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Canada’s nuclear nabob’s try to turn green
(May 20, 2000) For decades, nuclear power has been promising industry. First, it promised electricity too cheap to meter, and nuclear-powered cars and airplanes. Later, it promised safe, reliable and economic electricity. Continue reading
Canada’s nuclear nabobs try to turn green
(May 20, 2000) For decades, nuclear power has been a promising industry. First, it promised electricity too cheap to meter, and nuclear-powered cars and airplanes. Later, it promised safe, reliable and economic electricity. Today, those promises are hard to make with a straight face, and even harder to keep: More than one-third of Canada’s billion-dollar Candu reactors have stopped producing any electricity (or income), and the unsupportable debt created by Candu reactors has far surpassed $10-billion, not including the additional nuclear billions in the federal debt. Continue reading
Energy Probe opposes rate cushioning
(April 12, 2000) Energy board told phase-in hides effects of hikes. Regulators shouldn’t cushion consumers from electricity rate increases triggered by Ontario’s new market-driven electricity system, says Energy Probe. Continue reading
Why high oil prices won’t save our planet
(March 28, 2000) Oil prices are sky high but the sky is not falling. Improvements in efficiency since the oil price shocks in the 1970s means that high prices won’t cause a repeat of the nasty economic indigestion we suffered then. Continue reading
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The CANDU reactor bankrupted Ontario Hydro
(March 1, 2000) Like me, you can probably remember when the economics of the CANDU nuclear reactor were debatable – when many intelligent, honest people believed that nuclear power was cheap, or at least affordable. Those times are long gone. Continue reading
Backgrounder
(March 1, 2000) In a 1978 joint statement, the governments of Canada and Ontario directed Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) to develop the concept of deep geological disposal of nuclear fuel wastes. A subsequent joint statement in 1981 established that disposal site selection would not begin until after a full federal public hearing and approval of the concept by both governments. Continue reading
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Hydro bills set to jump nearly 10%
(February 3, 2000) Urban homeowners can expect an average hike of about 6 per cent in electricity costs this fall. The Ontario Energy Board has given the go-ahead to Ontario’s 255 municipal utilities to boost rates for industrial and residential customers Nov. 1. Continue reading
Ontario Hydro cash grab set to burn consumers
(January 28, 2000) Ontario’s electricity restructuring, which could and should be delivering a cheaper, more accountable electricity system, is morphing into a nightmare attack on small ratepayers and taxpayers. Continue reading
Petro-Can hopes
(January 27, 2000) Kudos to our federal government if it gets out of Petro-Can, a venture it should never have started. Once they are no longer an investor, the feds may do a better job enforcing environmental rules in the oilpatch. Continue reading
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Markets may open, but monopolies stay shut
(December 8, 1999) Canada has lessons for countries whose electricity sectors have long been dominated by government-owned monopolies. Its experience illustrates both the limitations and the opportunities created by deregulation and opening up the market. Continue reading
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