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Higher Profits and Lower Bills: A New Electricity Strategy for Hydro Quebec
Hydro Quebec’s profits will fall by 24% and its rates will rise by 8% according to this new report released by Equiterre and the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA). Having developed all of the province’s low-cost hydro-electric resources, Hydro Quebec can no longer increase its profits and lower its rates by building new low-cost hydro facilities.
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Conservation vs. Electricity Supply
This updated factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority's spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods. OPA has entered contracts for 13,409 megawatts (MW) of electricity supply yet its conservation and demand management programs are reducing demand in 2010 by approximately 430 MW. For every MW of demand reduction that it has reported, the OPA has contracted for 31 MW of electricity supply.
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Coal is costing us the air we breathe!
Ontario now has a significant surplus of coal-free electricity. We do not need to wait four more years to finish the coal phase out.
According to an Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) report, Finishing the coal phase-out: An historic opportunity for climate leadership, Ontario’s coal-free generation capacity is now 17% greater than the province’s peak day demand in the summer of 2010 and 28% greater than its forecast peak day demand in 2014. As a consequence, we no longer need our dirty coal plants to keep the lights on in Ontario or to ensure a reliable electricity supply.
Order our new pamphlet and support our call for climate leadership! Then send a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty asking him to put dirty coal plants on standy reserve today.
Ontario can phase out coal NOW!
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Nurses, Doctors Release New Coal Death Statistics
Pollution from Ontario's coalplants will kill about 1,000 people during 2010-2014.
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Why distributed power is the real answer to keeping the lights on in Toronto
Toronto on the Electricity Edge Factsheet
Powerful Options: A review of Ontario’s options for replacing aging nuclear plants
This new report discusses how hydro-electricity imports from Quebec and the development of the Lower Churchill Falls Project in Labrador can replace Ontario’s aging nuclear. In fact, it finds that Ontario has a number of viable options for replacing nuclear that are available now at a lower cost than building new nuclear reactors.
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Ontario can obtain 100% of its grid-supplied electricity from renewable sources by 2027 if Energy Minister Brad Duguid adopts the recommendations in OCAA’s report, Ontario’s Green Future. The report’s three key recommendations are build on success; take the lid off clean power; and make nuclear the last choice, not the first.
