Category Archives: Costs

Ratepayers on the hook for Hydro

Posted on December 23, 2015 by consumerpolicyinstitute

(December 23, 2015) Manitoba Hydro is embarking on a record-breaking spending spree that will saddle Manitobans with decades of above-inflation rate increases.

Posted in Costs, Electricity, Energy Probe News, Manitoba | Tagged Brady Yauch, electricity, electricity rates, energy, Energy Probe, manitoba hydro | Leave a comment

Top 10 takeaways from auditor general’s report on Ontario’s electricity sector

Posted on December 4, 2015 by consumerpolicyinstitute

(December 4, 2015) Ontario’s auditor general blasts the province’s dysfunctional electricity sector.

Posted in Conservation, Costs, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Brady Yauch, electricity, electricity rates, energy, Energy Probe, Ontario, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Renewable Energy | 4 Comments

Higher hydro bills to pay for high hydro bills

Posted on March 27, 2015 by consumerpolicyinstitute

(March 27, 2015) Ontario’s Ministry of Energy is hiking hydro bills on all ratepayers in an effort to stop already high hydro bills. Make sense?

Posted in Costs, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Brady Yauch, electricity, electricity rates, energy, Energy Probe, green energy, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority | 4 Comments

Parker Gallant: Hydro One, blessed by the Ontario Energy Board

Posted on March 13, 2015 by parkergallant2013

(March 12, 2015) Wow, another great day for Hydro One and another chance to sock it to Ontario’s ratepayers. The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) issued their ruling late today (March 12, 2015) on the Hydro One rate application and pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Costs, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Climate Change, electricity, electricity rates, Green Energy Act, Ontario Energy Board, Parker Gallant | 1 Comment

Parker Gallant: Energy poverty in Ontario Chapter 3

Posted on March 6, 2015 by parkergallant2013

(March 6, 2015) The prior Chapter in this series finished with the disclosure that many affected by “energy poverty” were seniors living on fixed incomes wanting to spend their final years; “aging at home” but rising energy prices were making … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Benefits and Risks, Climate Change, Conservation, Consumer Health, Costs, Electricity, Global Cooling, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Utility Regulation and Commodity Deregulation, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged energy, green energy, Green Energy Act, natural gas, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, subsidies | 4 Comments

Parker Gallant: Energy poverty in Ontario Chapter 1

Posted on March 1, 2015 by parkergallant2013

(March 1, 2015) The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) annually puts out a consumer chart with the questions/issues most often asked about.

Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Consumer Health, Costs, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables | Tagged Climate Change, electricity, Global Warming, green energy, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, subsidies | 8 Comments

Parker Gallant: Liberal gas plant report: keep moving folks, nothing to see here!

Posted on February 23, 2015 by parkergallant2013

(February 22, 2015) MPP Shafiq Oaadri, Chair, of the Standing Committee on Justice Policy presented the “Liberal” member’s perspective to the Legislature on “The Cancellation and Relocation of the Gas Plants and Document Retention Issues” several days ago.

Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Privatization, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Utility Reform | Tagged Climate Change, electricity, green energy, natural gas, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, subsidies, wind turbines | 1 Comment

Toronto Hydro’s ratepayers pay dearly for electing GTA Liberals

Posted on December 14, 2014 by parkergallant2013

(December 14, 2014) Anyone aware of the fallout from the Auditor General, Bonnie Lysyk’s report on “smart meters” knows Ontario’s Energy Minister, Bob Chiarelli, challenged her report suggesting the energy sector was hard to understand because it is so “complex”!

Posted in Benefits and Risks, Climate Change, Conservation, Costs, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged electricity, green energy, Green Energy Act, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant | 5 Comments

Parker Gallant: WHO’s facts are right!

Posted on September 12, 2014 by parkergallant2013

(September 11, 2014) The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued Fact Sheet No 266, “Climate change and health” and one of the facts they published was this one …