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Ontario’s electricity bills: rising costs for everyone

13 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by ottawawindconcerns in Ottawa, Renewable energy, Wind power

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Ottawa Morning

Here from today’s CBC show Ottawa Morning, is a panel discussion on the impact of Ontario’s rising electricity bills. The panelists include a representative from the Preston Street BIA, a representative of an agency trying to help people in need, and an Ottawa area dairy farmer.

The message is a powerful one: rising electricity bills will result in increased costs for everyone including for food, as well as job losses as business try to cope.

Dairy farmer Peter Ruiter of Black Rapids Farm says the province ought to have figured out how it was going to pay for its renewables progarm. He invited Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli to come to his farm.

Listen to the program here.

 

 

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Parker Gallant: Ontario already LOST $1.2B in power exports in 2013

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Ontario’s Power Trip: Province lost $1.2-billion this year exporting power

Parker Gallant | 02/12/13 | Last Updated: 03/12/13 8:00 AM ET
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As a starting point, Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli needs a bolt of financial literacy if he believes not spending an extra $20-billion actually saves the system anything.

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As a starting point, Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli needs a bolt of financial literacy if he believes not spending an extra $20-billion actually saves the system anything.

That’s a cost $250 for every average ratepayer

Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli keeps spinning on his province’s energy mess. “Looking to the future,” he told a local newspaper, “we expect that [electricity] rates will continue to increase but we’ve taken very significant steps to mitigate those rate increases.” To support his claim, Mr. Chiarelli says that the province has deferred an investment in new nuclear power, renegotiated a Samsung power deal and brought in new controls on wind power that combined will save the system $20-billion.
As a starting point, this minister needs a bolt of financial literacy if he believes not spending an extra $20-billion actually saves the system anything.
The fact is that Ontario consumers and industry will not see any relief in their power bills. Nothing brings that point home more than an examination of how much electricity Ontario exports, mostly to the United States, and what those exports cost ratepayers.

Read the full story here.

Tom Adams on CBC: podcast

27 Wednesday Nov 2013

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