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California power woes a warning for Ontario
(January 6, 2001) Mindy Spatt’s message to Ontario is clear: “Don’t do anything we did.” Spatt, a consumer advocate, is speaking from her office in San Francisco. She’s talking about electricity, something everyone uses and takes for granted – until it isn’t there. Continue reading
Manitoba faces record natural gas hike
(January 5, 2001) With winter barely underway, some people on the Praries have been blasted with a bitterly harsh lesson in the economics of heating their homes. Continue reading
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Gas prices make us misers
(January 3, 2001) Rising natural gas prices are pushing Eastern Ontario residents to add insulation, seal cracks and look to newer furnaces, spending money now to be energy misers later. Continue reading
Electricity deregulation under fire
(January 3, 2001) Now that Alberta has officially exposed its electricity industry to market forces, the cry to pull the plug on deregulation has reached fever pitch. Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Power Industry
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Favoured Ontario plants to get deal on electricity
(January 3, 2001) The Ontario government has granted some of the largest industrial electricity consumers in the province secret cut-rate prices for four years after the market opens for competition later this year, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. Continue reading
Backgrounder: The unnatural price of natural gas
(January 1, 2001) Every day now, it seems there’s another story about the soaring cost of natural gas. Millions of Canadians who heat their homes with gas are facing a severe case of sticker shock this winter. Each bill seems to be 10, 20, even 50 per cent higher than the last one. Continue reading
LNG tanker blast would impact mile radius
(December 20, 2000) Washington – A terror attack on a tanker delivering liquefied natural gas at a U.S. port could set off a fire so hot it would burn skin and damage buildings nearly a mile away, government scientists say in a report expected to influence where new multibillion-dollar terminals will be built. Continue reading
Posted in Liquified Natural Gas
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Shocking news! Electric bills are going up right now
(December 20, 2000) Hydro rates are goin up. The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has approved a 2.6 per cent increase in hydro rates for Enersource Hydro Mississauga custombers to take place immediately. Continue reading
Biomass breakthrough cuts heating costs and greenhouse gas emissions
(December 18, 2000) Ste Anne De Bellevue, Quebec, December 13, 2000 — A new agricultural energy system that turns fast growing grasses into a low-cost, environmentally friendly means of heat energy is set to change North American energy markets. Continue reading
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Hydro customers lost in the dark
(December 11, 2000) Deregulation leaves millions of people with no way to know which firm offers the best power deal. Continue reading
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