Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation SectorWhat to do about high energy pricesGordon Powers 25 Sep 2008 MSN Finance With energy prices soaring, is this the right time to lock into a fixed-rate gas contract or should you stick with the floating rate offered by your utility? read more » Ontario's RoadmapKen Silverstein 10 Mar 2008 EnergyBiz Insider Energy policy isn't just consuming U.S. lawmakers. It's also dominating the Canadian agenda and particularly the province of Ontario. The current government there recently unveiled its long-term supply roadmap that plans to double the amount of renewable energy by 2025 and refurbish or replace the province's base-load nuclear capacity. But it also expects to phase-out the use of coal-fired generation by 2014 -- a strategy that had to be put off for seven years. read more » Electricity supply for OntarioEXCERPT 13 Jun 2006 House Hansard: Session 38:2, June 13, 2006 Oral Questions 1440 The Speaker: New question. The leader of the third party. Mr. Howard Hampton (Kenora-Rainy River): Speaker, a question for the Premier. Today will go down as the day that Dalton McGuinty hit the nuclear button: $40 billion for expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear plants; $4 out of every $5 of your electricity scheme for nuclear plants, not counting cost overruns. read more » A coal disasterTom Adams 29 Apr 2005 National Post Ontario begins to phase out coal power on Saturday, starting with the closure of the Lakeview coal-fired generating station west of Toronto. Inefficient and heavily polluting following decades of neglect by its previous owner, Ontario Hydro, Lakeview's retirement will allow people downwind of it to breathe easier. Don't show your billTom Adams 5 Feb 2005 "Don't show your bill," watchdog warns Ontario consumers Energy Probe, a national consumer and environmental watchdog, is warning consumers to avoid showing their gas and electricity bills to door-to-door representatives of energy marketers. read more » Privatization's powerTom Adams 25 Mar 2004 Financial Post Governments that privatize electricity generators provide their citizens with cheaper, dependable power. Why is Ontario heading into darkness? With bankruptcies and blackouts on Ontario's electricity horizon, the Ontario government is poised to shelve plans to create a competitive market. Instead, it will remain with the monopoly system that has brought Ontarians some of the highest costs on the continent. To boot, it is likely to soon become one of the continent's most unreliable power systems. read more » Energy Probe is the only organization with a plan to save Ontario's energy systemTom Adams 9 Dec 2003 The Tories under Ernie Eves had no plan, only a hodge-podge of contradictory policies – price freezes, billions in new spending on the nuclear industry, subsidies to conservation, pretenses at deregulation. That way lay ruin. Lessons of the August 14th blackout in the U.S. and CanadaTom Adams 8 Dec 2003 Energy Probe's presentation to the US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force 2003 Thank you, on behalf of Energy Probe, for the opportunity to present our ideas on how to reduce the risk of widespread power disruptions in future. Energy Probe is a 24 year old citizen-based environmental and consumer research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible and economically efficient solutions to Canada's energy problems. read more » Power to consumers, not monopolies Lawrence Solomon 21 Aug 2003 Power to consumers, not monopolies Fifty million North Americans suffered inconvenience and expense in the Great Blackout of 2003. Not one will receive any compensation. Millions of companies also suffered inconvenience and expense, and lost business that they will never make up. Amid the ruins, however, lie a lucky handful of companies who will have their losses covered. The lucky are among the electricity monopolies that brought us the Great Blackout of 2003. read more » Bring back strong regulation - and corporate responsibilityTom Adams 16 Sep 2002
Dear Friend: Three years ago, when Enron tried to bring a California-style power system to Canada, Energy Probe, working with the Canadian regulatory system, stopped it dead in its tracks. That ended a risk of needless blackouts and bankruptcies that devastated the California economy. read more » 'Direct Energy' still misleading Ontario electricity consumersTom Adams 8 Feb 2002 A document released Feb. 6, 2002, by Opposition leader Dalton McGuinty shows that Direct Energy is continuing to mislead consumers. See previous Energy Probe reports on these problems at: http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm?DSP=titles&SubID=623. The document - a Direct Energy Q&A intended for training door-to-door sales staff - contains a number of misleading statements. read more » The process works - Re: "Procedural pitfalls" by Gord Perks (Enviro, Dec. 16)Eye magazine December 23/2004 The process works Re: "Procedural pitfalls" by Gord Perks (Enviro, Dec. 16) In criticizing the Ontario Energy Board for its passionless debate, Perks has overlooked the pattern of environmental success that arises from due process and meaningful energy prices. read more » Runaway nuclear by Tom AdamsNational Post October 26/2005 Runaway nuclear by Tom Adams read more » Coal comes clean by Tom AdamsNational Post November 4/2005 Coal comes clean by Tom Adams read more » Dark days ahead by Tom AdamsNational Post February 9/2006 Dark days ahead by Tom Adams read more » Century of mayhem by Tom AdamsNational Post June 8/2006 Century of mayhem by Tom Adams read more » Parkinson's flaw by Tom AdamsNational Post December 21/2006 Parkinson's flaw by Tom Adams read more » |
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