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Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Electrical Generation Sector
Energy Probe is the only organization with a plan to save Ontario's energy system
The Tories under Ernie Eves had no plan, only a hodge-podge of contradictory policies – price freezes, billions in new spending on the nuclear industry, subsidies to conservation, pretenses at deregulation. That way lay ruin.
Privatization's power
Governments that privatize electricity generators provide their citizens with cheaper, dependable power. Why is Ontario heading into darkness?
With bankruptcies and blackouts on Ontario’s electricity horizon, the Ontario government is poised to shelve plans to create a competitive market. Instead, it will remain with the monopoly system that has brought Ontarians some of the highest costs on the continent. To boot, it is likely to soon become one of the continent’s most unreliable power systems.
Re Electricity: learning from the shocks
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The process works – Re: "Procedural pitfalls" by Gord Perks (Enviro, Dec. 16)
Eye magazine December 23/2004
The process works
Re: "Procedural pitfalls" by Gord Perks (Enviro, Dec. 16)
In criticizing the Ontario Energy Board for its passionless debate, Perks has overlooked the pattern of environmental success that arises from due process and meaningful energy prices.
A coal disaster
Ontario begins to phase out coal power on Saturday, starting with the closure of the Lakeview coal-fired generating station west of Toronto. Inefficient and heavily polluting following decades of neglect by its previous owner, Ontario Hydro, Lakeview’s retirement will allow people downwind of it to breathe easier.
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