Gas Busters Part 76: Conviction against Livingston, Miller walks, judgement attached
Below is the Reasons for Judgment of Justice T. R. Lipson in the gas scandal trial released on January 19, 2018 at around 4 pm.
Archive of entries posted by Tom Adams
Top Website Posts, Tweets and Facebook Posts for 2017
Here is my annual review of this site and my two energy-related social media accounts. Like previous annual reports, this one is linked to the “About Tom” “category”. In February and March, this site was subject to at least one malware attack, inconveniencing readers and therefore messing with traffic results. I used Facebook, primarily as …
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“˜We’ve allowed our power system to drift into parasitism’: Summaries for Dec. 6-7 Radio Interviews
The following notes summarize about an hour of live radio interviews on three shows (Tom McConnell, Scott Thompson, and Craig Needles) addressing the December 2017 report of the Auditor General on the IESO and also a recent report of the Market Surveillance Panel on gaming by the Goreway generating station.
Ontario Ratepayers Gored at Goreway
By Parker Gallant and Tom Adams What’s up with the big consumer rip-off Mike Crawley has ably reported on?
Summary of Interview with Scott Thompson, CHML Radio November 27
Here is a rough summary of my interview with Scott Thompson on AM900 CHML in Hamilton around 1:35 November 27th.
Summary of Nov. 27 Interview with Tom McConnell, CKTB Radio
Rough summary of Nov. 27 Interview with Tom McConnell — CKTB radio 10 am time slot Link: http://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/shows/the-tom-mcconnell-show-1.1816233
Review of the Ontario PC 2018 Electricity Platform (National Post version added)
Patrick Brown’s election platform “guarantees” that the Ontario PCs “will fix Hydro”. He reverses the PC’s previous rejection of Premier Wynne’s Fair Hydro Plan, which shifts 25% of current household rates to taxpayers and future consumers. The new PC position is that the only problem with Wynne’s hydro cost shifting and deferral program is that …
Perils of Populism
The Ontario PC party released the results of its membership vote on a wide range of policy initiatives yesterday in advance of the party’s policy convention tomorrow. On topics that would influence Ontario’s electricity future, the results emphasize (in case anyone doubted) profound dissatisfaction within the PC base about the electricity situation but also expose …
Plea to Federal Government: Mitigate the Harm You have Caused at Muskrat Falls (w/ note revising comments constitutional powers)
On Monday October 2, 2017, I testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources. The main theme of my testimony was to plead with the federal government to act quickly to mitigate the harm it has caused by facilitating the Muskrat Madness project in Labrador. Recognizing the federal government’s role in causing …
Guest Post: Ontario Liberal Politics Overriding Public Safety
One of the casualties in the Ontario government’s headlong rush into green energy has been the loss of balanced, responsible environmental assessment. Here is a short summary of two recent instances where the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has failed to responsibly administer environmental assessment processes and put the public at risk. For …
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