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Lights out
First the good news: the biggest blackout ever in North America brought out the best in millions of citizens. Now the bad: it exposed a woefully fragile electrical system. How did it happen? And how vulnerable are we to another shutdown?
Major fixes are vital to prevent future blackouts
North America will see more power outages unless it deals not only with the engineering flaws that allowed last week’s blackout to spread within seconds across Ontario and eight U.S. states, but also with the policy flaws that have left electricity systems routinely on the knife edge of capacity.
Almost instantly, experts were debating how North American jurisdictions can boost their generating capacity, improve inadequate transmission systems and even restructure the basic architecture of how electricity is supplied to consumers.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power or less?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power or less?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
Power company urges Ontario to lay out firm plan
Toronto: The Ontario government needs to clarify its long-term electricity plans and tell the private sector what the future holds for Ontario Power Generation, the chief executive officer of TransCanada Corp. said yesterday.
Harold Kvisle, whose company is already one of the largest private investors in Ontario’s power system, said business is willing to make investments to meet the province’s pressing need for more electricity generation capacity. But it needs to know the long-term game plan, he said.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
Hampton going down wrong road
Wawa: Veteran Queen’s Park reporters admit, shame-faced, how they helped to elect Bob Rae in 1990 by completely ignoring him.
Rae didn’t even unveil his platform until two weeks into the campaign, and it was only in its dying days that it became clear he was likely to unseat David Peterson.
And so to Wawa, in the shadow of its giant Canada goose, to ensure that Howard Hampton does not fly under the media radar screen straight into power.
Keeping the streets from going dark
Liberal power policy is focused on conservation, closing coal-fired plants; platform couched in environmental terms.
Since last month’s blackout, keeping Ontario’s lights on has become much more than a simple metaphor for the province’s electricity policy.
As the party leading the polls in the current provincial election campaign, how would the Liberals maintain a steady supply of power at reasonable prices?
How did we get into this mess?
Ontario has an electricity crisis – shortages, reliability problems, and potential loss of affordable rates. Government initiatives to restructure Ontario Hydro, deregulate the electricity market, and sell off the assets of Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One have proven to be unworkable and unpopular.
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