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Electricity in Ontario: higher cost, lower reliability
Here from Ottawa-based energy economist Robert Lyman, a commentary on how Ontario’s electricity system has evolved. (You may also wish to read a letter in today’s Ottawa Citizen by wind industry lobby...
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Tough questions on spending for Energy Minister Chiarelli from Parker Gallant
Parker Gallant has written a letter to Ontario Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli, as a concerned citizen of Ontario. He has included a series of pointed questions on the energy portfolio in Ontario,...
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Parker Gallant on Hydro One: use less, pay more
Reposted from Wind Concerns Ontario What Hydro One is doing to over a million ratepayers is a shame People who know me know it’s like Christmas for me when the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) posts the...
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Parker Gallant in Ottawa September 30
Many people in Ottawa are followers of Parker Gallant’s Ontario’s Power Trip columns in The Financial Post. He is, of course, the “retired banker who took a good look at his hydro bills and didn’t like...
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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 needs to learn from Europe’s green energy debacle, says policy advisor
Financial Post, April 14 Ontario will follow the EU at its peril — power rates will soar while industries depart As the Ontario government announces new unilateral climate policies, Canadian...
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The truth about ‘saving’ electricity
Ottawa-based energy economist Robert Lyman has taken a critical eye to advertisements on energy conservation This week, people living in Ottawa are being bombarded with radio and newspaper...
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Electricity bills go up again January 1
CBC December 30, 2015 Residential electricity users in Ontario are set to pay more for power in 2016 due to changes that take effect with the flipping of the calendar, according to one energy...
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Wasted hydro power adds millions to electricity bills
Wind gets first-to-the-grid (which we pay for) meaning spilled or wasted hydro (which we also pay for). [Photo: OPG]OPG spills hydro and $150 million goes “down the drain” OPG released their 2015...
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Local MPPs present petitions to halt wind power contracts
No community support for greed in Nation Twp [Photo: Ontario Farmer]December 6, 2016 Residents of Nation Township and North Stormont recently gathered signatures on a petition and letters demanding the...
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Wind power: 22% of the costs for less than 6% of the power
Former bank vice-president and vice-president of Wind Concerns Ontario was in Ottawa this past weekend, speaking at a Town Hall in Kanata on the details of Ontario’s electricity bills. Today, he...
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Rural Ontario heartbreak: wind power invasion was all for nothing
Turbines near Strathroy — the environmental impact, the noise, the high hydro bills. It was all for nothing. [Photo London Free Press]June 13, 2018 Many analysts and commentators are now looking over...
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North Stormont launches petition, says power project not “in the public...
Berwick area farm: 33 huge industrial wind turbines proposed, with risk to health, safety, environment and wildlife [Photo Dorothea Larsen, Kemptville]February 8, 2019 Eastern Ontario community group...
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Ontario electricity file “absolute disaster”: Premier Ford
Turbine components waiting for delivery to Nation Rise wind power project. Another $450 million to go on your hydro bill. [Photo: Leanne Baldwin]* October 24, 2019 Ontario Premier Doug Ford gave his...
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The visible and invisible costs of wind power
Turbines on Wolfe Island: hidden costs to wind power affect electricity customers March 2, 2020 Ontario’s fleet of wind turbines cost electricity ratepayers more than $24 million last weekend, says...
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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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