(October 2, 2017) Nalcor’s Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple-digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power. Continue reading
(October 2, 2017) Government-owned utilities have a costly, longstanding habit they can’t seem to kick: megaprojects. Continue reading
(October 2, 2017) The Site C dam exhibits many of the same traits afflicting other megaprojects: an undermining of the regulatory system, accounting tricks that mask the real cost of the project and an explicit guarantee of a taxpayer bailout.
(September 29, 2017) The Fair Hydro Plan ads being rolled out by the province contain a number of misleading claims. Continue reading
(September 22, 2017) Since his pullout in June, Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed the wisdom of pulling out of the “bad deal” for the U.S. that was Paris.
(September 18, 2017) Join us for the return of the Grounds for Thought discussion night with our most controversial topic to date. Oh, it’s a doozy alright!
(September 6, 2017) Government-owned power utilities across Canada are pushing ahead with multi-billion dollar megaprojects, while undermining the regulators put in place to protect consumers from such reckless behaviour, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Policy Institute.
(August 25, 2017) Among coal’s virtues is its small ecological footprint, in startling contrast to the clodhoppers that are renewable energy.
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(August 15, 2017) A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds Ontario’s green energy policies have yielded moderate environmental gains while drastically increasing energy prices.
(August 11, 2017) Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates.
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