hiking hydro prices 80% between 2004 and 2014

A good history of Ontario’s electricity policies over a decade:

No one is more responsible for the ongoing electricity disaster in Ontario than former premier Dalton McGuinty.

1,000 times the sponsorship scandal

Well worth the read:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/andrew-coyne-the-lucrative-business-of-buying-subsidies

… consumers were out $37 billion — almost 1,000 times as much as the sums involved in the sponsorship scandal…

“double the U.S. market price for wind”

In the same way that cigarettes are no more than nicotine-delivery devices, wind turbines in Ontario are subsidy-delivery devices, at twice the going rate:

consumers could end up paying $9.2 billion more for renewable energy over 20-year contracts issued under the Green Energy Act with guaranteed prices set at double the U.S. market price for wind

Ontario’s decision-making process

Regarding the decision-making process for developing wind turbines, there are 3 parties:

Big Wind on TVO at 9 PM Sep 16th

http://tvo.org/schedule/2015-09-16

or watch it over your high-speed Internet connection:

http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2015/03/26/watch-tvo-documentary-big-wind-online/

Air Date:

Sep 20, 2015

Length:

57:48

Available Until:

Mar 25, 2021

‘They’re Not Green’ now playing on Culture Unplugged

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/53725

Director:  Nettie Peña  |  Producer: Nettie Peña

Genre: Documentary  |  Produced In: 2011  |  Country: US

Synopsis: For a period extending over thirty years, the wind power industry, its lobbyists and a host of

Cost of power a factor in loss of 1,000 more jobs

The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association said such factors add more difficulty to Oshawa and other places that are already struggling to keep auto manufacturing operations in their communities.

“The increase of cost of electricity is a very big factor in operations,” association president Mark Nantais said. “It’s one of the factors in developing the business case of reinvesting in the province. We have costs in electricity rates two to three times bigger than in competing plants in competing jurisdictions.”