Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Local Electrical Distribution Sector

(April 30, 2002) Toronto — Ontario’s electricity market opens for trading tommorow morning, but the drama begins today for Dave Goulding, who heads the Independent Electricity Marketing Organization (IMO). Continue reading →

(April 2, 2002) Hamilton electricity customers will pay what amounts to a hidden hydro tax for years to come to give city council $137 million to play with now. Continue reading →

(March 30, 2002) What’s a billion? Toronto City Council doesn’t seem to care. Just before they launded into an acrimonious budget debate earlier this month, Toronto city councillors had close to $1 billion dumped in their laps. With one exception, they ignored it. Continue reading →

(March 25, 2002) Encouraging low-income earners to take their chances with the fluctuating prices of Ontario’s soon-to-be opened electricity market is “frankly irresponsible,” says the province’s biggest salesman of fixed price energy contracts. Continue reading →

(February 28, 2002) The evolution of Ontario’s regulatory processes is resulting in a situation where the interests of some stakeholders may not be adequately repesented. It is necessary that a mechanism be put in place that will allow for the funding to be obtained during all aspects of each process. Continue reading →

(February 28, 2002) Energy Probe has reviewed the Board’s draft Rules of Practice and Procedure issued on February 6. The purposes of our submissions are four fold: to urge a comprehensive reassessment of the future of the adjudication functions of the Board, second to request a public process for the review of the draft Rules, third to recommend specific amendments to the draft Rules, and fourth to provide input to the Board on the future of the cost process. Continue reading →

(February 9, 2002) Ontario Premier Mike Harris told a Toronto press conference in December that he is “100 per cent convinced” that electricity deregulation will bring lower prices for Ontarians. Continue reading →

(February 8, 2002) Greater Toronto residents can expect to pay an extra $6 to $7 a month for electricity starting March 1, according to rate applications filed yesterday by local hydro utilities. Continue reading →

(February 6, 2002) Stopping Ontario’s progress toward an open market for electricity as advocated by Mr. Hampton, Leader of the NDP, would be a foolhardy and dangerous step, Arthur Dickinson, president of the Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario (AMPCO) said today. Continue reading →

(February 6, 2002) Presentation for the St. Lawrence Forum – St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Continue reading →