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Category Archives: Power Generation in Ontario
Parker Gallant: An open letter to Brad Duguid and Anthony Haines
(Oct. 18, 2010) Parker Gallant’s open letter to the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Energy & Infrastructure and Mr. Haines, CEO, Toronto Hydro. Continue reading
Toronto Hydro lashed over blackout
(Oct. 15, 2010) Lawrence Solomon, executive director of the group Energy Probe, says Toronto Hydro would adopt more stringent measures to prevent blackouts if it had to compensate its customers for such disturbances. Continue reading
Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon on CBC TV today at 5:30 p.m.
(Oct. 15, 2010) Torontonians experience 10 to 15 times as many blackouts as their city counterparts in London, England. Why? The London power system is both privatized and well regulated. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Ontario power lesson
(Oct. 13, 2010) Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Brits to pay $3200 per year for power bill. Ontarians take note
(Oct. 6, 2010) Electricity rates in the UK provide a possible taste of what’s to come in Ontario, writes Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading
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Power authority asked to explain missed deadline
(Oct. 6, 2010) Energy Probe board member Parker Gallant says the Ontario Power Authority broken the conditions of its license by failing to file an integrated power system plan, writes John Spears in the Toronto Star. Continue reading
Green Energy: An Ontario Perspective
(Oct. 1, 2010) Glenn Fox, an agricultural and natural resource economist at the University of Guelph, presents, “Green Energy: An Ontario Perspective”. Continue reading
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Waterloo seeks hydro bill hike
(September 29, 2010) WATERLOO — Electric bills in Waterloo, already the highest in the region, are poised to rise higher. City council’s electric utility is seeking to hike its delivery charge 18.5 per cent next May, in part to continue pouring millions in profits into city coffers. Continue reading
Zap! Your hydro bill’s going up
(Sept. 23) Ontario’s already higher hydro bills will double or triple within the next couple of years unless the McGuinty government stops overpaying for wind and solar and rethinks its pledge to abandon cheap, efficient coal plants, says Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Are you frying your eggs at 4 a.m. yet?
(Sept. 18) Instead of retooling the technology, retool the people. Continue reading
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