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Category Archives: Utility Reform
Buying Hydro, twice
(October 23, 2001) Who owns Toronto Hydro? The obvious answer would seem to be the people who paid to create the utility. That would be local ratepayers who financed Toronto Hydro from its inception. Continue reading
Dining out on hydro’s tab
(October 22, 2001) Put your ear close to an electric plug at home or work, and you may hear a sucking sound. It is the noise made by municipalities vacuuming cash – hundreds of millions of dollars – out of Ontario’s electricity system. Continue reading
Never going to see any gas – rural residents
(October 15, 2001) Fredericton – Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline is running into resistance from rural New Brunswickers who are fed up at being asked to endure gas pains without getting any gas. Continue reading
Fixed-price hydro no deal
(July 27, 2001) Consumers who haven’t signed a fixed-price contract are likely to pay about 4.3 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity under Ontario’s new market system, says a study conducted for the Ontario Energy Board. Continue reading
Hydro utilities lag in plans for new market, board says
(July 25, 2001) Many local utilities are months behind scheduale preparing for Ontario’s new competitive electricity market, according to the Ontario Energy Board. Continue reading
Natural gas price drops 11% in July
(July 10, 2001) The retail price of natural gas has dropped 11 per cent this month, and is likely to drop another 20 per cent or more early this fall, says Enbridge Consumer Gas. Continue reading
Guiding and Controlling Ontario’s Future Water and Wastewater Services:
(June 25, 2001) Guiding and Controlling Ontario’s Future Water and Wastewater Services: User Pay and Full Cost Pricing, Independent Economic Regulation, and Strengthened Environmental Law Enforcement Continue reading
Energy rebate well hidden
(May 22, 2001) Ontario consumers may be unwittingly singing away a valuable rebate on their electricity prices to private utility companies, says the head of an energy watchdog group. Continue reading
Natural gas marketers hit streets
(May 11, 2001) Natural-gas marketers are descending on the greater Toronto area offering consumers fixed rates after a winter of soaring prices. Continue reading
Collapse of telecom suppliers troubling
(August 18, 2001) One senses a new harshness in the deregulated world after a Hamilton Spectator story this week about a lawyer representing Union Energy firing off a letter to a customer abruptly demanding $1.53. Continue reading
