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Getting Zapped: Ontario electricity prices increasing faster than anywhere else
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Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Electrical Generation Sector
U.S. traders angle for our electric wealth
As the tories set the stage for commercialized electricity in Ontario, behind-the-scenes private interests are revving up for the pending power trading frenzy. Giant U.S. power marketers like Enron Canada, whose Houston-based, George W. Bush-connected parent company recently filed for bankruptcy protection south of the border, have been lining up to get a piece of the action. Continue reading
Toronto is blackout city
(January 24, 2009) Why are the city’s power outages double those of London? Some 250,000 Torontonians lost their electricity last week, about half of them for 18 to 24 hours. Continue reading
What to do about high energy prices
With energy prices soaring, is this the right time to lock into a fixed-rate gas contract or should you stick with the floating rate offered by your utility?
Don't show your bill
"Don’t show your bill," watchdog warns Ontario consumers
Energy Probe, a national consumer and environmental watchdog, is warning consumers to avoid showing their gas and electricity bills to door-to-door representatives of energy marketers.
'Direct Energy' still misleading Ontario electricity consumers
A document released Feb. 6, 2002, by Opposition leader Dalton McGuinty shows that Direct Energy is continuing to mislead consumers. See previous Energy Probe reports on these problems at: http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm?DSP=titles&SubID=623.
The document – a Direct Energy Q&A intended for training door-to-door sales staff – contains a number of misleading statements.
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Bring back strong regulation – and corporate responsibility
Dear Friend:
Three years ago, when Enron tried to bring a California-style power system to Canada, Energy Probe, working with the Canadian regulatory system, stopped it dead in its tracks. That ended a risk of needless blackouts and bankruptcies that devastated the California economy.
Electricity supply for Ontario
Oral Questions
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The Speaker: New question. The leader of the third party.
Mr. Howard Hampton (Kenora-Rainy River): Speaker, a question for the Premier. Today will go down as the day that Dalton McGuinty hit the nuclear button: $40 billion for expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear plants; $4 out of every $5 of your electricity scheme for nuclear plants, not counting cost overruns.
Ontario’s Roadmap
(March 10, 2008) Energy policy isn’t just consuming U.S. lawmakers. It’s also dominating the Canadian agenda and particularly the province of Ontario. Continue reading
Power to consumers, not monopolies
Fifty million North Americans suffered inconvenience and expense in the Great Blackout of 2003. Not one will receive any compensation.
Millions of companies also suffered inconvenience and expense, and lost business that they will never make up. Amid the ruins, however, lie a lucky handful of companies who will have their losses covered. The lucky are among the electricity monopolies that brought us the Great Blackout of 2003.
Lessons of the August 14th blackout in the U.S. and Canada
Energy Probe’s presentation to the US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force 2003
Thank you, on behalf of Energy Probe, for the opportunity to present our ideas on how to reduce the risk of widespread power disruptions in future.
Energy Probe is a 24 year old citizen-based environmental and consumer research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible and economically efficient solutions to Canada’s energy problems.
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