Attached below is the text of a press release issued by Tim Hudak’s Ontario Progressive Conservative election campaign office yesterday. On every important issue mentioned in the press release, Hudak’s position is based on an inaccurate understanding of Ontario’s electricity problems and his promises, if implemented would make Ontario citizens worse off, not better.
I will be appearing on the phone-in show Goldhawk Live (Cable 10 & Cable 63 in Toronto) to talk about Ontario customers having to pay neighbouring utilities to take excess power off the Ontario grid. Get your questions ready and call in.
Here is a short discussion of Ontario’s electricity exports from an interview on CFRA Radio (Ottawa) with host Steve Madely broadcast on January 11, 2011 at 7:45 am. Subjects addressed include factors causing rising power prices, the future of electricity demand in Ontario, and the absence of rational power planning.
Energy efficiency, promoted by many environmental advocates as the sure path to reduced energy consumption, is as likely to increase energy use as to decrease it. Here is why.
Attached is a joint submission by Parker Gallant and me to the Ontario government through the Environment Registry regarding the Draft Supply Mix Directive and the associated Long Term Energy Plan (EBR Registry Number: 011-1701).
Scott Luft has provided an excellent summary of Ontario’s electricity exports in December 2010. There were extensive periods of negative prices early and late in the month when neighbouring utilities were paid to take excess power from Ontario’s grid. During the week of December 15 through 22nd, the average rate of exports was greater than …
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In a recent National Post column, Lawrence Solomon of Energy Probe advocates a range of policy responses to existing renewable power purchase contracts entered into by the Ontario government, contracts Solomon considers to be odiously costly. Robert Mugabe, president for life of Zimbabwe, would understand Solomon’s proposals ““ outright confiscation, targeted and punitive taxation, and …
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Ontario, we have a plan! Having promised that its central planning program for Ontario’s power system would be supported by a public review process, the McGuinty government has never delivered on that promise until now. Or has it?
As reported here, Parker Gallant wrote to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) October 1st objecting to the Ontario Power Authority’s (OPA) application to the OEB for a license extension. Parker’s intervention made a number of points, including: “On August 30, 2010, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) flagrantly and without notice, much less explanation, breached Ontario …
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Germany is joining Spain and the Czech Republic in hitting the brakes on cost-no-object green power hysteria. The economic transformation and employment growth the Ontario government has targeted with its Green Energy Act is based largely on speculation that other jurisdictions will continue to subsidize green power and allow access to their markets by Ontario-produced …