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Union Energy sale may lower consumer costs
(October 23, 2001) An Alberta-based utilities company is poised to move into Ontario’s natural gas and electricity market. Epcor Utilities Inc. yesterday announced an agreement with Westcoast Energy Inc. to purchase its subsidaries, Union Energy and Westcoast Capital, for $176.7 million. Continue reading
Buying Hydro, twice
(October 23, 2001) Who owns Toronto Hydro? The obvious answer would seem to be the people who paid to create the utility. That would be local ratepayers who financed Toronto Hydro from its inception. Continue reading
Dining out on hydro’s tab
(October 22, 2001) Put your ear close to an electric plug at home or work, and you may hear a sucking sound. It is the noise made by municipalities vacuuming cash – hundreds of millions of dollars – out of Ontario’s electricity system. Continue reading
Never going to see any gas – rural residents
(October 15, 2001) Fredericton – Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline is running into resistance from rural New Brunswickers who are fed up at being asked to endure gas pains without getting any gas. Continue reading
Temporary nuclear shutdown recommended to deny terrorists targets
(October 12, 2001) Energy Probe, a national environmental think tank, has called on the premiers of New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario to immediately order the temporary closure of the nuclear power reactors operating in their respective provinces. Continue reading
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Changing the energy climate: clean and green heat from grass biofuel pellets
(October 3, 2001) Uncertain energy supplies and international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions have created unique opportunities for biofuel development. Continue reading
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Privatized water ‘not solution’
(September 26, 2001) Turning Ontario’s drinking water operations over to private hands in an attempt to fix the ills in the system would be tragic, the Walkerton inquiry was told yesterday. Continue reading
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Ottawa eyes power exports to U.S.
(September 7, 2001) Canada has a good chance to develop new electricity sources to supply the power-hungry U.S. market, federal Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale told a business audience yesterday. Continue reading
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Goodale touts power sales to U.S.
(September 7, 2001) Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada should build new power plants to export huge quantities of electricity to the United States, a bid to make money slaking the enormous U.S. appetite for energy. Continue reading
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Tory cuts contributed to Walkerton tragedy, judge told
(August 24, 2001) Walkerton, Ont. — The provincial Tories’ fixation on the bottom line contributed directly to deaths from tainted-water in Ontario, a lawyer for the provincial Public Service Employees Union argued Thursday. Continue reading
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