National Post – Nov. 23, 2010
Ontario plan will see hydro bills double by 2030
By Lee Greenberg, Postmedia News
Tag Archive: electricity
Financial Post – Nov. 20, 2010
Ontario’s powerful sleight of hand
By Lawrence Solomon
National Post – Nov. 18, 2010
Editorial: McGuinty’s hydro bait-and-switch
Ontario’s economic update is in – and the provincial Liberals’ desperation level clearly is up. In advance of the update, provincial Finance Minister Dwight Duncan already had leaked the Liberals’ plan to cut Hydro bills by 10% for five years by using $1-billion in borrowed money. That populist sop would be ill-advised under any circumstances, but especially so given Ontario’s projected 2010 deficit of $18.7-billion.
The Daily Telegraph – November 13, 2010
‘Bonkers’ green energy risks power shortages
Scotland is in “serious danger” of suffering power shortages over the next decade thanks to Alex Salmond’s “bonkers” green energy policies, the head of one of the country’s largest generators has warned.
By Simon Johnson
Financial Post – November 17, 2010
Ontario to bribe its power-shocked voters
By Terence Corcoran
This cannot be true. News reports say the Ontario government is going to bring in a new Clean Air Benefit, a payment to electricity consumers to help reduce their soaring electricity bills. In an economic statement Thursday, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is apparently going to announce the Clean Air Benefit as a bold response to the growing realization across the province that Ontario’s electricity sector is a fiscal runaway train.
St. Catharines Standard – November 10, 2010
McGuinty’s election train off the tracks
By Christina Blizzard
Politics is an extreme blood sport. When things are good, they’re great. Politicians walk on air. They exude that golden glow of success. They can do no wrong. When things are bad, it seems nothing can pull them out of the slump. And right now, things are going very badly for Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Windsor Star – November 2, 2010
Utility’s political donations questioned
Cash from Essex Power used in Toronto-area byelection
By Gary Rennie
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath skewered the Liberal government and cabinet ministers like Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Dwight Duncan on Monday for taking donations from public energy utilities, including Essex Power. The local utility’s money for two $950 tickets to a Liberal party fundraiser ended up being spent on a Toronto-area byelection, according to party records filed with Elections Ontario naming contributors over $100. A $204 utility cheque went to Duncan’s riding association.
Toronto Sun – October 24, 2010
Smitherman is George of the Bungle: Blizzard Two mayoralty candidates are neck-and-neck in loudmouth bully race
By Christina Blizzard
As Toronto’s mayoralty race draws mercifully to a close, it’s been interesting to watch the anti-Rob Fordites attempt to paint him as an oaf. That’s odd, because in the many years I covered George Smitherman at Queen’s Park, I found him to be uncouth, a loudmouth and a bully. Yep, pretty well everything he’d now like you to think Ford is.
Financial Post – October 13, 2010
Ontario power lesson: Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector
By Lawrence Solomon
Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is a keynote speaker tomorrow at the Ontario Energy Association. Here is the speech he should, but won’t, give.
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