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Ottawa consumers brace for 17% jump in natural gas bills
(December 8, 2000) Natural gas prices are going through the roof this winter, creating increases of $500 or $600 in the annual bills for many typical households and a $25-billion hit to Canada’s manufacturing industry. Continue reading
Higher hydro rates predicted
(November 14, 2000) Deregulation, debt loads, market forces will see users digging deeper, experts say. The Ontario electricity market, the biggest in the country, is about to be jolted by higher and more volatile power rates, according to industry experts. Continue reading
Hydro billing leaves customers in the dark
(November 10, 2000) Engineer can’t get answer about unbundled bills. Electricity bills are changing with the advent of a competitive market. But customers may not understand the new “unbundled” bills or how the charges are calculated. Paul Kozma, a retired engineer, has gone to great lengths to figure out his Toronto Hydro bill. Continue reading
Playing the hydro waiting game
(October 31, 2000) “Nobody knows what the new price of electricity will be,” said Peter Dyne, who is in charge of the energy committee for the Consumers’ Association of Canada. “So people should wait until the market opens.” Continue reading
Talking Alternative fuels
(October 15, 2000) Allison Smith (CBC): If an election is indeed called in Ottawa this week you can be sure the rising cost of fuel will become an issue during the campaign. Oil prices have skyrocketed recently, especially with the crisis in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Electricity utilities told to phase-in power hikes
(October 2, 2000) The Ontario Energy Board has ruled that electricity rate increases must be phased-in over a three-year period. The regulatory agency said Friday electrical utilities would only be allowed higher increases in special circumstances. Continue reading
Hydro hikes must be phased in, OEB rules
(September 29, 2000) Looming electricity rate increases sought by local utilities must be phased in over a three-year period, the Ontario Energy Board has ruled. Continue reading
The on/off switch
(September 25, 2000) White smokestack soaring into the air and steel pipelines gleaming in the sun, a fertilizer plant near the sleepy hamlet of Carseland is the unlikely battle site in a prolonged war whose eventual victor is still unclear. Continue reading
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Why are we still subsidizing the nuclear industry?
(September 22, 2000) Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said it clearly this summer: “The world is abandoning nuclear power.” The next day, he announced that Turkey would not be buying two Canadian Candu reactors – or any other kind – and would instead pursue energy conservation, natural gas, and renewables. Ecevit also turned down the sweetheart $1.5 billion loan that Ottawa had already offered him, out of Canadian taxpayers’ money. Continue reading
Gas-fired electric plant coming
(September 15, 2000) Ontario will have a new privately owned, gas-fired electricity generating plant up and running near Sarnia two years from now. Continue reading
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