May 15, 2012

Hudak’s Nuclear Fantasy

Today Ontario Opposition Leader Tim Hudak released his strategy to lower electricity rates, namely, cancelling the Green Energy Act’s feed-in-tariff for renewable energy and embarking on a major nuclear spending program to ensure that nuclear power will meet “half of our power needs.”

May 11, 2012

Alice at Queen’s Park

As MPPs started ploughing through the energy policies wrapped up in the McGuinty government’s budget this week, Energy Minister Chris Bentley provided some very “Alice Through the Looking Glass” testimony:

May 2, 2012

Nuclear Forty-Five, Renewables Six

April 24, 2012

Electricity deal no deal for consumers

On April 10th, in response to more than 600 emails from OCAA supporters, Andrea Horwath made her support for the provincial budget conditional on a review of “the electricity sector to bring down costs.”

Here is what she got from Premier McGuinty:

April 16, 2012

McGuinty puts fox in charge of the chicken coop

With its decision to appoint Murray Elston, former president of the Canadian Nuclear Association, to review Ontario’s electricity sector, the McGuinty government has put the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

April 11, 2012

Let’s save $$ billions, not millions

The NDP has made support for the provincial budget conditional on “reviewing the electricity sector to bring down costs.” This is an excellent start, but rather than focusing on small changes that can save a million here or there, we really need to focus on the multi-billion dollar savings available from ending Ontario’s fixation with using nuclear power at any cost.

With the province struggling to reduce spending and its deficit, there has never been a better time to ditch the “nuclear at any cost” mentality than now! Ontario has paid a steep price for its fixation with costly and underperforming nuclear energy, including racking up more than $20 billion in debt – and we’ve still got the waste and decommissioning to deal with.

March 29, 2012

We can influence the provincial budget and save billions – here’s how

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath now has the power to decide if the McGuinty Government survives or falls. To her credit, she has invited input from Ontarians before putting forward her party’s conditions for supporting the proposed budget, so let’s give it.

March 26, 2012

Andrea Horwath: You can ensure a just budget

March 20, 2012

Energizing the Drummond Report
Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings