidedly been connected to me. Continue reading
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Two views on fixed price electricity Centrica
(March 25, 2002) Encouraging low-income earners to take their chances with the fluctuating prices of Ontario’s soon-to-be opened electricity market is “frankly irresponsible,” says the province’s biggest salesman of fixed price energy contracts. Continue reading
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