Subway and streetcar riders in Toronto should get familiar with the electricity war in the Ontario legislature. Actually, everybody in the Greater Toronto Area should get familiar with it. The GTA runs on electricity. The war is over electricity prices. Should they be high or low? Some people think they should be high. Such...
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Nuclear energy in Ontario: legislative game theory in interesting times
The McGuinty Liberals squeaked into a minority government on October 6, mostly by hanging on to their electoral seats in urban areas—especially in and around Toronto. It was clear that their strategy in the campaign was to focus on these seats. The premier talked up his Green Energy Act incessantly, and the Green Energy...
Canadian Auto Workers want expensive, unreliable electricity and not high-paying union jobs in Ontario: Solidarity Forever, redefined
A recent article in durhamregion.com reported on an alliance between the Canadian Auto Workers (the Canadian counterpart of the United Auto Workers) and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). CAW/CAPE held a joint press conference warning of the loss of 5,000 jobs if wind and solar projects under the Ontario FIT...
Ontario election kickoff: how will energy play?
Watch The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight (September 7) on TV Ontario. I will be there, along with the Ontario energy minister Brad Duguid, Conservative energy critic John Yakabuski, NDP critic Peter Tabuns, and Green Party critic Steve Dyck. The topic of tonight’s debate: Which party has the best plan for keeping Ontario’s lights...
Faced with choosing environment or jobs, Obama chooses… jobs
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the U.S. Supreme Court had told the Obama administration that the issue of climate change is the administration’s, not the court’s, responsibility. What would Obama do? Well, we just found out. On September 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave up trying to reduce the amount...
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