Life-time lover of the law, Gordon E. Kaiser, passed away earlier this week. I knew Kaiser in his capacity as long-time vice-chair of the Ontario Energy Board. We had frequent disagreements there. Those disagreements often revolved around my repeated failure to encourage him to be more skeptical toward the economic claims of gas and electric …
Tomorrow at 10 am, the hearing phase of a judicial inquiry convenes in Collingwood, Ontario. Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco has been called in by the local town council to try to find the missing money in an electricity transaction that took place in 2012. What he is uncovering is that in Collingwood, the pigs …
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Except to endorse Ontario Energy Minister Rickford’s comments that “the OEB is broken” and his decision to shut down the ridiculously wasteful Conservation First Framework, I won’t be commenting publicly on Bill 87 as my commercial consulting interests could be affected by the outcome.
Here are two columns, originally published in the Niagara Independent, surveying the state of electricity issues in the pronouncements of the major parties leading up to the June 7th election in Ontario. The first was published May 18 and the second May 22.
Here are two podcasts from Nov. 21 reviewing Premier Wynne’s apology for rising power rates and discussing options for containing rates now and in the future.
Linked here are a couple of podcasts discussing the deal announced on Thursday, October 20 between the Ontario and Quebec governments on electricity exchanges. Here is Energy Minister Glen Thibeault trying to skate away from questions from CFRA radio’s Kristy Cameron on the savings he is claiming households will get from the deal. If the …
Here are two radio interviews reviewing the implications of the Throne speech for Ontario consumers and taxpayers:
(What follows are my speaking notes from my presentation this evening to the Finance and Economic Affairs Committee of the Ontario legislature.)
On Friday, several print outlets, lead by David Reevely at the Ottawa Citizen, reported on the latest OPP Search Warrant involving the Liberal gas plant scandal. The Information to Obtain a Search Warrant, minus some appendices, is available from these two downloads: Gas Scandal ITO Feb 4, 2015 Part 1 and Gas Scandal ITO Feb 4, 2015 …
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