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Minister Chiarelli: you need “better control” of your power costs
As per our post on Monday, a panel consisting of a local business representative, a social assistance agency, and a farm owner were guests on CBC’s Ottawa Morning show, to discuss the impact of rising...
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Green Energy Act the most important issue for rural, small town Ontario
With a possible provincial election in the spring, and a municipal election in October, this story will be of interest to political hopefuls: the Green Energy Act has been a disaster for...
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PC Energy Critic MacLeod to hold pre-budget consultations
Pre-Budget Consultations Here’s your chance to talk to MPP MacLeod about your Ontario Budget concerns! She’s ready to discuss the closure of Kemptville College, the cutbacks at Winchester District...
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Eastern Ontario farmers on turbines: expensive, inefficient, and No thanks
According to the Eastern edition of Farmers Forum, the paper did a survey at the recent Farm Show in Ottawa and asked people whether they “approve” of wind turbines. The startling result is the...
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Parker Gallant: the Liberal shell game on hydro bills
The Liberals’ promise of ‘significant relief’ on power bills: a closer look The April 2014 Liberal event calendar has had a minimum of an event a day, including the Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli’s...
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Election goal: unseat Ontario’s Minister of Energy
Ottawa West-Nepean candidates are familiar rivals Bob Chiarelli faces off against Randall Denley and Alex Cullen CBC News Posted: May 06, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: May 06, 2014 2:57 PM ET...
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Ashton farmer sells everything; electricity bills too high
Ashton farm sold when local profits couldn’t keep up with hydro bills By Brandy Harrison, farmersforum.com May, 2014 ASHTON — It’s a done deal: the store is empty, the equipment auctioned off, and the...
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Horwath in Sarnia: still believes in wind farms
The NDP has not released its official platform yet for the election, and has been sparing with details, especially on the energy sector. Some clues may be had, however, in this report from Sarnia where...
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“Liberals no saviour”: Ottawa Citizen report on debate
Although not to be televised until Thursday, and then only for Rogers TV subscribers, the Ottawa Citizen carries a report on the debate in today’s edition, on page A 3. Liberal candidate for...
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10 years of “irrational” energy planning in Ontario
Here from former banker Parker Gallant, an analysis of what has gone wrong on the energy file in Ontario over the last 10 years. Ontario’s Power Trip: Irrational energy planning has tripled power rates...
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Ontario energy ministers’ hydro rate forecasts off
Parker Gallant: Ontario’s energy ministers’ forecasts: don’t believe a word Hydro One serves less than one-quarter Ontario customers, yet has more “costs” In late 2009, with the advent of the Green...
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Farmers Forum editorial on wind: I don’t want a turbine
Apparently, everyone is tickety-boo with Wolfe Island being turned into a factory–or are they? Wind turbine woes September 2014, Farmers Forum Farmers Forum surveyed a big chunk of Wolfe Island...
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Ontario electricity policies hamper economic growth: Fraser Institute
Here a commentary from Ottawa-based energy economist, Robert Lyman: In May 2014, the Fraser Institute, based in British Columbia, published a report authored by Professor Ross McKitrick and PhD...
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Ontario’s expensive electricity week: $44 million lost as extra power sold cheap
Ontario’s expensive electricity week: what could $44M have bought? What the lost $44 million could have bought: 293 family docs, 580 nurse practitioners Blowing Ontario’s ratepayer dollars Money lost...
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Hydro bills to rise again November 1
Off-peak rates have climbed 51% since 2010 From the CBC: Ontario hydro bills are scheduled to increase as temperatures decrease, the Ontario Energy Board announced Thursday. The price per kilowatt...
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Are Ontario wind power subsidies keeping Florida bills low? (Yes)
Ontario: keeping Florida’s fossil-fuel power bills low Florida: plenty of natural gas-fired power. No wind Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), the largest subsidiary in NextEra Energy Inc’s...
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Ontario’s $1B electricity month: wind surplus significant
October 2014 Breaks Record for Ontario Electricity Costs and Losses Cost to consumers of government energy policies for one month reaches $1 billion TORONTO, Nov. 5, 2014 /CNW/ – The Ontario...
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Does conserving power in Ontario save us money? (No.)
Here is a precis of an analysis of the Ontario government’s conservation efforts prepared by local economist Robert Lyman, based on research by Parker Gallant. Here are the numbers. In 2009, local...
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Ontario’s “Rollback” surplus power sale: $4B in 3 years
Here from former bank VP Parker Gallant, now VP of Wind Concerns Ontario, a review of Ontario’s green energy policy which has resulted in a surplus of power produced when we don’t need it, and the...
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Hydro One billing mess: not fixed after a year
In today’s Ottawa Citizen is a story on a $25,000 bill sent by Hydro One to an Eastern Ontario family. This problem is not going away… As if skyrocketing power rates, due in part to “renewables” like...
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