To read new posts, see the Canadian Energy Issues homepage Last Friday, the Ontario Minister of Energy gave the operator of the province’s four coal-fired electricity generating plants until 2011 to cut annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by two-thirds. I support emission reductions, but there are good ways and bad ways to achieve them....
Ontario Power Generation
Ontario power rate debate: what should the rate increase pay for?
Ontario’s regulated power generator, OPG, has asked the provincial regulator for permission to increase rates by 14 percent. OPG says it needs to raise money to build new nuclear and hydro facilities. It appears that green groups, or at least those who talked to the Toronto Star’s Ian Urquhart the other day, approve of...
How to pay for new nuclear plants in North America
Over the past year I have suggested emitting jurisdictions become involved in cap-and-trade systems. Even though the European Emission Trading Scheme, or ETS, is deeply flawed and in desperate need of stronger support from the member countries that tout it (see article), I recommended becoming involved in cap-and-trade as a way of easing into...
Prentice goes to Industry: major nuclear initiative in the offing?
Does anyone remember May 2005, when Paul Martin promised $538 million to Dalton McGuinty to help defray the costs of closing Ontario’s coal plants? And that the Harper Conservatives told McGuinty they would honour Martin’s promise? Nobody ever mentions it. I wonder if anybody does remember. When the Ontario Liberal government introduced, in June,...
Ontario at the crossroads: nuclear now or forget about clean air, climate change targets
In my most recent post, I mentioned that using Ontario electricity for space heating is now slightly less emission intensive than using natural gas. Gas, I should point out, is the least emission intensive fossil fuel. What will be the emission intensity of Ontario electricity in five years? It could be significantly less than...
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