Category Archives: Costs, Benefits and Risks

Parker Gallant: Hydro One, how’s that new billing system working out?

Posted on January 25, 2014 by parkergallant2013

(January 24, 2014) In the spring of 2013, Hydro One launched their new “real time” billing system, allowing them to generate an additional $160 million (reported as an $80 annual cost for a consumer of 800 kWh per month) of … Continue reading →

Parker Gallant: Thunder Bay, gored with the Wynne

Posted on November 24, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(November 24, 2013) Seen by the Liberals and Environmental Defence (ED) as a breath taking moment for Ontario, the high priest of Global Warming, Al Gore arrived in Toronto to heap praise on the Premier and the Ontario Liberal Party at an event at MaRS Discovery District on November 21, 2013. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Manitoba, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged Al Gore, Ontario, Ontario Liberals, Parker Gallant, Thunder Bay | 3 Comments

Parker Gallant: Pumped storage equals pumped energy prices

Posted on November 18, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(November 18, 2013) As Hans and Franz of SNL fame used to say, “we want to pump you up,” and that appears to be what Northland Power Inc. want to do with a water-filled abandoned iron ore mine in Marmora, Ontario. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Privatization, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Ontario Power Generation, Parker Gallant, pumped power | 10 Comments

Parker Gallant: Wynne Government picks ratepayers pockets for wind turbine developers

Posted on November 17, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(November 16, 2013) While Premier Wynne was out jogging in the countryside – sans any turbines in the background – for the recently released Liberal promo, many of us ratepayers were having our pockets picked. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Renewables | Tagged Climate Change, electricity, green energy, Nuclear Power, Ontario Energy Board, Parker Gallant, wind turbines | 5 Comments

Parker Gallant: Street Lighting and other Liberal “Revenue Tools”

Posted on October 30, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(October 30, 2013) How “conservation” drives up your realty taxes. Continue reading →

Posted in Conservation, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Electrical, Green Energy Act, Light-emitting diode, Ontario Energy Board, Parker Gallant, Street light | 1 Comment

Parker Gallant: Ontario’s environmental commissioner, serving the public or simply sucking up?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(October 14, 2013) On October 10, 2013, Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller released his 194-page annual report titled, “Serving the Public,” and backed it up with a “supplement” that ran to 247 pages. His press conference at 10 a.m. on that day attracted little attention resulting in only minor media coverage. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Utility Regulation and Commodity Deregulation, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Privatization, Renewables | Tagged Climate Change, Crown land, Global Warming, Gord Miller, green energy, Ontario, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, wind power, wind turbines | 3 Comments

Parker Gallant: Who really sets Ontario’s Energy Policies?

Posted on October 7, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(October 7, 2013) In Ontario it’s a well-known fact that the Green Energy and Green Economy Act (GEA) was developed because a small group of people convinced a past Energy Minister, George Smitherman, it was needed. That group, the Green Energy Act Alliance (GEAA), even claim they helped him write the Act! Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Conservation, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables | Tagged Association of Municipalities of Ontario, Energy minister, ENGO, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, Parker Gallant | 9 Comments

Parker Gallant: Ontario’s Ministry of Energy creates Canada’s biggest Ponzi scheme

Posted on October 2, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(October 1, 2013) The press release on September 24, 2013, from the Attorney General’s (AG) office was headlined: “Attorney General recovers $17 million for Victims of Ponzi Scheme” and went on to describe how the money had been seized and sent to the American authorities with respect to a US orchestrated “Ponzi Scheme”. Continue reading →