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House Hansard: Session 38:2, June 13, 2006
Oral Questions
1440
The Speaker: New question. The leader of the third party.
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Time to chop wood
Toronto: With the price of crude oil continuing its climb to hit a record high of $50 US per barrel this week, Canadian consumers are feeling the pinch at the gas pumps and gearing up for a winter of high heating costs. Analysts said yesterday that prices could keep rising because of a sharp rise in global demand, tight supplies and threats to output in petroleum-producing nations such as Iraq and Nigeria.
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Air quality in Ontario
Environment Minister Tony Clement put his best smudged face on a dirty air policy yesterday. And dirty it is – potentially a lot dirtier than what we have.
Clement’s spin on his policy was that it was “tough new actions” that will “strengthen an already aggressive campaign to improve air quality in Ontario.”
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Energy Probe's position on emission reduction trading
This is a summary of Energy Probe’s concerns over the Ontario Emission Reduction Trading (ERT) program announced in January. The government’s ERT program fails to meet the objectives of its November 1997 White Paper on electricity reform and should be substantially revised to achieve environmental improvement.
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Gasoline refiners reducing sulphur
Canada’s major oil refineries are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rid themselves of the well-deserved reputation of producing North America’s dirtiest gasoline.
Canadian lawmakers have already given refiners a Jan. 1, 2005, deadline to lower sulphur content by 97%.
The Irving Oil Co. has already achieved part of that requirement with a $1-billion retrofit of its New Brunswick refinery.
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Comments on EBR Registry Number RA01E00020
John Hutchinson, Senior Policy Advisor
Air Policy and Climate Change
4th Floor, 135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1P5
re. Comments on EBR Registry Number RA01E00020
Dear Sir,
Energy Probe has reviewed the above noted registry and makes the following comments.
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Ontario air worse than it appears
Fighting for air: Andrea Long and her daughter Callan both suffer from asthma and worry about the quality of air in Toronto.
Steve Russell/Toronto Star
The truth about the air we breathe in Ontario is about to be revealed.
And it’s going to be ugly.
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Hidden taxes hurt democracy
Letter to the Toronto Star editor:
Re: "Toronto’s out-of-sight Hydro kitty," March 30, 2002.
Electricity switch costly for many
Nearly a million Ontario electricity consumers have recently signed expensive long-term contracts to buy power, often from high-pressure door-to-door marketers and at fixed rates more than a third higher than likely market levels. The contracts take effect when Ontario’s electricity market opens for competition on May 1 and have prompted controversy.
Cost of electricity 4 cents an hour
Four cents and change: That’s what you’re paying for a kilowatt hour of electricity today if you’re a householder in Ontario.
And that’s the price to compare with the rates of electricity retailers, who are offering fixed rate contracts at up to 5.95 cents a kilowatt hour for a five-year deal.
The two men most closely involved with opening Ontario’s electricity market to competition agree the current cost of power is a little over 4 cents a kilowatt hour.
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