Deputation re. Repeal of the Green Energy Act (Bill 34)
Here are notes from my appearance before the Ontario Legislature’s Social Policy Committee, October 29, 2018 commenting on the Repeal of the Green Energy Act (Bill 34). (check against delivery)
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Comments filed on Environmental Registry of Ontario re. “Repeal of the Green Energy Act (Bill 34)”
(ERO posting #013-3832, comments filed Oct 21) Bill 34 claims to repeal the McGuinty government’s signature legislation — the Green Energy Act — yet the real effect of Bill 34 is to preserve the core of the McGuinty government’s original GEA.
On Confidence and Trust – Submission to the OEB Modernization Review Panel
Mr. Stephen Rhodes Deputy Minister of Energy Email: [email protected] Dear Mr. Rhodes, I am writing to you with a request that you can bring my letter to the attention of the OEB Modernization Review Panel.
@FordNation’s Energy Policy Record So Far
All the partisans for and against the Green Energy Act (GEA) screaming about the act’s demise are missing the forest for the trees. Premier Ford’s new legislation claiming to repeal McGuinty’s signature legislative legacy preserves the core of the original GEA.
Summary of Appearance: Craig Needles Show, June 27 10:35 am
Here is a rough summary of my appearance on the Craig Needles Show, AM980 London Ontario, June 27 10:35 am.
Cap and Tirade
The Ontario governing party with five criminal investigations ongoing including several related to document destruction, the party of pay-for-access policy-for-hire fundraisers, the party that dismisses the Auditor General as confused about many things to do with energy, that is the party that is right now concocting a carbon market in Ontario out of government decrees. …
Presentation to Scarborough Southwest Ontario PC Association 2013 Feb 2
This Youtube video summarizes some of my themes from a presentation to the Scarborough Southwest Ontario PC Association on February 2nd. The three topics I addressed were McGuinty’s gas plant scandal and where it is heading, the implications for rates and reliability of not repealing the Green Energy Act, and a review and endorsement of …
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Contributor to Green Energy Act Joins Broadbent Institute
Yesterday, the Broadbent Institute, created by former national leader of the NDP, Ed Broadbent, announced that Rick Smith, had joined the organization as Executive Director. Smith is the former Executive Director of Environmental Defence. In the press release announcing Smith’s position, the Broadbent Institute highlighted Smith’s contribution to Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act. Smith’s move …
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Ontario Power Rates Headed for #1 by 2013
The Ontario Government’s Long Term Energy Plan (LTEP) issued in the Fall of 2010 forecast that monthly residential costs would rise from $114/800kWh in 2010 to $167/800kWh in 2015 — a 46% nominal increase or a 33% inflation-adjusted increase.Here are examples of new cost pressures driving up rates that have developed since the LTEP was …
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Ontario’s Green Energy Act: Case for Repeal
This essay, presented on Youtube, surveys the economic, administrative, and social impacts of Ontario’s Green Energy Act on the eve of the Act’s 2nd anniversary and concludes that the Act must be repealed.