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  1. Who Could Object to a Carbon Tax?

    Appeared in The Province, Huffington Post, and Okanagan Saturday, Dec 5, 2014 Carbon taxes are back on centre stage in Canada, after a new “bipartisan” Ecofiscal Commission came out in favour of the idea. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is also talking ...

  2. Hot air from the wind lobby

    Appeared in the Financial Post On October 30 we published a Fraser Institute study entitled “ What Goes Up… Ontario’s Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down.” We analyzed the factors driving the rise in Ontario’s electricity prices, focusing ...

  3. What Goes Up...Ontario's Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down

    Ontario’s total annual power cost has risen by over 50% since 2004, despite declining competitive wholesale market prices. This is due to increases in the so-called Global Adjustment, a non-market mechanism that now dominates power pricing in Ontario, and ...

  4. Never underestimate the potential for bad policy

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun and Owen Sound Sun Times Back in 2005, the Fraser Institute published a policy study examining the Ontario government's decision to shut down coal-fired power generation in the province. We observed that while the ...

  5. Ontario's Green Energy Act a Bad Bargain for Ontarians

    Appeared in the Financial Post In 2009, under the Premiership of Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA), an Act that aimed to increase Ontario’s use of renewable energy such as wind power, solar power, biofuels, ...

  6. On Green Energy Act, Ontario government still sees no evil

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, namely the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA). We found that the Act is costing Ontario over $5 ...

  7. Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act

    This report investigates the effect of the Green Energy Act(GEA) on economic competitiveness in Ontario. It focuses on three questions: (1) Will the GEA materially improve environmental quality in Ontario? (2) Is it a cost-effective plan for accomplishing ...