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Category Archives: Utility Reform
Salaries for Hydro One and OPG bosses were out of control, a critic maintains
(April 29, 2004) Toronto: Executive salaries escalated to millions of dollars at Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One between 1999 and 2003, and that shows the government has to take control, an energy critic says. Continue reading
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Province should cut OPG salaries: critic
(April 29, 2004) An energy critic says the Ontario government should crack down on salaries at its troubled power utilities. Documents reveal executives at Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One earned salaries in the millions of dollars between 1999 and 2003. Continue reading
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Expose the truth about the nuclear industry
(April 28, 2004) We have learned that the federal government has quietly begun giving its friends in the nuclear industry new access to the public purse, in order to fund plans for massive nuclear power growth. Continue reading
Equalization buys big government
(April 14, 2004) Last month’s federal budget renewed one of Canada’s most sacred policy cows – our $10 billion equalization program – for another five years. The first of a three-part series looks at how equalization locks “have-not” provinces into enormous welfare traps. Continue reading
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Efficiency priorities for electricity distributors
(February 18, 2004) Energy Probe has concerns about the process for the OEB’s review of electric Local Distribution Companies (LDC) economic efficiency issues. Continue reading
Ontario Energy Board strategy consultation
(December 1, 2003) In Energy Probe’s view, the starting point for consideration of the OEB’s priorities is the mandate of the Board as expressed in the purposes section of the OEB Act. Energy Probe strongly supports the purposes set out in the Act. Balance and fairness are necessities in addressing the public’s interests in regulated energy services. Continue reading
Re: Going nuclear
(November 10, 2003) The author of your editorial promoting nuclear power for Alberta should have checked the market evidence on nuclear economics before stating that “economics alone suggest that Alberta should not be ruling out the nuclear option.” Continue reading
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Power supply problems continue
(October 31, 2003) Are Ontario consumers ready to pay more for power? If the August blackout taught Ontarians anything, it’s that the province’s electricity system isn’t as secure as they’d thought. Continue reading
Dim-bulb idea
(September 24, 2003) To solve its energy problems, the Tory government in Ontario is trying a dim-bulb idea. It is ordering energy companies to pay customers to not use their products. Continue reading
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Eves to delay hydro selloff indefinitely
(September 11, 2003) Brechin: Premier Ernie Eves said yesterday that plans to eliminate Ontario Power Generation’s monopoly in the province’s electricity generating market are on hold until further notice. Continue reading
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